Clinical risk factors for malignancy and overall survival in patients with pheochromocytomas and sympathetic paragangliomas: primary tumor size and primary tumor …

…, L Feng, MM Johnson, S Ejaz… - The Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Context: Pheochromocytomas and sympathetic paragangliomas are rare neuroendocrine
tumors for which no precise histological or molecular markers have been identified to …

Adrenocortical carcinoma: clinical outcomes and prognosis of 330 patients at a tertiary care center

…, S Jasim, L Feng, S Ejaz… - European journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Objective Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignancy with a poor prognosis. Herein,
we describe the clinical features and outcomes for a large series of ACC patients. Design …

Short intracortical and surround inhibition are selectively reduced during movement initiation in focal hand dystonia

S Beck, SP Richardson, EA Shamim… - Journal of …, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
In patients with focal hand dystonia (FHD), pathological overflow activation occurs in muscles
not involved in the movement. Surround inhibition is a neural mechanism that can sharpen …

Testing objective measures of motor impairment in early Parkinson's disease: Feasibility study of an at‐home testing device

…, PH Kraus, LM Blasucci, EA Shamim… - Movement …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We tested the feasibility of a computer based at‐home testing device (AHTD) in early‐stage,
unmedicated Parkinson's disease (PD) patients over 6 months. We measured compliance, …

Cushing syndrome secondary to ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion: the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Experience

S Ejaz, R Vassilopoulou‐Sellin, NL Busaidy, MI Hu… - Cancer, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Cushing syndrome (CS) secondary to ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone
(ACTH) secretion (EAS) has been described in association with a variety of tumors. The …

Immunogenetic risk and protective factors for the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: distinct HLA-A,-B,-Cw,-DRB1, and-DQA1 allelic profiles distinguish European …

…, CV Oddis, PA Morel, JD Malley, K Malley, EA Shamim… - Medicine, 2006 - journals.lww.com
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are systemic connective tissue diseases defined
by chronic muscle inflammation and weakness associated with autoimmunity. We have …

A multicenter, prospective, single arm, open label, observational study of sTMS for migraine prevention (ESPOUSE Study)

…, SJ Tepper, MJ Marmura, EA Shamim… - …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective To evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of single pulse transcranial magnetic
stimulation (sTMS) for the preventive treatment of migraine. Background sTMS was originally …

[HTML][HTML] Interhemispheric plasticity in humans

…, SP Richardson, M Lomarev, E Shamim… - Medicine and science …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods Healthy, young volunteers (n= 12) performed 1000 submaximal voluntary contractions
(MVC) of the right first dorsal interosseus (FDI) at 80% MVC over 20 sessions. Results …

A retrospective cohort analysis of the efficacy of adjuvant radiotherapy after primary surgical resection in patients with adrenocortical carcinoma

MA Habra, S Ejaz, L Feng, P Das… - The Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Context: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignancy with high recurrence and
mortality rates. The role of adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) to improve outcome remains unclear. …

Identification of genetic risk loci and causal insights associated with Parkinson's disease in African and African admixed populations: a genome-wide association study

…, RO Akinyemi, T Xie, MW Ali, EA Shamim… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background An understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying diseases in ancestrally
diverse populations is an important step towards development of targeted treatments. …