Patients with ATTR-CM had significantly impaired global longitudinal strain and higher mechanical dispersion compared to their first-degree relatives who were not affected by the disease. Increased ...

In classical PNH, disease is present with the absence of bone marrow disease. 3 Patients with classical PNH typically have severe intravascular hemolysis along with an elevated reticulocyte count, a ...

Individuals with advanced liver disease may also experience significant weight loss due to nausea and poor appetite. Candidates for liver transplantation may need to gain weight to optimize surgical ...

A patient presented with task-related isolated transient weakness in her right hand, which started 15 years before and lasted for 9 years without worsening or improvement. Distal myasthenia gravis (MG ...

The 3 patients who underwent surgical gallstone removal all ultimately recovered well, including one who developed acute chest syndrome. As cholelithiasis and choledocholithiasis are common in ...

Sickle cell disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, which means that a child is born with SCD only when they inherit 2 defective copies of the sickle cell gene (1 from each parent). If ...

Patients with PCNSL should be closely monitored for extracerebral relapses, including ocular. Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) can recur as isolated ophthalmologic and isolated cerebral ...

People with myasthenia gravis (MG) show significant changes in blood pressure variability both at rest and in response to orthostatic stress, found a new study published in the journal Neurological ...

The modified Spinal Muscular Atrophy Functional Rating Scale (SMAFRS) is a psychometrically stable and unidimensional outcome measure, even though certain items are misfitting like those related to ...

Of the 33,829 blood donors analyzed, only 179 were D negative (0.53%). This finding complements existing studies on the relative rarity of this blood type in Asia. Among East and Southeast Asian ...

Speakers at the panel “Unlocking the future: the convergence of AI, personalized medicine, and genomics” at the World Orphan Drug Congress USA 2025 (Photo by Riya Ajmera) Artificial intelligence could ...

A new phase 2 clinical trial to test the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of TAK-411 for the treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is now open. The open-label, ...