Recent Advances: Neurology

Interventional Neurology—Recent Advances and New Applications

© T O U C H B R I E F I N G S 2 0 1 1 Abstract Interventional neurology refers to endovascular, catheter-based techniques using fluoroscopy and angiography to diagnose and treat vascular disease of the central nervous system. This article provides an update on the recent advances and newer applications of diagnostic cerebral angiography, acute endovascular stroke treatment, revascularization of...

Recent Advances in Neurology and Neuropsychiatry

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Recent advances in neurology and psychiatry.

Recent advances in the neurology of HIV infection.

Primary infection with HIV-1 may pass unnoticed or be passed off as an unremarkable viral illness. A glandular fever-like illness occurs in 30-60% of patients.3'4 Neurological symptoms have included headache in 30%, with nausea and vomiting in 20%, an encephalopathy in 8% and neuropathies in a further 8%, often including a peripheral seventh nerve palsy. Rarer manifestations have included an as...

Recent Advances in Hemophilia Gene Therapy

Heterogeneous loss of function mutations at F8 and F9 genes causes X-linked recessive bleeding disorders, hemophilia A (HA) and hemophilia B (HB), respectively. HA is clinically indistinguishable from HB and accounts for more than 80% of hemophilia cases; the former affects 1/5000 and the latter 1/25000 male births worldwide. In Iran, it is estimated that around 4300 HA and 900 HB patients are ...