Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

Overview: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease of unknown cause characterized by slowly progressive degeneration of upper motor neurons (UMNs) and lower motor neurons (LMNs). The UMN findings include hyperreflexia and spasticity. They result from degeneration ...

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Things for Emergency physicinas to consider in ALS patients with only motor syndromes: http://bit.ly/bA5YZn

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: eMedicine Neurology

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common neurodegenerative disease of the motor neuron system. In its classic form, it affects motor neurons at 2 or more levels supplying multiple regions of the body. It affects ...” View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com