Mário Corino da Costa Andrade (10 June1906–16 June2005) was a leading XX century Portugueseneurologist and researcher who first described the familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) syndome that later came to be associated with his name (Corino de Andrade disease). June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and disorders affecting it. ...
Andrade was born in Moura and died in Porto. Coat of Arms Moura is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 456. ... District Porto Mayor - Party Rui Rio PSD Area 41. ...
In January 1976, CorinoAndrade (Coutinho et al., 1977) 'went to the Azores...to investigate a degenerative disease of the central nervous system known to exist there.
We saw 40 patients belonging to 15 families (in the islands of Flores and St. Michael)...It is our opinion that different families just mentioned, which have been taken as separate diseases, are only clinically diverse forms of the same disorder, of which symptomatic pleomorphism is a conspicuous feature.' In the same year, Romanul et al.
Coutinho, P.; Andrade, C.: Autosomal dominant system degeneration in Portuguese families of the Azores Islands: a new genetic disorder involving cerebellar, pyramidal, extrapyramidal and spinal cord motor functions.
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