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Charcot's disease, an incurable disease

A progressive and fatal neuromuscular pathology, "Charcot's disease" is characterized by a loss of motor neurons.

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By: Igor Strauss

1 min

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or "Charcot's Disease" is a progressive and fatal neuromuscular pathology, characterized by a loss of motor neurons, neurons that control, among other things, walking, speaking, swallowing and breathing.

It is characterized by a progressive death of the motor neurons, a muscular atrophy and thus the progressive paralysis of the patients.

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ALS often appears between the ages of 50 and 70, on average it occurs earlier when it is of family origin.

This does not prevent younger or older individuals from developing this disease.

What are the signs ?

What are the treatments ?

Where are the searches?

• Dr Francois Salachas,

  Neurologist at

  the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris

• Leah Stavenhagen,

  first patient to follow an experimental treatment based on stem cells in the United States, author of

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  at the Archipelago editions.

At the end of the program, we take stock of the increase in the number of tongue tie surgeries in children in France, which worries some doctors.

We talk about it with

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