s of the European Wilson Disease Congress EuroWilsoN: European Wilson’s Disease Network Improving information, knowledge and access to expertise and care 2 Summary Quality of life in patients with treated and clinically stable Wilson's disease Kostić VS, Svetel M, Pekmezović T, Tomić A, Kresojević N, Potrebić A, Ješić R Institute of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia ...

SUMMARY When Whipple disease (WD) is confined to the CNS, diagnosis may be difficult. We report a case of WD with spinal presentation in an otherwise healthy woman who had a 5-year history of relapsing-remitting cervico-thoracic myelopathy. We suggest that the diagnosis of WD should be considered in the presence of an enlarged and enhancing spinal cord even in the absence of any systemic involv...

PURPOSE Most well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors (WD-NET) of the enteropancreatic system are low-intermediate grade (G1, G2). Elevated proliferation demonstrated by either a brisk mitotic rate (>20/10 high power fields) or high Ki-67 index (>20%) defines a group of aggressive neoplasms designated as high-grade (G3) neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC). High-grade NEC is equated with poorly diff...

Rationale Obesity is associated with impaired delivery of insulin and glucose by the microcirculation in skeletal muscle. Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) has anticontractile properties that are lost in obesity, thereby blunting insulin-induced vasodilation. We hypothesized that microvascular dysfunction develops during a two-week Western Diet (WD) and that PVAT is involved in this developmen...

BACKGROUND The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) microbiota is essential to metabolic health, and the prevalence of the Western diet (WD) high in fat and sugar is increasing, with evidence highlighting a negative interaction between the GIT and WD, resulting in liver dysfunction. Additionally, an adverse in utero environment such as placental insufficiency resulting in low birth weight (LBW) offspri...

BACKGROUND While a number of preventive interventions delivered within schools have shown both short-term and long-term impact in epidemiologically based randomized field trials, programs are not often sustained with high-quality implementation over time. This study was designed to support two purposes. The first purpose was to test the effectiveness of a universal classroom-based intervention,...

Recently, novel dietary oils with modified fatty acid profiles have been manufactured to improve fatty acid intakes and reduce CVD risk. Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of novel high-oleic rapeseed (canola) oil (HOCO), alone or blended with flaxseed oil (FXCO), on circulating lipids and inflammatory biomarkers v. a typical Western diet (WD). Using a randomised, controlled, crossover ...

Background Wallerian degeneration (WD) of bilateral middle cerebellar peduncles (MCPs) can occur following pontine infarction, but its characteristics have not yet been clarified because of the low incidence. Thus, the present study discussed the clinical and radiological features to improve the awareness of this disease. Methods Clinical and radiological information from consecutive individu...

We describe the results of a research on the effect of weight-decay (WD) in input selection methods based on the analysis of a trained multilayer feedforward network. It was proposed by some authors to train the network with WD before applying this type of methods. The influence of WD in sixteen different input selection methods is empirically analyzed with a total of seven classification probl...