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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Hauffmans/Hoffmans?? Disease??
- Message-ID: <17921@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 01:23:12 GMT
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- In article <3390@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM> sdavis@khan.ColoSpgs.NCR.COM (Susan Davis) writes:
- >
- >Can anybody tell me anything about Hoffmans (sp?) disease? A co-workers
- >newborn (8 weeks old) was just diagnosed with this and given about 10
- >months to live. I have heard that it is a degeneration of the nerves
- >connecting the spine to the brain.
- >
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- Werdnig-Hoffman disease is an infantile form of ALS (Lou Gehrig Disease)
- which affects the motor neurons in the spinal cord. It is fatal and
- incurable.
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