Clinical
RSSArticles
-
Hypoxia-induced Migraine
Hypoxia-induced migraine attacks with and without aura, in an experimental paradigm, were accompanied by dilation of cranial arteries in individuals who have migraine with aura, as well as in healthy control subjects.
-
Predicting Seizure Recurrence with Routine EEG after First Unprovoked Seizure
The authors systematically reviewed prospective and retrospective studies of adults and children undergoing routine electroencephalography (EEG) after a first unprovoked seizure who were followed for at least 1 year. Using positive likelihood ratios, an adult and child with epileptiform discharges on EEG were estimated to have a 77% and 66% probability, respectively, of recurrent seizures.
-
Pick Disease: Picking Away at the Pathology
The neuropathologic changes of Pick disease may sequentially progress through the brain in specified phases over time and may correlate with the progression of clinical symptoms.
-
Thalamic Pain: Who Is Likely to Develop This Disorder?
In a careful anatomic and physiologic study of patients with thalamic stroke, the authors demonstrated that the combination of anterior pulvinar nucleus involvement with spinothalamic dysfunction predicts a “thalamic pain syndrome” with > 90% sensitivity.
-
Peripheral Nerve Disorders After Cardiac Surgery
Following cardiac surgery, about 6% of patients will suffer a peripheral nerve injury, mostly due to compression, traction, or nerve ischemia. Proper patient positioning can prevent most of these injuries.
-
Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke
MONOGRAPH: The faster definitive stroke treatment is administered, the better the outcomes. Unfortunately, most patients arrive too late.
-
2016 USPSTF Update: Harms and Supplemental Screening
The decision to undergo screening mammography requires a consideration of benefits and harms. Harms include false-positive exams leading to unnecessary interventions, and true-positive exams that lead to overdiagnosis.
-
Pelvic Floor Changes After Delivery
Significant changes in levator muscles are visible by transperineal ultrasound in early and late postpartum period.
-
Who Seeks an Infertility Evaluation?
Demographic and lifestyle factors influence who receives a fertility evaluation.
-
Zika Virus: Effects on the Fetus
While the Zika virus has been indolent in many South American, Central American, and Caribbean countries, its recent association with microcephaly (and neurologic impairment) has created an outburst of media alerts, response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and travel recommendations, particularly as the world moves closer to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.