Mitochondrial myopathy and comorbid major depressive disorder. effectiveness of dTMS on gait and mood symptoms [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Mitochondrial myopathies (MMs) often present with leukoencephalopathy and psychiatric symptoms, which do not respond to or worsen with psychiatric drugs.
Angeletti, Gloria +18 more
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MYH2 myopathy, a new case expands the clinical and pathological spectrum of the recessive form
Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2020 Background Hereditary myosin myopathies are a group of rare muscle disorders, caused by mutations in genes encoding for skeletal myosin heavy chains (MyHCs). MyHCIIa is encoded by MYH2 and is expressed in fast type 2A and 2B muscle fibers. MYH2 mutations
Roberta Telese +12 more
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Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia Is Associated with a Novel Mutation in the Mitochondrial tRNA(Asn) Gene [PDF]
, 1994 Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) is caused by a decreased oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) activity due to large-scale deletions of the mitochondrial genome in 50 % of the patients.
Kadenbach, B. +5 more
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Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles
Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2010 Background : Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles (CFEOM) describes a group of rare congenital eye movement disorders that result from the dysfunction of all or part of the oculomotor (CN 3) and the trochlear (CN 4) nerves, and/or the muscles ...
Pascale Cooymans +3 more
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To wait for a spontaneous recovery of the third cranial nerve palsy occurring after the coiling of a PcomA aneurysm or to implement surgical treatment? A case report [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017 Introduction. In the last two decades a method of endovascular embolization has been imposed as a method of choice in the treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms.
Peulić Miodrag +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2009 OHerpes Zoster Oftálmico (HZO) decorre da infecção pelo vírus da varicela-zoster que permanece latente no gânglio de Gasser até que seja reativado e comprometa a divisão oftálmica do nervo trigêmeo.
Kenzo Hokazono +3 more
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Clinical and magnetic resonance imaging features of idiopathic oculomotor neuropathy in 14 dogs: Canine Idiopathic Oculomotor Neuropathy [PDF]
, 2017 Ophthalmoplegia/ophthalmoparesis (internal, external, or both) has been reported in dogs secondary to neoplasia affecting the oculomotor nerve and is usually given a poor prognosis.
Beltran, E +4 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni), a Gram-negative bacterium, belongs to microaerobic bacteria. We reported a 21-year-old male patient diagnosed with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) due to C. jejuni infection, who presented with multiple clinical
Fang-e Shi +4 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a rare, treatable antibody-mediated disease which is characterized by muscle weakness. The pathogenic antibodies are most frequently directed at the acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) at the skeletal muscle endplate.
Melissa Nel +3 more
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Effects of Selective Deafferentation on the Discharge Characteristics of Medial Rectus Motoneurons [PDF]
, 2018 Medial rectus motoneurons receive two main pontine inputs: abducens internuclear neurons, whose axons course through the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF), and neurons in the lateral vestibular nucleus, whose axons project through the ascending tract ...
Benítez Temiño, Beatriz +5 more
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