Background: There is a relative paucity of long-term follow-up of treatment of brainstem cavernous angiomas. This has led to uncertainty and a lack of consensus regarding optimum therapy, especially radiosurgery.
Methods: Report of a single case with a 24-year follow-up.
Results: This patient was minimally symptomatic before her radiosurgery procedure. She developed an acute complication, from which she incompletely recovered. Two decades later she has become more symptomatic, with new deficits, and magnetic resonance imagings disclose progressive brainstem atrophy.
Conclusions: Long-term follow-up of patients treated with radiosurgery is important.
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Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Objectives: Racial and ethnic differences in long-term outcomes associated with medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are poorly understood.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, South Korea.
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Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
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December 2024
Department of General Surgery, Chifeng Municipal Hospital, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia, 024000, People's Republic of China.
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December 2024
Innovation Center of Nursing Research, Nursing Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, and West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, PO Box No.37, Guo Xue Street, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, PR China.
The trend of the aging population worldwide is becoming increasingly severe. As people age, constipation becomes increasingly common in older adults, causing varying degrees of physical and psychological harm to them. Dietary intervention is a common nonpharmacological therapy.
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