Pick's disease(frontotemporal dementia).If you have this brain disorder, large areas of nerves at the front and sides of your brain are destroyed over time due to the buildup of an abnormal protein. Personality changes, acting inappropriately, trouble speaking, loss of memory, and having a ha...
test is considered positive. Caution should be taken in patients who chronically retain CO2such as chronic obstructive lung disease, and CO2targets may need to be adjusted depending on the baseline level; in this setting, the target PaCO2should be at least 20 mmHg above the known elevated baseli...
These factors include: 1) medical practitioners may not accept brain death as true death, 2) a misconception of the concept of brain death, 3) a lack of knowledge about brain death, 4) a lack of responsibility in carrying out professional duties. These four factors will be discussed on ...
Ethical issues include the problem of disease detection in “healthy patients”; the non medical use of nanotechnologies, and the acceptance of what could be a potentially uncontrollable major modification of the human body. All these items are used against nanotechnologies, thus it will be crucial...
Helen & Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA Keerthi Rajamani, Shang Mu & Zhuhao Wu Division of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA Benjamin C. Kennedy Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson ...
Both patients passed away despite appropriate medical therapy. Conclusion The immune dysregulation induced by coronavirus disease 2019 and its’ treatments can predispose patients, especially immunosuppressed ones, to bacterial and fungal infections with unusual and opportunistic pathogens in the central ...
All these types of brain training exercises have one thing in common: they help keep the mind active by engaging both short-term and long-term memory which in turn helps improve overall brain speed and cognitive strengths. So why not give it a try? Pick up your cell phone, tablet and ...
Medical ultrasound equipment has been commonly implemented in disease diagnosis and therapy. No specific ultrasonic equipment that facilitates the opening of the BBB and the delivery of nanomedicines to the brain is available. Furthermore, the ultrasonic equipment and parameters setting used to treat ...
Current Medical Literature: Lysosomal Storage DiseaseRombach SM, Smid BE, Bouwman MG, Linthorst GE, Dijkgraaf MG, Hollak CE. Long term enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease: effectiveness on kidney, heart and brain. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2013;8:47....
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