Venous Sinus Stenting Alone as an Effective Treatment for Complex Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas with Sinus Thrombosis [PDF]
NeurointerventionDural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs) are rare vascular malformations, often complicated by sinus thrombosis and cortical reflux. We report a patient with a Cognard Type IIb dAVF at the right transverse sinus and ipsilateral sigmoid sinus thrombosis ...
Maximilian Thormann +4 more
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Reversible Symptom Aggravation by Intake of Taurine-Rich Foods in Patients with Venous Congestive Myelopathy: Controlled Case Series Study [PDF]
Neurointervention, 2022 Purpose Reversible aggravation of myelopathy symptoms was observed after the intake of taurine-rich foods in patients with venous congestive myelopathy (VCM) caused by a spinal arteriovenous shunt (SAVS), and the taurine-challenge test was applied to ...
Dae Chul Suh +8 more
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Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 [PDF]
BackgroundDisorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19.
GBD 2021 Nervous System Disorders Collaborators +1 more
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Case report: microcephaly associated with Zika virus infection, Colombia
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background Recently there has been a large outbreak of Zika virus infections in Colombia, South America. The epidemic began in September 2015 and continued to April 2017, for the total number of Zika cases reported of 107,870.
Salim Mattar +9 more
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A Neonate with CLOVES Syndrome
Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2014 Congenital lipomatous overgrowth, vascular malformations, and epidermal nevi (CLOVE) syndrome is a recently delineated disorder that comprises vascular malformations (typically truncal), dysregulated adipose tissue, scoliosis, enlarged bony structures ...
Dilek Sarici +4 more
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Cerebral Proliferative Angiopathy: Case Report
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2018 Proliferative angiopathy (PA) is a rare cerebral vascular disease in which anomalous vessels continually recruit additional feeder arteries, amid a functional brain parenchyma.
Luana Antunes Maranha Gatto +4 more
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Ischaemic strokes in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: associations with iron deficiency and platelets. [PDF]
, 2014 25/03/14 meb. OA paper , Ok to add.Background: Pulmonary first pass filtration of particles marginally exceeding ~7 µm (the size of a red blood cell) is used routinely in diagnostics, and allows cellular aggregates forming or entering the circulation in ...
John A Livesey +38 more
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Dermatologica Sinica, 2018 Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare disorder. Since 1860, only 200 case reports of BRBNS have been reported. BRBNS is characterized by numerous malformations of the vascular system that significantly involve the skin, gastrointestinal tract,
Chia-Hua Lin +3 more
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'Acanthamoeba' produces disseminated infection in locusts and traverses the locust blood-brain barrier to invade the central nervous system [PDF]
, 2010 BACKGROUND: Many aspects of Acanthamoeba granulomatous encephalitis remain poorly understood, including host susceptibility and chronic colonization which represent important features of the spectrum of host-pathogen interactions.
Mortazavi, Parisa Nakhostin +11 more
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High-Flow Vascular Malformations in Children. [PDF]
, 2020 Children can have a variety of intracranial vascular anomalies ranging from small and incidental with no clinical consequences to complex lesions that can cause substantial neurologic deficits, heart failure, or profoundly affect development. In contrast
Fullerton, Heather J +8 more
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