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unusual facts about Atrophy


Paulo Autuori

The disease left him with an atrophied leg and a permanent limp on his walk, which prevented him from playing.


Brain positron emission tomography

PET is probably most useful in early cases of certain dementias (with classic examples being Alzheimer's disease and Pick's disease) where the early damage is too diffuse and makes too little difference in brain volume and gross structure to change CT and standard MRI images enough to be able to reliably differentiate it from the "normal" range of cortical atrophy which occurs with aging (in many but not all) persons, and which does not cause clinical dementia.

Christine Maggiore

An autopsy revealed that Eliza Jane was markedly underweight and underheight, consistent with a chronic illness, exhibited a pronounced atrophy of her thymus and other lymphatic organs, and that her lungs were infected with Pneumocystis jirovecii, a common opportunistic pathogen in people with AIDS and the leading cause of pediatric AIDS deaths.

Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy

DRPLA is characterized by marked, generalized brain atrophy and the accumulation of atrophin-1 with expanded glutamine stretches.

Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) is an autosomal dominant spinocerebellar degeneration caused by an expansion of a CAG repeat encoding a polyglutamine tract in the atrophin-1 protein.

Lampalizumab

Lampalizumab (INN) is a humanized monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

Purkinje cell

Some domestic animals can develop a condition where the Purkinje cells begin to atrophy shortly after birth, called Cerebellar abiotrophy.

Synaptic fatigue

Hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are impairment of cognition, aggregation of β-amyloid peptide (Aβ), neurofibrillary degeneration, loss of neurons with accelerated atrophy of specific brain areas, and decrease of synapse number in surviving neurons.

Tinea incognito

As the skin fungal infection has lost some of the characteristic features due to suppression of inflammation, it may have a poorly defined border, skin atrophy, telangiectasia, and florid growth.

Tulio Enrique León

In 1947, after his eyesight was examined in the United States by the Spanish ophthalmologist, Ramon Castroviejo, he was diagnosed with blindness due to optic nerve atrophy.


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