Publikation
Guideline "Motor neuron diseases" of the German Society of Neurology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie).
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 15.06.2023
Petri Susanne, Grehl Torsten, Grosskreutz Julian, Hecht Martin, Hermann Andreas, Jesse Sarah, Lingor Paul, Löscher Wolfgang, Maier André, Schoser Benedikt, Weber Markus, Ludolph Albert C.
Bereiche
PubMed
DOI
Kontakt
Zitation
Art
Zeitschrift
Veröffentlichungsdatum
eISSN (Online)
Seiten
Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung
In 2021, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurology published a new guideline on diagnosis and therapy of motor neuron disorders. Motor neuron disorders affect upper motor neurons in the primary motor cortex and/or lower motor neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord. The most frequent motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive disease with an average life expectancy of 2-4 years with a yearly incidence of 3.1/100,000 in Central Europe (Rosenbohm et al. in J Neurol 264(4):749-757, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-017-8413-3 ). It is considered a rare disease mainly due to its low prevalence as a consequence of short disease duration.