Myositis Ossificans

Disease/Disorder - Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva

Common Name - Myositis Ossificans

Age of Onset - Usually from 5-25 years old

Duration - from time when mass starts to form to the time when it is removed with surgery

Frequency - Occurs evenly to males, females, and people of all ethnicities. More typical in males because of typical increased physical activity levels.

Cause - Can either form from soft tissue injury like blunt force trauma, or by a specific heterozygous mutation

Symptoms - Tender mass in affected area, abnormal bone growth in soft tissue, joint movement abnormalities, swelling most prominent in the neck dorsal trunk and proximal extremities, and restricted movement in the affected muscles.

Prognosis - increased irritation from the swelling but the affected area stays relatively the same until the mass is removed

Treatment - Surgery

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Huntington's Disease

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Disease/Disorder - Huntington's Chorea
Common Name - Huntington's Disease
Age of Onset - Anyone from around 2 to 80+ years old can develope the disease
Duration - In most cases the disease is a gradual decline of 10-25 years that eventually ends in death by complications like heart failure or aspiration pneumonia.
Most Likely To Have the Disease - Huntington's affects both men and women and all ethnic groups with little difference.
Cause - Huntington's Disease is an inherited degenerative brain disease. The cause is a "genetic stutter" where a stretch of DNA is repeated over and over at the end of a gene. This takes place on chromosome four of someone suffering from Huntington's Disease.
Symptoms - There are three main catagories of symptoms for someone with Huntington's: Control of body movement, cognitive functioning, and psychological issues. There may be quick, uncontrolable, and grossly exaggerated movements, as well as memory and speech lose, difficulty organizing and switching tasks, and lose of emotional control resulting in depression, and severe outbursts.
Prognosis - Huntington's is degenerative and takes place over several years. The brain slowly deteriorates and symptoms progress until some major organ fails causing a complicated death.
Treatment - There are no medications to slow or hault the progression of Huntington's all that can be done is symptom managment. Often times anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, and Neuroleptic drugs are prescribed to manage some of the symptoms.
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