Albers, James W., Garabrant, David H., Mattsson, Joel L., Burns, Carol J., Cohen, Sarah S., Sima, Cami, ...
We performed nerve conduction studies (NCSs) on 113 chemical workers, many of whom had occupational exposure to the organophosphorus insecticide chlorpyrifos...
Gruis, Kirsten L., Little, Ann A., Zebarah, Valerie A., Albers, James W.
Little is known about the complications of needle electromyography (EMG) performed on anticoagulated patients, and no guidelines exist regarding its performance. We conducted an anonymous survey of...
Albers, James W., Fink, John K.
The hepatic porphyrias are a group of rare metabolic disorders characterized by enzymatic defects in the biosynthesis of heme, a metalloporphyrin that is the principal product of porphyrin...
Absence of sensory neuropathy among workers with occupational exposure to chlorpyrifos (2004)
Albers, James W., Garabrant, David H., Schweitzer, Sarah, Garrison, Richard P., Richardson, Rudy J., Berent, Stanley
Several studies have reported the occurrence of sensory neuropathy with exposure to chlorpyrifos and other organophosphorus insecticides, at levels not associated with overt toxicity. We evaluated...
Reliability of nerve conduction studies among active workers (1999)
Salerno, Deborah F., Werner, Robert A., Albers, James W., Becker, Mark P., Armstrong, Thomas J., Franzblau, Alfred
Nerve conduction studies play an important role in clinical practice and research. Given their widespread use, reliability of tests merits careful attention. We assessed interexaminer and...
Median and ulnar nerve conduction studies among workers: Normative values (1998)
Salerno, Deborah F., Franzblau, Alfred, Werner, Robert A., Bromberg, Mark B., Armstrong, Thomas J., Albers, James W.
To determine normative values for nerve conduction studies among workers, we selected a subset of 326 workers from 955 subjects who participated in medical surveys in the workplace. The reference...
Werner, Robert A., Franzblau, Alfred, Albers, James W., Armstrong, Thomas J.
The objective was to determine whether symptomatic workers with an abnormal sensory nerve conduction study consistent with carpal tunnel syndrome differed, in terms of electrophysiologic measures,...
n-hexane neuropathy due to rubber cement sniffing (1997)
Smith, A. Gordon, Albers, James W.
n-Hexane neuropathy has been described after glue sniffing and industrial exposure. Onset may be subacute and reminiscent of Guillain-BarrÉ syndrome. Although the primary pathology is axonal,...
Collet-Sicard syndrome mimicking neuralgic amyotrophy (1997)
Larson, Wendy L., Beydoun, Ahmad A., Albers, James W., Wald, John J.
A man with shoulder pain, wasting, and weakness had ipsilateral cranial nerve abnormalities. Electrodiagnostic studies supported a diagnosis of neuralgic amyotrophy, but we later demonstrated a...
Haig, Andrew J., Date, Elaine S., Hawley, Rollin James, Albers, James W., Brown, Morton B., Sima, Anders A. F., ...
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Albers, James W., Brown, Morton B., Sima, Anders A. F., Greene, Douglas A.
We used electrophysiologic criteria to identify median mononeuropathy (MM) of the nondominant wrist among 414 patients enrolled in a multicenter study of patients with mild diabetic neuropathy,...
Simmons, Zachary, Albers, James W., Bromberg, Mark B., Feldman, Eva L.
We previously demonstrated differences in presentation and initial clinical course between patients with idiopathic chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP-I) and those in...
Workplace surveillance for carpal tunnel syndrome using hand diagrams (1994)
Franzblau, Alfred, Werner, Robert A., Albers, James W., Grant, Christin L., Olinski, Denise, Johnston, Elizabeth
Four hundred and eleven workers from 4 different companies participated in a worksite screening program designed, in part, to estimate the prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Each worker...
The relationship between body mass index and the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (1994)
Werner, Robert A., Albers, James W., Franzblau, Alfred, Armstrong, Thomas J.
Increased weignt and, more recently, body mass index (BMI), have been suggested as risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). In an effort to determine the relative risk (RR) of obesity in the...
X-linked bulbospinomuscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease) masquerading as lead neuropathy (1994)
Albers, James W., Bromberg, Mark B.
A 43-year-old male was referred by a veterinarian who evaluated his dog for a seizure and suspected a toxic lead exposure for both. He refurbished houses, removing old paint, and complained of...
Paraneoplastic pseudo-obstruction, mononeuropathy multiplex, and sensory neuronopathy (1994)
Liang, Bertrand C., Albers, James W., Sima, Anders A. F., Nostrant, Timothy T.
A patient with mononeuropathy multiplex, sensory neuronopathy, and diffuse intestinal pseudo-obstruction consisting of gastroparesis and impaired small and large bowel motility was found to have a...
Bromberg, Mark B., Albers, James W.
The pattern of an abnormal median-normal sural (AMNS) sensory response is associated with acute and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP and CIDP) and considered unusual in...
Effects of age, sex, and anthropometric factors on nerve conduction measures (1992)
Stetson, Diana S., Albers, James W., Silverstein, Barbara A., Wolfe, Robert A.
Associations among measures of median, ulnar, and sural nerve conduction and age, skin temperature, sex, and anthropometric factors were evaluated in a population of 105 healthy, asymptomatic adults...
Case-of-the-month: Perineuritis presenting as mononeuritis multiplex (1992)
Simmons, Zachary, Albers, James W., Sima, Anders A. F.
Perineuritis unassociated with other significant pathological changes is a rare finding. A patient is described with mild, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus who presented with the clinical...
Bromberg, Mark B., Feldman, Eva L., Jaradeh, Safwan, Albers, James W.
Treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) frequently includes use of immunosuppressive agents. Controlled treatment trials demonstrating efficacy are available only for...
Immunosuppressive treatment in multifocal motor neuropathy (1991)
Feldman, Eva L., Bromberg, Mark B., Albers, James W., Pestronk, Alan
We report the results of immunosuppressive treatments of 13 patients with multifocal motor neuropathy and elevated titers of serum antibodies to the GM1 ganglioside. All patients failed to respond to...
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Hand-arm frequency-weighted vibration effects on tactility (1990)
Radwin, Robert G., Armstrong, Thomas J., Chaffin, Don B., Langolf, Gary D., Albers, James W.
This study reports results of an investigation into the short-term effects of power hand tool vibration on deep sense tactile sensitivity. Five subjects operated a simulated hand tool using a 30 s /...
Spectrum of patients with EMG features of polyradiculopathy without neuropathy (1990)
McGonagle, Timothy K., Levine, Steven R., Donofrio, Peter D., Albers, James W.
We reviewed the medical records of 233 patients having electrodiagnostic evidence of polyradiculopathy. Patients with polyneuropathy or incomplete diagnostic evaluation were excluded. A clinical...
AAEE case report #4: Guillain-BarrÉ syndrome (1989)
A case report is presented of a 33-year-old woman who awoke with distal paresthesias, mild incoordination, and progressive weakness. Examination 3 days later demonstrated weakness of the extremities,...
Acquired inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies: Clinical and electrodiagnostic features (1989)
Albers, James W., Kelly, John J.
The acquired demyelinating polyneuropathies include acute (AIDP, Guillain-BarrÉ syndrome, GBS) and chronic (CIDP, dysproteinemic) forms which differ primarily in their temporal profile. They are...
Electrodiagnostic evolution of carcinomatous sensory neuronopathy (1989)
Donofrio, Peter D., Alessi, Anthony G., Albers, James W., Knapp, Robert H., Blaivas, Mila
Sensory neuronopathy is a well-recognized remote effect of carcinoma. We report the clinical and electrodiagnostic evolution of a sensory neuronopathy in a patient with carcinoma of the lung. Serial...
Transient Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (1989)
Bromberg, Mark B., Albers, James W., McCune, William Joseph
We present a patient who developed the Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) in association with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Severe proximal weakness with electrodiagnostic evidence of...
Neurological abnormalities associated with remote occupational elemental mercury exposure (1988)
Albers, James W., Kallenbach, Lee R., Fine, Lawrence J., Langolf, Gary D., Wolfe, Robert A., Donofrio, Peter D., ...
We examined 502 subjects, 247 of whom had occupational elemental mercury exposures 20 to 35 years previously, to identify potential exposure-related neurological abnormalities. Few significant ( p <...
Albin, Roger L., Silverman, Alan K., Ellis, Charles N., Voorhees, John J., Albers, James W.
We report on three cases of a novel syndrome associated with treatment for psoriasis with the retinoid etretinate. The distinctive features of this syndrome include rigidity that is restricted to the...
Acute arsenic intoxication presenting as guillainbarrÉa-like syndrome (1987)
Donofrio, Peter D., Wilbourn, Asa J., Albers, James W., Salanga, Virgilio, Greenberg, Harry S.
Arsenic-induced polyneuropathy is traditionally classified as an axonal-loss type, electrodiagnostically resulting in low amplitude or absent sensory and motor responses, relatively preserved...
Albers, James W., Donofrio, Peter D., McGonagle, Timothy K.
We reviewed 180 electroneuromyographic (EMG) studies from patients with acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. EMG criteria suggestive of demyelination were met during the first 5...
Plasma exchange in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (1985)
Donofrio, Peter D., Tandan, Rup, Albers, James W.
Eleven consecutive patients with progressive chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) underwent plasma exchange. Eight patients were previously unresponsive to prednisone, two...
Abnormal neuromuscular transmission in an infantile myasthenic syndrome (1984)
Albers, James W., Faulkner, John A., Dorovini-Zis, Katerina, Barald, Kate F., Must, Rachel E., Ball, Richard D.
A term infant required intubation for respiratory depression. Examination revealed hypotonia and areflexia with intact extraocular movements. Electrodiagnostic studies demonstrated defective...
Donofrio, Peter D., Albers, James W., Greenberg, H. S., Mitchell, B. S.
A patient with a severe remote-effect polyneuropathy and other paraneoplastic features of osteosclerotic myeloma improved dramatically with melphalan and prednisone treatment. Serial...
The importance of age effects on performance in the assessment of clinical trials (1973)
Potvin, A. R., Tourtellotte, Wallace W., Pew, Richard W., Albers, James W., Henderson, W. G., Snyder, D. N.
Forty young adult normal subjects, 10 Parkinson's disease patients and their 10 matched normal subjects, and 10 multiple sclerosis patients and their 10 matched normal subjects were evaluated in the...
Walker, J. E., Albers, James W., Tourtellotte, Wallace W., Henderson, W. G., Potvin, A. R., Smith, A.
A double-blind crossover trial of amantadine vs. placebo was carried out involving 42 patients with Parkinson's disease: 64 per cent of the patients on amantadine experienced subjective improvement...
Neuropathy Target Esterase Gene Mutations Cause Motor Neuron Disease
Rainier, Shirley, Bui, Melanie, Mark, Erin, Thomas, Donald, Tokarz, Debra, Ming, Lei, ...
The possibility that organophosphorus (OP) compounds contribute to motor neuron disease (MND) is supported by association of paraoxonase 1 polymorphisms with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and...