Abstract:
:Short-term cyclophosphamide pulse therapy was administered to five patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) which were refractory to corticosteroids and, in two cases, to other aggressive therapies. Both disease remission and a reduction in corticosteroid dosage were obtained in four patients. Three of them have been in remission over since, taking only minimal doses of steroids during the subsequent two years. In the fourth patient a less intensive, maintenance pulse therapy could not be continued due to unacceptable side effects. On the basis of these results and of data from the literature, herein reviewed, cyclophosphamide pulse therapy may be recommended for adult patients with IIM who do not respond to or who do not tolerate conventional corticosteroid treatment, as well as when a steroid-sparing effect is desired.
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Acta Neurol Belgjournal_title
Acta neurologica Belgicaauthors
De Vita S,Fossaluzza Vkeywords:
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1992-01-01 00:00:00pages
215-27issue
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0300-9009issn
2240-2993journal_volume
92pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Migraine headaches are common in children. Early diagnosis and appropriate interventions are mandatory to prevent decades of suffering and diminished quality of life. There is need for data regarding the efficacy and safety of prophylactic agents in children with migraine; therefore, we designed a randomized clinical ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1007/s13760-012-0011-7
更新日期:2012-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Among the last 7000 consecutive autopsies from our department, nine cases of primary reticulum cell sarcoma (non hodgkinian malignant lymphoma) of the central nervous system were discovered. Another case was found by cerebral biopsy. There were six males and four females (mean age 43.5 years). Mean duration of illness...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1976-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Oculomotor functions are analysed by clinical examination and oculography in 21 cases of deep cerebral hematoma. Significant paralysis of verticality and of movements contralateral to the lesions was observed in all cases where the hemorrhage affected the paramedian thalamo-subthalamic region. A slight deficit of elev...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1983-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::A case of Waldenström's disease with peripheral nerve involvement resembling mononeuritis multiplex is described. The various etiopathogenic mechanisms generally cited in connection with peripheral neuropathies observed in cases of macroglobulinemia, most often of the polyneuritic type, are discussed in turn : nerve i...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1980-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Previous studies of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients have reported an inverse correlation between disability, the number of relapses and vitamin D levels in mostly white patients. It is unclear if this relationship has the same behavior in individuals with Hispanic backgrounds. To determine the relationship between vi...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-017-0834-3
更新日期:2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The EEG of 48 patients suffering from either an unilateral or a bilateral thrombosis of the carotid artery are compared, and the most discriminative data of the recordings in these two conditions are stressed. ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1976-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::To evaluate the value of pupil cycle time (PCT) as an indicator of optic nerve dysfunction in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), 42 patients with MS and 35 control subjects were included to the study. Patients with MS with a history of ON were accepted as group 1, without a history of ON as group 2 and healthy con...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-016-0740-0
更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::We present a case of partial rhombencephalosynapsis, diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in fetus aged 27 gestational weeks, in a dizygotic twin pregnancy. The distinctive MRI features of this cerebellar malformation (segmental hypogenesis of the cerebellar vermis, partial fusion of the cerebellar hemispher...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2011-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Stroke is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world, although better stratification and treatment modalities are being developed. As compared to ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) possesses many unknown data and lacks guidelines for better prophylaxis. In this study, we aimed to ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-013-0222-6
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:: ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 新闻
doi:10.1007/s13760-019-01097-4
更新日期:2019-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is the most common heritable cause of stroke and vascular dementia in adults. We present a family from Serbia presenting with stroke and depression in the lack of vascular risk factors, with brain MRI indicating CADASI...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-012-0174-2
更新日期:2013-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Imaging neurotransmission in vivo using positron emission tomography (PET) is a rapidly expanding clinical science. The present review summarizes the actual contribution of PET imaging to clinical problems in movement and seizure disorders and dementia. ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::A case of bilateral agraphia produced by a left parietal glioma is described in a 49 year-old right-handed woman. Hypothesis of a pure agraphia, etiology and non-frontal localisation of tumor are discussed. This agraphia is associated to a right astereognosia; neither functional nor behavioral relationships are found ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1978-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::There have been recent reports of antibody-mediated status epilepticus. The objective of our study was to investigate the prevalence of neuronal autoantibodies in patients with status epilepticus (SE) with unresolved etiology. The presence of neuronal autoantibodies was investigated prospectively in adult patients wit...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-017-0796-5
更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::On the basis of 90 cerebral AVMs, the authors study clinical signs which show the AVM, before a dramatic bleeding. Such clinical signs are: benign subarachnoid hemorrhage or intracranial hypertension and, only for lobar AVMs, migraine, epileptic seizures, progressive neurological deficit. In such cases a misdiagnosis ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1985-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Meningiomas are common tumors of the central nervous system. Although most are benign tumors, approximately 10% show a histologic progression to a higher malignancy grade similar to atypical (GII) and anaplastic (GIII) meningiomas. Monosomy 22q12 is the most frequent genetic alteration detected in these tumo...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::After a lapse of not less than two years the authors study the functional and clinical evolution of 62 patients presenting myelopathy in cervical arthrosis treated by surgery. A scoring system for evaluating the functional deficit of the patients is used for quantitative assessment of the disorders. Surgery brought a ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1986-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of this study was to test feasibility of transcranial Doppler (TCD) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) during compound neuroactivation task. The study was performed in 60 healthy right-handed volunteers. Cerebral blood flow velocity was measured by TCD in both middle cerebral arteries (MCA)...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-012-0152-8
更新日期:2013-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Spontaneous but incomplete remyelination is observed after a demyelinating lesion. We know since ten years now that oligodendrocyte progenitors, (OP) and totipotent neural stem cells remain present in the central nervous system of adult mammals. Moreover, these OP are more likely the cellular source of remyelinating c...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1999-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report a consanguineous family with a homozygous and heterozygous membrane metallo-endopeptidase (MME) mutation (c.467delC) and two clinical conditions: fetomaternal alloimmune membranous glomerulopathy (FMG) and hereditary motor and sensory axonal neuropathy. The penetrance of both phenotypes was variable. Some in...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-020-01275-9
更新日期:2020-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 68 year-old man developed progressive hemidystonia and chorea 8 months after a contralateral thalamic stroke. The neurological examination also showed a right pyramidal syndrome without hemiparesis, a right horizontal sectoranopia, and a right hemihypesthesia for all sensory modalities. The MRI revealed infarctions ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Despite intensive research efforts, the cause of the muscular dystrophies has remained elusive for many decades. In the late 1980s, major advances in molecular genetics have led to the discovery of the dystrophin gene and its protein product, dystrophin. Mutations in the dystrophin gene result in dystrophin deficiency...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The first applications of positron emission tomography (PET) for the study of brain tumours appeared early in the development of this technology. New trends in these particular PET applications tend to take into account the histological heterogeneity of these tumours and the necessity to integrate PET data in their su...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Psychiatric comorbidity in patients with headache contributes to poorer prognosis, chronification of disease, poor response to treatment, increased cost of treatment, and decreased quality of life. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the depressive symptoms in adolescents with chronic and episodic migrain...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-012-0135-9
更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Between January 1992 and June 1995, 160 patients were presurgically evaluated for medically refractory epilepsy by the Epilepsy Monitoring and Surgery Team at the University Hospital of Gent. All these patients underwent a comprehensive presurgical evaluation, including extensive neurological history and examination, ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The cerebral haemodynamic and metabolic changes due to cavernous angiomas in three patients and to arteriovenous malformations in four patients were compared by positron emission tomography, using the steady state technique with 15O. In the brains with a cavernous angioma no important changes in blood flow were observ...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Central hypoventilation in adult patients is a rare life-threatening condition characterised by the loss of automatic breathing, more pronounced during sleep. In most cases, it is secondary to a brainstem lesion or to a primary pulmonary, cardiac or neuromuscular disease. More rarely, it can be a manifestation of cong...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s13760-020-01363-w
更新日期:2020-04-25 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of this study was to investigate retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness and macular changes (central subfield thickness, cube average thickness, cube volume) in patients with chronic migraine (CM) without visual impairment using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and to compare the resul...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-012-0150-x
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Intravenous tissue plasminogen activator is the only approved medical treatment for patients with acute ischemic stroke. While it is associated with excellent clinical outcome in about 30 %, even with timely thrombolysis administration, certain strokes continue to evolve and lead to poor outcomes. Several studies have...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s13760-013-0270-y
更新日期:2014-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Many studies have reported that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is beneficial for post-stroke patients with upper limb hemiparesis. It was reported that application of rTMS during sleep could possibly strengthen neural plasticity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship betwee...
journal_title:Acta neurologica Belgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s13760-018-0957-1
更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00