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ABSTRACT Objective The aim of this study was to characterize intellectual and motor function, neurological features including epilepsy, treatment response, and adaptive behavior in patients with pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDCD) in Sweden.
Antri Savvidou +6 more
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Metabolic and Fluid Biomarkers Support Microglia Activation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
ABSTRACT Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is an incurable neurodegenerative disease involving motor neuron degeneration and metabolic and immune dysfunction. We combined clinical data, cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the role of reactive microglia in disease ...
Matteo Zanovello +10 more
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Understanding Higher-Brain Death Within a Biological Paradigm
In the bioethical literature, a common objection to the higher-brain standard of death is that it fails to treat death as a biological phenomenon. Biological death, so the argument goes, can occur after the irreversible loss of consciousness, and so the ...
Jack Jensen
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Diffuse MRI Edema Predicts Relapse in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy–Related Inflammation
ABSTRACT Objective To identify MRI predictors of relapse and quantify relapse and mortality risk in cerebral amyloid angiopathy–related inflammation (CAA‐RI). A secondary objective was to assess the association between mycophenolate mofetil use and relapse risk. Methods We performed a retrospective cohort study of 36 patients with CAA‐RI treated at the
G. Abbas Kharal +10 more
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Diagnostic criteria of brain death for Japanese children
In Japan, a revised act on organ transplantation is enforced from July 2010. This act enables an infant or a child with brain death to become a donor for organ transplantation under the consent of his or her family members.
Mizuguchi, Masashi
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ABSTRACT Background The clinical relevance of MGMT promoter methylation in IDH‐mutant gliomas remains controversial in the era of molecular classification. We aimed to systematically evaluate its clinical relevance by integrating quantitative assessment, cutoff exploration, and adjustment for clinical confounding.
Haihui Jiang +7 more
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Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical FI. Methods We used data from a single‐center prospective cohort of adult patients with SLE whose baseline visit ...
Grace Burns +2 more
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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up
Objective To evaluate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is associated with frailty both in cross‐section and longitudinally. Methods Participants within the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry enrolled from 2003 to 2022 were included.
Courtney N. Loecker +14 more
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A Novel Screen-Based Virtual Reality Tool for Teaching Brain Death Determination: A Pilot Study of the Virtual Reality Brain Death Determination Tool. [PDF]
Ehntholt MS +6 more
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Objective The aim of this study was to determine the differences in demographic, serologic, and clinical characteristics between male and female patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in an Australian cohort. Methods This was a retrospective observational study using data from the Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study.
Emily Lin +14 more
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