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Browsing Neurology by UP Author "Schutte, Clara-Maria"
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Schutte, Clara-Maria; Ranchhod, N.; Kakaza, Mandisa; Pillay, M. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-06)INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), caused by the John Cunningham (JC) virus, results from lytic infection of predominantly oligodendrocytes. Following the HIV pandemic, the ...
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Schutte, Clara-Maria (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-11)BACKGROUND. South Africa (SA) has a high prevalence of HIV infection with almost 11% of the population aged >2 years living with HIV. At the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, the Neurology Department has seen a steady ...
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Hiesgen, Juliane; Schutte, Clara-Maria (South African Medical Association, 2023-03)Since the identification of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antibodies about 15 years ago, many patients with rapidly progressing psychiatric symptoms, abnormal movements, seizures or unexplained coma have been ...
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Hiesgen, J.; Schutte, Clara-Maria (South African Medical Association, 2023-04)Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) represents a growing number of severe autoimmune-inflammatory diseases affecting both the white and grey matter of the brain. In part 1 of this series, we focused on the epidemiology, ...
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Van Coller, Riaan; Van Rensburg, Elna; Schutte, Clara-Maria; Brink, Delene; Welthagen, Gerhard Frederick; Dove, Mike G. (South African Medical Association, 2007-04)Two patients with African sleeping sickness (SS) presented to the neurology unit, Pretoria Academic Hospital, during 2004 and 2005. SS has shown a recent resurgence, with epidemics in the Sudan, Angola and the Democratic ...
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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy (CADASIL) Retief, Chris; Schutte, Clara-Maria; Baker, Malcolm Kevin (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009-06)BACKGROUND: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leuco-encephalopathy (CADASIL) is a hereditary autosomal dominant non-atherosclerotic nonamyloid cerebral arteriopathy. The disease was ...
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Mahne, A.C.; Carr, J.A.; Bardien, S.; Schutte, Clara-Maria (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-06)BACKGROUND. Parkinson’s disease (PD), with a prevalence of up to 4% in Western countries, appears to be less common in Africa, possibly in part because of genetic factors. African studies investigating the genetic causation ...
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Schutte, Clara-Maria; Townsend, T.; Van Coller, Riaan; Olorunju, Steve A.S. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-01)BACKGROUND. HTLV-1 associated myelopathy (HAM), or tropical spastic paraparesis, is caused by a retrovirus, the human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV). Although patients with HAM and HIV infection have been described, to ...
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Hiesgen, Juliane; Schutte, Clara-Maria; Olorunju, S.; Retief, J. (Sage, 2017-06)AIM : This retrospective cohort study analyzes the impact of possible risk factors on the survival chance of patients with cryptococcal meningitis. These factors include the patient's socio-economic background, age, gender, ...
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Kisten, Ravendran; Van Coller, Riaan; Cassimjee, Nafisa; Lubbe, Elsabeth (Elsa); Vaidyanathan, Janardan; Slabbert, Pieter; Enslin, Nico; Schutte, Clara-Maria (Elsevier, 2022)INTRODUCTION : Although refractory Tourette Syndrome (TS) is rare, it poses great challenges in clinical practice. Co-morbid psychiatric symptoms often occur, negatively impacting quality of life. Deep brain stimulation ...
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Hiesgen, Juliane; Schutte, Clara-Maria (South African Medical Association, 2023-03)Since the identification of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antibodies about 15 years ago, many patients with rapidly progressing psychiatric symptoms, abnormal movements, seizures or unexplained coma, have been ...
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Mudau, Adziambei; Suleman, Farhana Ebrahim; Schutte, Clara-Maria; Lockhat, Zarina I. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-11-14)Progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy (PML) is a progressive demyelinating condition resulting from infection with the John Cunningham virus and precipitated by immunocompromised states. The HIV pandemic, especially ...
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Munsami, Lyneshree; Schutte, Clara-Maria; De Villiers, Maryke; Hiesgen, Juliane (AOSIS, 2023-01-19)BACKGROUND : The neuropsychiatric side effects of efavirenz occur mainly early during treatment and are usually mild. A lesser-known and serious complication is late-onset efavirenz toxicity causing ataxia and encephalopathy. ...
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Schutte, Clara-Maria; Van der Meyden, C.H. (Kees); Kakaza, Mandisa; Lockhat, Zarina I.; Van der Walt, Elizabeth (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2019)BACKGROUND: The recent listeriosis outbreak in South Africa (SA) received widespread attention in the media. More than 1 000 laboratoryconfirmed cases of listeriosis occurred during an 18-month period, with a case fatality ...
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Schutte, Clara-Maria; Naidoo, Jayendra; Kakaza, Mandisa; Pillay, M.; Hiesgen, Juliane (MedPharm Publications, 2015)Inhalation of volatile agents, or solvent abuse, is a dangerous pastime practised by many young adolescents in various parts of the world. Benzine, a distillate of petroleum, is a cheap and readily available solvent that ...
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Schutte, Clara-Maria; Van der Meyden, C.H. (Kees); Van Niekerk, Linette; Kakaza, Mandisa; Van Coller, Riaan; Ueckermann, Veronica; Oosthuizen, Nicholette M. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-01)The hepatic porphyrias are a group of rare metabolic disorders, each of which is associated with a specific enzymatic alteration in the haem biosynthesis pathway. In South Africa (SA), a high incidence of variegate porphyria ...
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Schutte, Clara-Maria; Dorfling, Cecilia Maria; Van Coller, Riaan; Honey, Engela M.; Jansen van Rensburg, Elizabeth (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-07)Autosomal dominantly inherited oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is caused by a trinucleotide repeat expansion in exon 1 of the polyadenylate binding protein nuclear 1 (PABPN1) gene on chromosome 14q. A large ...
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Van Coller, Riaan; Slabbert, Pieter; Schutte, Clara-Maria (Karger, 2014-10)Paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dyskinesia (PNKD) causes episodes of treatment-resistant involuntary movements. Previous case reports showed effective treatment of PNKD with deep brain stimulation (DBS). We report 2 patients in ...
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Van Coller, Riaan; Schutte, Clara-Maria; Lubbe, Elsabeth (Elsa); Ngele, B. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-10)BACKGROUND : Childhood-onset generalised dystonia is commonly caused by TOR1A mutations and is known to respond well to pallidal deep-brain stimulation (DBS) surgery. The incidence and prevalence of monogenic dystonia in ...
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Baker, Malcolm Kevin; Schutte, Clara-Maria; Ranchhod, Neelay; Brittain, David; Van Rensburg, J.E. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy (MNGIE), usually an autosomal-recessive inherited condition, causes gastrointestinal dysmotility, ophthalmoplegia, ptosis, leukoencephalopathy and neuropathy. The chromosome ...
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