2024-01-22 19:28:53
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), another name for Charcot disease, causes progressive paralysis of the muscles, creating a state of confinement in the patient, and generally causes death within three years. To date, there is no effective neuroprotective treatment.
“Frequent” clusters
For Pierre-François Pradat, neurologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (APHP) and co-president of the scientific council of the Association for Research on ALS (ARSLA), the clusters are “frequent” and linked to ” chance “, he puts things into perspective. According to him, five cases between 2007 and 2022, “this is not a gigantic excess incidence given a disease that is still quite common”he adds, specifying that the disease was of genetic origin for 10% of patients.
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