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Jon Walters

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14Publications signalées
204Citations signalées
1Affiliations récentes

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Genetic Neurodegenerative DiseasesPeripheral Neuropathies and DisordersHealth disparities and outcomesMuscle Physiology and DisordersHomelessness and Social Issues

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2025 article OpenAlex

Serum creatine kinase: requesting and interpreting results

Jon Walters, Gaafar Gailani

Creatine kinase is an intracellular enzyme found abundantly in skeletal muscle, myocardium and brain. It is well known as a biomarker that increases following skeletal muscle damage and doctors instinctively associate it with myopathies. Serum creatine kinase is undoubtedly often raised in …

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5 citations Practical Neurology
Accès ouvert 2022 article OpenAlex

Muscle cramps and contractures: causes and treatment

Jildou N. Dijkstra, Eline Boon, Nick Kruijt, Esther Brusse et autres

Muscle cramps are painful, sudden, involuntary muscle contractions that are generally self-limiting. They are often part of the spectrum of normal human physiology and can be associated with a wide range of acquired and inherited causes. Cramps are only infrequently due to …

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16 citations Practical Neurology
Accès ouvert 2022 article OpenAlex

Weakness in the intensive care unit

Jon Walters

When asked to assess patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) who have respiratory muscle weakness, oropharyngeal weakness and a vulnerable airway, our immediate thought may be of Guillain-Barré syndrome or myasthenia gravis, but there are many other possible causes. For example, …

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15 citations Practical Neurology
Accès ouvert 2021 article OpenAlex

IgG 1 pan-neurofascin antibodies identify a severe yet treatable neuropathy with a high mortality

Janev Fehmi, Alexander J. Davies, Jon Walters, Timothy Lavin et autres

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to define the clinical and serological characteristics of pan-neurofascin antibody-positive patients. METHODS: We tested serum from patients with suspected immune-mediated neuropathies for antibodies directed against nodal/paranodal protein antigens using a live cell-based assay and solid-phase platform. The clinical and …

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62 citations Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
Accès ouvert 2020 article OpenAlex

Muscle biopsy: what and why and when?

Jon Walters, Atik Baborie

Skeletal muscle biopsy remains an important investigative tool in the diagnosis of a variety of muscle disorders. Traditionally, someone with a limb-girdle muscle weakness, myopathic changes on electrophysiology and raised serum creatine kinase (CK) would have a muscle biopsy. However, we are …

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42 citations Practical Neurology
Accès ouvert 2017 article OpenAlex

Muscle hypertrophy and pseudohypertrophy

Jon Walters

The physical examination always begins with a thorough inspection and patients with potential neuromuscular weakness are no exception. One question neurologists routinely address during this early part of the assessment is whether or not there is muscle enlargement. This finding may reflect …

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37 citations Practical Neurology
2013 article OpenAlex

FOSMN: FACIAL ONSET SENSORY MOTOR NEURONOPATHY. A ‘BENIGN’ DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS TO BULBAR ONSET MOTOR NEURON DISEASE. THE FIRST COHORT FROM THE UK

Besa Ziso, Timothy L. Williams, Jon Walters, Stephan R. Jaiser et autres

Introduction Facial onset sensory motor neuronopathy (FOSMN) is a rare, slowly progressive bulbar onset motor and sensory neuronopathy. Described only in 2006, it is still under–recognised with fewer than 20 cases reported in world literature. Although there are marked similarities to classical …

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2 citations Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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