Conjugal Parkinson's disease – Real or chance?

Conjugal Parkinson's disease - Real or chance?

Coeliac disease and granulomatous ileocolitis: an association or chance occurrence?

Enteric granulomatous inflammation can be caused by a number of conditions including Crohn's disease, sarcoidosis, enteric infections, chronic granulomatous disease and also by drug reactions. Granulomas have also been described in microscopic colitis associated with certain medications and autoimmune diseases. The association of granulomatous ileocolitis with coeliac disease is not common. We ...

Manual Therapy Choices: A General Approach to Parkinsons Disease

In treating dysfunction, it is normal for most therapists to use a variety of modalities and methods including myofascial release, muscle-energy techniques, positional-release techniques and many more. The assumption must be that different tools achieve different effects, and the ones we choose reflect our perception as to the needs of the individual and/or of the tissues involved. Sledgehammer...

Automatic, unsupervised classification of dyskinesia in patients with Parkinsons Disease

One of the characteristic symptoms of patients with Parkinson Disease (PD) is a rigidity of movement. These symptoms disappear after administration of Levodopa. However, the long-term use of levodopa causes involuntary movements (dyskinesia). A proper diagnosis requires an automatic, unsupervised method for the detection and classification of levodopa induced dyskinesia. The main problem, howev...

Subclinical Hypothyroidism or Thyroid Autoimmunity and Variant Angina: By Chance? or with a Chance?

Proper functioning of thyroid is of importance due to its effects on the cardiovascular system. Furthermore, the relationship between hyperthyroidism and coronary vasospasm is well-known and has been continuously reported since the first description in a case report in 1979. The most important treatment of thyroid disease is the control of thyrotoxicosis and the majority of cases showed excelle...