Revista de neurologia
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Revista de neurologia · Nov 2015
[A pilot study on the living with a chronic process scale in patients with Parkinson's disease].
To be able to provide patients with a chronic illness personalised care, it is necessary to know how they live with their disorder. Today, there is no validated scale that assesses this aspect. ⋯ The EC-PC, pending validation, is a viable scale of potential interest in the clinical and community healthcare setting for assessing the ability to live with a chronic process like PD.
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Revista de neurologia · Nov 2015
Case Reports[IgG4- and MPO-ANCA-associated hypertrophic pachymeningitis].
Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis is a fibroinflammatory immune-mediated disease of the dura mater. Its diagnosis requires the preclusion of infectious, tumoral and other inflammatory diseases. In recent years new entities have been reported that can present with hypertrophic pachymeningitis, such as IgG4-associated disease and MPO-ANCA+ pachymeningitis, as a form of vasculitis limited to the central nervous system. ⋯ IgG4-related disease and MPO-ANCA-associated vasculitis limited to the central nervous system can account for a high percentage of the cases of hypertrophic pachymeningitis that were considered idiopathic, and their diagnosis requires a biopsy and a histological study.