Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

We reviewed the incidence and severity of scoliosis in 37 patients with the intermediate type and 26 with the mild type of spinal muscular atrophy. In the intermediate type, scoliosis has an early ...

A Boston-area biopharmaceutical firm has submitted a biologics license application to the FDA for its investigational, fully ...

Muscle and nerve biopsies are frequently ordered as part of the diagnostic work-up for the following diseases: ALS and other spinal muscular atrophies Diseases of the peripheral nerves Metabolic ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate specificity and significance of dynamic changes of the cervical dural sac and spinal cord during neck flexion in juvenile muscular atrophy of the distal upper extremity.