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  • Comparison of HTLV-associated myelopathy (HAM) in HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients at a tertiary South African hospital 
    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 ...
  • Cryptococcal meningitis in a tertiary hospital in Pretoria, mortality and risk factors – a retrospective cohort study 
    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, ...
  • A descriptive investigation of the ultrastructure of fibrin networks in thrombo-embolic ischemic stroke 
    Pretorius, Etheresia; Swanepoel, A.C. (Albe Carina); Oberholzer, Hester Magdalena; Van der Spuy, Wendy Jeannette; Duim, Wiebren; Wessels, Pieter Frederik (Springer, 2011-05)
    Stroke is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Formation of a fibrin clot is controlled by a group of tightly regulated plasma proteases and cofactors and a change in the fibrin fiber formation causes an alteration ...
  • Efficacy of deep brain stimulation of the anterior-medial globus pallidus internus in tic and non-tic related symptomatology in refractory Tourette syndrome 
    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 ...
  • Eryptosis as a marker of Parkinson’s disease 
    Pretorius, Etheresia; Swanepoel, A.C. (Albe Carina); Buys, A.V. (Antonia Vergina); Vermeulen, Natasha; Duim, Wiebren; Kell, Douglas B. (Impact Journals, 2014-10)
    A major trend in recent Parkinson’s disease (PD) research is the investigation of biological markers that could help in identifying at‐risk individuals or to track disease progression and response to therapies. Central ...
  • Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy : a radiologic and manometric study of the pharynx and esophagus 
    Stubgen, Joerg-Patrick (Springer, 2008)
    Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is not a recognized neuromuscular cause of dysphagia. However, a study of pharyngoesophageal function in FSHD has not been performed or reported. The aim of this study was to ...
  • Fiat lux : light and pedagogy for the 21st century 
    Lech, James C.; Halma, Matthew T.J.; Obajuluwa, Adejoke O.; Baker, Malcolm Kevin; Hamblin, Michael R. (Sage, 2023-04)
    BACKGROUND : The relationship between the quality of the learning environment and student outcomes is receiving more serious attention from educational psychologists, neurologists, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, surgeons, ...
  • Frequency of the LRRK2 G2019S mutation in South African patients with Parkinson’s disease 
    Du Toit, Nicola; Van Coller, Riaan; Anderson, David G.; Carr, Jonathan; Bardien, Soraya (Springer, 2019-10)
    G2019S in LRRK2 is the most common mutation associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Highest frequencies are in North African Arabic (30–41%) and Ashkenazi Jewish (6–30%) populations, mostly due to founder effects. Here, ...
  • Guest editorial : Autoimmune encephalitis 
    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 ...
  • Intronic ATTTC repeat expansions in STARD7 in familial adult myoclonic epilepsy linked to chromosome 2 
    Corbett, Mark A.; Kroes, Thessa; Veneziano, Liana; Bennett, Mark F.; Florian, Rahel; Schneider, Amy L.; Coppola, Antonietta; Licchetta, Laura; Franceschetti, Silvana; Suppa, Antonio; Wenger, Aaron; Mei, Davide; Pendziwiat, Manuela; Kaya, Sabine; Delledonne, Massimo; Straussberg, Rachel; Xumerle, Luciano; Regan, Brigid; Crompton, Douglas; Van Rootselaar, Anne-Fleur; CorrelL, Anthony; Catford, Rachael; Bisulli, Francesca; Chakraborty, Shreyasee; Baldassari, Sara; Tinuper, Paolo; Barton, Kirston; Carswell, Shaun; Smith, Martin; Berardelli, Alfredo; Carroll, Renee; Gardner, Alison; Friend, Kathryn L.; Blatt, Ilan; Lacomino, Michele; Di Bonaventura, Carlo; Striano, Salvatore; Buratti, Julien; Keren, Boris; Nava, Caroline; Forlani, Sylvie; Rudolf, Gabrielle; Hirsch, Edouard; Leguern, Eric; Labauge, Pierre; Balestrini, Simona; Sander, Josemir W.; Afawi, Zaid; Helbig, Ingo; Ishiura, Hiroyuki; Tsuji, Shoji; Sisodiya, Sanjay M.; Casari, Giorgio; Sadleir, Lynette G.; Van Coller, Riaan; Tijssen, Marina A.J.; Klein, Karl Martin; Van den Maagdenberg, Arn M.J.M.; Zara, Federico; Guerrini, Renzo; Berkovic, Samuel F.; Pippucci, Tommaso; Canafoglia, Laura (Nature Research, 2019-10)
    Familial Adult Myoclonic Epilepsy (FAME) is characterised by cortical myoclonic tremor usually from the second decade of life and overt myoclonic or generalised tonic-clonic seizures. Four independent loci have been ...
  • Isolated posterior fossa involvement of progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy in HIV : a case series with review of the literature 
    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 ...
  • Late-onset efavirenz toxicity : a descriptive study from Pretoria, South Africa 
    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. ...
  • Life-threatening Listeria meningitis : need for revision of South African acute bacterial meningitis treatment guidelines 
    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 ...
  • Movement of prion-like α-synuclein along the gut–brain axis in Parkinson's disease : a potential target of curcumin treatment 
    Chetty, Devina; Abrahams, Shameemah; Van Coller, Riaan; Carr, Jonathan; Kenyon, Colin; Bardien, Soraya (Wiley, 2021-07)
    A pathological hallmark of the neurodegenerative disorder, Parkinson's disease (PD), is aggregation of toxic forms of the presynaptic protein, α-synuclein in structures known as Lewy bodies. α-Synuclein pathology is found ...
  • Neuro-Behcet – clinical and radiological findings in a patient of sub-Saharan African origin 
    Pretorius, Johannes Jacobus; Hiesgen, Juliane; Myburgh, Michael; Suleman, Farhana Ebrahim (Elsevier, 2022-03)
    Behçet’s disease is a rare, systemic variable vessel vasculitis mostly seen in patients from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia. Neuro-Behçet disease (NBD) is often diagnosed in patients with known Behçet’s ...
  • Neuroendocrine tumour in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 and HIV 
    Hiesgen, Juliane; Variava, Ebrahim (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-06-26)
    We report the case of an HIV-positive female patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 who was treated for recurrent peptic ulcer disease and later developed diabetes mellitus and chronic diarrhoea. A metastasising somatostatinoma ...
  • Nicht – Ketotische Hyperglykämie induzierte Hemichorea-Athetose 
    Hiesgen, Juliane (Springer, 2014-08)
    Berichtet wird über eine 63 jährige Patientin mit Diabetes mellitus und einer unilateralen Hemichorea-Athetose, bei der eine nicht-ketotische Hyperglykämie als Ursache diagnostiziert wurde. Diese seltene Komplikation im ...
  • Platelet hyperactivity and fibrin clot structure in transient ischemic attack individuals in the presence of metabolic syndrome : a microscopy and thromboelastography (R) study 
    Van Rooy, Mia-Jeanne; Duim, Wiebren; Ehlers, Rene; Buys, Antoinette V.; Pretorius, Etheresia (BioMed Central, 2015)
    BACKGROUND : Strokes are commonly preceded by transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). TIA is often associated with metabolic syndrome (causing chronic inflammation), resulting in a proinflammatory- and procoagulantenvironment. The ...
  • PTPA variants and impaired PP2A activity in early-onset Parkinsonism with intellectual disability 
    Fevga, Christina; Tesson, Christelle; Mascaro, Ana Carreras; Courtin, Thomas; Van Coller, Riaan; Sakka, Salma; Ferraro, Federico; Farhat, Nouha; Bardien, Soraya; Damak, Mariem; Carr, Jonathan; Ferrien, Melanie; Boumeester, Valerie; Hundscheid, Jasmijn; Grillenzoni, Nicola; Kessissoglou, Irini A.; Kuipers, Demy J.S.; Quadri, Marialuisa; French and Mediterranean Parkinson disease Genetics Study Group, International Parkinsonism Genetics Network; Corvol, Jean-Christophe; Mhiri, Chokri; Hassan, Bassem A.; Lesage, Suzanne; Mandemakers, Wim; Brice, Alexis; Bonifati, Vincenzo (Oxford University Press, 2023-04)
    The protein phosphatase 2A complex (PP2A), the major Ser/Thr phosphatase in the brain, is involved in a number of signalling pathways and functions, including the regulation of crucial proteins for neurodegeneration, such ...
  • A putative founder effect for Parkinson's disease in South African Afrikaners 
    Carr, Jonathan; Van Coller, Riaan (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014-06)
    Neurodegenerative diseases are important causes of disability and death, with prominent examples including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease (PD) and motor neuron disease. Although familial clustering of these ...