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Spinal cystic echinococcosis - a systematic analysis and review of the literature : part 2. treatment, follow-up and outcome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Bone involvement in human cystic echinococcosis (CE) is rare, but affects the spine in approximately 50% of cases. Despite significant advances in diagnostic imaging techniques, surgical treatment and introduction of pharmacological therapy, spinal ...
Blum, Johannes   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Clinical and genetic study of hereditary spastic paraplegia in Canada

open access: yesNeurology: Genetics, 2016
Objective: To describe the clinical, genetic, and epidemiologic features of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) in Canada and to determine which clinical, radiologic, and genetic factors determine functional outcomes for patients with HSP.
N. Chrestian   +20 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Weathering the storms of climate change: Preparing persons with disabilities and the physiatrists who provide their care for extreme hurricanes

open access: yesPM&R, EarlyView.
Abstract Climate‐driven disasters have disproportionate and often devastating consequences on individuals with disabilities. Warming ocean and air temperatures are fueling more extreme tropical cyclones, further endangering those living in at‐risk regions.
Mollie Andreae   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A pseudo‐homozygous missense variant and Alu‐mediated exon 5 deletion in FARS2 causing spastic paraplegia 77

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
FARS2‐associated hereditary spastic paraplegia, later onset spastic paraplegia type 77, is a rarely neurodegenerative disease. Here, we reported two affected siblings in an autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia family with a pseudo‐homozygous missense ...
Shu‐Huai Lin   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Motor neuron degeneration in spastic paraplegia 11 mimics amyotrophic lateral sclerosis lesions

open access: yesBrain : a journal of neurology, 2016
The most common autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia is caused by mutations in SPG11. Denora et al. report the first postmortem neuropathological analysis of two unrelated patients with SPG11, and demonstrate clinical and pathological overlap between ...
P. Denora   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cross‐lagged assessment between indices of leisure time physical activity and domains of quality of life after electrical stimulation training in persons with spinal cord injury: An exploratory trial

open access: yesPM&R, EarlyView.
Abstract Background An existing association was noted between leisure time physical activity (LTPA) and quality of life (QOL) after spinal cord injury (SCI). Furthermore, electrical stimulation exercise program has been shown to improve domains of QOL.
Ashraf S. Gorgey   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post‐Traumatic Growth in the Global South: Possibilities in Relational Ethics from Communities to Classrooms

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of clinical signs and outcomes between dogs with presumptive ischemic myelopathy and dogs with acute non compressive nucleus pulposus extrusion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
OBJECTIVE To compare clinical signs and outcomes between dogs with presumptive ischemic myelopathy and dogs with presumptive acute noncompressive nucleus pulposus extrusion (ANNPE). DESIGN Retrospective study. ANIMALS 51 dogs with ischemic myelopathy and
De Decker, S   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Complicated spastic paraplegia in patients with AP5Z1 mutations (SPG48)

open access: yesNeurology: Genetics, 2016
Objective: Biallelic mutations in the AP5Z1 gene encoding the AP-5 ζ subunit have been described in a small number of patients with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) (SPG48); we sought to define genotype–phenotype correlations in patients with ...
Jennifer Hirst   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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