Fixed Pupillary Light Reflex due to Peripheral Neuropathy after Liver Transplantation [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2015 A 46-year-old female patient was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after liver transplantation. About an hour later after the ICU admission, she had no pupillary light reflex. Both pupils were also fixed at 5 mm.
Kwan Hyung Kim +4 more
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Exercise intolerance and fatigue in chronic heart failure: is there a role for group III/IV afferent feedback? [PDF]
, 2020 Exercise intolerance and early fatiguability are hallmark symptoms of chronic heart failure. While the malfunction of the heart is certainly the leading cause of chronic heart failure, the patho-physiological mechanisms of exercise intolerance in these ...
Angius, Luca, Crisafulli, Antonio
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Abnormal control of orbicularis oculi reflex excitability in multiple sclerosis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Brain lesions in patients with multiple sclerosis may lead to abnormal excitability of brainstem reflex circuits because of impairment of descending control pathways.
Christopher Cabib +4 more
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Emerging and distinct video head impulse test responses in elderly with vestibular symptoms
Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2022 Introduction: Dizziness has been reported to be the most common symptom in elderly population. Video head impulse test, VHIT, allows clinicians to assess the vestibular function in elderly individuals, during their initial stages of vestibular symptoms ...
Muhammed Ayas, Ahmad AlAmadi
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Red Reflex Examination in Neonates for 2 Years Screening [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Neonatology, 2020 Background: Red reflex is a simple test that can detect potentially life-threatening ocular abnormalities. In 2012, a red reflex screening campaign started in Umbria, central Italy.
Ashraf Mohammadzadeh +3 more
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Reflex Epilepsy in Children: Clinical, Electroencephalographic and Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings [PDF]
International Journal of Medical Arts, 2023 Background: Reflex epilepsy is an epileptic event precipitated by external stimuli such as flashes of light or internal mental process like thinking or calculation and/or associated with photo-paroxysmal response on electroencephalogram [EEG].The Aim of ...
Abdeltief Abdeltief +2 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionThe characteristic feature of primitive reflexes is that they occur early in development and must expire at a well-defined age. The study was conducted prospectively on a group of 107 children (74 boys).
Joanna Surowińska +2 more
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Abnormal Blink Reflex and Intermuscular Coherence in Writer's Cramp
Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Background: Writer's cramp (WC) is a task-specific focal hand dystonia presenting with pain, stiffness and/or tremor while writing. We explored the involvement of cortical and brainstem circuits by measuring intermuscular coherence (IMC) and pre-pulse ...
Supriyo Choudhury +9 more
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Changes of Blink Reflex in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Journal of Diabetes Research, 2021 Blink reflex provides an objective assessment of the cranial and central nervous systems. However, the relationships between body mass index, dizziness, and BR have not been explored in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Moreover, R2 duration,
Li Xiao +5 more
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An Investigation Into the Electrical Activity of Tender, Resting Paraspinal Muscles Using Surface Electromyography: A Pilot Study [PDF]
, 1988 Abnormal resting paraspinal muscle activity has been claimed to be responsible for changes in spinal tissue texture which are detectible by manual palpation.
Hubbard, A, Fryer, Gary, Ball, Kevin
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