Testing cytokine levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) may rapidly differentiate brain infections from other central nervous system (CNS) diseases, new research suggests. "We have many tests for making ...

Our retrospective cross-sectional study included children 18 years of age or younger who underwent lumbar puncture for clinical indications in the emergency department of a single tertiary-care ...

IDH mutation status impact on in vivo hypoxia biomarkers expression: New insights from a clinical, nuclear imaging, and immunohistochemical study in 34 patients with glioma. Background: Cerebrospinal ...

When a disease-modifying therapy becomes available, early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and diagnostic testing will be enthusiastically embraced by patients and neurologists. At that point, the ...

Diagnostic testing of CSF for surrogate disease markers (i.e., 14-3-3 and total tau) assumes that the patient had a history of acute dementia but did not have several conditions that might compromise ...