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No surgical treatment exists for striatonigral degeneration, and pharmacological treatment is not effective in the long term.
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What is straitonigral degeneration?
Striatonigral degeneration is a neurodegenerative disease caused by disruption of two areas, the striatum and substantia nigra, which work together to enable movement and balance.
What is the mean age of diagnosis of striatonigral degeneration?
The mean age of diagnosis is 53 years. For the majority of MSA-P affected persons, the full clinical picture evolves within five years after onset of symptoms.
What is used to treat age-related macular degeneration?
There was no successful treatment for age-related macular degeneration as of 2001.
What is the treatment for mucoid degeneration of Achilles tendon?
This treated by decompression and /or surgical removal.
What is the treatment for salzmans nodular degeneration?
A superficial keratectomy is the usual treatment. Under local anesthesia the nodes are scraped from the cornea. Pain varies from patient to patient, but the outcome is generally good.
What is myocardial degeneration?
Senile myocardial degeneration is degeneration of the heart. Often a heart valve has to be replaced because of this degeneration.
My son is myopic. Does it mean all the kids born to be will be myopic?
I understand treatment with injection of one's own (adult) retinal stem cells is available in Germany. Patients have primarily had age related macular degeneration but a few have had myopic degeneration.
What is senile myocardial degeneration?
Senile myocardial degeneration refers to age-related changes in the structure and function of the heart, particularly in elderly individuals. These changes may include fibrosis, stiffening of the heart muscle, and alterations in the conduction system of the heart. It can lead to decreased cardiac function and an increased risk of heart-related conditions.
Is there any new treatments for macular degeneration?
The newest approved treatment for macular degeneration is injection of anti-angiogenic drugs into the eyeball. This stops hemorrhaging in patients who develop the "wet" form of the disease. Currently, a good deal of research is being conducted to improve upon this procedure and also to treat the less severe "dry" form of macular degeneration.
When was My Degeneration created?
My Degeneration was created in 2003.
Why is the pallidotomy effective even though it destroys one part of the brain?
It may seem odd that the treatment for degeneration of one brain area is to destroy another, but in the absence of dopamine, the GPi cells are overactive, and therefore, eliminating them is an appropriate treatment.
How do you use degeneration in a sentence?
Overgrazing has caused serious degeneration of grassland.
