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.
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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
Language
English
1A4N
E8605
DOCID
11586050
D7NID
138024
Last update
Oct 4, 2020