Neurology Medicine

Posts Tagged ‘Multiple Sclerosis’

There have been enormous advances in neuroscience in general, in terms of diagnosis and treatment. Every day we learn more about Parkinson, on autoimmune diseases, non-hereditary, acquired in excess of the individual defenses, such as multiple sclerosis.

As this disease is important to note that there is no cure. The advance came mostly in the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, which is now much easier.

The international criteria for Multiple Sclerosis have changed dramatically. Also the treatment to prevent relapse of the disease, which did not exist before.

Most of the patients have relapses that can leave sequelae and to incapacitate the individual. In recent years it has been discovered that there are preventive medication for those categories critical to prevent or reduce relapses, although the disease is not curable.

Multiple Sclerosis is very broad in its appearance, one must ask what type you have to determine the treatment and how to control. The landscape has changed tremendously.

Dysphagia is defined as “a disorder characterized by difficulty swallowing the food bolus or moving the food from the mouth to the stomach,  we can define dysphagia as” those problems when they to eat. ”

Neurogenic dysphagia that would define as the swallowing disorder that occurs because of an injury to the nervous system, such as Multiple Sclerosis.

Dysphagia and Multiple Sclerosis:

In the case of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) dysphagia occurs when the myelin is damaged brain centers that control the ability to swallow or nerves that are connected to these areas.

There are different forms and degrees of dysphagia, in MS can affect any step necessary to be able to swallow properly. Read the rest of this entry »

An entity that falls within nosologically demyelinating diseases, a pathogenic approach. It is within these conditions the most common, currently having more than 300,000 U.S. patients, mainly in the age range 20-40 years, so has become the most common disabling disease among young people.

The etiology is unknown, taking it just curious epidemiological data, such as the impact is greater with the remoteness of Ecuador, reaching one per thousand in northern Scotland, Scandinavia and Iceland. It has a female gender predominance of 3:2, affects mostly European descent and subjects of socio-economic and cultural levels. Read the rest of this entry »