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A. Sghirlanzoni
Psychiatry
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Delirium—Acute confusional states in palliative medicine
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Parenchymatous neurosyphilis
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Spinal cord lesion due to epidural anesthesia
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The insomnia plague: a Gabriel García Márquez story
“All the great writers have good eyes” is a sentence by V. Nabokov that is very suitable for G.G. Márquez and his One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel, published in 1967, introduces among many others, the cha...
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy: long-term course and treatment of 60 patients
The objective of this study was to assess the long-term course and treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). We evaluated, according to a predefined protocol, a series of ...
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Neurologic complications of epidural anesthesia
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Kennedy's disease: clinical and molecular study of two Italian families
Kennedy's disease, or spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), is a rare X-linked motoneuron disorder with variable signs of androgen insensitivity. It is associated with the expansion of a trinucleotide CAG...
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Spinal epidural abscess complicating tuberculous spondylitis
We report the case of a patient with tuberculous L1-L2 spondylo-discitis complicated by a spinal epidural abscess which extended anteriorly to the cord up to the low cervical level. Mild signs and symptoms of ...
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The last days of Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Manzoni died on 22 May 1873 at the age of 88. On the morning of 6 January 1873, on his way to Mass in the Milanese church of San Fedele, he fell and hit his head on the church steps. From the newspa...
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The POEMS syndrome: Report of six cases
We report six patients affected by POEMS syndrome (Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, Monoclonal gammopathy, and Skin changes), a peculiar multiorgan disease frequently associated with osteoscleroti...
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Carbamazepine for paroxysmal distonia due to spinal cord lesions
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Combined central and peripheral acute demyelination
We describe a patient with multiple sclerosis who had a bout of central demyelination associated with an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. The contemporary involvement of central and peripheral ...
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Neurological examination in patients recovering from general anesthesia
We performed serial neurological evaluations on 86 patients who underwent surgery for herniated lumbar disk during the first 3 hours after the end of anesthesia (isoflurane-N20-02 for 25 patients, halothane-N2...
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Anti AChR antibody: Relevance to diagnosis and clinical aspects of myasthenia gravis
227 sera from myasthenic patients were tested for the presence of anti-AChR antibodies (anti-AChR Abs) by mean of a fetal calf receptor (Fc-AChR); 73.5% of cases proved positive with this method. Significant c...
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Intraventricular interferon in a case of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) was treated by direct administration of Interferon B into the cerebral ventricles. Immediately after the first dose intrathecal synthesis of IgG and th...
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Herpes zoster myelitis: Nervous system complications
Transverse myelitis after a zoster viral infection is an exceptional occurrence. In this case we documented an antibody activity against varicella, zoster (V-Z) in the cerebrospinal fluid in association with C...
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Porphyric neuropathy: a clinical, neurophysiological and morphological study
A case of neuropathy in the course of an attack of acute intermittent porphyria was studied from the neurophysiological and morphological points of view. The neurophysiological findings (acute neuropathy with ...
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Book review
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Absence of decremental response in decentralized muscles of a myasthenic patient
Decentralized muscles of patients with upper motoneurone lesions may show anomalous responses to drugs acting on acetylcholine receptors. We compared the effects produced by repetitive ne...
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Myasthenia Gravis. Anti-acetylcholine receptor antibodies
Human acetylcholine receptor and the Lefvert method (13) were used to determine the serum levels of anti-acetylcholine receptor antibodies in 27 patients with Myasthenia Gravis.
