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Researchers develop method to monitor patients with spinal muscular atrophy using sound waves


Credit: Med (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.02.010 Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a terrible disease in which a genetic mutation causes certain nerves responsible for sending signals to muscles to degenerate. This leads to muscles wasting away, and many patients have died a painful death due to this rare condition. Genetic treatments have only been available for a few years. Now, a team led by Emmanuel Nedoschill, Ferdinand Knieling and Adrian Regensburger from the Translational Pediatrics working group at the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Uniklinikum Erlangen have devised an Read More