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John F. Kurtzke
Researcher at Georgetown University
Publications - 206
Citations - 25367
John F. Kurtzke is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Multiple sclerosis. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 206 publications receiving 23867 citations. Previous affiliations of John F. Kurtzke include United States Department of Veterans Affairs & University of Paris.
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Rating neurologic impairment in multiple sclerosis An expanded disability status scale (EDSS)
TL;DR: A new Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) is presented, with each of the former steps (1,2,3 … 9) now divided into two (1.0, 1.5, 2.0 … 9).
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Epidemiologic evidence for multiple sclerosis as an infection.
TL;DR: It is believed that clinical MS is the rare late outcome of a specific, but unknown, infectious disease of adolescence and young adulthood and that this infection could well be caused by a thus-far-unidentified (retro)virus.
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Epidemiology of spinal cord injury
TL;DR: Traumatic spinal cord injury in socioeconomically advanced countries, has a probably annual incidence rate of 3 per 100 000 population, and males are affected five times as often as females, and in the US, Negroes have twice the rates of whites.
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Further notes on disability evaluation in multiple sclerosis, with scale modifications.
TL;DR: A disability status scale for multiple sclerosis was published that delineated 10 progressive steps or grades of overall neurologic dysfunction attributable to this disease and was later elaborated to include a complementary system of grades within 8 “functional systems” of involvement.
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On the evaluation of disability in multiple sclerosis
TL;DR: A quantitative evaluation of severity of the disease process two or more points in time could provide, for large groups under simultaneous evaluation, a reliable indication of the results of therapy.