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After transplant, patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy may manifest several medical and psychiatric symptoms that can be difficult to diagnose and treat. We describe 10 liver transplant candidates with familial amyloid polyneuropathy who had severe somatic signs and symptoms (nausea and
Polyneuropathies of pregnancy and the postpartum period are considered rare but also understudied in Sub-Saharan Africa. They are usually related to a thiamine deficiency in under- or malnourished women. Our aim was to study the clinical and etiological factors of this disease in the Yalgado
BACKGROUND
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and peripheral neuropathy are very uncommon in bariatric surgical practice. The literature indicates that these complications tend to strike patients receiving unbalanced diets or undergoing rapid weight-loss.
METHODS
In a retrospective analysis of the initial
Six cycles of dexamethasone (40 mg per day for four sequential days) every 28 days induced remissions in 10 patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Whether the same results could be achieved in 10 patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) was
BACKGROUND
Gastric partitioning is a surgical procedure for the treatment of morbid obesity that may engender neurological complications, such as Wernicke encephalopathy and polyneuropathy.
METHODS
A specialist hospital.
METHODS
A 36-year-old woman developed Wernicke-Korsakoff encephalopathy and
Amiodarone chlorhydrate is a diiodated benzofuran derivative, and it is used to treat cardiac rhythm abnormalities. Hepatotoxicity is a relatively uncommon side effect of amiodarone, and symptomatic hepatic dysfunction occurs in fewer than 1% of the patients taking amiodarone. Cirrhosis is a rare
A patient experienced an acute dysautonomia manifested by an inability to eat without vomiting, severe constipation, dry mouth, and orthostatic hypotension. One month later, a severe polyneuropathy supervened. The patient subsequently experienced an atonic bladder. Biopsy specimens obtained from the
We describe the case of a young man who presented with abdominal pain, vomiting and acute symmetric peripheral polyneuropathy. He was noted to have high anion gap metabolic acidosis with high lactate levels and persistently high arterial and venous pO2 values. The cerebrospinal fluid was acellular
Liver transplantation is an accepted treatment of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP), Portuguese type (Val30Met), and the outcome so far seems promising. Gastric retention with nausea and vomiting are common complications of the disease, and may interfere with immuno-suppression therapy and
We report three cases of histologically verified systemic amyloidosis with polyneuropathy. Common to them were early onset progressive peripheral sensorimotor disturbance starting in the legs and prominent autonomic dysfunctions such as postural hypotension, anhidrosis, and loss of pupillary light
BACKGROUND
Differences in the gastrointestinal manifestations have emerged between Swedish and Japanese familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy amyloidogenic transthyretin Valine30Methionine (FAP ATTR Val30Met) patients. To elucidate the cause of the differences, we investigated the associations between
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a hereditary disorder with autosomal dominant trait and is characterized by the accumulation of transthyretin at the nervous systems. The disorder mostly becomes overt in the fourth decade of life among affected individuals. Treatment of FAP has been directed
We report a Japanese woman with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) with a transthyretin variant that substituted leucine for valine at position 30. Family history was not informative. She had initially suffered from repeated petechiae in the eyelids at the age of 51. Two years later,
OBJECTIVE
In patients with symptomatic diabetic polyneuropathy, is oral alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) effective in improving neuropathic symptoms compared with placebo?
METHODS
The question was addressed with a structured evidence-based clinical neurologic practice review via videoconferencing between 3
Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is rarely seen in patients with thalassemia. A seven-year-old male, known case of beta-thalassemia major, on irregular packed cell transfusions (elsewhere) and non-compliant with chelation therapy, presented with congestive cardiac failure (Hb-3 gm/dl). He received