In 19-26% of patients hospitalized with suspected stroke, the cause neurological symptoms are not cerebrovascular diseases. this case newly diagnosed thyrotoxic periodic paralysis we presented clinical, laboratory and instrumental features disease. The search for allowed to identify an endocrinological disease - diffuse toxic goiter, prescribe antithyroid therapy. data prospective patient obser...

human t-cell lymphotropic virus (htlv) types 1 and 2 belong to the oncorna group of retroviridae, a large family of viruses, grouped initially by pathogenic features, but later revised on the basis of genome structure and nucleotide sequence. htlv-i was the first discovered human retrovirus to be associated with a malignancy in 1980. the malignancy, first described by uchiyama and co-workers in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether spinal cord intraoperative monitoring (IOM) with somatosensory and transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials (EPs) predicts adverse surgical outcomes. METHODS A panel of experts reviewed the results of a comprehensive literature search and identified published studies relevant to the clinical question. These studies were classified according to the evidence...

The aortic dissection may result in spinal cord ischemia and subsequent paraparesis. However, the presentation of aortic dissection with both paraparesis and the absence of characteristic pain is very unusual. Our patient had the progressive flaccid paraparesis without characteristic pain. The initial impression was GBS because of the antecedent history of febrile illness, the absence of sensor...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether spinal cord intraoperative monitoring (IOM) with somatosensory and transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials (EPs) predict adverse surgical outcomes. METHODS A panel of experts reviewed the results of a comprehensive literature search and identified published studies relevant to the clinical question. These studies were classified according to the evidence-...

Several pedigrees have recently been reported in which dominantly inherited familial Alzheimer's disease is associated in some family members with spastic paraparesis and non-neuritic 'cotton wool' plaques. Here we report clinical, genetic and neuropathological findings in two further large pedigrees in which this combination of phenotypes is associated with a deletion of exon 9 of the presenil...

We present a family in which an initial clinical diagnosis of autosomal dominant pure hereditary spastic paraparesis (HSP) was made on the basis of a three generation pedigree in which both males and females presented with a spastic paraparesis. Subsequent biochemical and genetic analysis revealed that the family was in fact affected by the adrenomyeloneuropathy subtype of X-linked adrenoleukod...