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

Dementia

Health care; Incurable diseases

It is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging. It may be static, the result of a unique global brain injury, or ...

It is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterised by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour and interests. It differs ...

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 ...

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

Health care; Incurable diseases

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or AD/HD or ADD) is a developmental disorder. It is characterised primarily by "the co-existence of attentional problems and hyperactivity, with each ...

Bipolar disorder

Health care; Incurable diseases

Historically known as manic–depressive disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy ...

Wolman Disease

Health care; Incurable diseases

It is a rare genetic disorder caused by a deficiency of an enzyme known as lysosomal acid lipase (LAL or LIPA). This enzyme is necessary to break down certain lipids inside the cells. Deficiency of ...

Sly syndrome

Health care; Incurable diseases

Also called Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VII or MPS, is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease. It was named after its discoverer William Sly in 1969. Some of the symptoms are corneal opacity ...