St. Gallen - Neuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Clinic
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Neuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Clinic
Kantonsspital St.Gallen
9007 St.Gallen
- Phone: +41-(0)71-494-3581
- Fax: +41-(0)71-494-6389
- E-mail: muskel-als@kssg.ch
- Website: http://www.muskel-als-sg.ch/
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- Medical Director:
- Markus Weber, M.D., PD
- Specialty:
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Neuromuscular disease
- Other medical specialities:
- Pulmonary medicine
- Sleep medicine
- Speech and swallowing assessment and therapy
- Physical therapy
- Mulitdisciplinary management of ALS
- Other diseases/conditions:
- All neuromuscular diseases/disorders (such as peripheral neuropathy, motor neuropathy, inclusion body myositis, myasthenia gravis, muscular dysyrophy, spinal muscular atrophy).
- Other information:
- Patients are looked after on a continuum at regular intervals
- Caregiver caretraining
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- Research emphasis:
- The motor cortex in ALS
- Neurophysiology of ALS
- Surrogate markers of disease progression
- Collaborative respiratory and genetic studies
- Clinical trials in progress:
- ONO-2506POE014: placebo controlled phase III multicenter trial. Enrollment starts December 2006.
- Novartis TCH346.
- European FALS project.
- Profiling of human motoneurons (collaboration with Prof. A. Kato, Geneva).
- Pilot study (ALSA sponsored): Tetrahydrocannabinol for the treatment of cramps in ALS.
- RNA-study (autopsy).
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- Contact person: Susanne Hartmann, M.D.
- Phone: 0041-71-494-3582
- Fax: 0041-71-494-6389
- Email: susanne.hartmann@kssg.ch
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- Record last reviewed:
- 31 Aug 2006
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