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 ...

Overall, the life expectancy of patients with SCD is lower than that of persons without SCD. 1 However, life expectancy varies depending on the type of disease, treatments administered, and ...

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The diagnosis and management of CIDP are complex and best addressed by an interprofessional health care team that includes neurologists, neuromuscular specialists, physical medicine and rehabilitation ...

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 ...

The term muscular dystrophy encompasses a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting. There are different types of muscular dystrophy depending on genetic ...

In diagnosed cases of cutaneous mastocytosis, investigations to rule out systemic mastocytosis may be appropriate. A young child with a small chest lump and anemia was found to have cutaneous ...

Several factors influence the prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), but the primary prognostic factors include the tumor staging and the tumor resectability. The staging for GISTs ...

Patients with a relapse of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) are often prescribed steroid treatment, which can come with difficult side effects.

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