ERMANCIA: Epidemiology of Stroke in Martinique, French West Indies: Part I: methodology, incidence, and 30-day case fatality rateD Smadja
Department of Neurology, University of Fort de France, Fort de France, Martinique, French West Indies
Stroke 32:2741-7. 2001
..The ERMANCIA (Etude Réalisée en Martinique et Centrée sur l'Incidence de Accidents vasculaires cérébraux) study was designed to provide the first comparable epidemiological data on stroke in a black Caribbean population...
- Role of return migration in the emergence of multiple sclerosis in the French West Indies
P Cabre
Department of Neurology, CHU Fort de France, Martinique, French West Indies, France
Brain 128:2899-910. 2005
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Different HLA class II (DRB1 and DQB1) alleles determine either susceptibility or resistance to NMO and multiple sclerosis among the French Afro-Caribbean populationR Deschamps
Centre de Référence Caribéen des Maladies Rares Neurologiques et Neuro Musculaires, CHU de Fort de France, Fort de France, Martinique
Mult Scler 17:24-31. 2011
..Despite similarities, neuromyelitis optica (NMO) can be distinguished from multiple sclerosis (MS) by clinical, radiological and serological findings...
- Acute stroke in the very elderly: epidemiological features, stroke subtypes, management, and outcome in Martinique, French West Indies
S Olindo
Department of Neurology, Pierre Zobda Quitman Hospital, BP 632, Fort de France 97261, Martinique, French West Indies
Stroke 34:1593-7. 2003
..With increasing life expectancy, old people will constitute the majority of stroke victims. We present the first stroke study focusing on very old patients in a black Caribbean population (Martinique, French West Indies)...
- Relapsing neuromyelitis optica: long term history and clinical predictors of death
P Cabre
Department of Neurology, Pierre Zobda Quitman Hospital, Fort de France, Martinique, French West Indies
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 80:1162-4. 2009
..Long term history in a wide series of RNMO is required for better knowledge of the course of the disease and identification of patients at high risk of death...
- [Descriptive epidemiology of neuromyelitis optica in the Caribbean basin]
P Cabre
CHRU Pierre Zobda Quitman, Fort de France, Martinique
Rev Neurol (Paris) 165:676-83. 2009
..The Caribbean basin is a suitable area for collecting a large NMO cohort and to assess the prevalence, incidence, and mortality of this disorder...
- Evaluation of the 2005 McDonald MRI criteria for dissemination in space in Afro-Caribbean patients with clinically isolated syndromes
N Chausson
Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Fort de France, Martinique, France
Eur J Neurol 16:1191-6. 2009
..In 2005, the McDonald MRI criteria for dissemination in space were revised to improve diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) in non-Caucasians...
- Plasma exchange in severe spinal attacks associated with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
M Bonnan
Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Zobda Quitman, 97261 Fort de France, Martinique, French West Indies
Mult Scler 15:487-92. 2009
..Spinal attacks in relapsing neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and in extensive transverse myelitis (ETM) - a truncated form of NMO with spinal involvement - are usually devastating...
- Visual phenotype of multiple sclerosis in the Afro-Caribbean population and the influence of migration to metropolitan France
H Merle
Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Fort de France, Hopital Pierre Zobda Quitman, Fort de France, Martinique, France French West Indies
Eur J Ophthalmol 15:392-9. 2005
..To describe the visual phenotype of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the Afro-Caribbean population living in Martinique (French West Indies) and to specify the influence of the migration to metropolitan France on ocular impairment...
- [Reversibility of vertebrobasilar stenoses following treatment with corticosteroid therapy in patients with giant cell arteritis]
K Polomat
Service de Neurologie, CHU de Fort de France, 97200 La Meynard, Fort de France, Martinique
Rev Neurol (Paris) 166:940-3. 2010
..We report the case of a patient with giant cell arteritis who experienced recurrent cerebellar stroke caused by intracranial vertebrobasilar stenoses with a favorable outcome following treatment...
- [Sensory ataxic neuromyelopathy in acquired copper deficiency]
R Bellance
Centre de référence des maladies rares neurologiques et neuromusculaires, CHU de Fort de France, La Meynard, Fort de France, Martinique, France
Rev Neurol (Paris) 166:734-6. 2010
..Neurological involvement associated with copper deficiency has been reported recently in humans and may be under-recognized...
- Thrombotic stroke following snake bites by the "Fer-de-Lance"Bothrops lanceolatus in Martinique despite antivenom treatment: a report of three recent cases
L Thomas
Service des Urgencies, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Hopital Pierre Zobda Quitman, F 97200, Fort de France, Martinique
Toxicon 48:23-8. 2006
..Against this background, we report 3 recent cases of patients bitten by B. lanceolatus who developed cerebral infarctions despite early administration of antivenom...
