To the Editor.—This is an appeal to fellow physicians who love baseball and who therefore recognize Lou Gehrig as a great player and a fine gentleman. My appeal is to remove the epithet "Lou Gehrig's disease" from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).In my medical school years, ALS was ...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, is a neurodegenerative disease associated with the breakdown and loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Voluntary muscle control degenerates until the body eventually loses function. To better understand how ALS works, the medical terminology can fi...
Innovative pro-regenerative treatment strategies for progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS), combining neuroprotection and immunomodulation, represent an unmet need. Neural precursor cells (NPCs) transplanted in animal models of multiple sclerosis have sho
On the other hand, both atherosclerosis and Mönckeberg's medial calcific sclerosis are described by Sir Marc Armand Ruffer in his examination of Egyptian mummies [6]. So while the terminology is less than 300 years old, the lesions are thousands of years old. Hence the answer to query #1...
Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging)) 3427 Accesses Abstract Hippocampal sclerosis is by far the most common cause of temporal lobe epilepsy. The familiar reader detects it on MRI in more than 95% of cases but should be aware of typical “pitfalls”, name...
Various medical treatments for EPS were prescribed to different patients, including tamoxifen (10), prednisolone (2), cyclosporine (1), and rapamycin (2). In the severe group, 8 patients died, 3 of whom did not have surgical intervention. Two received specific therapy (tamoxifen and rapamycin)...
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Objectives: The main objective of this study is to evaluate the association of clinical and laboratory data for the incidence of infection in patients with SSc taking RTX. Methods: This is a retrospective, observational study and the medical records of patients treated at the infusion center of ...
Over the past decades, the immune responses have been suspected of participating in the mechanisms for epilepsy. To assess the immune related pathway in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), we explored the altered immune pathways in TLE patients with and withou
TERMINOLOGY ▪ Fibrosingmediastinitis ▪ Sclerosing mediastinitis ▪ Mediastinal fibrosis ▪ Idiopathic fibroinflammatory lesions of the mediastinum INTRODUCTION ▪ Fibrosing mediastinitis (FM) is a rare, benign, gradually progressive fibroinflammatory reaction occurring in any compartment of the mediastinu...