From this article you will learn about the types, diagnosis and treatment of lateral amyotrophic sclerosis.
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Side Amiotrophic Sclerosis is a classic motionerone disease. Motonameron diseases are the progressive chronic nerves diseases that pass from the spinal cord and stimulate the muscles. This stimulation is necessary for the movement of various parts of the body.
Lateral amyotrophic sclerosis is a progressive fatal disease. The usual causes of death of patients with diseases of motoneurons may not have a relationship to the disease, but may be the result of other diseases that appear due to reducing immunity (usually infections).
Lateral amyotrophic sclerosis appears most often in adults aged 50-70 years. Cause of lateral amyotrophic sclerosis unknown.
There are 3 types of lateral amyotrophic sclerosis:
- classic sporadic;
- hereditary;
- Form of Mariana Islands.
Diagnosis and treatment of lateral amyotrophic sclerosis
All forms of lateral amyotrophic sclerosis cause severe weakness in muscles and cachexia. Many patients appear small local regions of muscle twitching areas, which are called firecases. Patients may feel the area of the bezkiculation as muscle cramps. Cachexia (atrophy) and weakness usually follow the weakness of the hands and shoulders. Muscle spasms may appear.
Patients may also have other muscle diseases. Blood test, muscle surveys, together with electromyography and nerve conductivity, can be used to establish a diagnosis.
Treatment in outpatient conditions must be carried out continuously. In the initial period of the disease, easy massage is needed. Thermal procedures are contraindicated. For a long time (months and even years), retabolil is prescribed, vitamin E, nootropic drugs, muscle relaxants, with pronounced fires - small doses of Finlepsina. Three or four times a year, curses are treated with vitamins of a group in and biostimulants.
Forecast with lateral amyotrophic sclerosis - unfavorable. Duration of the disease is different with different forms and ranges from two to seven years.