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Early clinical surrogates for outcome prediction after stroke thrombectomy in daily clinical practice
Background and purpose To investigate early clinical surrogates for long-term independency of patients treated with thrombectomy for large vessel occlusion stroke in daily clinical routine. Methods ...
BMJ10d
Anti-CASPR2 clinical phenotypes correlate with HLA and immunological features
Objective Antibodies against contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2-Abs) have been described in acquired neuromyotonia, limbic encephalitis (LE) and Morvan syndrome (MoS). However, it is unknown ...
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Frequency of diabetes and other comorbidities in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy and their impact on clinical presentation and response to therapy
Correspondence to Professor Eduardo Nobile-Orazio, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milano 20122, Lombardia, Italy; eduardo.nobile{at}unimi.it ...
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Long-term maintenance of mycophenolate mofetil in anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (LEARN): a multicentre, open-label, blinded-endpoint, randomised controlled trial
Background Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis (NMDARE) is a severe autoimmune disorder with high morbidity and mortality. Current treatments have limitations including relapse, ...
BMJ10d
Comparison between plasma and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for the early diagnosis and association with survival in prion disease
Correspondence to Professor Piero Parchi, Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica Diagnostica e Sperimentale, Università di Bologna, Bologna 40138, Italy; piero.parchi{at}unibo.it Objective To compare ...
BMJ11d
Relationship between motor cortical and peripheral axonal hyperexcitability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Correspondence to Dr Kazumoto Shibuya, Neurology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; kazumoto{at}net.email.ne.jp Background Previous studies have shown that patients ...
BMJ3d
Autoimmune encephalitis: proposed best practice recommendations for diagnosis and acute management
The objective of this paper is to evaluate available evidence for each step in autoimmune encephalitis management and provide expert opinion when evidence is lacking. The paper approaches autoimmune ...
BMJ2d
Intraoperative microvascular Doppler ultrasonography in cerebral aneurysm surgery
a Department of Neurosurgery, Benjamin Franklin Medical Center, Free University of Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200 Berlin, Germany, b Department of Radiology Dr Ruediger Stendel, Department of ...
BMJ11d
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: update on diagnosis, immunopathogenesis and treatment
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated neuropathy typically characterised by symmetrical involvement, and proximal as well as distal muscle weakness (typical ...
BMJ11d
CSF sphingomyelin: a new biomarker of demyelination in the diagnosis and management of CIDP and GBS
Objective To validate sphingomyelin (SM) dosage in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients affected by chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and Guillain-Barré syndrome ...
BMJ5d
The changing pattern of spinal arachnoiditis.
Spinal arachnoiditis is a rare condition. Eighty cases, diagnosed during a period when 7600 spinal contrast investigations were undertaken, have been reviewed. The majority had suffered a previous ...
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Bilateral volume reduction in posterior hippocampus in psychosis of epilepsy
Objective Psychosis of epilepsy (POE) occurs more frequently in temporal lobe epilepsy, raising the question as to whether abnormalities of the hippocampus are aetiologically important. Despite ...