Goran Rakocevic, MD

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909 Walnut Street
2nd Floor, COB Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-7952
(215) 955-9976 (fax)

Medical School
University of Sarajevo - 1986

Residency
University of Kansas Medical Center

Fellowship
National Institute of Health

Board Certification
Neurology

Hospital Appointment
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Methodist Hospital Division of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

University Appointment
Assistant Professor

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Stiff person syndrome improvement with chemotherapy in a patient with cutaneous t cell lymphoma
2. Pearls and oy-sters: Neurosyphilis presenting as mesial temporal encephalitis
3. Reply
4. HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy have divergent effects on mitochondria in adipose tissue
5. Autoimmune stiff person syndrome and related myelopathies: Understanding of electrophysiological and immunological processes
6. Rituximab induces sustained reduction of pathogenic B cells in patients with peripheral nervous system autoimmunity
7. Atypical clinically diagnosed stiff-person syndrome response to dantrolene-a refractory case
8. Reply: Comment on alemtuzumab and inclusion body myositis
9. Effect of Alemtuzumab (CAMPATH 1-H) in patients with inclusion-body myositis
10. Placebo-controlled trial of rituximab in IgM anti-myelin-associated glycoprotein antibody demyelinating neuropathy
11. T cell receptor profiling in muscle and blood lymphocytes in sporadic inclusion body myositis
12. Inclusion body myositis with human immunodeficiency virus infection: Four cases with clonal expansion of viral-specific T cells
13. Intravenous immune globulin in hereditary inclusion body myopathy: A pilot study
14. Autoimmunity to GABAA-receptor-associated protein in stiff-person syndrome
15. Stiff person syndrome with cerebellar disease and high-titer anti-GAD antibodies
16. A neuropsychological assessment of phobias in patients with stiff person syndrome
17. Bilateral pallidotomy for severe dystonia in an 18-month-old child with glutaric aciduria
18. Anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with stiff-person syndrome: Correlation with clinical severity
19. Upregulated inducible co-stimulator (ICOS) and ICOS-ligand in inclusion body myositis muscle: Significance for CD8+ T cell cytotoxicity
20. Hypoglycosylation of α-dystroglycan in patients with hereditary IBM due to GNE mutations

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