Multiple sclerosis in Malaysia [1997] - 732KB
by Tan CT
The prevalence multiple sclerosis (MS) is estimated to 2/100,000 population in Malaysia. It is seen in all the three main ethnic groups; Chinese, Malays and Indians, but with higher prevalence among e...

Multiple sclerosis in Thailand [1997] - 463KB
by Vejjajiva A
The first autopsy proven case of multiple sclerosis in a Thai patient was reported in 1970. To-date, there has been no community-based epidemiological study of the disease in Thailand, but the prevale...

Epilepsy in South East Asia [1997] - 688KB
by Tan CT, Lim SH

Epilepsy genes [1997] - 982KB
by Lee WL
The identification of epilepsy genes has been complicated by phenotypic heterogeneity of individual epilepsy syndromes and clinical overlap between different epilepsy syndromes. Benign familial neonat...

Seizures in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus [1997] - 769KB
by How LG, Wang CL, Tan CT
This was a study on 58 neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with epileptic seizures treated in University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur from 1975 to 1994. The aim of t...

Epidemiology of epilepsy in Singapore children [1997] - 539KB
by Lee WL, Low PS, Murugasu B, Rajan U
This is a study on the cumulative incidence of epilepsy in 96,047 children born in all government hospitals in Singapore between 1/1/1980 and 31/12/1982 known to be still living in Singapore at the ag...

Magnetic resonance imaging in patients with chronic partial epilepsy: Identification of potential epilepsy candidates [1997] - 872KB
by Tan EK, Lim SH, Lim W, Tan KP
Background: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can detect potentially epileptogenic structural abnormality in patients with medically refractory partial epilepsy.
Objective: To identify the types o...

Cryptococcal meningitis in patients with non-HIV and HIV infection: a clinical study [1997] - 607KB
by Tunlayadechanont S, Viranuvatti K, Phuapradit P, Sathapatayavong B, Tantirittisak T, Boongird P
The medical records of patients with cryptococcal meningitis (CM) at Ramathibodi hospital during the periods 1993-1994 and 1977-1988 were retrospectively reviewed. When comparing the period 1993-1994 ...

Headache and systemic lupus erythematosus: Is there an entity of "lupus headache"? [1997] - 625KB
by Goh KJ, Hentzen A, Alders EEA, Tan CT, Hoh MC
Headaches especially migraine has long been thought to be more prevalent in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and are believed to be part of the SLE disease process. We sought to evaluate this by stu...

Huntington's disease in Malaysia: a clinical and genetic study [1997] - 884KB
by Ng WK, Teh BT, Malmberg I, Tan CT, Goh KJ, Sng KH, Easaw PES, Shaari M, Anvret M
Huntington's disease (HD) is associated with an expanded (CAG) repeat within a novel gene 4p16.3(IT5). HD is one tenth less common in non-Caucasians. It has been hypothesised that HD in Chinese origin...