DNA markers for nervous system diseases

O 30: Peripheral Nervous System Diseases and Inflammation

Inflammatory neuropathies may be due to infection (with a specific casual agent identified) including Lyme disease, HIV, Leprosy, Herpes Zoster, Hepatitis B & C. The other group of are Autoimmune or possibly infectious (but with no specific causal infectious agent identified) including sarcoidosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome/ acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( AIDP), chronic in...

Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System

A case of hypertension is described. The patient's symptoms suddenly became acute. The heart remained compensated, but the progressive renal damage resulted in a fatal uraemia. Hyaline degenerative changes as in benign essential hypertension were found in the arterioles of the kidneys, suprarenals, pancreas, liver, and spleen. The vascular changes of the malignant phase were superimposed. In th...

Diseases of the Nervous System

Diseases of the Nervous System

Recklinghousen in 1891 were not examples of osteitis fibrosa generalisata and hence of hyperaparathyroidism, but were suffering from "polyostotic fibrous dysplasia." The book concludes with an account of Paget's disease, vith an ingenious, if not very satisfactory, attempt to explain its pathological physiology. It, however, has some useful points in treatment, one or two glasses of milk daily ...

Diseases of the Nervous System