Andrew M Southerland
Andrew M Southerland
Purpose of review: This article reviews the clinical evaluation of the patient with acute stroke, including key questions in the focused stroke history, important aspects of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale ...
Amy Guzik,Cheryl Bushnell
Amy Guzik
Purpose of review: Death from stroke has decreased over the past decade, with stroke now the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. In addition, the incidence of new and recurrent stroke is declining, likely b...
Hannah R Briemberg
Hannah R Briemberg
Patient Management Problem [0.03%]
患者管理问题
Hannah R Briemberg
Hannah R Briemberg
Coding in Muscle Disease [0.03%]
肌营养不良的编码遗传学
Lyell K Jones Jr,John P Ney
Lyell K Jones Jr
Accurate coding is critically important for clinical practice and research. Ongoing changes to diagnostic and billing codes require the clinician to stay abreast of coding updates. Payment for health care services, data sets for health serv...
Anant M Shenoy
Anant M Shenoy
Patient registries are a resource to better study neurologic disease and may facilitate the development of future treatments. Clinicians should become comfortable with the strengths and limitations of patient registries and be able to discu...
Genetic Testing of Presymptomatic Individuals at Risk for Progressive Myopathy [0.03%]
对进行性肌病高风险的无症状个体进行基因检测
Zachary Simmons
Zachary Simmons
Patients and their family members often ask about genetic testing for asymptomatic individuals who are at risk for developing a genetic disorder. Ordering a genetic test is a complex process involving consideration of many basic ethical pri...
Michael W Nicolle
Michael W Nicolle
Purpose of review: This article discusses the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of autoimmune myasthenia gravis (MG) and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS). ...
Stanley Jones P Iyadurai,John T Kissel
Stanley Jones P Iyadurai
Purpose of review: The classic approach to identifying and accurately diagnosing limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) relied heavily on phenotypic characterization and ancillary studies including muscle biopsy. Becaus...