Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative illness with both motor and nonmotor symptoms. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established safe neurosurgical symptomatic therapy for eligible patients with advanced disease in whom medical treatment fails to provide adequate symptom control and good quality of life, or in whom ...
Marwan Hariz, Patric Blomstedt
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Abstract Blood pressure variability (BPV) is independently associated with higher cardiovascular risks. However, whether BPV is associated with poor outcomes for coronary artery disease (CAD) patients after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remained undetermined.
Tsung‐Ying Tsai +19 more
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Clinical Features of Pediatric Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Applicability of New ICHD-3 Criteria [PDF]
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is characterized by intracranial pressure >28 cmH2O in the absence of identifiable causes. Aim of this paper is to describe the clinical phenotype of pediatric IIH and to analyze the applicability of ICHD-3 ...
Barbara Battan +8 more
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Modeling Stroke Diagnosis with the Use of Intelligent Techniques [PDF]
The purpose of this work is to test the efficiency of specific intelligent classification algorithms when dealing with the domain of stroke medical diagnosis. The dataset consists of patient records of the ”Acute Stroke Unit”, Alexandra Hospital, Athens,
Ampazis , Nikolaos +4 more
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Prognostic significance of right bundle branch block in patients with acute inferior myocardial infarction [PDF]
There is little information available concerning the influence of right bundle branch block (RBBB) on the prognosis of patients with inferior myocardial infarction (MI).
Iwasaki, Jun +8 more
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Imaging of cerebrospinal fluid space and movement in mice using near infrared fluorescence [PDF]
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Kruskal Jonathan B. +2 more
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Successful resuscitation from two cardiac arrests in a female patient with critical aortic stenosis, severe mitral regurgitation and coronary artery disease [PDF]
Introduction. The incidence of sudden cardiac death in patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis is up to 34% and resuscitation is described as highly unsuccessful. Case report.
Borović Saša +3 more
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Prophylactic Use of Cardiac Medications and Survival in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
ABSTRACT Introduction/Aims Prophylactic treatment of left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) delays onset of LVD, but there is limited data showing impact on survival. Our aim was to describe survival among treated and untreated individuals with DMD.
Kristin M. Conway +10 more
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Standardized Methods for Enhanced Quality and Comparability of Tuberculous Meningitis Studies [PDF]
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) remains a major cause of death and disability in tuberculosis-endemic areas, especially in young children and immunocompromised adults.
Aarnoutse, Robert +18 more
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A recommended workflow methodology in the creation of an educational and training application incorporating a digital reconstruction of the cerebral ventricular system and cerebrospinal fluid circulation to aid anatomical understanding [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The use of computer-aided learning in education can be advantageous, especially when interactive three-dimensional (3D) models are used to aid learning of complex 3D structures.
Manson, Amy, Poyade, Matthieu, Rea, Paul
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