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Spastic Paraparesis Following Cocaine Inhalation [PDF]

Case Reports in Medicine, 2009
Cocaine use is reaching epidemic proportions in the UK and the consequences are a number of debilitating effects. Strokes may result from a number of mechanisms related to cocaine use.
Henry Oluwasefunmi Savage, Malin Roesner, David Cohen   +2 more
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INTERFERON BETA-1A TREATMENT IN HTLV-1-ASSOCIATED MYELOPATHY/TROPICAL SPASTIC PARAPARESIS: A CASE REPORT [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2014
Here a young patient (< 21 years of age) with a history of infective dermatitis is described. The patient was diagnosed with myelopathy associated with HTLV-1/tropical spastic paraparesis and treated with interferon beta-1a.
Graça Maria de Castro Viana, Marcos Antonio Custódio Neto da Silva, Victor Lima Souza, Natália Barbosa da Silva Lopes, Diego Luz Felipe da Silva, Maria do Desterro Soares Brandão Nascimento   +5 more
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The m.14484T>C MT-ND6 Mutation Presenting with a Hereditary Spastic-Paraparesis Phenotype. [PDF]

Mov Disord Clin Pract
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Amorelli G, Nilles C, Pfeffer G, Joel M, Martino D.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Intrathecal Baclofen in Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis [PDF]

Frontiers in Neurology, 2019
Introduction: Treatment with intrathecal baclofen (ITB) is a therapeutic option in the management of severe spasticity in patients with hereditary spastic paraparesis (HSP).
Elke Pucks-Faes, Judith Dobesberger, Gabriel Hitzenberger, Heinrich Matzak, Andreas Mayr, Elena Fava, Eleonora Genelin, Leopold Saltuari, Leopold Saltuari   +8 more
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Probable HTLV-I/II Tropical Spastic Paraparesis Patient from Ethiopia: A Case Report [PDF]

, 2022
BACKGROUND: Available data on the burden of Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I/II infection for eastern Africa, limited to Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Rwanda, show prevalence lower than elsewhere in Africa (0% – 1.8%).
Dereje Melka, Melka, Dereje, Mehila Zebenigus, Zebenigus, Mehila   +3 more
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A Rare Genetic Cause of Spastic Paraparesis. [PDF]

Neurology
Bhattacharjee S, Siripurapu R, Swale A, Crow YJ, Kobylecki C.   +4 more
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Novel genetic variant in hereditary spastic paraparesis. [PDF]

BMJ Case Rep
A man in his 30s was referred to neurology with right-sided paraesthesia, tremors, chest pain and lower urinary tract and erectile dysfunction. He had a medical history of left acetabular dysplasia, and subjective memory impairment, the latter being in ...
Knight KAW, Barbour-Hastie C, Gane A, O'Riordan J.   +3 more
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Biotinidase deficiency: A treatable cause of hereditary spastic paraparesis. [PDF]

, 2020
ObjectiveTo expand the genetic spectrum of hereditary spastic paraparesis by a treatable condition and to evaluate the therapeutic effects of biotin supplementation in an adult patient with biotinidase deficiency (BD).MethodsWe performed exome sequencing
Radelfahr, F., Riedhammer, Korbinian M., Klopstock, T., Meitinger, T., Keidel, L.F., Wagner, M., Riedhammer, K.M., Wagner, Matias, Meitinger, Thomas, Klopstock, Thomas, Gramer, Gwendolyn, Radelfahr, Florentine, Gramer, G., Keidel, Leonie F.   +13 more
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Plasma proteome analysis in HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Human T lymphotropic virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) causes a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system known as HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM) which resembles chronic spinal forms of multiple ...
Stumpf, M. P. H. (Michael P. H.), Aviva Witkover, Bangham, Charles RM, Kirk, Paul, Taylor, Graham P, Kirk Paul DW, Lewin Alexandra M, Kirk, Paul DW, Bangham Charles RM, Bangham, C. R. M. (Charles R. M.), Taylor, G. P. (Graham P.), Lewin, Alexandra M, Courtney, A, Kirk, PDW, Richardson, Sylvia, Wait Robin, Witkover, A, Lewin, Alexandra M., Alan Courtney, Robin Wait, Graham P Taylor, Courtney Alan, Michael PH Stumpf, Charles RM Bangham, Witkover Aviva, Witkover, Aviva, Wait, R, Paul DW Kirk, Wait, Robin, Richardson, S, Taylor Graham P, Bangham, CRM, Courtney, Alan, Bangham, CR, Richardson Sylvia, Stumpf, MP, Sylvia Richardson, Stumpf, Michael PH, Kirk, PD, Stumpf, MPH, Taylor, GP, Stumpf Michael PH, Alexandra M Lewin, Lewin, AM   +43 more
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From cirrhosis to paraparesis [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2019
We present the case of a 61-years-old male, diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus, who developed bilateral signs of Parkinsonism, intention tremor and spastic paraparesis.
Ioan-Cristian Lupescu, Speranta Iacob, Ioana Gabriela Lupescu, Liliana Gheorghe, Adriana Octaviana Dulamea   +4 more
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