Eric Dane received the diagnosis in April and has already lost the movement of the right arm.
The American actor Eric Dane has revealed in a recent interview that lives with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (she). About two months after the diagnosis, the artist has already lost the movement of the right arm.
It is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, very rare and still unknown. According to data on the Dr. Drauzio Varella website, only 15,000 people in Brazil were affected by the health problem. It is potentially considered fatal because, over time, it leads to the failure of different muscles, between them, those that help chew and breathe.
With the completely paralyzed right arm, Mark believes that in a few months he will also lose his left movements. “I started to hear a little weakness in my right hand and, at the beginning, I thought it was to type too much. Months later, it started to worsen a lot,” he reported The star, known for the character Mark Sloan in “Gray’s Anatomy”.
“The disease involves irreversible motor paralysis. With this, the patient loses essential functions such as speaking, moving, swallowing and even breathing. But most of the time it does not affect intellectual and cognitive capacity”, explains dr. Felipe da Graça, a neurologist from the Vera Cruz hospital in Campinas.
What are the symptoms?
It has symptoms similar to other conditions, which makes early diagnosis difficult. The main group affected by the disease are men aged 55 and 75.
“The points of attention, which can indicate the symptoms, are: …
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