Incurable diseases

Incurable diseases

Incurable Diseases are those ones in which the cause of the disease is not known, the treatment is not defined and high risks of leaving subsquent complications.

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Incurable diseases

Fatal Familial Insomnia

Health care; Incurable diseases

Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a very rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. It is almost always caused by a mutation to the protein PrPC, but can also develop spontaneously ...

Hunter syndrome

Health care; Incurable diseases

Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II, is a lysosomal storage disease caused by a deficient (or absent) enzyme, iduronate-2-sulfatase (I2S). The syndrome is named after physician Charles A. Hunter ...

Krabbe disease

Health care; Incurable diseases

Krabbe disease (also known as globoid cell leukodystrophy or galactosylceramide lipidosis) is a rare, often fatal degenerative disorder that affects the myelin sheath of the nervous system. This ...

Lissencephaly

Health care; Incurable diseases

Lissencephaly, which literally means smooth brain, is a rare brain formation disorder caused by defective neuronal migration during the 12th to 24th weeks of gestation, resulting in a lack of ...

Hodgkin's lymphoma

Health care; Incurable diseases

It is a type of lymphoma, which is a cancer originating from white blood cells called lymphocytes. It was named after Thomas Hodgkin, who first described abnormalities in the lymph system in ...

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)

Health care; Incurable diseases

SSPE is also known as Dawson Disease, Dawson encephalitis and measles encephalitis. It is a rare chronic, progressive encephalitis that affects primarily children and young adults, caused by a ...

Morquio's syndrome

Health care; Incurable diseases

Morquio's syndrome is an autosomal recessive mucopolysaccharide storage disease, usually inherited. Patients with Morquio's syndrome appear healthy at birth. They often present with spinal deformity, ...