dementia is defined as significant acquired cognitive impairment in one or more cognitive domains that represents a significant decline from previous baseline and interferes with independence in daily activities. autoimmune dementia is a term that has been used to describe a steroid-responsive autoimmune disorder characterized by a rapidly progressive dementia with a fluctuating course. even co...

a five-year-old male doberman pinscher with an oval-shaped mass in the left side of thorax, respiratory distress, and an impairment of the use of the left forelimb was referred to the faculty of veterinary medicine of shahidchamran university in ahvaz. radiographs were taken. the abnormal mass was removed by radical surgery. histopathological examination confirmed the occurrence of a well-diffe...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder of young adults. ALS patients usually present a rapidly progressive motor weakness caused by motor neuron demise. Death occurs in a few years, mainly due to respiratory failure. Therefore, adequate prediction of respiratory insufficiency has great importance in ALS management. We propose a prognostic model based o...

Besides the common respiratory symptoms or viral pneumonia, COVID-19 is also presented with different neurological symptoms. Olfactory dysfunction (OD) impairment of sense smell one being reported in infection caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The severity varies from anosmia to microsmia hyposmia. OD could have a potential early screening and diagnostic va...

The succinate dehydrogenase consists of only four subunits, all nuclearly encoded, and is part of both the respiratory chain and the Krebs cycle. Mutations in the four genes encoding the subunits of the mitochondrial respiratory chain succinate dehydrogenase have been recently reported in human and shown to be associated with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. Although a comparatively r...

AIM To investigate respiratory and cardiovascular side effects in elderly people in the first 12 months after commencing topical beta antagonists. METHODS 40 patients (mean age 74 years) were recruited to a randomised, masked study. Spirometry, pulse, and blood pressure were recorded before, 1 month, and 12 months after starting topical therapy with either timolol 0.5% twice daily or betaxolo...