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A multicentre follow-up study of 1152 patients with myasthenia gravis in Italy
A multicentre retrospective study was carried out on the characteristics and course of myasthenia gravis (MG) in Italy. Data from 1152 patients, fairly representative of the myasthenic population seeking medic...
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Azathioprine as a single drug or in combination with steroids in the treatment of myasthenia gravis
Azathioprine (Aza) has been used alone or in combination with steroids for two groups of myasthenic patients. Positive responses were noted in 75% of patients on Aza alone and in 70% receiving the combined reg...
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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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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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Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis: a fourteen-year experience
Over the last 14 years we have thymectomized 106 myasthenic patients, 62 by transcervical and 44 by transsternal approach. At the end of the follow-up 49 patients (46,2%) had improved, 12 of these (11,2%) bein...
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Treatment of deep brain abscesses by stereotactic implantation of an intracavitary device for evacuation and local application of antibiotics
Complete recovery from deep brain abscesses was achieved in four patients treated by a specialized stereotactic method. In one patient the lesion was in the right thalamus, in two patients within the brain ste...
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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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Cellular and humoral immunity to acetylcholine receptor in myasthenia gravis
At the same time in 21 myasthenic patients we measured a. the cellular immune response against acetylcholine receptor (AChR) of peripheral lymphocytes, T lymphocytes and non rosette forming lymphocytes (50% B .....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Systemic Carnitine Deficiency With Peripheral Nerve Involvement Morphological and Biochemical Study
The patient, a 31-year-old-woman, suffered from a weakness of the proximal muscles which subsequently worsened involving the spinal and neck muscles. During the hospitalization, the patient displayed a “burnin...
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“Carnitine deficient” myopathy and cardiomyopathy with fatal outcome
A 13-year-old boy with a mild limb girdle muscular weakness had a massive rhabdomyolosis and cardiac arrest after general anesthesia. A congestive cardiomyopathy then developed.
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Preliminary Freeze-Fracture Observations in Ichthyosis Vulgaris
Freeze-fracture study of two cases of ichthyosis vulgaris has revealed:
the absence or a small number of gap junctions
an in...
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Effects of tetracaine and hexobarbital on artificial phospholipid membranes
Viene studiato l'effetto della carica elettrica sull'interazione tra farmaci ad azione anestetica locale e fosfolipidi di membrana. Viene messa in evidenza la natura principalmente idrofobica di questa interaz...
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Influence of calcium on the interaction of anesthetic drugs with artificial phospholipid membranes
Viene valutata l'influenza dello ione calcio sulla interazione tra due sostanze ad azione anestetica locale (esobarbital e tetracaina) e membrane fosfolipidiche artificiali (bilayers) con diversa carica superf...
