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Review of the Diagnosis and Treatment of Periodic Paralysis
Periodic paralyses (PPs) are rare neuromuscular disorders caused by mutations in skeletal muscle sodium, calcium, and potassium channel genes. PPs include hypokalemic paralysis, hyperkalemic paralysis, and Andersen‐Tawil syndrome.
J. Statland+10 more
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Vertical transmission of honey bee viruses in a Belgian queen breeding program [PDF]
Background: The Member States of European Union are encouraged to improve the general conditions for the production and marketing of apicultural products. In Belgium, programmes on the restocking of honey bee hives have run for many years.
de Graaf, Dirk+3 more
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Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) caused a large outbreak in the summer and fall of 2014 in the United States. It causes serious respiratory disease, but causation of associated paralysis is controversial, because the virus is not routinely identified in ...
J. Morrey+7 more
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Familial paroxysmal hypokalaemic paralysis (hypoKPP) [PDF]
Case Summary: Demographic Details: Mr. SF, male, South African was referred by his general practitioner A 26-year-old South African gentleman was referred to the Neurology Outpatient department due to occasional episodes of bilateral muscle weakness in ...
Debono, Gabriella
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Antiviral treatment for Bell's palsy (idiopathic facial paralysis) [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Antiviral agents against herpes simplex virus are widely used in the treatment of idiopathic facial paralysis (Bell's palsy), but their effectiveness is uncertain. Significant morbidity can be associated with severe cases.
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Labyrinthine artery aneurysm as an internal auditory canal mass. [PDF]
We present the first case report of a labyrinthine artery aneurysm masquerading as an internal auditory canal tumor. A 72-year-old woman presented with sudden onset right facial paralysis, facial pain, hearing loss, and vertigo.
Brunberg, James+2 more
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ACUTE ASCENDING PARALYSIS (LANDRY'S PARALYSIS?). [PDF]
Acute ascending paralysis with a fatal termination in less than thirty-six hours, occurring in a boy 8 years of age, is so unusual that the following case is worthy of record: E. V., Mexican, aged 8 years; one of eight children; family and personal history negative; an unusually strong robust child; never had an acute illness of any sort.
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Snake and spider toxins induce a rapid recovery of function of botulinum neurotoxin paralysed neuromuscular junction [PDF]
Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and some animal neurotoxins (-Bungarotoxin, -Btx, from elapid snakes and -Latrotoxin, -Ltx, from black widow spiders) are pre-synaptic neurotoxins that paralyse motor axon terminals with similar clinical outcomes in patients.
Duregotti, Elisa+6 more
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BackgroundIn the SOD1G93A mutant rat model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), neuronal death and rapid paralysis progression are associated with the emergence of activated aberrant glial cells that proliferate in the degenerating spinal cord ...
Emiliano Trias+14 more
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