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Alexander disease is a very rare autosomal dominant leukodystrophy, which are neurological conditions caused by anomalies in the myelin which protects nerve fibers in the brain. The most common type is the infantile form that usually begins during the first two years of life.
While the disease is fatal, the age of onset is a key factor, as infants have a typical life expectancy of 2–8 years, while adults typically live more than a decade after onset. Treatment options are limited, although hematopoietic stem cell transplantations using bone marrow or cord blood seem to help in certain leukodystrophy types, while ...
Addison's disease; Adducted thumb syndrome; Adult-onset Still's disease; Al Gazali Sabrinathan Nair syndrome; Alagille syndrome; Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy; Alexander disease; Allan–Herndon–Dudley syndrome; Alport syndrome; Alström syndrome; Alzheimer's disease; Anterior segment mesenchymal dysgenesis; Anton syndrome; Arakawa's ...
Adult polyglucosan body disease is a condition that affects the nervous system. People with this condition have problems walking due to reduced sensation in their legs ( peripheral neuropathy ) and progressive muscle weakness and stiffness ( spasticity ).
A 2023 survey from the American Heart Association (AHA) found that more than half of U.S. adults were unaware that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the country (and has been for 100 ...
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...
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Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter (VWM disease) is an autosomal recessive neurological disease. The cause of the disease are mutations in any of the 5 genes encoding subunits of the translation initiation factor eIF2B: EIF2B1, EIF2B2, EIF2B3, EIF2B4, or EIF2B5. The disease belongs to a family of conditions called the Leukodystrophies.