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Spinal Muscular Atrophy: About Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Patientinfo
Spinal muscular atrophy is characterised by slowly progressive muscle weakness and atrophy of the limb muscles.
http://patient.info/doctor/spinal-muscular-atrophy-pro
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy - NHS Choices
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease that causes muscle weakness and progressive loss of movement.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/spinal-muscular-atrophy/Pages/Introduction.aspx
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy - MedlinePlus
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease that attacks nerve cells, called motor neurons, in the spinal cord.
https://medlineplus.gov/spinalmuscularatrophy.html
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Genetics Home Reference
Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disorder that affects the control of muscle movement. It is caused by a loss of specialized nerve cells, called motor neurons, in the spinal cord and the part of the brain that is connected to the spinal cord (the brainstem). The loss of motor neurons leads to weakness and wasting (atrophy) of muscles used for activities such as crawling, walking, sitting up, and controlling head movement.
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/spinal-muscular-atrophy
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Muscular Dystrophy Association - MDA
What is spinal muscular atrophy? Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)Â is a genetic disease affecting the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement.
https://www.mda.org/disease/spinal-muscular-atrophy
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Wikipedia's information about spinal muscular atrophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_muscular_atrophy
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Cure SMA: About SMA
SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) is a disease that robs people of physical strength by affecting the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, taking away the ability to walk, eat, or breathe. It is the number one genetic cause of death for infants.
http://www.curesma.org/sma/about-sma/?referrer=https://www.google.com
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Background, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology - Medscape
The spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs) comprise a group of autosomal-recessive disorders characterized by progressive weakness of the lower motor neurons. In the early 1980s, Werdnig and Hoffman described a disorder of progressive muscular weakness beginning in infancy that resulted in early death, though the age of death was variable.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1181436-overview
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Learning About Spinal Muscular Atrophy - NIH
Spinal muscular atrophy is a group of inherited disorders that cause progressive muscle degeneration and weakness. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the second leading cause of neuromuscular disease. It is usually inherited as an autosomal recessive trait (a person must get the defective gene from both parents to be affected).
https://www.genome.gov/20519681
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Kid's Health
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) makes it difficult for a child to move around, walk, or breathe. Although there is no cure, therapy and other treatments help improve a child's skills.
http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/sma.html
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SMA Foundation - Home
Information on SMA, and the latest updates in research, treatment and funding.
http://www.smafoundation.org
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy - NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders)
NORD gratefully acknowledges Barry Russman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Oregon Health Sciences University and Shriners Hospital for Children, for assistance in the preparation of this report.
http://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/spinal-muscular-atrophy/
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What is SMA? - Learn about SMA
Living with SMA and the science of SMA therapies. Educational site features animations, and doctor, researcher, patient, and parent interviews.
http://www.learnaboutsma.org/what_is_sma/
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Gwendolyn Strong Foundation - This is SMA
The Gwendolyn Strong Foundation (theGSF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing global awareness of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the #1 genetic killer of young children, accelerating research focused on ending this cruel disease, and supporting families impacted by SMA and other life-altering conditions.
http://thegsf.org/this_is_sma
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy - WebMD
Important It is possible that the main title of the report Spinal Muscular Atrophy is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report...
http://www.webmd.com/brain/spinal-muscular-atrophy-11217
