Victoriabrain.blogspot.com Best Site For All Brain Diseases.: Treatment of Tropical Spastic

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><u>Tropical spastic paraparesis</u></span> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(TSP), also known as HTLV-associated myelopathy or chronic progressive myelopathy, is an infection of the spinal cord by Human T-lymphotropic virus resulting in paraparesis, weakness of the legs.  </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="v1047043"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">      </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Spastic weakness develops gradually in both legs, with extensor plantar responses and bilateral symmetric loss of position and vibratory sensation in the feet. Achilles tendon reflexes are often absent. Urinary incontinence and urgency are common. Symptoms usually progress over several years</span><br /><br /><u><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Diagnosis</b></span></u><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">·         Serologic and PCR tests of serum and CSF</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />The disorder is suggested by typical neurologic deficits that are otherwise unexplained, particularly in patients with risk factors. Serum and CSF serologic tests, PCR tests, and spinal cord MRI are indicated. If CSF-to-serum ratio of HTLV-1 antibodies is > 1 or if PCR detects HTLV-1 antigen in CSF, the diagnosis is very likely. Protein and Ig levels in CSF may also be elevated, often with oligoclonal bands; lymphocytic pleocytosis occurs in up to 50% of patients. Spinal cord lesions often appear hyperintense on T2-weighted MRI.<br /></b></span><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Treatment</span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Syp Tropical (2Teasponful Every 6 Hours)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Cap Tropical (1 Cap TDS)</span></b></span></div>

Tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), also known as HTLV-associated myelopathy or chronic progressive myelopathy, is an infection of th...