Case Report: Cerebrospinal fluid eosinophilia in adult autoimmune GFAP astrocytopathy [PDF]
A 30-year-old Chinese male diagnosed with autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) astrocytopathy presented with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) eosinophilia.
Yuting Hou, Chunmei Zhao, Xu Wang
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Top-cited articles in cerebrospinal fluid leak (rhinorrhea and otorrhea) (1945–2018)
Introduction: As scientific knowledge has grown in biomedicine, it has also become necessary to develop tools to manage and understand the body of evidence.
Irene Monjas-Cánovas +4 more
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Spectrophotometry for cerebrospinal fluid pigment analysis [PDF]
The use of spectrophotometry for the analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is reviewed. The clinically relevant CSF pigments--oxyhemoglobin and bilirubin--are introduced and discussed with regard to clinical differential diagnosis and potentially ...
Keir, G., Petzold, A., Sharpe, L.T.
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Evaluation of microbial bacterial and fungal diversity in cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection. [PDF]
Cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection can be recalcitrant. Recurrence is common despite appropriate therapy for the pathogens identified by culture. Improved diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are required, and culture-independent molecular approaches ...
Tamara D Simon +8 more
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Ganciclovir penetrates into the cerebrospinal fluid of an infant with congenital cytomegalovirus infection [PDF]
Currently, there is no evidence whether ganciclovir, or its oral prodrug valganciclovir, penetrates into the cerebrospinal fluid of human infants treated for congenital cytomegalovirus infection.
Bizzarri, Bianca +6 more
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Distinct Lysosomal Network Protein Profiles in Parkinsonian Syndrome Cerebrospinal Fluid. [PDF]
BackgroundClinical diagnosis of parkinsonian syndromes like Parkinson's disease (PD), corticobasal degeneration (CBD) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is hampered by overlapping symptomatology and lack of diagnostic biomarkers, and definitive ...
Boman, Andrea +8 more
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Different intra-cerebrospinal distribution of linezolid in patients with inflammatory meningitis
Linezolid has excellent antibiotic activity against gram-positive organisms and is expected to be an alternative to vancomycin for the treatment of bacterial meningitis.
Naoki Ichinose +9 more
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Drug transport in brain
The human brain has no lymphatic system, but produces over a half-liter each day of cerebrospinal fluid. The cerebrospinal fluid is secreted at the choroid plexus and occupies the cavities of the four ventricles, as well as the cranial and spinal sub ...
Pardridge William M
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Optimum imaging and diagnosis of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea [PDF]
Imaging is an important component in the investigation of unilateral watery rhinorrhoea suspicious of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Whilst the demonstration of the presence of beta 2 transferrin confirms that CSF is present it may prove difficult to ...
Howard, D, Lloyd, G, Lund, VJ, Savy, L
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Quantification of mutant huntingtin protein in cerebrospinal fluid from Huntington's disease patients. [PDF]
Quantification of disease-associated proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been critical for the study and treatment of several neurodegenerative disorders; however, mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT), the cause of Huntington's disease (HD), is at ...
Andreas Weiss +16 more
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