Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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Randomized trial of l-serine in patients with hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 1. [PDF]
Objective To evaluate the safety and efficacy of l-serine in humans with hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy type I (HSAN1). Methods In this randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial with open-label extension, patients aged 18–70 years ...
Fridman V +11 more
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Health-related quality of life in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis polyneuropathy: a prospective, observational study [PDF]
Background Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis Polyneuropathy is a rare life-threatening neurologic disease that imposes considerable mortality and it is associated with progressive related disabilities.
Coelho, Teresa +5 more
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Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) is a rare, autosomal recessive disease classified as hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type VI. Patients with CIPA are characterized by insensitivity to pain, episodes of unexplained fever,
Ying Zhang, Zhiyu Geng
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Background Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type VIII is a rare autosomal recessive inherited disorder. Chen et al. recently identified the causative gene and characterized biallelic mutations in the PR domain-containing protein 12 gene, which
Karim Elhennawy +5 more
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An Inversion Disrupting FAM134B Is Associated with Sensory Neuropathy in the Border Collie Dog Breed [PDF]
Sensory neuropathy in the Border Collie is a severe neurological disorder caused by the degeneration of sensory and, to a lesser extent, motor nerve cells with clinical signs starting between 2 and 7 months of age.
Beltran, E +9 more
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Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 1 (HSANI) caused by a novel mutation in SPTLC2. [PDF]
To describe the clinical and neurophysiologic phenotype of a family with hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 1 (HSANI) due to a novel mutation in SPTLC2 and to characterize the biochemical properties of this ...
Blake, J +10 more
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Single-centre experience on transthyretin familial amyloid polyneuropathy : case series and literature review [PDF]
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a most often length-dependent axonal neuropathy, often part of a multisystem disorder also affecting other organs, such as cardiac, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, renal, meningeal and eye tissue.
De Bleecker, Jan +2 more
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Structural, mechanistic and regulatory studies of serine palmitoyltransferase [PDF]
SLs (sphingolipids) are composed of fatty acids and a polar head group derived from l-serine. SLs are essential components of all eukaryotic and many prokaryotic membranes but S1P (sphingosine 1-phosphate) is also a potent signalling molecule.
Alexeev +56 more
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Cutaneous amyloid is a biomarker in early ATTRv neuropathy and progresses across disease stages
Objective To determine the sensitivity and specificity of cutaneous amyloid deposition in relation to patient‐reported measures in the earliest disease stage of hereditary ATTR amyloidosis (ATTRv).
Roy Freeman +9 more
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