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Friedreichs ataxia

  • Friedreich's ataxia
  • Spinal sclerosis

Nature

Friedreichs ataxia is a hereditary disease resembling loco-motor ataxia and due to degenerative changes in nerves of the spinal cord and the brain. It usually occurs before the twentieth years of life and often affects several siblings. Its chief symptoms are a unsteady gait, loss of knee jerks, difficulties of speech, trembling hands, head and eyes, deformity of the feet and curvature of the spine. The sufferer may live twenty or thirty years helpless and steadily getting worse.

Broader

Paraplegia
Presentable
Scleroderma
Unpresentable
Ataxia
Unpresentable

Aggravates

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Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Health care » Mental health » Mental health
  • Medicine » Muscular system » Muscular system
  • Medicine » Skeletal system » Skeletal system
  • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    E8605
    DOCID
    11586050
    D7NID
    138024
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020