Associate Professor in Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Medical School

Neurology

Charles N. Swisher practices Neurology. He has 1 awards "Osler Medal". Charles N. Swisher, MD is also a published doctor. He has 34 publication published. The most recent publication is: Letter: Acute liver disease and encephalopathy.

Publications

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• ALOX12 In Human Toxoplasmosis.
• Prematurity and severity are associated with Toxoplasma gondii alleles (NCCCTS, 1981-2009).
• Longitudinal study of new eye lesions in treated congenital toxoplasmosis.
• Risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii infection in mothers of infants with congenital toxoplasmosis: Implications for prenatal management and screening.
• Unrecognized ingestion of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts leads to congenital toxoplasmosis and causes epidemics in North America.
• The child with congenital toxoplasmosis.
• Impact of visual impairment on measures of cognitive function for children with congenital toxoplasmosis: implications for compensatory intervention strategies.
• Phenotypes and functions of lymphocytes in congenital toxoplasmosis.
• Longitudinal study of new eye lesions in children with toxoplasmosis who were not treated during the first year of life.
• Toxoplasmosis-associated neovascular lesions treated successfully with ranibizumab and antiparasitic therapy.
• Outcome of treatment for congenital toxoplasmosis, 1981-2004: the National Collaborative Chicago-Based, Congenital Toxoplasmosis Study.
• Early and longitudinal evaluations of treated infants and children and untreated historical patients with congenital toxoplasmosis: the Chicago Collaborative Treatment...
• Congenital toxoplasmosis. The Toxoplasmosis Study Group.
• Congenital toxoplasmosis transmitted from an immunologically competent mother infected before conception.
• Eye manifestations of congenital toxoplasmosis.
• Resolution of intracranial calcifications in infants with treated congenital toxoplasmosis.
• Möbius syndrome: evidence for a vascular etiology.
• Neurologic and developmental outcome in treated congenital toxoplasmosis.
• Persistent respiratory failure due to low cervical cord infarction in newborn babies.
• Autism and mental retardation: neuropathologic studies performed in four retarded persons with autistic behavior.
• Treatment of children with posttraumatic transient loss of consciousness.
• Cerebro-ocular dysgenesis (Walker-Warburg syndrome): neuropathologic and etiologic analysis.
• Combination therapy of malaria.
• Positive brain scans in children with idiopathic focal epileptic seizures.
• Extrapyramidal movements in a patient with tuberculous meningitis. An early clue to diagnosis.
• Myotonic pupils in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Successful relief of symptoms with 0.025% pilocarpine.
• Letter: Congenital rubella and autistic behavior.
• Letter: Acute liver disease and encephalopathy.
• Neurological and intellectual sequelae of Reye''s syndrome.
• Lack of effect of TRH in minimal brain dysfunction.
• THE CENTRIPETAL AND CENTRIFUGAL HISTORY OF THE CIRCLE OF WILLIS.
• Evidence for associations between the purinergic receptor P2X(7) (P2RX7) and toxoplasmosis.
• Cataracts in congenital toxoplasmosis.

Schools

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• McGill University Faculty Of Medicine

• Montreal General Hospital

• Barnes Jewish Hospital

• Montreal Chldns Hospital

• St Louis Chldns Hospital

Conditions Treated

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• Ataxia
• Brachial Plexus Palsy
• Chorea (Excluding Huntington's Chorea)
• Convulsions
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Doctors Specialties

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• Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Osler Medal

Education

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• Washington University - Barnes-Jewish Hospital
• McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Hospital

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• Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
• Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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