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View article: Teaching Video NeuroImages: Useful bedside testing for myasthenia gravis
Teaching Video NeuroImages: Useful bedside testing for myasthenia gravis Open
During examination of a 62-year-old woman with a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis, left eyelid manual elevation caused exacerbated ptosis on the right (enhanced ptosis) (figure). According to Hering law, there is approximately equal innervat…
View article: The worst is yet to come: probable sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in a well-controlled HIV patient
The worst is yet to come: probable sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in a well-controlled HIV patient Open
We describe a case of probable sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the setting of well-controlled HIV and discuss whether exist, in fact, HIV-related factors that may predispose to the development of prion disease. To the best of our kno…
View article: Neuroparacoccidioidomycosis
Neuroparacoccidioidomycosis Open
Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a human systemic mycosis caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis , a thermodymorphic fungus that causes a chronic granulomatous inflammatory disease.1 It is an endemic disease in Latin America, with a higher…