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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
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 ...
Ebola
Health care; Incurable diseases
Ebola is a virus of the family Filoviridae that is responsible for a severe and often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever. The disease is characterized by extreme fever, rash, and profuse hemorrhaging. 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, ...
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 ...
Lupus Erythematosus
Health care; Incurable diseases
Also often referred to simply as lupus, this is an autoimmune disorder that causes chronic inflammation in various parts of the body. Three main types of lupus are recognized—discoid, systemic, and ...
Autism
Health care; Incurable diseases
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterised by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three ...
