Utility of the APE2 Score as a Diagnostic Tool for Autoimmune Encephalitis
ABSTRACT Objective To retrospectively evaluate the diagnostic performance of the Antibody Prevalence in Epilepsy and Encephalopathy (APE2) score relative to clinician‐adjudicated autoimmune encephalitis (AE) and the Graus criteria in a tertiary neuroimmunology referral cohort, including antibody‐negative AE.
Bijoya Basu +3 more
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Generalized Dystonia With Cervical Predominance in a Patient With a De Novo TCF20 Variant
ABSTRACT TCF20 has been implicated in developmental delay and intellectual disability, with dystonia reported less frequently. We describe a woman in her early twenties with childhood‐onset learning difficulties, progressive dysarthria, tremor, and generalized dystonia with marked cervical predominance, associated with a de novo TCF20 frameshift ...
Melisa Kilic +7 more
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'Practice what you preach': Nurses' perspectives on the Code of Ethics and Service Pledge in five South African hospitals. [PDF]
White J, Phakoe M, Rispel LC.
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Systemic Extracerebral Atherosclerotic Burden and Dementia Risk After Incident Stroke
ABSTRACT Background Stroke survivors are at increased risk of dementia, but clinically accessible markers of risk heterogeneity remain limited. Previous studies have largely examined atherosclerotic disease in individual vascular beds rather than the overall burden of systemic extracerebral atherosclerosis.
Zhexuan Yu +4 more
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ABSTRACT Objective To compare the incidence of diabetes mellitus and its associations with hospitalisation and mortality in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS) and matched controls. Methods Using English primary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, linked to hospital and mortality records, we matched adults with MS with up to 10 ...
Yolanda Lau +8 more
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The workers opinions have a value in the Code of Ethics: Analysis of the contributions of workers in virtual Forum Catalan Institute of Health. [PDF]
Peguero E +5 more
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Juvenile Huntington Disease With Cerebellar‐Predominant Atrophy Identified by Genome Sequencing
ABSTRACT Juvenile Huntington disease accounts for a small fraction of Huntington disease cases and is driven by the largest trinucleotide repeat expansions. We describe a 6‐year‐old boy with progressive global regression, generalized dystonia, and epilepsy, in whom serial imaging showed striking cerebellar‐predominant atrophy with an initially normal ...
Enrique Gonzalez Saez‐Diez +5 more
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A Two‐Stage Plasma Biomarker Algorithm Reduces Amyloid PET Use and the p‐Tau217 Gray Zone
ABSTRACT Objective Plasma p‐Tau217 leaves 30%–50% of patients in an indeterminate “gray zone” often requiring Aβ‐PET. We developed GRAD (Gatekeeper‐Reflex for Alzheimer's Disease), a two‐stage Aβ‐positivity prediction model to improve classification while reserving Aβ‐PET for residual uncertainty.
Harthik Parankusham +7 more
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Reply to Flanagan "The Code of Ethics of the International Society of Blood Transfusion" [Blood Transfus 2015; 13: 537-8]. [PDF]
Farrugia A, Del Bò C.
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Myostatin/Smad3 in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Biomarkers of Disease Severity and Treatment Response
ABSTRACT Objective Given the role of Myostatin (MSTN) in muscle homeostasis and its modulation by current spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) therapies, we investigated serum MSTN and, for the first time, its downstream effector Smad3 as candidate non‐invasive biomarkers in SMA patients undergoing disease‐modifying therapies (DMTs).
Giorgia Riolo +11 more
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