Amyotroph Lateral Scler
May 2011
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a uniformly fatal disease. In the US, care is concentrated in specialized clinics. ALS health care providers likely experience stress, but levels and associated factors and methods to manage them are not known.
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April 2009
Delayed hypoxic leukoencephalopathy is an underrecognized syndrome of delayed demyelination, which is important to consider when delayed onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms follows a hypoxic event. The authors describe clinical and diagnostic features of three such cases, review the pathophysiology of delayed hypoxic leukoencephalopathy, and discuss features which may help distinguish it from toxic leukoencephalopathy.
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