Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of lymphoma, comprising around 25% to 30% of all cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The disease usually presents with a rapidly growing ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a rare acquired autoimmune neurological disorder in which both T-cell-mediated and humoral immune mechanisms target healthy myelinated ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Obeticholic acid, seladelpar, and elafibranor all significantly increased the biochemical response rate. Elafibranor seems to be slightly more effective than seladelpar as a second-line therapy in ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a rare neurological disorder of peripheral nerves that develops when dysregulated immune mechanisms cause inflammation. Immune-mediated ...

Over 80% achieved a clinically meaningful improvement in at least one of the scales assessed. Treatment with risdiplam over 30 months led to overall clinically meaningful improvement in most adult ...

While tracheostomy placement is common in skeletal dysplasia, those patients with achondroplasia are less likely to need a tracheostomy. A new retrospective review of patients with skeletal dysplasia ...

The potential of axonal damage as a biomarker of disease severity and predictor of further outcomes is highlighted by its effect on functional disability, even in early disease stages. Patients who ...

63% of patients had the V142I variant, which was the only variant among patients diagnosed with a pure neuropathy phenotype. The most common transthyretin (TTR) variant was the V142I variant in a ...

Given the multiple genetic mutations typically present in SM-AHN, optimal approaches for SM-AHN remain elusive. A new review article has been published by Dr. Deepti H. Radia, a British clinician who ...