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Browsing Research Articles (Neurology) by Subject "Patients"
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Hiesgen, Juliane; Annor, T.N.
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2023-01)
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is an uncommon, subacute neurological disorder that presents radiologically with
a pattern of bilateral parieto-occipital areas of vasogenic oedema. Conditions commonly ...
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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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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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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; 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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Anderson, D.G.; Van Coller, Riaan; Carr, J.
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-11)
BACKGROUND : Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease, associated with severe impairment of quality of life.
Although the motor aspects of the illness are typically successfully treated with medications ...