LATERAL SCLEROSIS AMNIOTRÓFICA
Disease information
LATERAL SCLEROSIS AMNIOTRÓFICA
The
amniotrófica
lateral
sclerosis
, or ELA, is
a
disease
to neuromuscular and one of form of most frequent of progressive
diseases
that affect the motor area of the
Nervous
System
.
It is developed when the
nervous
cells motoneuronas that control the movement of the voluntary musculatura, gradually diminish their operation and die, causing weakness and
muscular
atrophy
. These motoneuronas are located in the brain and the
spinal
marrow.
It is pronounced with
a
progressive
degeneration
of the motor neurons called motoneuronas of the
cerebral
crust and the forcebody of the
spinal
marrow.
Generally it affects greater people of 50 years and is little frequent that affect before the 30 years, of such form that when they appear its symptoms in the adolescence is because the person had
a
hereditary variant of this upheaval.
It affects more men than to women, and this progressive and irreversible
disease
, generally causes the death of approximately 50% of the affected ones, between the 3 and 5 years of its beginning.
The
origin
is not known this
disease
,
but
it is caused by
a
progressive
degeneration
of the present motor neurons in the brain and
spinal
marrow that are causing to incapacity and finally the death.
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