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DiseasesStiff-person syndrome is rare and disabling autoimmune condition that most frequently affects women, with no real predisposition by race. Diagnosis is often arduous, which is why patients concomitantly suffer from anxiety and depression.
Riccardo Marvulli +5 more
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Plasmapheresis in the therapy of Stiff-Person syndrome [PDF]
La plasmaféresis en el tratamiento del síndrome del hombre rígido es un tema de gran relevancia médica. El síndrome del hombre rígido, también conocido como síndrome de Stiff-Person, es un trastorno neurológico raro caracterizado por rigidez muscular ...
Huaman Campos, Andrea Karolina
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, 2014 The stiff-person syndrome is a rare and progressive neuromuscular disease which appears to have an immunpathological basis. It is characterised by painful muscle spasms and stiffness in the proximal muscles, especially those attached to the axial ...
Demeter, Judit +8 more
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, 2003 In two patients, a man aged 54 years and a woman aged 49 years, stiff-person syndrome was diagnosed. This is a rare disorder of the central nervous system, with signs of an autoimmune pathogenesis.
Vogels, R. L. +3 more
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Graves' disease as a first autoimmune manifestation of a stiff person syndrome.
, 2019 INTRODUCTION : Stiff person syndrome (SPS) is a disabling and rare autoimmune neurological disorder characterized by progressive rigidity and paroxysmal painful spasms involving the truncal and proximal limb muscles.
London, Frédéric +2 more
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A therapeutic trial of milacemide in myoclonus and the stiff-person syndrome.
, 1991 We investigated the therapeutic effects of milacemide in seven patients with myoclonus and three patients with the stiff-person syndrome in an open-label trial.
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Stiff person syndrome does not always occur with maternal passive transfer of GAD65 antibodies
, 2004 The authors report the presence of high titer antibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase (anti-GAD65) until age 24 months in two asymptomatic newborns of a woman with stiff-person syndrome (SPS). No signs of SPS were detectable in the two children at ages
M. Gironi +4 more
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Antisaccade Deficits in Stiff Person Syndrome
, 2017 The antisaccade task is a clinically useful sign of frontal cortical dysfunction (Hallet,1978). In this task, subjects must make a saccade away from a salient stimulus to a spatial location reflected 180° away.
Amrita Singh; Wangzikang Zhang; Jeffrey Odel; Michael Goldberg; Linus Sun
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A case of pediatric stiff-person syndrome in Kenya
, 2021 Background: Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) is a rare progressive autoimmune disease that is especially uncommon in the pediatric population. SPS is often undiagnosed for years.
Mercer , Tim +4 more
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