Parkinson’s disease and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy with celiac disease: Improvement in neuropathy but not Parkinson’s symptoms after intravenous immunoglobulin and gluten free diet
Objective: To report a case of celiac disease in Parkinson's disease and CIPD, and examine the relationship. Background: Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a…Deep brain stimulation in two patients with immunosuppressive therapy
Objective: To report two patients with a movement disorder who underwent deep brain stimulation under concomitant immunosuppressive treatment. To report two patients with a movement…Inpatient vs outpatient workup of patients with ataxia and suspected paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration: Does work-up location matter?
Objective: To assess the outcomes of patients with ataxia evaluated for paraneoplastic syndrome primarily in an outpatient or inpatient setting. Background: Although paraneoplastic ataxias are…Rare manifestation of CNS Lupus: Parkinsonism
Objective: To describe clinical and imaging features of a SLE patient who presented with parkinsonism which is a rare manifestation of NPSLE and the result…Development of a prototype alpha-synuclein vaccine to induce T regulatory cells for the treatment of synucleonopathy
Objective: Test the hypothesis that combining humoral and immunosuppressive cellular asyn immunization will enhance asyn clearance, and reduce inflammation and neuropathological symptoms in a human…Expanding the spectrum of Faciobrachial Dystonic Seizures
Objective: A 71 years old Italian man presented progressive dysarthria and involuntary movements. Background: Within two months he developed dysarthria, progressive homolateral oromandibular and arm dystonic posture, knee…Ninjurin 1 gene D110a single nucleotide polymorphism as a genetic marker for nerve damage leprosy patients from South India
Objective: Analyze the Ninjurin 1 gene single nucleotide polymorphisms in leprosy patients from south India, and the role of the gene in the nerve damage.…Sub-acute rapidly progressive cerebellar ataxia – A case of JC virus associated granule cell neuronopathy (GCN)
Objective: To describe a case of JC virus associated GCN. Background: JC virus associated CNS disease most commonly presents as progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. A less…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.