Browsing Department of Pathology by Author "Onzivua, Sylvester"

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    • Neuropathological Changes in Nakalanga Syndrome—A Case Report 

      Hotterbeekx, An; Lammens, Martin; Onzivua, Sylvester; Lukande, Robert; Olwa, Francis; Kumar-Singh, Samir; Van Hees, Stijn; Idro, Richard; Colebunders, Robert (Pathogens, 2021)
      Nakalanga syndrome is a clinical manifestation of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy characterized by stunting, delayed or absent secondary sexual development and skeletal deformities, and is often accompanied by epileptic ...

    • Nodding syndrome in Uganda is a tauopathy 

      Pollanen, Michael S.; Onzivua, Sylvester; Robertson, Janice; McKeever, Paul M.; Olwa, Francis; Kitara, David L.; Fong, Amanda (Acta neuropathologica, 2018)
      Nodding syndrome is an epidemic neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children in the subsistence-farming communities of East Africa. We report the neuropathologic findings in five fatal cases (13–18 years of ...

    • The spectrum of disease and tau pathology of nodding syndrome in Uganda 

      Pollanen, Michael S.; Onzivua, Sylvester; McKeever, Paul M.; Robertson, Janice; Mackenzie, Ian R.; Kovacs, Gabor G.; Olwa, Francis; Kitara, David L.; Fong, Amanda (Brain, 2021)
      Nodding syndrome is an enigmatic recurrent epidemic neurologic disease that affects children in East Africa. The illness begins with vertical nodding of the head and can progress to grand mal seizures and death after ...