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How is Spinal Muscular Atrophy diagnosed?

How Spinal Muscular Atrophy is diagnosed: tests, specialists and the diagnostic journey, told by patients and reviewed against medical sources.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy diagnosis
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Extreme muscle weakness, next stage is genetic diagnostics

Posted Feb 22, 2017 by Daniel 1011
Not being able to reach mile stonex and recurrent respiratory infections

Posted Feb 23, 2017 by ugyen 1000
genetic test

Posted Feb 25, 2017 by Andrea 500
Sma is diagnosed by a muscle biopsy, electromyograph and they typically look at the parents DNA to see if they carry the defective gene. If you are diagnosed with sma, you should be followed by a neuromuscular specialist as well as a respiratory specialist.

Posted May 2, 2017 by Crystal Rondeau 755
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With a genetic testing through a blood test

Posted May 10, 2017 by Carmen 1370
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The diagnosis is by a biopsy of nerve and muscle .and they are asking for a neurologist.

Posted Aug 3, 2017 by Marycielo 2000
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I galerais has to get up in being squatted, that's all XD

Posted Nov 22, 2017 by 2000

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Charlotte & Wayne lost their first daughter Annabelle Rose when she was just 7 months and 12 days old due to a genetic muscle wasting condition called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Annabelle had Type 1 which is the most severe form of the condition and ta...
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My son Grady was born on May 15th 2015. He wasn't due until June 19th but since I had polyhydraminos my water broke on May 13th. I had noticed while I was pregnant that Grady didn't move near as often or as much as my daughter did during my first pre...
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I was born on March 5, 1949, in a poor neighborhood of Lima, Peru, in a time where most houses had no electricity and radio music was a luxury only afforded by the few. The television had not yet come to the country and Internet was unimaginable. htt...
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My daughter has a SMA type1 , the start of the disease in 5.5 months. She is 17 months. She is breathing on her own. Little holding her head. Raises handle. She begins to talk.
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No less than two neurologists have diagnosed me with SMA, but I have to say, I'm pretty sure I DON'T have it. I'm strong, graceful and powerful... the only symptoms I'm experiencing are speech slurring, weak tongue and lips and mild difficulty breat...

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