Publications by authors named "Alvaro Rivelli Moreira"
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- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and deadly brain illness that damages nerve cells and leads to serious brain problems.
- Microglia, which are brain cells, are important because they help protect the brain and respond to diseases, like CJD, by cleaning up harmful stuff and sending signals to other immune cells.
- Scientists are studying how to change the behavior of microglia to help them become helpful instead of harmful in fighting CJD, and they are looking for new ways to treat the disease by focusing on these special brain cells.
Vertical one-and-a-half syndrome (VOHS) is an uncommon presentation resulting from a unilateral thalamomesencephalic stroke with involvement of the rostral interstitial nucleus of the medial longitudinal fasciculus and posterior commissure. The artery of Percheron (aPe) is a branch of the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) and it is a variant that arises as a solitary trunk supplying both medial thalami and upper midbrain. A 78-year-old female patient, presented at the hospital emergency with approximately 12 hours of sudden onset of diplopia, associated with dizziness.
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