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The Causes of Transient Cerebral Paralyses
" apoplectic strokes " is one of the most important and most interesting fields for research at the present time. They cut short so many vigorous lives, or reduce them almost to the level of a vegetative existence. They arise, too, in the course of so many different diseases, and checkmate us when a prospect of recovery is in sight. The majority of the cases are accompanied by organic lesions, ...
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Congenital and acquired forms of paralysis have usually been left in the hands of the family physician, supplemented by occasional visits to the nerve specialist or the shop for orthopsedic appliances ; and the treatment has been on the routine lines of electricitj* in some form, massage, hydrotherapeutics and nervine tonics. Hitherto the ordinary surgeon has shunned this class of case as much ...
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In 1865, Claude Bernard wrote that ‘the constancy of the internal milieu is the essential condition to a free and independent life’ [1]. It would be hard to find a more illustrative paradigm for that statement than for the case of hyperkalaemic periodic paralysis (HyperPP) reported by Grgic et al. in this issue [2]. A 14-year-old male was admitted for a sudden ascending paralysis involving the ...
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Doctor Foster Kennedy is deeply sorry that he could not be here to address you on the subject of spinal cord paralyses following spinal anesthesia. This subject is very close to his mind and deep to his conscience. Only the most definite opinions of his physicians, who forbid him to make the journey, could persuade him against presenting such a serious problem to this fine audience, and especia...
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BACKGROUND Periodic paralyses and paramyotonia congenita are rare disorders causing disabling weakness and myotonia. Mutations in sodium, calcium, and potassium channels have been recognized as causing disease. OBJECTIVE To analyze the clinical phenotype of patients with and without discernible genotype and to identify other mutations in ion channel genes associated with disease. METHODS Th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
سال: 1891
ISSN: 0002-9629
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-189106000-00058