Clinical characteristics of anti-GBM disease with thrombotic microangiopathy: a case report and literature review.

The coexistence of anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease with thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is rarely encountered, and the clinical characteristics of this phenomenon are not well known.A 76-year-old Japanese woman with a history of idiopathic pulmonary disease was diagnosed with anti-GBM disease due to rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and a positive anti-GBM antibody test result. We treated the patient with hemodialysis, glucocorticoids, and plasmapheresis.

[A case report of syphilitic meningitis with right oculomotor nerve palsy].

A 63-year-old man presented with acute-onset right ptosis and diplopia. The patient reported having engaged in unspecified sexual activities during his third decade and was found to have positive syphilitic serological findings at the age of 56 years. No clinical symptoms were noted at this time.

Static stabilometry in patients with migraine and tension-type headache during a headache-free period.

The vestibulospinal system was evaluated using a stabilometric method in patients with migraine and episodic tension-type headache during headache-free periods. Migraine patients often complain of dizziness or vertigo during headache attacks and some exhibit these symptoms between attacks. Computerized static stabilometry is a reliable and non-invasive technique to evaluate the equilibrium function in various diseases.

Double-blind crossover study of branched-chain amino acid therapy in patients with spinocerebellar degeneration.

To determine whether treatment with branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) can improve the condition of patients with ataxia, a double-blind crossover study of BCAA therapy was performed in 16 patients with spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD). The patients were treated with BCAA in oral doses of 1.5, 3.