paraparesis

Many disabling symptoms can occur, including permanent paraparesis in extreme cases.

It is also capable of causing a paralytic disorder, tropical spastic paraparesis.

Despite mild paraparesis, they were able to stand, walk, perform demanding motor test and demonstrated no signs of incontinence.

The virus has also been linked to a rare serious paralytic disease, tropical spastic paraparesis.

They cause two life-threatening diseases, adult T cell leukaemia/lymphoma and tropical spastic paraparesis.

Familial spastic paraparesis, a hereditary disorder.

KIF1A is associated with hereditary spastic paraparesis.

Adult males with an adrenomyeloneuropathy presentation typically present initially with muscle stiffness, paraparesis and sexual dysfunction.

Infection by human T-lymphotropic virus can lead to tropical spastic paraparesis and adult T-cell leukemia.

After the initial weeks of functional improvement, the spastic paraparesis remains stable for the rest of life, as confirmed by longterm follow-up studies.

Some patients may suffer an abrupt aggravating episode, e.g. a sudden and permanent worsening of the spastic paraparesis.

It has also been linked strongly to a neurological disease, tropical spastic paraparesis, found in Africa, the Caribbean and southern Japan.

Little did not have any spasticity himself, but he suffered childhood poliomyelitis with residual left lower-extremity paraparesis, complicated by severe talipes.

More proximal portions of the medial striate artery may cause spastic paraparesis and sensory loss contralateral to the lesioned side.

The medical terminology began to fly - "spastic paraparesis," "hyper-reflexia," "kappa light chain protein" found in his urine specimens.

For several decades, the term tropical spastic paraparesis was used to describe a chronic and progressive clinical syndrome that affected adults living in equatorial areas of the world.

Abdallat-Davis-Farrage syndrome is a phakomatosis consisting of disordered skin and hair pigmentation, progressive spastic paraparesis and peripheral neuropathy.

Degenerative myelopathy (DM) is a neurological disease of the spinal cord causing progressive paraparesis, most commonly in the German shepherd dog breed.

A brain MRI showed that her basal ganglia had partially calcified, which may have contributed to her paraparesis and motor tics.

The onset of paralysis (spastic paraparesis) is sudden and symmetrical, affecting the legs more than the arms and the resulting disability is permanent, but does not progress.

Mutations in this gene have been associated with leukodystrophy dysmyelinating with spastic paraparesis with or without dystonia as well as fatty acid hydroxylase-associated neurodegeneration.

Progressive spastic paraparesis, vitiligo, premature graying, and distinct facial appearance: A new genetic syndrome in 3 sibs (1981), American Journal of Medical Genetics (9:4)

A missense mutation (K382N) in VPS37A protein has been shown to cause complex hereditary spastic paraparesis (cHSP).

The typical patient has an acute and severe spastic weakness of the legs (paraparesis) or all four limbs (quadriparesis) with sensory signs, often accompanied by loss of bladder control.

Administration of high doses of biotin in the early progression of the disorder eliminates pathological symptoms while delayed treatment results in residual paraparesis, mild mental retardation, or dystonia.