Russell J, Butterfield +1 more
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Hemodynamic Consideration in Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring in Neuromuscular Scoliosis Surgery [PDF]
Objective To prove the hypothesis that the parameters of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) during will be more deteriorated in neuromuscular scoliosis (NMS) than in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). Methods This retrospective study
Seok Young Chung +5 more
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Sarcoglycanopathies are highly heterogeneous in terms of disease progression, muscular weakness, loss of ambulation and cardiac/respiratory involvement.
Simona Zanotti +10 more
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Precise Pulmonary Function Evaluation and Management of a Patient With Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome Associated With Recurrent Pneumonia and Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency [PDF]
Freeman-Sheldon syndrome (FSS) is a rare distal arthrogryposis syndrome. There are few reports on the respiratory insufficiency of FSS. Additionally, there is no detailed information on pulmonary functional evaluation. A 17-year-old male patient with FSS
Jihyun Park +4 more
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Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome is a maternally inherited genetic mitochondrial disease with a typical onset in the first two decades of life and a major involvement of central nervous system ...
Simona Zanotti +2 more
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Genetic origin of patients having spastic paraplegia with or without other neurologic manifestations
Background Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by lower-limb spastic paraplegia with highly genetic and clinical heterogeneity.
Jiannan Chen +6 more
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Genetic neuromuscular disease [PDF]
The clinical practice of neuromuscular disease is currently undergoing enormous change as a direct result of the wealth of recent molecular genetic discoveries. Indeed, the majority of gene discoveries in the area of neurological disease relate to neuromuscular disorders.
Mary M, Reilly, Michael G, Hanna
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Morphological characteristics of motor neurons do not determine their relative susceptibility to degeneration in a mouse model of severe spinal muscular atrophy [PDF]
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a leading genetic cause of infant mortality, resulting primarily from the degeneration and loss of lower motor neurons.
A Lionikas +48 more
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Improvement of Peak Cough Flow After the Application of a Mechanical In-exsufflator in Patients With Neuromuscular Disease and Pneumonia: A Pilot Study [PDF]
Objective To investigate and demonstrate persistent increase of peak cough flow after mechanical in-exsufflator application, in patients with neuromuscular diseases and pneumonia.
Ji Ho Jung +6 more
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The era of cryptic exons: implications for ALS-FTD
TDP-43 is an RNA-binding protein with a crucial nuclear role in splicing, and mislocalises from the nucleus to the cytoplasm in a range of neurodegenerative disorders.
Puja R. Mehta +3 more
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