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…million people by 2040.1 The disease is often, but not always, associated with elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) and leads to progressive loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in the optic…
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…and offer education sessions to anyone supporting someone with MSA. The MSA Nurses also liaise closely with Parkinson’s Disease Nurse Specialists, Community Matrons and Palliative Nurse Specialists. Why is this…
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…Liverpool. Their brief introduction tracked the history of the society from its humble beginnings as a small group of like-minded individuals aiming to increase awareness about a neglected disease to…
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Abstract Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease of the neuromuscular junction. Whilst a number of immune therapies have been established in recent decades, there is an ongoing need for…
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…disease, cord infarct, vascular lesions such as spinal arteriovenous malformations and dural arterio-venous fistulae, the inflammatory processes such as multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis and sarcoid. Perhaps most challenging for the…
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…than 2% of patients), suggesting future studies are required to better define this at-risk subpopulation. Finally, cerebral small vessel disease is poorly understood, yet highly prevalent, and has diverse clinical…
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…2020 Apr 17]. Available from: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 ) in the EU/EEA and the UK – eighth update. 2020. [cited 2020…
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…the assessment of bradykinesia and dyskinesia in patients with Parkinson’s disease. The take-home message is that big-data will not replace clinicians (indeed, we are not merely ‘data-collecting sensors’) but those…
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…and Parkinson’s disease (PD) and the phenomena described by Gowers where a sudden shock could seemingly unmask PD and the possibility of chronic stress triggering PD. As usual there were…
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