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Muscular atrophy is a decrease in the mass of muscle. It can be a result of common diseases such as cancer, AIDS, renal failure and congestive heart failure. People who suffer from muscular atrophy have either partial or complete wasting away of the muscle, depending on the severity of the case.
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What is a Sentence for atrophy?
She has a muscular atrophy.
What kind of disease is spinal muscular atrophy?
Spinal muscular atrophy is an autosomal recessive disease. The severity of spinal muscular atrophy varies, and is the most common genetic cause of infant death.
What are disorders of?
muscular atrophy
What has the author Sven Brandt written?
Sven Brandt has written: 'Werdnig-Hoffmann's infantile progressive muscular atrophy' -- subject(s): Atrophy, Muscular, Diseases, In infancy and childhood, Infants, Muscular atrophy
What is the most common form of spinal muscular atrophy?
The most common form of spinal muscular atrophy is childhood proximal SMA.
What has the author Diego Soto written?
Diego Soto has written: 'Diego's story' -- subject(s): Muscular atrophy in children, Muscular atrophy
When does bulbospinal muscular atrophy manifest itself?
Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) manifests as muscle weakness between the ages of 20 and 40 years.
Can muscular atrophy be a bi-product of over-training?
no
How do you treat muscle wasting?
What is the diagnosis and treatment for muscular atrophy?
What process is in muscular atrophy?
Muscular atrophy is when the muscles in the body begin to break down on a cellular level due to lack of oxygen, disease, or simply lack of excercise. Don't confuse it with necrosis. Necrosis is complete cell death. Atrophy is just a loss of muscular integrity (i.e. getting fat and losing strength).
When a muscle is not used and it grows smaller that is called?
Disuse of a muscle causes atrophy, which is a shrinking of muscle fibers leading to weakness. With use, the atrophy can be reversed.
In the muscular system atrophy means what?
Pathology. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis.
