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Larson, Scott A. | Strabismus surgery complications: prevention and management | Strabismus surgery is increasingly becoming a subspecialty domain, especially with cyclovertical muscles, restricted muscles, or reoperations. While is impossible to completely eliminate complications from strabimus surgery, it is possible to minimize their occurrence and significance by proper prev... | Malignant hyperthermia; Overcorrection; Strabismus; Surgery; Undercorrection | 2003 |
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Digre, Kathleen B.; Blumenthal, Deborah T.; Salzman, Karen L.; Jensen, Randy L.; Dunson, William A. | Early pathologic findings and long-term improvement in anti-Ma2-associated encephalitis. | A 67-year-old man sequentially developed anti-Ma2-associated paraneoplastic encephalitis (PNE) and contralateral herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE). Brain biopsy 1 month before HSE revealed extensive infiltrates of T cells, B cells, and plasma cells. Most T cells expressed the cytotoxic granule-assoc... | Paraneoplastic neurologic disorders; Encephalitis; Neoplasm;Herpes Simplex | 2006-07-11 |
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Jaeckle, Kurt A.; Digre, Kathleen B.; Jones, Christopher R.; Bailey, Peter L. | Central neurogenic hyperventilation: pharmacologic intervention with morphine sulfate and correlative analysis of respiratory, sleep, and ocular motor dysfunction. | Central neurogenic hyperventilation (CNH), for which there is no effective therapy, can eventually result in respiratory fatigue and death. This report describes a patient with CNH due to a brainstem anaplastic astrocytoma who also exhibited disturbances of sleep and ocular motor function. The CNH r... | Central Neurogenic H yperventilation; Ocular Motor Dysfunction | 1990-11 |
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Warner, Judith E. A. | Intermittent reversal of Complete Ptosis-EganWarner | CASE REPORT: Ptosis secondary to dense oculomotor pareses generally improves over several months, but intermittent elevation of the eyelid has not been reported. The Author's describe two patients who demonstrated intermittent involuntary monocular eyelid elevation in an eye with complete ptosis cau... | Eyelids; Ophthalmoplegia; Intraoperative Complications | 2006 |
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Digre, Kathleen B. | Not so benign intracranial hypertension. | Despite many controversies, intracranial hypertension due to use of doxycycline does occur. Practitioners prescribing the tetracyclic antibiotics should be aware of the syndrome of increased intracranial pressure, and pay particular attention to the ocular fundus for papilloedema. Appropriate referr... | Venous Occusion; Venous Hypertension; Tetracycline, Doxycycline; Minocycline | 2003-03-22 |
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Digre, Kathleen B.; Blumenthal, Deborah T.; Cessna, Melissa H.; Gopez, Evelyn V.; Shen, Yue | Carcinomatous meningitis as the presenting manifestation of gallbladder carcinoma: case report and review of the literature | The primary tumors that typically cause carcinomatous meningitis include lung cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma and melanoma. A variety of neurological signs and symptoms can be seen depending on the extent and location of the meningeal metastasis. Once the diagnosis of carcinomatous meningi... | Carcinomatous Meningitis; Gallbladder Carcinoma; Leptomeningeal Metastasis; Meningeal Carcinomatosis; Cranial Neuropathy | 2004-10 |
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Digre, Kathleen B. | Serum vitamin A concentration is elevated in idiopathic intracranial hypertension. | OBJECTIVE: The primary purpose was to investigate whether serum vitamin A concentration is associated with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). The secondary aim was to obtain pilot data regarding the amount of vitamin A ingested by patients and controls. BACKGROUND: Vitamin A is an attractiv... | Vitamin A; Retinol; Idiopathic intracranial hypertension; Chromatography | 2007-02-01 |