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Disentangling the multiple links between renal dysfunction and cerebrovascular disease
Correspondence to Dr Dearbhla Kelly, Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; ...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob-like syndrome induced by lithium, levomepromazine, and phenobarbitone
Dr Hideyuki Kikyo, Department of Neurology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan. email:kikyo{at}m.u-tokyo.ac.jp If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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044 Analysis of urgent acute medicine and ward referrals to neurology at the district hospital
Purpose The aim of the study was to analyse the referrals for patients presenting with neurological emergency to the district hospital, as this aspect of the neurologist’s workload is often ...
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Efficacy of physiotherapy interventions late after stroke: a meta-analysis
2 Unit of Functional Rehabilitation, Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, and Motion Analysis Laboratory, Piero Palagi Hospital, Florence, Italy 3 Unit of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Critical ...
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Overview of cerebral cavernous malformations: comparison of treatment approaches
Correspondence to Ondrej Bradac, Department of Neurosurgery and Neurooncology, Military University Hospital, Charles University First Faculty of Medicine, Prague 121 08, Czech Republic; ...
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Autoimmune encephalitis: recovery, residual symptoms and predictors of long-term sequelae
Background Data regarding long-term recovery from autoimmune encephalitis (AE) remain limited. Methods This retrospective observational study investigated outcomes in 182 patients who met the 2016 ...
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The impact of delays in computed tomography of the brain on the accuracy of diagnosis and subsequent management in patients with minor stroke
Correspondence to: Professor J Wardlaw, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; jmw{at}skull.dcn.ed.ac.uk Objectives: To determine the ...
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J001 Preliminary results from the first-in-human study of ER2001, an innovative treatment for Huntington’s disease using in vivo self-assembled sirna
Background ER2001 is a genetic circuit (plasmid) encoding both a neuron-targeting rabies virus glycoprotein (RVG) tag and an HTT siRNA. This circuit is able to reprogram liver cells to transcribe and ...
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: update on diagnosis, immunopathogenesis and treatment
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated neuropathy typically characterised by symmetrical involvement, and proximal as well as distal muscle weakness (typical ...
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Clinical and immunological characteristics of the spectrum of GFAP autoimmunity: a case series of 22 patients
Objective To report the clinical and immunological characteristics of 22 new patients with glial fibrillar acidic protein (GFAP) autoantibodies. Methods From January 2012 to March 2017, we recruited ...
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Idiopathic generalised epilepsy in adults manifested by phantom absences, generalised tonic-clonic seizures, and frequent absence status
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsies, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK Dr CP Panayiotopoulos, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK. OBJECTIVES To describe the clinical and ...
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Fixed and dilated pupils after trauma, stroke, and previous intracranial surgery: management and outcome
OBJECTIVES To clarify whether different causative events (trauma, stroke, intracranial surgery), time of intervention, and treatment mode influence outcome, patients with fixed and dilated pupils ...