Genetic Screening for Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis in the Population of Cammarata and San Giovanni Gemini Through Red Flags and Registry Archives by Vincenzo Di Stefano, Christian Messina, Antonia Pignolo, Fiore Pecoraro, Ivana Cutrò, Paolo Alonge, Nicasio Rini, Umberto Quartetti, Vito Lo Bue, Eugenia Borgione, Filippo Brighina

“…The identified patient was a 72-year-old man who had a family history of both cardiopathy, neuropathy, and a diagnosis of juvenile cardiac disease and progressive sensorimotor neuropathy unresponsive to steroids or immunomodulant therapies. …”
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Sensory deficits in ipsilesional upper-extremity in chronic stroke patients by Núbia Maria Freire Vieira Lima, Karina Cândido Menegatti, Érica Yu, Natália Yumi Sacomoto, Thais Botossi Scalha, Illia Nadinne Dantas Florentino Lima, Saionara Maria Aires da Camara, Marcelo Cardoso de Souza, Roberta de Oliveira Cacho, Enio Walker de Azevedo Cacho, Donizeti Cesar Honorato

“…Objective To investigate somatosensory deficits in the ipsilesional wrist and hand in chronic stroke patients and correlate these deficits with contralesional sensorimotor dysfunctions, functional testing, laterality and handedness.Methods Fifty subjects (twenty-two healthy volunteers and twenty-eight stroke patients) underwent evaluation with Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments, the sensory and motor Fugl-Meyer Assessment, the Nottingham Sensory Assessment in both wrists and hands and functional tests.Results Twenty-five patients had sensory changes in the wrist and hand contralateral to the stroke, and eighteen patients (64%) had sensory deficits in the ipsilesional wrist and hand. …”
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Treadmill Exercise during Pregnancy Decreased Vulnerability to Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia through Reducing Inflammation and Increasing Antiapoptotic Gene Expressions and Antioxidant... by Elahe Gorgij, Hamed Fanaei, Parichehr Yaghmaei, Mohammad Reza Shahraki, Hadi Mirahmadi

“…It appears that the maternal treadmill exercise during pregnancy exerts a supportive impact against neonatal HI brain injury through increasing antioxidant capacity, Bcl-2 expression, and BDNF levels and decreasing inflammation that is resulted in the lower infarct volume and sensorimotor dysfunction.…”
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The Surgical Method of Craniectomy Differentially Affects Acute Seizures, Brain Deformation, and Behavior in a Traumatic Brain Injury Animal Model by Cesar Santana-Gomez, Gregory Smith, Ava Mousavi, Mohamad Shamas, Neil G. Harris, Richard Staba

“…Both TBI and Sham rats from the electric drill groups had a significant greater total number of seizures than the animals that were craniectomized manually (p < 0.05). …”
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Clinical features of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis-polyneuropathy with transthyretin Ala97Ser(p.Ala117Ser) mutation in South Mainland China by Yeli Zhu, Jingxian Fan, Xiying Zhu, Wei Li, Zhaoyong Zhang, Hui Zheng, Zhihua Zhou, Lingchao Meng, Ruxu Zhang, Haishan Jiang

“…Eighteen patients (85.7%) had autonomic dysfunction. Cardiac, renal, and ocular dysfunctions were noted in 17 (80.9%), 4(19.0%), and 4(19.0%) patients, respectively. …”
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Abstract 126: Bilateral Limb Shaking TIA secondary to Severe Bilateral Carotid Stenosis by Muhannad Seyam, Michael Hehir, Fatemeh Sobhani

“…Methods '‐ Results CASE A 71‐year‐old male patient with a past medical history significant for type 2 diabetes mellitus and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome is being followed for symptomatic management of known axonal sensorimotor diabetic polyneuropathy in the neuromuscular clinic. …”
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