Duration of total contact casting for resolution of acute Charcot foot: a retrospective cohort study
Background Charcot neuroarthropathy (Charcot foot) is a highly destructive joint disease of the foot and ankle. If there is delayed diagnosis and treatment, it can lead to gross deformity, instability, recurrent ulceration and/or amputation.
Danielle A. Griffiths +1 more
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Emerging functions of mammalian mitochondrial fusion and fission [PDF]
Mitochondria provide a myriad of services to the cell, including energy production, calcium buffering and regulation of apoptosis. How these diverse functions are coordinated among the hundreds of mitochondria in a given cell is largely unknown, but is ...
Chan, David C., Chen, Hsiuchen
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Understanding what it means to be “Charcot foot health literate” [PDF]
Described as a “Cinderella condition”, Charcot foot is little understood within the non-specialist medical community. In this article, Benjamin Bullen (Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK) presents a multidimensional conceptualisation of health ...
Bullen, Ben
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Pathological classification of equine recurrent laryngeal neuropathy [PDF]
Recurrent Laryngeal Neuropathy (RLN) is a highly prevalent and predominantly left‐sided, degenerative disorder of the recurrent laryngeal nerves (RLn) of tall horses, that causes inspiratory stridor at exercise because of intrinsic laryngeal muscle ...
Draper, A C E, Piercy, R J
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Complementation between mouse Mfn1 and Mfn2 protects mitochondrial fusion defects caused by CMT2A disease mutations [PDF]
Mfn2, an oligomeric mitochondrial protein important for mitochondrial fusion, is mutated in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) type 2A, a peripheral neuropathy characterized by axonal degeneration.
Chan, David C., Detmer, Scott A.
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False aneurysm in a Charcot foot: A case report
Charcot foot or neurogenic osteoarthropathy is a serious complication of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The association between false aneurysm and Charcot foot is yet uncommon and has not been reported through the literature. We describe a case of false
Aymen Ben Fredj +2 more
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La posibilidad de desarrollar una función laboral de calidad y obtener una cierta competitividad profesional es determinante para el bienestar de las personas con discapacidad.
Sylvia Sylvia Lara Paredes +3 more
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Jean-Martin Charcot - Neurologist by Avocation, Nephrologist by Yearning [PDF]
In an age of medical advances and specialization, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) helped found the discipline of neurology and in 1882 was appointed the first professor of Diseases of the Nervous System in France.
Eknoyan, Gary
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Broadening the Clinical Spectrum of Axonal Hereditary Neuropathies: A Comparative Case Study on DNAJB2- and HINT1-Related Disease. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Differentiating hereditary axonal polyneuropathies caused by distinct gene variants remains a clinical challenge. This comparative case study of DNAJB2‐ and HINT1‐related neuropathies aimed to broaden the phenotypic spectrum associated with these genes and to explore non‐motor symptoms and quality of life (QoL) in affected ...
Bjelica B +8 more
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A History of Dystonia: Ancient to Modern [PDF]
Before 1911, when Hermann Oppenheim introduced the term dystonia, this movement disorder lacked a unifying descriptor. While words like epilepsy, apoplexy, and palsy have had their meanings since antiquity, references to dystonia are much harder to ...
Deborah Thorpe +3 more
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