ΜΥΟΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΔΥΣΤΡΟΦΙΑ: ΥΠΟΘΕΣΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΑ ΓΥΡΩ ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΝΟΣΟ ΤΩΝ ΑΔΕΛΦΩΝ ΥΨΗΛΑΝΤΗ

IN THE PROLOGUE OF THE MONOGRAPHY "DYSTROPHIA MYOTONICA AND RELATED DISORDERS" (1963), THE AUTHORS STATE THAT THEY EXAMINED IN LONDON IN 1932 A DESCENDANT OF THE YPSILANTE FAMILY, WHO WAS SUFFERING FROM MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY. THIS STUDY IS BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE HEALTH CONDITIONS OF THE YPSILANTEBROTHERS. SOURCES WHICH PROVIDE DIRECT INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE YPSILANTE BROTHERS WERE SEARCHED AND FOUND IN GREECE AND ABROAD. INTERESTING MANUSCRIPTS WERE ALSO FOUND AND STUDIED IN GREEK LIBRARIES AND IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE STATE OF AUSTRIA. AVAILABLE DATA WHICH ARE CONSIDERED RELIABLE, INDICATE THAT THE YPSILANTE BROTHERS ALEXANDER, DEMETRIOS, GEORGE AND NIKOLAOS WERE AFFECTED BY A HEREDITARY DEGENERATIVE ILLNESS THAT WAS NOT DIAGNOSED ALTHOUGH THEY WERE EXAMINED BY AUSTRIAN AND RUSSIAN PHYSICIANS. A COMPARISON OF THE VAGUE CLINICAL SYMPTOMS THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE ABOUT THE ILLINESS OF THE YPSILANTE BROTHERS AND THOSE OF MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY REVEALS MANY SIMILARITIES. THIS FACT, COMBINED WITH THE UNQUESTIONABLE DIAGNOSIS OF MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY IN DESCENDANTS, A HUNDREDYEARS LATER IN LONDON, STRENGTHENS THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE ILLNESS OF THE YPSILANTE BROTHERS WAS MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Patras

Year dc:date

1988

Authors dc:creator

• Sotiriadou, Konstantina
• Σωτηριάδου, Κωνσταντίνα

• ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΥΨΗΛΑΝΤΗΣ
• ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ ΥΨΗΛΑΝΤΗΣ
• Μυοτονική δυστροφία
• ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΡΟΟΔΕΥΤΙΚΗ ΝΟΣΟΣ
• ALEXANDER YPSILANTE
• DEMETRIUS YPSILANTE
• HEREDITARY CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE ILLNESS
• Myotonic dystrophy
• Ιατρική και Επιστήμες Υγείας
• Κλινική Ιατρική
• Medical and Health Sciences
• Clinical Medicine

Language dc:language

gre

Identifier

10.12681/eadd/0714

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:10442/0714