Diagnosis and clinical management of spinal muscular atrophy

JJ Han, CM McDonald - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of …, 2008 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease
characterized by degeneration of lower motor neurons, with resulting progressive muscle …

Spinal muscular atrophy

C Cifuentes-Diaz, T Frugier, J Melki - Seminars in pediatric neurology, 2002 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophies (SMA) are characterized by degeneration of lower motor neurons
associated with muscle paralysis and atrophy. Childhood SMA is a common recessive …

Systemic nature of spinal muscular atrophy revealed by studying insurance claims

SL Lipnick, DM Agniel, R Aggarwal, NR Makhortova… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Objective We investigated the presence of non-neuromuscular phenotypes in patients
affected by Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a disorder caused by a mutation in the Survival …

Neurodegeneration in spinal muscular atrophy: from disease phenotype and animal models to therapeutic strategies and beyond

UR Monani, DC De Vivo - Future neurology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Of the numerous inherited diseases known to afflict the pediatric population, spinal muscular
atrophy (SMA) is among the most common. It has an incidence of approximately one in …

Spinal muscular atrophy

SJ Kolb, JT Kissel - Neurologic clinics, 2015 - neurologic.theclinics.com
The natural history of SMA is complex and variable. For this reason, clinical subgroups have
been defined based upon best motor function attainment during development. Type 1 SMA …

Prospective and longitudinal natural history study of patients with Type 2 and 3 spinal muscular atrophy: Baseline data NatHis-SMA study

A Chabanon, AM Seferian, A Daron, Y Péréon… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a monogenic disorder caused by loss of function
mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 gene, which results in a broad range of disease …

Clinical variability in spinal muscular atrophy type III

G Coratti, S Messina, S Lucibello, MC Pera… - Annals of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective We report natural history data in a large cohort of 199 patients with spinal
muscular atrophy (SMA) type III assessed using the Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale …

Neuronal death is enhanced and begins during foetal development in type I spinal muscular atrophy spinal cord

C Soler‐Botija, I Ferrer, I Gich, M Baiget, EF Tizzano - Brain, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in
the survival motor neurone gene (SMN). The degeneration and loss of the anterior horn cells …

Spinal muscular atrophy: a timely review

SJ Kolb, JT Kissel - Archives of neurology, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of
motor neurons in the anterior horn of the spinal cord and resultant weakness. The most …

Spinal muscular atrophy

JR Nance - CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology, 2020 - journals.lww.com
PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article provides an overview of the pathophysiology and clinical
presentations of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and reviews therapeutic developments …