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Browsing Research Articles (Neurology) by Issue Date
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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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Stubgen, Joerg-Patrick
(Springer, 2008)
Rigid spine syndrome (RSS) is a group of childhood-onset muscle disorders characterized by marked limitation of flexion of the spine. Various cardiac changes have been documented in case reports. This study reports on a ...
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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 ...
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Stubgen, Joerg-Patrick
(Springer, 2008)
The rigid spine syndrome (RSS) is not a recognized cause of dysphagia. The “vacuolar variant” of RSS causes mild, generalized, and slowly progressive weakness. Respiratory evaluation detected severe restrictive chest wall ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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Soma, Prashilla; Ueckermann, Veronica; Sasikumar, S.S. (Sunayana); Mashoeshoe, K.S. (Sam)
(Elsevier, 2016-01)
The diagnosis of porphyria remains challenging as the condition is characterized by a myriad of clinical and biochemical features. More importantly, an acute attack is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. ...
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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 ...