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Series: Contributions to Nephrology
Volume: 200
Published: 07 August 2023
10.1159/000529569
EISBN: 978-3-318-07124-5
... Abstract The history of sorbents is about 2 centuries long. It is important to analyze and report the progress of science in this field, understand how modern hemoadsorption takes place, and appreciate how new devices have been designed and manufactured. It is also important to describe...
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Series: Current Problems in Dermatology
Volume: 56
Published: 05 July 2023
10.1159/000521478
EISBN: 978-3-318-07040-8
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Series: World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics
Volume: 124
Published: 15 June 2022
10.1159/000516708
EISBN: 978-3-318-06296-0
... Diet history Dietary assessment Food intake Behavior assessment Food environment Key Messages An adequate nutritional assessment, including both diet history and dietary assessment, is usually the first approach to the evaluation of nutritional status. A child’s dietary...
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Series: Advances in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
Volume: 85
Published: 18 December 2020
10.1159/000456688
EISBN: 978-3-318-06628-9
... outcome analysis of 237 cases. PLoS One 2011;6:e19128. 29. Mau T, Pan HM, Childs LF: The natural history of recoverable vocal fold paralysis: Implications for kinetics of reinnervation. Laryngoscope 2017;127:2585–2590. 30. Zur KB, Carrol CM: Recurrent laryngeal nerve reinnervation in children...
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Series: Frontiers in Diabetes
Volume: 29
Published: 31 August 2020
10.1159/000506565
EISBN: 978-3-318-06734-7
... Abstract The early history of the treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is reviewed here. Mortality before and after the introduction of insulin therapy is considered first. Insulin therapy from 1923 onwards is then discussed with the focus on the rise in amounts of insulin administered from...
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Series: Frontiers in Diabetes
Volume: 29
Published: 31 August 2020
10.1159/000506548
EISBN: 978-3-318-06734-7
... Abstract This chapter reviews significant milestones in the history of the metabolic management of hyperglycemia in pregnancy. During the pre-insulin era, women with diabetes rarely became pregnant, and when they did, the prognosis for both mother and child was most unfavorable. The cornerstone...
Book Chapter
Series: Frontiers in Diabetes
Volume: 29
Published: 31 August 2020
10.1159/000506552
EISBN: 978-3-318-06734-7
... closure could be demonstrated by fluorescein angiography. Classification of Lesions and Severity of Diabetic Retinopathy A first attempt to describe systematically the natural history of diabetic retinopathy into four stages (retinitis centralis punctuate, hemorrhagic form, retinal infarction...
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Series: Frontiers in Diabetes
Volume: 29
Published: 31 August 2020
10.1159/000506547
EISBN: 978-3-318-06734-7
... nephropathy onset was reduced by 30% and the mean rate of decline in GFR diminished by 19% to 3.3 (0.17) mL/min/1.73 m 2 /year compared to prior cohorts from our institution [ 13 , 15 ], and the effect was long-lasting. It should be recalled that the natural history of diabetic nephropathy has a GFR decline...
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Series: Frontiers in Diabetes
Volume: 29
Published: 31 August 2020
10.1159/000506567
EISBN: 978-3-318-06734-7
... Abstract Diabetes education has a long and rich history. The first to recognize the importance of patient education was Apollinaire Bouchardat in his book Le Diabète Sucré in 1875. Another early promoter of patient education was Prof. Karl Stolte, who invented “insulin dose adjustment...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 44
Published: 20 May 2019
10.1159/000494953
EISBN: 978-3-318-06463-6
... is not intended to be exhaustive, and other early sources for memory loss exist, it traces the early history of amnesia from the time it began to be classified as a medical disorder. Historically, descriptions of what is now recognized as amnesia occurred largely in case reports or first-person descriptions...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 44
Published: 20 May 2019
10.1159/000494954
EISBN: 978-3-318-06463-6
... (unilateral neglect), language disorders (Wernicke’s aphasia), memory disturbances, dementia, and personality changes and are due to impairment of anatomo-functionally discrete monitoring systems [ 8 ]. How Prior History and Personal Research Perspectives Influenced Anton’s and Babinski’s Contribution...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 44
Published: 20 May 2019
10.1159/000494955
EISBN: 978-3-318-06463-6
... of lesions responsible for amusia has a long history. The phrenologist, Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), claimed the existence of brain regions governing musical skills. And in 1861, Broca proposed localization of language functions. Thereafter, there was a host of studies in the West on aphasia and amusia...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 44
Published: 20 May 2019
10.1159/000494957
EISBN: 978-3-318-06463-6
... to express “executive dysfunction.” References References 1. Luria AR: Higher Cortical Functions in Man, ed 2. Moscow, Moscow University Press, 1980. 2. Goldstein S, Naglieri JA, Princiotta D, Otero T: Introduction: a history of executive functioning as a theoretical and clinical construct...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 44
Published: 20 May 2019
10.1159/000494958
EISBN: 978-3-318-06463-6
... Abstract The representation of cognitive function in the cerebral cortex has a long and cherished history, but much evidence also supports a critical role of subcortical structures in the operations of cognition. The idea of subcortical dementia, first proposed in 1932 and substantially...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 44
Published: 20 May 2019
10.1159/000494959
EISBN: 978-3-318-06463-6
... understanding of this fascinating history will improve scientific research and impose humility towards the complex underpinnings of age-related cognitive decline. Introduction The history of dementia started centuries before Alois Alzheimer’s seminal description in 1906. In this chapter, we will discuss...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 44
Published: 20 May 2019
10.1159/000494963
EISBN: 978-3-318-06463-6
.... Ward Halstead (1908–1968). The Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, The University of Akron, with kind permission. Aphasia Test Battery A special case within the domain of neuropsychological assessment forms the territory of aphasia, usually dominated...
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Series: Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Volume: 44
Published online: 30 April 2019
Published in print: 20 May 2019
10.1159/isbn.978-3-318-06463-6
EISBN: 978-3-318-06463-6