Clinical Articles /
BY: A.J. Pollard MBBS, MRCPCH, PhD, DIC
January/February 2001
... occur cyclically in Africa and Asia every 5 to 15 years[ 7-9 ] and epidemics were observed in North America after the ... of patients do not have the typical non-blanching rash: 7% have no rash and in 13% of patients the rash is ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Marilyn L. Malone, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2001
... season, which resulted in 62 cases, 9 complications, and 7 deaths. The seven deaths all occurred in one facility. ... can occur even if vaccination rates are greater than 80%.[ 7 ] Antigenic drifts, shifts, and imperfect matching between ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Charles Brasfield, MD, PhD, FRCPC
March 2001
... Attendance for every native child between the ages of 7 and 15 became mandatory in 1920.[ 2 ] From one point of ...
Letters /
BY: Jeff Purkis, MD
March 2001
... problem is really quite straightforward. My day starts at 7:30 a.m. and usually ends at 7 p.m. I see a few hospital patients (usually total care) ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Benjamin C.L. Lai, MD, MSc
April 2001
... that PD incidence in African-American men and women [ 7 ] and in Asian-American men [ 8 ] was similar to rates for ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Doris J. Doudet, PhD
April 2001
... that selectively destroys the nigral dopamine neurons)[ 7 ] and in unaffected identical twins of patients with PD.[ 8 ... compared to normal subjects[8,9] and appears to be about 7% to 9% in PD patients, with a lower rate of decline in the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Edith McGeer, PhD
April 2001
... to neurotoxicity, including that of dopaminergic cells.[ 7 ] A profusion of reactive microglia is seen in the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Donald B. Calne, OC, DM
April 2001
... of slowly versus rapidly progressive parkinsonism.[ 7 ] With this background, it is perhaps better to employ the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ian R.A. Mackenzie, MD, FRCPC
April 2001
... . Ultrastructurally they are composed of radially arranged 7 nm to 20 nm filaments associated with granular electron ... Lewy bodies in 15% to 25% of elderly demented patients,[ 7,8 ] making it the second largest pathological subgroup of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: T.A. Hurwitz, MBChB, MRCP, FRCPC
May 2001
... parkinsonian patients appear particularly prone. [7] Motor fluctuations in response to treatment ("on-off") ... patients, benefit from psychological support. [3,7] In both a general practitioner's and a specialist's ... early-morning dry mouth, hypotension, and grogginess. [7] SSRIs are useful but may be stimulating rather than ...