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[Tropical spastic paraparesis due to HLTV-I - Studies on four cases and review of the literature]

, 1996
We describe the clinical, radiological, neurophysiological and biological characteristics of 4 patients suffering from tropical spastic paraparesis due to a HTLV-I infection. Patient I immigrated in Europe at the age of 16 from Caribbean islands. Patient
Ossemann, Michel, Duprez, Thierry, Sindic, Christian   +2 more
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HTLV-I Associated myelopathy in porto alegre (southern Brazil) Mielopatia associada ao HTLV-I em Porto Alegre (Sul do Brasil)

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1995
HTLV-I associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP/HAM) have been increasingly described in practically all regions of Brazil. Five confirmed and documented cases of patients with TSP/HAM in Rio Grande do Sul are reported; in all of them ...
Márcio Menna-Barreto, Alexandre Doval, Giorgio Rabolin, Otomar Bianchini   +3 more
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“HTLV-I Infection” Twenty-Year Research in Neurology Department of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2013
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) types 1 and 2 belong to the Oncorna group of retroviridae, a large family of viruses, grouped initially by pathogenic features, but later revised on the basis of genome structure and nucleotide sequence.
Ali Shoeibi, Mohammdmahdi Etemadi, Amir Moghaddam Ahmadi, Mona Amini, Reza Boostani   +4 more
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Development of Tropical Spastic Paraparesis in Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Carriers Is Influenced by Interleukin 28B Gene Polymorphisms [PDF]

, 2012
Producción CientíficaInterleukin 28B (IL28B) rs12979860 polymorphisms were examined in 41 individuals with human T-lymphotrophic virus type 1 (HTLV-1).
Mendoza, Carmen de, Roc, Lourdes, Lopez, Mariola, Aguilera, Antonio, Soriano, Vincent, Benito, Rafael, Treviño, Ana, Ramos, José M, Eiros Bouza, José María, Vispo, Eugenia   +9 more
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Brain and spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging in spastic paraparesis associated to human T-lymphotropic virus [PDF]

, 2006
Background: The spastic paraparesis associated to HTLV-1 causes degenerative pyramidal tract lesions of the spinal cord and affects cortical-nuclear connections in the brain.
García F., Luis, Cartier Rovirosa, Luis, Cervilla O., Jorge   +2 more
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Paraparesia espástica tropical/mielopatia associada ao HTLV-1: relato de dois casos com manifestações dermatológicas em familiares de doador de sangue HTLV-1 positivo assintomático no Hemocentro do Amazonas - Hemoam Tropical spastic paraparesis/myelopathy associated with HTLV-1: report of two related cases with dermatological involvement

Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2010
Dois casos de paraparesia espástica tropical / mielopatia associada ao HTLV-1 (HAM/TSP) foram diagnosticados no Hemocentro do Amazonas - Hemoam, em familiares de doador de sangue soropositivo para o HTLV-1 assintomático.
Leny N. M. Passos, Massanobu Takatani, Márcia P. E. Morais, Sinésio Talhari   +3 more
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Dermatologic Manifestations in HTLV-1-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis

Acta Medica Iranica, 2019
The human T cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) is associated with adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) and other disorders, including a slowly progressive demyelinating paraparesis, known as HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (
Reza Boostani, Pouran Layegh, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah, Elham Vosoughi, Azadeh Mohammadi, Noseibe Joneidi, Reyhaneh Bazargani, Delaram Sayadpour Zanjani, Saeed Ebrahimzadeh   +8 more
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Factors associated with corticosteroid therapy failure in HTLV–associated spastic paraparesis in an endemic region of Peru

Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy
Introduction. HTLV-1/2–associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is a chronic progressive myelopathy with variable response to corticosteroids.
Raul Montalvo, Lizbeth Lizana-Quispe, Thalia Porta-Quinto, Ciro Rodriguez, Kelina Almora-León, Jenny Julian, Edith Lozano-Orihuela   +6 more
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[Tropical spastic paraparesis in the tropics and Brazil. A historical analysis].

Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria, 1994
The tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) is a chronic myelopathy, predominant in the tropics, recently known to be of retroviral origin (HTLV-I). This paper aims at delineating the clinico-etiological evolution of this entity. The historical analysis of it showed that the TSP has had, along decades, many different denominations and the discovery of the ...
C M, de Castro-Costa, H, Carton, P, Goubau, E G, de Figueiredo, S D, Giffoni   +4 more
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Tropical spastic paraparesis [PDF]

, 2020
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