leukoencephalopathy in a sentence
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- Polyomaviruses may cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy ( JC virus ) and polyomavirus-associated nephropathy, ureteral stenosis and hemorrhagic cystitis ( BK virus ).
- Mutations within this gene have been associated with polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy ( PLOSL ), also known as Nasu-Hakola disease.
- Metronidazole, an antibiotic used to treat aerobic and protozoal infections, has been known at high doses to produce neurologic symptoms associated with toxic leukoencephalopathy.
- However, the usage of Natalizumab, an antagonist of VLA-4 integrin, remains controversial due to several side effects including Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.
- Chang trained in neuropathology at Stanford University under the noted clinical neuropathologist, Dikran Houroupian, publishing studies on eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.
- It is believed by some researchers that heroin-induced leukoencephalopathy may be caused by a contaminant, or cutting agent, in the heroin.
- However, no such agent has been identified; and indeed, toxic leukoencephalopathy has been observed as a result of intoxication with contaminant-free opiates.
- Coenzyme Q and vitamin supplements, typically vitamin C and vitamin E, and other antioxidant therapies have been suggested to treat heroin-induced leukoencephalopathy patients.
- In August 1994, Zamora was diagnosed in New York City with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy ( PML ), and was given three to four months to live.
- The reported cases of leukoencephalopathy were " very isolated, " he said, and no one knew the brand name under which the heroin had been sold.