Analyzes show that Idir Jöfer was suffering from a disease still unknown to medicine: chronic traumatic encephalopathy | The National Gazette

a The recent work of a major idol of Brazilian sports has helped science search for information about a still unknown disease.

Footage of Eder Joffer’s last major victory was captured away from the rings and six months after the former boxer’s death.

World champion in two different categories and celebrated as an international sporting star, Eder left us in October last year, at the age of 86. The family, in response to a request from the former athlete, donated his brain for research and what USP scientists discovered could help many people.because the diagnostic hypothesis received by him in life was confirmed in the analyzes.

Eder was in fact afflicted with a disease about which medicine still knows very little: chronic traumatic encephalopathy, with symptoms such as memory loss and limitation of motor functions. It happens because in a head-on collision the brain vibrates in the cranial box, and in this coming-and-go state, neurons are torn apart and end up leaving a trail of destruction.

This residue from the effects is called the tau protein. Over the years, the substance accumulates in certain areas. They are dark spots that appear in microscopic analysis of Idir Joffre’s brain.

In the investigations, it was possible to establish that encephalopathy develops more slowly than other diseases that are usually confused in medical offices, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

There is no cure for CTE, but with a better understanding of the disease’s progression, it is possible to consider more effective forms of treatment.. Moreover, collisions to the head are now common in many sports and are also present in the daily lives of many people.