BACKGROUND Cognitive impairment is one of the important critical issues in hemodialysis (HD) patients. However, the associating factors of brain atrophy in HD patients have not been fully elucidated. PURPOSE AND METHODS Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed in 34 of total 72 HD outpatients in our dialysis center. These MRI images were analyzed by an application software; Voxel-...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of visual inspection of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a range of pathologically confirmed diseases causing young-onset dementia and to assess the sensitivity and specificity of atrophy patterns for Alzheimer disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). DESIGN Sixty-two patients with pathologically confirmed diseases that ma...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Trigeminal nerve injury or dysfunction is associated with denervation atrophy of muscles innervated by the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the association between chronic CN V denervation and parotid gland atrophy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-six patients with chronic masticator muscle atrophy were retrospectively ide...

Behavioral frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) may present with episodic memory deficits. In 38 patients bvFTD and 61 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) specific measures of verbal (learning curves serial position effects) were studied through the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning test. Forty-two percent showed deficits delayed recall similar to that found in AD including effects. Amnestic had more severe atrophy...

Judge AR, Koncarevic A, Hunter RB, Liou H-C, Jackman RW, Kandarian SC. Role for I B , but not c-Rel, in skeletal muscle atrophy. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 292: C372–C382, 2007. First published August 23, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00293.2006.—Skeletal muscle atrophy is associated with a marked and sustained activation of nuclear factorB (NFB) activity. Previous work showed that p50 is one of the...

Angular and trans-zygomatic implantation is an alternative to most maxillary augmentations with severe deformations extreme atrophy. The usage of the frontal section maxilla for surgery after tooth extraction provides effective stability implants prostheses. This frequently used protocol intraoperative direct replacement traditional teeth. Immediate functional loading provisional restorations a...