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Current clinical trial evidence favors the use of aspirin or clopidogrel as first-line agents for the majority of patients with vascular disease.
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This condition preferentially affects large myelinated fibers of the posterior roots, may respond favorably to treatment, and may be a restricted form of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy.
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These results demonstrate a major role of carotid thrombosis and inflammation in ischemic stroke in patients affected by carotid atherosclerotic disease.
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The severity of the neuropathy and the availability of potential treatments, including avoidance of provocative factors, make identification important.
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SOS, in part, can be attributed to PD-specific pathology because disease duration and subjective disease severity have been shown to be predictors of SOS.
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The first head-to-head comparison study of an ACE inhibitor and an angiotensin receptor blocker, to assess renoprotective effects in type 2 diabetes, has shown that the drugs are comparable in their benefit.
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The mortality associated with bacterial meningitis remains high, and the strongest risk factors for an unfavorable outcome are those that are indicative of systemic compromise, a low level of consciousness, and infection with S. pneumoniae.
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Jonas and colleagues have collected the largest series of cases of unilateral hemispherectomy and assessed outcomes for the parameters listed in the title of their manuscript. In 21 of 115 patients, the indication for surgery was Rasmussen encephalitis (RE). In the realm of non-surgical treatment of RE, Bien and colleagues administered tacrolimus to 7 patients with histopathologically proven RE.
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Inflammation in the brain is one of the established features of the neuropathology of Alzheimers Disease (AD). A large case-control study now indicates that patients with elevated serum markers of inflammation have an increased risk of developing AD.