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Exploratory study on axonal excitability with threshold tracking technique : in healthy controls and patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy

open access: yes, 2015
Tese de mestrado, Neurociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2015Clinical neurophysiology provides quantitative measurements of peripheral nerve function.
Casanova, Isabel Afonso Martins Sanches, 1976-
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Neurodegeneration of the retina in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease: what can we learn from the retina? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related progressive neurodegenerative disease commonly found among elderly. In addition to cognitive and behavioral deficits, vision abnormalities are prevalent in AD patients.
Chiu, K   +11 more
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Peripheral neuropathies of childhood

open access: yes, 2009
Includes synopsis.Incldues bibliographical references (p. 195-220).Peripheral nerve disease was described by Galen (AD 130-200) over a thousand years ago.(3) Detailed anatomical illustrations were documented by Andreas Vesalius in his major work 'De ...
Wilmshurst, Jo
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Three Turkish families with different transthyretin mutations

open access: yes, 2015
Transthyretin (TTR)-related hereditary amyloidosis, also called familial amyloid polyneuropathy (PAP), is a rare autosomal dominant systemic disorder that presents with progressive axonal sensory, autonomic and/or motor neuropathies.
Bekirean-Kurt, CAN EBRU   +4 more
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Systemic Amyloidosis – Insights by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

open access: yes, 2015
Systemic amyloidosis is the exemplar infiltrative, extracellular disease. Although it is a multi-organ disorder, cardiac involvement drives prognosis. Survival is worst in the AL amyloidosis subtype. It can affect any age and any race. There is no direct
Banypersad, SM
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Frequent genes in rare diseases: panel-based next generation sequencing to disclose causal mutations in hereditary neuropathies

open access: yes, 2017
Hereditary neuropathies comprise a wide variety of chronic diseases associated to more than 80 genes identified to date. We herein examined 612 index patients with either a Charcot-Marie-Tooth phenotype, hereditary sensory neuropathy, familial amyloid ...
Hörtnagel, Konstanze   +103 more
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Quality of Life Following Liver Transplantation in Patients With Familial Amyloid Neuropathy: A Prospective Controlled Study

open access: yesPsychology, Community & Health, 2014
Aim: The present study aimed to evaluate the change in quality of life 12 months following liver transplantation in patients with Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (FAP). Method: In this study 150 transplant candidates, attending the outpatient clinic of a Liver Transplantation Centre in Lisbon, were assessed between March 1, 2006 and December 1, 2007 ...
Telles-Correia, Diogo   +4 more
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Upper limb onset of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis is common in non‐endemic areas

open access: yes, 2019
International audienceBACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The aim is to describe an uncommon phenotype of hereditary ATTR neuropathy with upper limb onset.METHODS:The French TTR Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy database was used for a retrospective evaluation of 32 ...
Labauge, Pierre   +23 more
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Hereditary and inflammatory neuropathies: a review of reported associations, mimics and misdiagnoses

open access: yes, 2016
International audienceDistinguishing between hereditary and inflammatory neuropathy is usually straightforward on clinical grounds with the help of a family history. There are nevertheless cases where the distinction is less clear.
Attarian, Shahram   +3 more
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Клинический случай транстиретинового амилоидоза с задержкой верификации диагноза у полностью обследованной больной

open access: yes, 2018
The DNA analysis revealed a transthyretin amyloidosis with a rare Phe53Leu mutation in a woman of 62 y.o. with the late onset progressive generalized axonal sensomotor neuropathy, dry eye syndrome, and an episode of severe unintentionally weight loss ...
В. А. Варшавский   +9 more
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