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Central Nervous System Vasculitis - Articles
Just What Is Central Nervous System Vasculitis?
by
animekid
Posted
Wed 14 Apr 2010 12:00am
A little while ago, I did a short post about a fundraiser for a former firefighter out of Greenville, Texas who was suffering from a vascular condition called Central Nervous System Vasculitis, and earlier today I came upon an article from the site Wise Ge ...
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Scleroderma and Central Nervous System Vasculitis
by
Jan
Posted
Sat 09 Oct 2010 12:00am
Scleroderma (progressive systemic sclerosis) is a multisystem disease affecting the skin, lungs, kidneys, vascular system, myocardium, nervous system, and gastrointestinal tract. Most case reports and texts describing the effects of the disorder
on the nervous system have focused on the peripheral nervous system and the cranial nerves.
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Differential Diagnosis of Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease
by
Terry S.
Posted
Fri 05 Oct 2012 8:37pm
Original Contribution| ONLINE FIRST
Differential Diagnosis of Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease
Ross W. Paterson, MRCP; Charles C. Torres-Chae, MPA; Amy L. Kuo, MS, RN, GNP; Tim Ando, BA; Elizabeth A. Nguyen, BS; Katherine Wong, BS; Stephen J. DeArmond, MD, PhD; Aissa Haman, MD; Paul Garcia, MD; David Y. Johnson; ...
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Primary Angiitis of the CNS: The Elvis Presley of Neurology
by
Dr. Brian M.

Posted
Mon 25 Aug 2008 6:42pm
Dr. David Hellmann of Johns Hopkins, in the current Clinical Neurology News, is quoted as saying that primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) “is the Elvis Presley of neurology… CNS vasculitis-like illness is more often thought to be present than actually present”. In fact, he says, CNS vasculitis accounts for only 1% of all biopsy ...
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Be Encouraged and Continue to Daily Persevere
by
Lisa C.
Posted
Thu 01 Mar 2012 10:00am
By Chelsey-Ann Fernandez Lawrence
When I was 17, my parents told me that there were three times I almost died in the ICU. One time, I stopped breathing. The other time, my blood pressure fell really low. Another time, I was losing a great deal of blood and nobody knew why.
When I recovered, the doctors called me “the miracle ...
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Central Nervous System (CNS) Compound Library from OTAVA
by
otavateam
Posted
Mon 04 Jul 2011 10:27am
There are many different drug targets expressed in brain tissue. The delivery of drugs to central nervous system (CNS) is complicated by blood brain barrier (BBB) which controls entry of drugs into CNS. BBB is one of the most important factors limiting the development of drugs that specifically target brain disorders. Nowadays BBB remains a ...
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