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What Genetics are Associated with Multiple Sclerosis?
Discussion Multiple sclerosis (MS) is “a chronic degenerative, often episodic disease of the central nervous system marked by patchy destruction of the myelin that surrounds and insulates nerve fibers, usually appearing in young adulthood and manifested by one or more mild to severe neural and muscular impairments, as spastic weakness in one or more limbs, local sensory losses, bladder dysfunction, or visual disturbances.” It is a chronic disease and therefore symptoms must occur more than once. The first episode is called an acute demyelinating attack. Fifteen to forty-five percent of children with their first...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - April 4, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Safety of Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke in Patients on Novel Oral Anticoagulants (P1.196)
Conclusion: Patients on NOAC undergoing mechanical thrombectomy show a trend towards increased sICH compared to the warfarin group. This may warrant larger studies of safety of mechanical thrombectomy in the presence of NOACs.Disclosure: Dr. Sharma has nothing to disclose. Dr. Atchaneeyasakul has nothing to disclose. Dr. Ziayee has nothing to disclose. Dr. Malik has nothing to disclose. Dr. Guada has nothing to disclose. Dr. Khandelwal has nothing to disclose. Dr. Ramdas has nothing to disclose. Dr. Yavagal has received personal compensation for activities with Covidien/evV3 as a consultant and Steering Committee Member.
Source: Neurology - April 3, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Sharma, P., Atchaneeyasakul, K., Ziayee, H., Malik, A., Guada, L., Khandelwal, P., Ramdas, K., Yavagal, D. Tags: Acute Endovascular Therapy: Outcomes and Safety Source Type: research

Intracranial Hemorrhage on Warfarin: Time to Reversal Is of the Essence (I6.004)
Conclusions: We propose a "recommended reversal time" of less than 200 minutes for Vitamin K antagonists.Disclosure: Dr. Mehta has nothing to disclose. Dr. Jones has nothing to disclose. Dr. Ruiz Cuero has nothing to disclose. Dr. Wellwood has nothing to disclose. Dr. Rehman has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mitsias has nothing to disclose. Dr. Varelas has received personal compensation for activities with UCB Pharma as an advisory board member.
Source: Neurology - April 3, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Mehta, C., Jones, M., Ruiz Cuero, M., Wellwood, J., Rehman, M., Mitsias, P., Varelas, P. Tags: Future Directions and Challenges in Stroke Team Action Therapy (STAT) Data Blitz Presentations Source Type: research

Intracranial Hemorrhage on Warfarin: Time to Reversal Is of the Essence (S16.008)
Conclusions: We propose a "recommended reversal time" of less than 200 minutes for Vitamin K antagonists.Disclosure: Dr. Mehta has nothing to disclose. Dr. Jones has nothing to disclose. Dr. Ruiz Cuero has nothing to disclose. Dr. Wellwood has nothing to disclose. Dr. Rehman has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mitsias has nothing to disclose. Dr. Varelas has received personal compensation for activities with UCB Pharma as an advisory board member.
Source: Neurology - April 3, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Mehta, C., Jones, M., Ruiz Cuero, M., Wellwood, J., Rehman, M., Mitsias, P., Varelas, P. Tags: Prehospital/Emergency Room Stroke Care and Intracerebral Hemorrhage Source Type: research

A Case of Transient Global Amnesia: A Review and How It May Shed Further Insight into the Neurobiology of Delusions
Conclusion In closing, our patient’s episode of TGA combined with her emotional and perceptual response lends credence to the proposal of a “fear/paranoia” circuit in the genesis of paranoid delusions—a circuit incorporating amygdala, frontal, and parietal cortices. Here, neutral or irrelevant stimuli, thoughts, and percepts come to engender fear and anxiety, while dysfunction in frontoparietal circuitry engenders inappropriate social predictions and maladaptive inferences about the intentions of others.[54] Hippocampus relays information about contextual information based on past experiences and the current situat...
Source: Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience - April 1, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: ICN Online Editor Tags: Anxiety Disorders Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Case Report Cognition Current Issue Dementia Medical Issues Neurologic Systems and Symptoms Psychiatry Schizophrenia delusions hippocampus neurobiology Transient global amnesia Source Type: research

Visceral Fat Triggers Heart Disease
I tell my patients to avoid drinking soda not just because they make you fat. Each sip of soda affects your health. Soda puts you at risk for health problems like metabolic syndrome. This is a collection of symptoms that can lead to diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases, like cancer. Soft drinks are the beverage of choice for millions of Americans. The latest research now reveals that sodas are a major cause of visceral fat — the deadliest kind of fat you can have, inflaming your tissues, rotting your blood vessels and upsetting your body chemistry. In a minute I’m going to tell you about a great healthy ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - February 29, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Heart Health heart disease metabolic syndrome Visceral Fat Source Type: news

Shared genetic susceptibility of vascular-related biomarkers with ischemic and recurrent stroke
Conclusions: Our data identify a genetic contribution to inflammatory and hemostatic biomarkers in a stroke population. Additionally, our results suggest shared genetic contributions to circulating CRP levels measured poststroke and risk for incident and recurrent ischemic stroke. These data broaden our understanding of genetic contributors to biomarker variation and ischemic stroke risk, which should be useful in clinical risk evaluation.
Source: Neurology - January 25, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Williams, S. R., Hsu, F.-C., Keene, K. L., Chen, W.-M., Nelson, S., Southerland, A. M., Madden, E. B., Coull, B., Gogarten, S. M., Furie, K. L., Dzhivhuho, G., Rowles, J. L., Mehndiratta, P., Malik, R., Dupuis, J., Lin, H., Seshadri, S., Rich, S. S., Sale Tags: All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, Case control studies, Risk factors in epidemiology, All Genetics, Association studies in genetics ARTICLE Source Type: research

The Biggest Medical Stories You May Have Missed In 2015
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Craig Bowron As we head into the New Year, let’s take a look back and see what lessons we should have learned from medical science in 2015. The New England Journal of Medicine’s publication Journal Watch provides physicians and other health care providers with expert analysis of the most recent medical research. Below is a brief synopsis of what the Journal Watch editors felt were the most important stories in general medicine for the year 2015. While you likely heard about a couple, others probably escaped your radar. Getting Aggressive with Strokes We’re familiar with the id...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 15, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Reversing the effects of the new anti-clotting drugs
The oral anticoagulant warfarin (Coumadin) became available for prescription in 1954. This anti-clotting drug commanded national attention when President Dwight Eisenhower received the drug as part of his treatment following a heart attack. No other oral anticoagulant was successfully developed and marketed in the United States until 2010. Warfarin is a dangerous drug. Along with insulin, it is responsible for the most emergency hospitalizations due to adverse drug reactions. Whereas insulin causes low blood sugar, warfarin is notorious for the complication of major bleeding. Warfarin is plagued by hundreds of drug-drug an...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - December 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD Tags: Drugs and Supplements Health Heart Health Hypertension and Stroke anti-clotting coumadin deep-vein-thrombosis DVT Source Type: news

Intracerebral Hematoma Morphologic Appearance on Noncontrast Computed Tomography Predicts Significant Hematoma Expansion Clinical Sciences
Conclusions— Fluid levels, density heterogeneity, and margin irregularity on noncontrast CT are associated with hematoma expansion at 24 hours. These markers may assist in prediction of outcomes in scenarios where CT angiography is not readily available and may be of future help in refining the predictive value of the CT angiography spot sign.
Source: Stroke - October 26, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Blacquiere, D., Demchuk, A. M., Al-Hazzaa, M., Deshpande, A., Petrcich, W., Aviv, R. I., Rodriguez-Luna, D., Molina, C. A., Silva Blas, Y., Dzialowski, I., Czlonkowska, A., Boulanger, J.-M., Lum, C., Gubitz, G., Padma, V., Roy, J., Kase, C. S., Bhatia, R. Tags: Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage, Intracerebral Hemorrhage Clinical Sciences Source Type: research

Inaugural Cerebral Sinovenous Thrombosis Revealing Homocystinuria in a 2-Year-Old Boy
We report on the case of a 2-year-old boy with mild psychomotor delay, who presented with nonfebrile acute ataxia. A brain computed tomographic (CT) scan showed complete thrombosis of the superior sagittal sinus, confirmed by magnetic resonance angiography and associated with a right frontal hemorrhagic infarction. Systematic screening for thrombophilia revealed homocystinuria linked to cystathionine β-synthase deficiency with underlying compound heterozygosity. The evolution was favorable after anticoagulant therapy, specific diet, and vitamin supplementation. This case is of interest because of the unusual clinical ...
Source: Journal of Child Neurology - December 23, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Saboul, C., Darteyre, S., Ged, C., Fichtner, C., Gay, C., Stephan, J.-L. Tags: Brief Communication Source Type: research

Rivaroxaban vs. vitamin K antagonists for cardioversion in atrial fibrillation
Conclusion Oral rivaroxaban appears to be an effective and safe alternative to VKAs and may allow prompt cardioversion. Name of the trial registry Clinicaltrials.gov; Trial registration number: NCT01674647.
Source: European Heart Journal - December 14, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Cappato, R., Ezekowitz, M. D., Klein, A. L., Camm, A. J., Ma, C.-S., Le Heuzey, J.-Y., Talajic, M., Scanavacca, M., Vardas, P. E., Kirchhof, P., Hemmrich, M., Lanius, V., Meng, I. L., Wildgoose, P., van Eickels, M., Hohnloser, S. H., on behalf of the X-Ve Tags: ESC Hot Line Barcelona Source Type: research

Lack of vitamin D may 'raise dementia risk'
Conclusion This cohort study of more than 1,650 elderly people has found that over 5.6 years, severe vitamin D deficiency is associated with approximately twice the risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease. It also found moderate deficiency is associated with a 50% increase in risk compared with healthy levels of vitamin D. With this being a cohort study, it was not able to show that low levels of vitamin D caused dementia or Alzheimer's disease – it was simply able to show an association. Other factors that can increase the risk of developing dementia, such as a poor diet, lack of activity and general poor h...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Older people Neurology Mental health Source Type: news

Rationale and design of the eXplore the efficacy and safety of once-daily oral riVaroxaban for the prEvention of caRdiovascular events in patients with nonvalvular aTrial fibrillation scheduled for cardioversion trial: A comparison of oral rivaroxaban once daily with dose-adjusted vitamin K antagonists in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation undergoing elective cardioversion
The objective of this study is to explore the efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban 20 mg once daily (15 mg if creatinine clearance is 30-49 mL/min) compared with dose-adjusted vitamin K antagonists (VKAs; international normalized ratio 2.0-3.0) in patients scheduled for elective cardioversion.Methods: This is a prospective, randomized, open-label, parallel group comparison of approximately 1,500 patients from 17 countries with hemodynamically stable nonvalvular atrial fibrillation of>48 hours or unknown duration. Patients will be randomized 2:1 (rivaroxaban:VKA) using 2 cardioversion strategies: the first approach is early c...
Source: American Heart Journal - January 16, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Michael D. Ezekowitz, Riccardo Cappato, Allan L. Klein, A. John Camm, Chang-Sheng Ma, Jean-Yves Le Heuzey, Mario Talajic, Maurício I. Scanavacca, Panos E. Vardas, Paulus Kirchhof, Stefan H. Hohnloser, Melanie Hemmrich, Vivian Lanius, Isabelle Ling Meng, Tags: Trial Design Source Type: research