Research progress of spinal muscular atrophy treatment in children
ZHAO Miao
LU Ying-qian
WANG Ning
CHEN Wan-jin
Abstract:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common fatal neurogenetic disease in infant period.Clinical manifestations of SMA include symmetrical and progressive weakness and atrophy of proximal limbs.Based on age of incidence,it is divided into child-onset SMA and adult-onset SMA.Childonset SMA has the highest incidence rate.This article summarizes the research progress of SMA therapy in recent years to provide new thoughts for the treatment of SMA.
Keywords:Spinal muscular atrophies of childhoodGenesReview
Publication Date:2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date:2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages:6( 284-289 )