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Tinel's test, flexion compression, and ulnar nerve palpation in patients with ulnar neuropathy must be interpreted with caution, but omitting them and saving time doesn't appear to impact diagnostically.
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Surgery may offer pain relief for selected patients with specific headache types, such as migraines with trigger sites and Chiari I malformation related headaches.
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Comparing blood pressure medications, determining optimal length of androgen-deprivation therapy, red yeast rice for LDL reduction, and FDA Actions.
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The sequence of disease progression in Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is different, with earlier limbic cortical involvement in DLB. Limbic cortical involvement may explain the more severe autonomic dysfunction that occurs in DLB and PD with dementia.
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Clinical criteria for sensory neuronopathy can reliably separate this syndrome from more distal, axonal syndromes.
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An increased prevalence of atrial fibrillation leads to an increase in arterial territorial strokes in women. Hormonal risk factors are responsible for the increased risk of cerebral venous thrombosis in women, as compared to men.
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Young patients with scleroderma, free of neurological symptoms, still show abnormalities in cognitive function and cerebrovascular reactivity.
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Carbamazepine is reported to be an effective symptomatic treatment for inherited erythromelalgia (IEM) due to the novel mutation of the Na(v)1.7 sodium channel, which is preferentially expressed in dorsal root ganglia.
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In an MRI-based study, interferon beta-1b failed to show superiority over glatiramer acetate for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.