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We report the case of a 44-year-old woman with a one-year history of en coup de sabre morphea and progressive hemifacial atrophy with ipsilateral hemifacial neuralgia, migraine, and contralateral neurologic abnormalities. While rare, Parry-Romberg syndrome typically presents in the first or second decade of life; this patient's case is unusual in that ...
Vedvyas, Chetan, Urbanek, Richard W
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A Rare Case of Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis (s-IBM) [PDF]
Sporadic inclusion body myositis (s-IBM) is an acquired inflammatory myopathy. Clinical presentation is variable. The usual presentation is progressive weakness and atrophy of the arms and leg muscles, especially of the quadriceps femoris which is ...
Sourya Acharya +4 more
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Aim: The aim of the present study was to characterize age-associated changes in the spatial configuration of cerebral hemispheres (including changes in spatial complexity and space-filling capacity) using fractal analysis of silhouette magnetic resonance
Oleksandr Stepanenko, Nataliia Maryenko
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Increased prevalence of precancerous changes in relatives of gastric cancer patients: critical role of H. pylori [PDF]
Background & Aims:Helicobacter pylori is believed to predispose to gastric cancer by inducing gastric atrophy and hypochlorhydria. First-degree relatives of patients with gastric cancer have an increased risk of developing gastric cancer.
El–Nujumi, Adil +8 more
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Lung infection can evoke pulmonary and systemic inflammation, which is associated with systemic severe symptoms, such as skeletal muscle wasting. While N-chlorotaurine (also known as taurine chloramine; TauCl) has anti-inflammatory effects in cells, its ...
Nguyen Khanh Hoang +4 more
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Association between cognitive performance and cortical glucose metabolism in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease [PDF]
Background: Neuronal and synaptic function in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is measured in vivo by glucose metabolism using positron emission tomography (PET). Objective: We hypothesized that neuronal activation as measured by PET is a more sensitive index of
A. Drzezga +27 more
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Current evidence for treatment with nusinersen for spinal muscular atrophy : a systematic review [PDF]
Recent discovery of nusinersen, an antisense oligonucleotide drug, has provided encouragement for improving treatment of spinal muscular atrophy. No therapeutic options currently exist for this autosomal recessive motor neuron disorder.
Meylemans, Antoon, De Bleecker, Jan
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PD-1 Alleviates Cisplatin-Induced Muscle Atrophy by Regulating Inflammation and Oxidative Stress
Skeletal muscle atrophy is an important characteristic of cachexia, which can be induced by chemotherapy and significantly contributes to functional muscle impairment.
Xiaoguang Liu +5 more
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Kufor-Rakeb syndrome, pallido-pyramidal degeneration with supranuclear upgaze paresis and dementia, maps to 1p36 [PDF]
Kufor-Rakeb syndrome is an autosomal recessive nigro-striatal-pallidal-pyramidal neurodegeneration. The onset is in the teenage years with clinical features of Parkinson’s disease plus spasticity, supranuclear upgaze paresis, and dementia.
Al-Din, A. +7 more
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The term "atrophy of infants" was formerly used to designate a disease sui generis . It was characterized clinically by the fact that children, who had developed well up to a certain time, gradually began to fail and eventually died, presenting the picture of a progressive and often extreme grade of emaciation.
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