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External validation of a simple clinical tool used to predict falls in people with Parkinson disease [PDF]
, 2015 Published in final edited form as: Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2015 August ; 21(8): 960–963. doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.05.008.BACKGROUND: Assessment of fall risk in an individual with Parkinson disease (PD) is a critical yet often time consuming ...
Canning, Colleen G. +10 more
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Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Secondary to Chronic Constipation
Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2011 Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is defined as an elevated intraabdominal pressure with evidence of organ dysfunction. The majority of published reports of ACS are in neonates with abdominal wall defects and in adults following trauma or burns, but ...
Helene Flageole +3 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018 Background: Preclinical and clinical data suggest that a compound which binds potently to and inhibits the dopamine transporter, but with a slower onset and offset rate than cocaine and with less abuse potential and psychomotor stimulant activity, could ...
F. Ivy Carroll +4 more
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The effect of elastic abdominal binder use on respiratory function on persons with high spinal cord injury at orthostatic position [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction : Spinal cord injury causes respiratory muscles paralysis, especially in high thoracic paraplegia and tetraplegia with injury above or right on the sixth thoracic segment, and also biomechanics, volumes, capacities and respiratory pressures ...
Cardoso, Jefferson R. +4 more
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A Young Female Who Develops Tachycardia and Orthostatic Intolerance Following a Recent Infection [PDF]
, 2013 Case Presentation The patient is a 20-year-old female with a history of asthma and anxiety with panic attacks who presented with palpitations and lightheadedness/pre-syncope. The morning of admission, she was attending a seminar and experienced an acute
Valentino, MD, PhD, Michael A.
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Contemporary Clinical Trials CommunicationsBackground: This pragmatic clinical trial aims to determine the efficacy and safety of add-on Astragalus membranaceus (AM) for cognition and non-cognition in patients with of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease complicated with orthostatic hypotension ...
Yingzhe Cheng +4 more
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Hypovolaemic shock: assessment, pathophysiology and nursing care [PDF]
, 2017 Hypovolaemia leads to a number of key physiological responses which require systematic assessment and interpretation. This article focuses on a case study involving a patient with Parkinson’s disease who became hypovolaemic following a fall at home, to ...
McLeod, A., Moruzzi, M.
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Fall Risk Assessment Experience
MedEdPORTAL, 2010 Falls are common in older adults and result in significant morbidity, including injury, pain, disability, and even death. Risk factors for falling have been identified, and interventions to improve these risk factors have been found to reduce fall rates ...
Sara Bradley, Reena Karani
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Cutaneous Phosphorylated Alpha‐Synuclein in Lewy Body Dementia
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To determine the test performance of cutaneous phosphorylated alpha‐synuclein (P‐SYN) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), individuals with reduced Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and healthy controls. Methods This is the first subgroup analysis of the Synuclein‐One study, a prospective, blinded study evaluating P‐SYN detection ...
Christopher H. Gibbons +31 more
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The Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS): Pathophysiology, Diagnosis & Management [PDF]
, 2006 Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), characterized by orthostatic tachycardia in the absence of orthostatic hypotension, has been the focus of increasing clinical interest over the last 15 years 1. Patients with POTS complain of symptoms of tachycardia,
Raj, Satish R
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