Muscle Weakness Articles & Analysis
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The symptoms of these disorders can vary widely and may include muscle weakness, neurodegenerative disorders, vision and hearing loss, and metabolic disorders. ...
Krabbe disease initially manifests as irritability, developmental delay, and progressive muscle weakness; symptoms rapidly advance to difficulty swallowing, breathing, worsening developmental delay, and vision and hearing loss. ...
The disease initially manifests as physical delays in development, muscle weakness and irritability and advances rapidly to difficulty swallowing, breathing and cognitive problems, and vision and hearing loss. ...
Affecting 4 people in every 100,000 in the U.S., Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a genetic, progressive disease that causes muscle weakness and atrophy in children and adults. This rare condition causes the spinal cord to form abnormally, eventually affecting the body’s ability to control muscle movements by attacking the lower motor ...
The main symptoms are fever, severe headache, swollen lymph nodes, back pain, muscle aches and weakness. The rash usually begins 1-3 days after a fever and is concentrated on the face and limbs, Lesions can occur at anywhere from a few to thousands of sites, and in severe cases they can combine to cause large chunks of skin to fall off. ...
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“Pompe disease is a progressive, life-limiting neuromuscular disorder caused by the accumulation of lysosomal glycogen in cardiac and skeletal muscle as well as the CNS. As glycogen accumulates, patients experience severe and progressive myopathy, leading to muscle weakness, loss of motor function and ultimately cardiorespiratory ...
Cataplexy is characterized by sudden and uncontrolled muscle weakness or paralysis. Pitolisant has an orphan designation in the EU and the US for the treatment of narcolepsy. ...
Applying non-invasive electrical stimulation to the expiratory abdominal muscles may reduce abdominal muscle atrophy and markedly reduce the number of days adult patients require mechanical ventilation – a potentially important finding for weaning ventilated patients, including seriously ill COVID-19 patients, and improving patient outcomes. Liberate Medical today announced the results of ...
TIKOMED, a Swedish privately-held biopharmaceutical company today announced that the European Commission has granted Orphan Drug Designation to its lead drug candidate ILB® for the treatment of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – a terminal, neurodegenerative disease where most patients die of respiratory muscle weakness in less than ...
Even before the body goes into heat stroke, the person may experience nausea, abdominal cramping, vomiting, muscle cramping, dizziness, headache and difficulty breathing. During heat stroke, patients experience a body temperature of more than 103 degrees F. ...
Invasive mechanical ventilation commonly results in respiratory muscle weakness, which is a major underlying factor for patients requiring prolonged periods of ventilator support. ...