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"Pinheads": the exhibition of neurologic disorders at "The Greatest Show on Earth"Farrah J Mateen
Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Neurology 75:2028-32. 2010..Although incomplete data exist on their true lives, the exhibition of people with microcephaly eventually declined due to protective laws passed in part due to the American circus "freak shows."..
Reportable neurologic diseases in refugee camps in 19 countriesFarrah J Mateen
Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
Neurology 79:937-40. 2012..Approximately one-third of refugees worldwide live in refugee camps. Selected neurologic diseases are actively reported in some refugee camps...
Medical conditions among Iraqi refugees in Jordan: data from the United Nations Refugee Assistance Information SystemFarrah J Mateen
Department of Neurology, Room 627 Pathology Building, Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins University, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Bull World Health Organ 90:444-51. 2012..To determine the range and burden of health services utilization among Iraqi refugees receiving health assistance in Jordan, a country of first asylum...
A population-based case-control study of 1250 stroke deaths in rural BangladeshF J Mateen
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 600North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Eur J Neurol 19:999-1006. 2012..There are limited population-based studies to determine the risk factors for stroke in Bangladesh...
Susac syndrome: clinical characteristics and treatment in 29 new casesF J Mateen
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Eur J Neurol 19:800-11. 2012..There are few clinical studies on the attempted treatments and outcomes in patients with Susac syndrome (SS) (retinocochleocerebral vasculopathy)...
Injury deaths among people with epilepsy in rural Bangladesh: a retrospective population-based studyFarrah J Mateen
Department of International Health, The Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Epilepsy Behav 23:291-3. 2012..Population-based studies of injury deaths among PWE in developing countries are uncommon...
Verbal autopsy for neurological diseasesFarrah J Mateen
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health and Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 86:237-9. 2012..We review the purposes, strengths, and weaknesses in the use of verbal autopsy for neurological diseases...
Neurological disorders in Iraqi refugees in Jordan: data from the United Nations Refugee Assistance Information SystemFarrah J Mateen
Department of International Health, The Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Neurol 259:694-701. 2012..21-2.18]. Neurological disease affects a high proportion of Iraqi refugees, including victims of torture and the disabled. Refugees require dedicated care for treatment of neurological disease with a focus on pain disorders and epilepsy...
Long-term cognitive outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a population-based studyF J Mateen
The Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Neurology 77:1438-45. 2011..To report the neurologic outcomes in long-term survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation as the presenting rhythm (OHCA VF) at a population level...
Neurocritical care in developing countriesFarrah J Mateen
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins University, Pathology Building, Room 627, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Neurocrit Care 15:593-8. 2011..A summary of reported mortality rates among neurocritically ill patients in African countries in recent years is provided as an illustrative example...
Neurological injury in adults treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenationFarrah J Mateen
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Arch Neurol 68:1543-9. 2011..Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) may be urgently used as a last resort form of life support when all other treatment options for potentially reversible cardiopulmonary injury have failed...
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in transplant recipientsFarrah J Mateen
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ann Neurol 70:305-22. 2011..Transplant recipients are at risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare demyelinating disorder caused by oligodendrocyte destruction by JC virus...
Clinically suspected fibrocartilaginous embolism: clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcomesF J Mateen
The Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Eur J Neurol 18:218-25. 2011....
Neurological disorders in complex humanitarian emergencies and natural disastersFarrah J Mateen
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ann Neurol 68:282-94. 2010....
Patients who survive 5 years or more with ALS in Olmsted County, 1925-2004Farrah J Mateen
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 81:1144-6. 2010..The frequency of 5-year or longer survival with ALS in a USA population is unknown but may provide a baseline for studies that employ survival as a primary endpoint of analysis...
Neurological complications following adult lung transplantationF J Mateen
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Am J Transplant 10:908-14. 2010..Neurological complications are common after lung transplantation, affecting 92% of recipients within 10 years. Severe neurologic complications are also common, affecting 53% of recipients within 10 years...
Guillain-Barré Syndrome in India: population-based validation of the Brighton criteriaFarrah J Mateen
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Vaccine 29:9697-701. 2011..We validate the sensitivity of the Brighton Working Group case definitions for Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) using a population-based cohort in India...
