Rapidly Worsening Bulbar Symptoms in a Patient with Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophy

X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy’s disease) affects muscles and motor neurons, manifesting as weakness and wasting of bulbar, facial, and proximal limb muscles due to loss of anterior horn cells in the brain and spinal cord. We present the case of a patient with X-linked spinobulbar mu...

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Autores principales: Diaz-Abad, Montserrat, Porter, Neil C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24416485
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2013.e21
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description X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy’s disease) affects muscles and motor neurons, manifesting as weakness and wasting of bulbar, facial, and proximal limb muscles due to loss of anterior horn cells in the brain and spinal cord. We present the case of a patient with X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy with rapidly worsening bulbar symptoms caused by laryngopharyngeal irritation associated with a viral upper respiratory tract infection, seasonal allergies and laryngopharyngeal reflux, who dramatically improved with multimodality therapy.
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spelling pubmed-38830662014-01-10 Rapidly Worsening Bulbar Symptoms in a Patient with Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophy Diaz-Abad, Montserrat Porter, Neil C. Neurol Int Case Report X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy’s disease) affects muscles and motor neurons, manifesting as weakness and wasting of bulbar, facial, and proximal limb muscles due to loss of anterior horn cells in the brain and spinal cord. We present the case of a patient with X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy with rapidly worsening bulbar symptoms caused by laryngopharyngeal irritation associated with a viral upper respiratory tract infection, seasonal allergies and laryngopharyngeal reflux, who dramatically improved with multimodality therapy. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2013-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3883066/ /pubmed/24416485 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2013.e21 Text en ©Copyright M. Diaz-Abad and N.C. Porter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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