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  2. Stiff-person syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Stiff-person syndrome (SPS), also known as stiff-man syndrome, [1] is a rare neurological disorder of unclear cause characterized by progressive muscular rigidity and stiffness. The stiffness primarily affects the truncal muscles and is characterised by spasms , resulting in postural deformities.

  3. What is stiff-person syndrome? - AOL

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    Stiff-person syndrome — often called SPS — is a rare autoimmune disorder, meaning that infection-fighting cells in the body mistakenly attack healthy tissues.

  4. Celine Dion Opens Up About Living with Stiff Person Syndrome

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    Céline Dion is speaking out about stiff person syndrome (SPS), a diagnosis she first revealed nearly two years ago. SPS is a rare autoimmune neurological disease that affects muscles and ...

  5. Celine Dion Shares How She Talks To Her Kids Amid Her Stiff ...

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    Stiff-person syndrome (or SPS) is a rare neurological disorder that impacts the central nervous system and presents like an autoimmune disorder, per the National Institute of Neurological Disorder ...

  6. Celine Dion Diagnosed With Stiff Person Syndrome: What to ...

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    Celine Dion, who on Thursday announced she's battling Stiff Person Syndrome, has been diagnosed with an incurable neurological disease so extremely rare that, according to the famed Cleveland ...

  7. Celine Dion details life with stiff-person syndrome ahead of ...

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    Stiff-person syndrome, aka Moersch-Woltman syndrome, is a neurological disorder that can cause symptoms such as stiffening in the muscles of the trunk, along with stiffness and rigidity in the ...

  8. Adult-onset Still's disease - Wikipedia

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    Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is a form of Still's disease, a rare systemic autoinflammatory disease characterized by the classic triad of fevers, joint pain, and a distinctive salmon-colored bumpy rash. The disease is considered a diagnosis of exclusion. [1] Levels of the iron-binding protein ferritin may be extremely elevated with this ...

  9. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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    Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, rather than fatal injury.