Eng-King Tan
National University of Singapore
614 Papers
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Eng-King Tan is an academic researcher from National University of Singapore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Parkinson's disease. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 513 publications. Previous affiliations of Eng-King Tan include Taipei Medical University & Singapore General Hospital.
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Papers
Combination therapy using GDNF and cell transplant in Parkinson’s disease
TL;DR: A critical need to develop means to promote axonal growth from grafted mDA neurons to compensate for the loss of neurons in PD through the use of glial cell linederived neurotrophic factor (GDNF).
Association Between Parkinson’s Disease and Coronary Artery Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: The underlying mechanisms, as well as the role of ethnicity and other comorbidities on the relationship between PD and CAD should be further explored.
Essential tremor
Thomas Welton,Francisco Cardoso,Jonathan A. Carr,Günther Deuschl,Joseph Jankovic,Eng-King Tan +5 more
TL;DR: This Primer summarizes the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and pathophysiology of essential tremor, a movement disorder that is typically characterized by upper limb action tremor in the absence of other neurological signs.
An urge to move with L-thyroxine: Clinical, biochemical, and polysomnographic correlation
TL;DR: RLS symptoms can complicate thyroxine replacement in at‐risk hypothyroid patients with low serum ferritin, and early diagnosis and iron replacement could significantly reduce patient morbidity.
Susceptibility-weighted MRI of extrapyramidal brain structures in Parkinsonian disorders.
Eva Schneider,Kia-Min Ng,Chooi-Sum Yeoh,Helmut Rumpel,Stephanie Fook-Chong,Huihua Li,Eng-King Tan,Ling Ling Chan +7 more
TL;DR: Investigating differences in the extrapyramidal brain structures on SWI between Parkinson disease and postural instability gait disorder patients correlated the SWI values with the degree of gait dysfunction and found SWI putaminal hypointensity may be a useful imaging marker in prospective evaluation for clinical progression for Parkinsonian disorders.