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Some attention was being given to the chronic forms of
motor neuron disease.There was a nice 1966 review of
“Chronic Spinal Muscular Atrophy” by Pearce and Harriman who
presented males and females with a chronic distal motor disease .
- My teacher Donald Mulder et al. wrote that 5% of ALS patients
survived longer than 5 years. Lateral Column degeneration
was the clue to a longer life span.
II. Hereditary amyotrophic lateral sclerosis reviewed by Espinosa,
Okihiro, Mulder and Sayre (1962) was more chronic than
sporadic ALS. This was a dominantly inherited familial form
with equal sex incidence. It was considered to be distinct
from the more common sporadic form.