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Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), one of the motor neuron diseases, is seen in people with congenital genetic defects.
It is a congenital disease that affects the main bodies of motor nerves that move our bodies.
He can give symptoms at different ages. There are three different types known.
Type 1, which starts in infancy and is very severe and serious, even in the breath of the baby's breathing muscles can not move, which leads to full immobility of the baby, and the loss of infants.
Type 2 is the type of child who has crawled but never walked until the age of 1.5
Type 3 is the type that starts at any age in childhood and youth.
Mother and father are obligatory carriers in this disease. Most of the time they don't know they're carriers. However, SMA has a high rate of carriage in society.
Carrier is more common in families with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
If there is a SMA patient in a family, the probability of being a carrier person in this family is generally higher than in the community. If there is an SMA patient in the family, it is necessary to examine genetically whether the person is a carrier.
SMA is a movement disorder, but it does not cause any mental problems. On the contrary, the creativity of SMA people is quite striking.
