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Muscular dystrophy or myofibrillar myopathies are genetic disorders that affect skeletal muscle, making it weak.

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The macula is the part of the eye responsible for providing a clear view. As we grow faculties it loses its function, causing macular degeneration, also known as AMD. This is a fairly common ailment after 60 years and can occur at various levels, resulting imperceptible in some cases. Conversely, it can also develop much more virulent causing total and progressive loss of sight. Although there is still no definitive treatment to repair the effects of macular degeneration, it is important to...

Macular edema is an eye disease that causes accumulation of fluid in the macula, the part of the eye responsible for providing a clear and sharp vision. It is a very sensitive and important area of ​​the eye, when this fluid accumulation occurs vision is lost and distorted way objects are observed. It can also affect only certain parts of the eye or the whole macular area. It is a pathology associated with diabetic patients because it is a major visual impairment sufferers. Treatment is...

We say that someone has a macular hole when the patient suffers a break in the macula, or na very small part of our eye that is located in the center of the retina. The macula is responsible for central vision and provide allows us to capture the details in order to perform such everyday activities like reading. Two types of macular holes that affect the function of a partial...

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What is major depression? Depression is a disorder of mood that is feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or the mood on the ground. It is also known as major depression or refractory depression. This type of depression is characterized by the appearance of one or more depressive episodes minimum two weeks. What are the symptoms? Some of the main symptoms that may have major depression are: - blue mood for...

Infertility is the inability to father children after a period of 12 months or more keeping unprotected sex. This term should be distinguished from sterility, which is the absolute inability to achieve pregnancy. According to the World Health Organization, infertility affects 15% of couples. In approximately 40% of cases, it is male infertility; in another 40%, the problem comes from the woman, and the remaining 20% either of the two, or...

Congenital malformations of the central nervous system are related to alterations in the neural tube, which most institutions neurosurgical treatment, disrafismos and craniosynostosis, abnormal neuronal proliferation and megalencefalias microcephaly, abnormal migration include neuronal, lissencephaly, pachygyria, schizencephaly, agenesis of the corpus callosum, heterotopias and cortical dysplasias, spinal cord injuries and spinal malformations dysraphias.