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This prospective multicenter observational study demonstrates that patients with do-not-intubate (DNI) status who receive non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) for respiratory failure have high hospital mortality. Presence of cough, being awake, or having a primary diagnosis of COPD or CHF, is associated with improved outcome.
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Neurologic emergencies of pregnancy range from life-threatening conditions such as eclamptic seizures to self-limiting disorders like meralgia paresthetica. This discussion will include those neurologic disorders directly resulting from pregnancy or the puerperium, those that are pre-existing conditions but now affect the pregnant patient or are affected by the gravid state of the patient, and those disorders that are not directly related to the pregnancy but may first become apparent during the gravid state.
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In this placebo-controlled study, rivastigmine was associated with moderate improvements in dementia associated with Parkinsons disease but also with higher rates of nausea, vomiting, and tremor.
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This phase 1 study shows that cerebral embolectomy with the Merci Retriever was safe and that successful recanalization could benefit a significant number of patients, even when performed in an extended 8-hour time window.
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These findings indicate that autonomic symptoms and deficits are common in diabetes, but mild in severity, and that the correlation between symptom scores and deficits is overall weak in mild diabetic neuropathy, emphasizing the need to separately evaluate autonomic symptoms.
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These data prove the high diagnostic value of our objective EEG criteria in CJD.
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Vitamin E had no significant effects in slowing disease progression, and no significant side effects in the patient population were encountered. Patients who regularly take vitamin E have a 60% reduced risk of getting ALS.