Publications by authors named "S Petri"

Acute care of patients in the emergency department (ED) can be very challenging when patients attend EDs without their important medical information. This is especially problematic for multimorbid patients under polypharmacy. The aim of this study was to assess systematically the frequency and clinical relevance of incomplete medical data upon ED admission.

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Increasing evidence suggests an essential function for autophagy in unconventional protein secretion (UPS). However, despite its relevance for the secretion of aggregate-prone proteins, the mechanisms of secretory autophagy in neurons have remained elusive. Here we show that the lower motoneuron disease-associated guanine exchange factor Plekhg5 drives the UPS of Sod1.

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High-amplitude quasi-stationary atmospheric Rossby waves with zonal wave numbers 6-8 associated with the phenomenon of quasi-resonant amplification (QRA) have been linked to persistent summer extreme weather events in the Northern Hemisphere. QRA is not well-resolved in current generation climate models, therefore, necessitating an alternative approach to assessing their behavior. Using a previously-developed fingerprint-based semi-empirical approach, we project future occurrence of QRA events based on a QRA index derived from the zonally averaged surface temperature field, comparing results from CMIP 5 and 6 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project).

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  • A study was conducted at 11 ALS centers in Germany from October 2021 to February 2024 to evaluate the frequency of pathogenic gene variants in ALS patients and their transition to an expanded access program for tofersen treatment.
  • Out of 1935 patients screened, 48.8% chose to be informed about genetic variants related to tofersen, revealing that 1.8% had (likely) pathogenic variants, 0.9% had other pathogenic variants, and 7.0% showed hexanucleotide repeat expansion.
  • The transition to tofersen treatment from genetic testing averaged 94 days, with a notable 74.0% of patients with certain variants opting for the therapy, highlighting the importance of comprehensive
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The degenerative motor neuron disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) frequently leads bulbar symptoms like dysarthria, dysphagia, and sialorrhea, in approximately one-third of cases being the initial symptom. Throughout the disease, more than two-thirds of ALS patients experience dysphagia, regardless of the region of onset. In this review, we aimed to offer an updated overview of dysphagia and sialorrhea in ALS, covering its diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment in clinical practice.

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