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Juan Pablo Appendino

Clinical Associated Professor of Pediatrics, University of Calgary
Verified email at ahs.ca
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DPPX potassium channel antibody: frequency, clinical accompaniments, and outcomes in 20 patients

…, C Probst, SL Clardy, AJ Aksamit, JP Appendino… - Neurology, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To describe the detection frequency and clinical associations of immunoglobulin
G (IgG) targeting dipeptidyl-peptidase-like protein-6 (DPPX), a regulatory subunit of neuronal …

Children's perspective of quality of life in epilepsy

…, L Bello-Espinosa, MF Rafay, JP Appendino… - Neurology, 2015 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To study child mental health, parental support, and social support of children with
epilepsy as these relate to quality of life (QOL) using child self-report, seizure-related …

Child‐and parent‐reported quality of life trajectories in children with epilepsy: A prospective cohort study

…, L Bello‐Espinosa, MF Rafay, JP Appendino… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To describe the developmental trajectories of quality of life (QoL) in a large cohort
of children with epilepsy, and to assess the relative contribution of clinical, psychosocial, and …

PURA-Related Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy: Phenotypic and Genotypic Spectrum

…, C Coubes, A Larson, MJ Esser, JP Appendino… - Neurology …, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Purine-rich element-binding protein A (PURA) gene encodes
Pur-α, a conserved protein essential for normal postnatal brain development. Recently, a …

Update on minimal standards for electroencephalography in Canada: a review by the Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiologists

…, F Moien-Afshari, LD Ladino, JP Appendino… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Surface electroencephalogram (EEG) recording remains the gold standard for noninvasive
assessment of electrical brain activity. It is the most efficient way to diagnose and classify …

Implementation of neonatal neurocritical care program improved short-term outcomes in neonates with moderate-to-severe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy

…, A Howlett, S Thomas, P Murthy, JP Appendino… - Pediatric Neurology, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Despite the introduction of therapeutic hypothermia, infants with moderate-to-severe
hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy remain at risk of mortality and morbidity. A dedicated …

SCN2A-related epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures: report of a variant with apparent gain- and loss-of-function effects

…, O Theriault, H Poulin, JP Appendino… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
SCN2A encodes a voltage-gated sodium channel (Na V 1.2) expressed throughout the central
nervous system in predominantly excitatory neurons. Pathogenic variants in SCN2A are …

[HTML][HTML] Single-center experience with Beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN); expanding the phenotypic spectrum

M Chard, JP Appendino, LE Bello-Espinosa… - Molecular genetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Beta-propeller protein-associated neurodegeneration (BPAN) is a subtype of neurodegeneration
with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) that presents with childhood developmental delay (…

[HTML][HTML] Improving the regulation of medical cannabis in Canada to better serve pediatric patients

RJ Huntsman, LE Kelly, J Alcorn, JP Appendino… - CMAJ, 2021 - Can Med Assoc
CMAJ| October 18, 2021| Volume 193| Issue 41 E1597 health care providers from prescribing
cannabis and prevents cannabis extracts from being placed on provincial and territorial …

Surgically remediable secondary network epileptic encephalopathies with continuous spike wave in sleep: Lesions may not be visible on brain magnetic resonance …

A Alawadhi, JP Appendino, W Hader… - Journal of Child …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Continuous spike wave in sleep (CSWS) is an electroencephalogram (EEG)
pattern associated with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with spike-and-wave …