SMA Patients Don’t Need Higher Radiation Doses in CT-guided Spinraza Injections, Study Says
Diagnostic reference levels indicate that people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) do not require higher radiation doses to monitor the…
Articles by Joana Carvalho, PhD
Potential Relationship Found Between Early Non-neuromuscular Symptoms and the Lack of SMN Protein in SMA Patients
A direct relationship may exist between early non-neuromuscular symptoms and the lack of survival motor neuron (SMN) protein directly…
SBMA Patients are More Likely to be Affected by Metabolic Disorders, Heart and Liver Disease, Study Says
Patients with spinal-bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) are more likely to be affected by metabolic disorders, including insulin resistance and…
Leuprorelin Acetate May Reduce Swallowing Dysfunction in SBMA Patients, Study Finds
Leuprorelin acetate may be a promising therapy to minimize swallowing dysfunction in patients with spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA),…
Scientists Create New Method to Calculate Number of SMN1 Copies and Identify SMA Carriers
Scientists have created a new method to calculate the number of SMN1 gene copies present in individuals and identify possible…
RULM Can Assess Arms’ Function in Wider Spectrum of SMA Patients, Study Says
The Revised Upper Limb Module (RULM) is better than the conventional Upper Limb Module (ULM) at assessing the…
New Compound Improves Clinical Outcomes in Mouse Models of SMA, Study Shows
A new molecular compound, called LDN-2014, increases and stabilizes the levels of the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein, improving clinical outcomes in…
New Screening Process May Speed Work on SMN2 Splicing Approaches to Treat SMA, Study Says
A research team in Korea created an in vitro, or laboratory, model to screen and validate medicines that aim to…
Scientists Develop New Method to Evaluate Nutritional Status of Children with SMA
Researchers from the University of Milan developed a new method to evaluate the nutritional status of children with…
High-resolution MRI Scans of Spine May Offer Way to Detect and Monitor SMA, Case Study Suggests
High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spinal cord may be a non-invasive way of monitoring spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)…