Education Research: Rewarding Our Educators: Design and Evaluation of a Program to Fund Teaching in Neurology.

Background And Objectives: Pressures on academic physician educators to generate clinical revenue or research grants may threaten faculty engagement as teachers. Neurology has historically prized its outstanding educators, but programs that provide financial support for teaching are lacking. We developed an opt-in, financial, teaching incentive program in an academic neurology department and evaluated its impact on faculty experience, motivation, and identity.

Post-procedural Brachial Neuritis: Clinical, Electrodiagnostic and Neuroimaging features.

Background And Purpose: Brachial neuritis is a monophasic condition affecting the brachial plexus and its branches, manifesting as acute shoulder and upper arm pain, followed by weakness and paresthesias. It can be triggered by antecedent events, including procedures such as surgery. Misdiagnosis and delay in diagnosis is common.

Neuralgic amyotrophy: An update in evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment approaches.

Neuralgic amyotrophy (NA) is an underrecognized peripheral nerve disorder distinguished by severe pain followed by weakness in the distribution of one or more nerves, most commonly in the upper extremity. While classically felt to carry a favorable prognosis, updates in research have demonstrated that patients frequently endure delay in diagnosis and continue to experience long term pain, paresis, and fatigue even years after the diagnosis is made. A transition in therapeutic approach is recommended and described by this review, which emphasizes the necessity to target compensatory abnormal motor control and fatigue by focusing on motor coordination, energy conservation strategies, and behavioral change, rather than strength training which may worsen the symptoms.

T2-relaxometry in a large cohort of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy.

Background: Previously, T2-relaxation time (T2) and proton spin density (ρ) detected nerve injury in a small group of ATTRv amyloidosis. Here, we aim to quantify peripheral nerve impairment in a large cohort of symptomatic and asymptomatic ATTRv amyloidosis and correlate T2-relaxometry markers with clinical parameters and nerve conduction studies (NCS).

Methods: Eighty participants with pathologic variants of the gene () and 40 controls prospectively underwent magnetic resonance neurography.

Pediatric vascular ring outcomes for surgically repaired unoperated children: a single-center experience.

Background: Vascular rings represent 1% of congenital cardiovascular abnormalities. Phenotypic expression varies from asymptomatic to severe forms related to either oesophageal or tracheal compression. While refinement in prenatal screening led to an increase in fetal diagnosis, optimal management in asymptomatic neonates and infants is currently a matter of debate.