MOTOR NEURON DISEASE / SPINAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
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Motor Neurone Disease
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MND
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MND
•Progressive, degenerative disease•Incurable•Comparatively rare•Group of related diseases•Motor neurones are affected•Upper and lower limb weakness•Speech and swallowing difficulties•Breathing difficulties
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• Over 40 (usual age between 50 and 70)• Men slightly more than women• 2 per 100 000• Cause remains a mystery
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Different Types
• UMN + LMN - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis• UMN only – Pseudobulbar Palsy
- Primary Lateral Sclerosis• LMN only – Progressive bulbar Palsy
- Progressive spinal muscular
atrophy• Madras type of MND
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) • Most common• Classical prototype of MND• Affects movement by attacking the nerves
connecting the spinal cord to the muscles • Sites: Upper and Lower motor neurones
affected in brain stem and cervical segment of spinal cord
• Lower brain stem cranial nerves (bulb) – Bulbar muscles
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ALS cont…
• C8-T1 segments affected - Weakness and wasting of the limbs (esp. atrophy of small muscles of hand )
• The early symptoms :
– Fasciculations – diagnostic hallmark
(deltoid region and thenar region of
hands, tongue)
- slurred speech and stumbling
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ALS cont…
• Late symptoms:
swallowing affected – nasal regurgitation • Does not usually affect the senses or the
bowels or bladder• Average life expectancy 2-5 years from onset
of symptoms• Death due to pneumonias/respiratory
paralysis
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Pseudobulbar Palsy
• Also common• Pure UMN involvement in brain stem (cortico
nuclear/bulbar fibres)• Poor prognosis (as bulb invonved)• Difficulty in swallowing• Slurring dysarthria, emotional lability• Tongue contracted, spastic• DTR – brisk, Plantar –î, Gag reflex
-exaggerated• Bladder/bowel not affected
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Primary Lateral Sclerosis
• Rare 0.5%• Affects only upper motor neurone in sp. Cord
(lateral column)• Mainly weakness in the lower limbs• Can get symptoms in the hands or slurred
speech• Life span could be normal• Can develop into ALS
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Progressive bulbar palsy
• Quarter of people• Lower motor neurones involved• Anterior horn cells in spinal cord affected• Slurring speech/difficulty swallowing• Life expectancy between 6 months and 3
years from diagnosis
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Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy/Dystrophy
• Small number of people 5%• Lower motor neurones• Sometimes slower progression• Early symptoms are sometimes weakness and
clumsiness in the hands• Extensive fasciculations• Most people live for more than 5 years from
diagnosis
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Madras type MND
Synonym: Juvenile type MND
Special features:•Young age (in 20s)•8th cr nerve – affected (sensorineural deafness)•May be in family
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D/D
Fasciculations– •Benign fasciculation•Poliomyelitis•Acute fasciculations – organo-phosphorus poisoning
ALS – •Compressive myelopathy (C. spondylosis)
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Investigations
EMG –
Denervation pattern with abnormal
spontaneous activity
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Treatment- Mainly symptomatic and rehabilitative
treatment-Respiratory support
A new drug – Riluzole•Anti-glutamate action•Decreases increased excito-toxic action of glutamate in MND (ALS)•Slows down the progress by a few months•However, not very promising
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Medications for symptoms:•Muscle cramps – Carbamazepine and Phenytoin•Muscle Stiffness – Muscle relaxants
Botox and intrathecal baclofen•Drooling – Hyoscine, Glycopyrrolate, atropine •Pain – usual analgesia/Gabapentin•Gastrostomy 20
Secondary MND
• C. spondylosis• Poliomyelitis (monomelic MND)• Paraneoplastic syndrome• Hyperthyroidism
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