Meanings of adult onset in English

Most patients with adult onset have an autoimmune-related myopathy with a progressive course.

Methods: 12 patients with adult onset focal segmental dystonia were videotaped in a standardised way.

Compared to its pediatric counterpart, adult onset RB poses unique challenges in diagnosis and treatment.

Brains from patients with juvenile onset are usually more atrophic than those with adult onset.

Kennedy disease is an adult onset neuromuscular disease characterized by slowly progressive proximal and bulbar muscle weakness.

HD has served as a model for many other adult onset genetic diseases in terms of carrier testing guidelines.

We report the case of a 21-year-old woman who developed severe adult onset ductopenia in association with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

We tested this hypothesis for single candidate loci and mutations in North European ataxia patients with juvenile and early adult onset.

Conclusions: Neurologists may have different ability to recognise adult onset focal dystonia, depending on their experience and on the type of dystonia.

Respiratory symptoms were grouped into three categories: asthma ( adult onset) and other wheezing syndromes; cough and phlegm production; and hay fever.

Patients with adult onset of symptoms are more prone to exhibit choreic movements whereas those with juvenile onset tend to develop parkinsonism or rigidity.

All patients had adult onset muscle weakness in the pelvic girdle, neck flexors, respiratory and trunk muscles, and the majority had prominent calf hypertrophy.

The adult onset form was characterized by slight to prominent limb-girdle myopathy with an age of onset between 20 and 50 years.

Mutations in the myocilin gene (MYOC) account for 10% of juvenile open-angle glaucoma cases and 3-4% of adult onset primary open-angle glaucoma cases.

The incidence of cases with adult onset was only 10.6%: 73.8% of adults diagnosed at age 21 had a developmental history of mental disorder.

A recent diagnosis of Adult Onset Still's Disease (AOSD) provides additional supporting evidence that the initial presentation was caused by MAS.