Prevalence and severity of multiple-sclerosis-associated fatigue in treated and untreated patients.

abstract：:To quantitate embolic risk we studied a retrospective series of 61 patients with strictly defined bacterial endocarditis. Eighteen patients had neurological complications attributable to cerebral embolism. Seventeen embolic episodes occurred prior to antibiotic treatment and 8 episodes after its commencement. The rate...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Paschalis C,Pugsley W,John R,Harrison MJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large cavitary lesions are not typical for multiple sclerosis (MS). Cavitary white matter changes may be seen in megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts, Alexander disease, mitochondrial leukoencephalopathies, vanishing white matter disease, leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cyst...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Renard D,Brochet B,Vukusic S,Edan G,Deburghgraeve V,Goizet C,Dupuy D,Touze E,Deschamps R,Zephyr H,Creange A,Castelnovo G,Boespflug-Tanguy O,Labauge P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-eight asymptomatic HIV-seropositive (aHIV) subjects were examined by means of an extensive neuropsychological test battery in comparison with 32 HIV-seronegative controls. They were also tested with regard to CD4+ and serum p24 antigen. Fifty-six of them completed a clinical follow-up of 12 up to 36 months and...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Villa G,Solida A,Moro E,Tavolozza M,Antinori A,De Luca A,Murri R,Tamburrini E

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of genetics in Parkinson's disease (PD), previously controversial, is now supported by several studies. A major breakthrough has been the discovery of a single gene defect in familial Parkinson's disease. A single base pair change at position 209 from G to A (G209A) in the fourth exon of the alpha-synuclein g...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Hu CJ,Sung SM,Liu H,Chang JG

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:In this case-control study, our aim was to check for a possible independent role of hypertension in increasing the risk of developing Bell's palsy. METHODS:All patients diagnosed as having Bell's palsy referred to a neurology clinic were enrolled as cases. Controls were selected among other patients ref...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Savadi-Oskouei D,Abedi A,Sadeghi-Bazargani H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the diagnostic yield of nerve biopsy in patients with peripheral neuropathy of undetermined cause despite extensive diagnostic workup. METHODS:From November 2001 through January 2004, 38 patients underwent nerve biopsy because of unclassified neuropathy. RESULTS:The etiology of the neuropathies...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Schweikert K,Fuhr P,Probst A,Tolnay M,Renaud S,Steck AJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic efficacy of Madopar HBS was investigated in 5 patients with advanced parkinsonism. They were under treatment with standard Madopar and suffered from marked fluctuations, mainly end-of-dose akinesia. All patients were abruptly switched from standard Madopar to the HBS formulation. For the first few days...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Fischer PA,Baas H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:Although most late-onset seizures (LS) appear within 2 years after stroke, some of them occur later and their characteristics are unknown. The aim of this study was to compare the characteristics of patients with very-late-onset seizures (VLS) to those with early-onset seizures (ES) and those with LS. P...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： De Reuck J,Sieben A,Van Maele G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 5-year follow-up of a case of adult metachromatic leukodystrophy, already diagnosed in the preclinical stage, the development of the symptoms of this disease could be studied in detail: initially, lack of drive, emotional lability and depressive mood. At the same time, pain in the arms and beginning gait disturba...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pilz H,Duensing I,Heipertz R,Seidel D,Lowitzsch K,Hopf HC,Goebel HH

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contribution of the postsynaptic mechanism to the development of motor fluctuation in advanced Parkinson's disease (PD). We used 123I-iodobenzamide single-photon emission computed tomography to measure the striatal dopamine D2 receptor densities in early levodopa-naïve PD,...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Hwang WJ,Yao WJ,Wey SP,Shen LH,Ting G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal arteritis (TA) is a vasculitis involving mainly cranial branches of the aorta that can lead to ischemic complications such as amaurosis or ischemic stroke. Increment in the platelet count has been described in the acute period of the disease. We studied retrospectively the platelet count in patients with TA, ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Gonzalez-Alegre P,Ruiz-Lopez AD,Abarca-Costalago M,Gonzalez-Santos P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the Multiple Sclerosis Neuropsychological Questionnaire (MSNQ) in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). METHODS:130 European CIS patients and 60 relatives completed the MSNQ. RESULTS:The mean (SD) MSNQ score for CIS patients was 15.5 (10.8) and for their informants 11.3 (9.6). Neither ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Langdon DW,Benedict RH,Wicklein EM,Beckmann K,Fredrikson S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Henri Duret (1849-1921) was a surgeon whose training started in the laboratory of Jean-Martin Charcot and Alfred Vulpian at La Salpêtrière in 1874. Using injections of colored gelatine, Duret was the first to describe the distribution of supply arteries in the brainstem and then in the cortex. His descriptions correla...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Walusinski O,Courrivaud P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a long-term follow-up examination concerning patients with isolated extra-ocular muscle involvement in thyroid-related orbitopathy. Within the previous 13 years we observed 7 patients with endocrine orbitopathy and marked myopathy of the extra-ocular muscles. Five of these patients had no detectable proptos...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Gerlach M,Ferbert A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the association between interleukin-6 (IL-6) and soluble E-selectin (sE-selectin) levels with the electrodiagnostic abnormalities in patients with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). METHODS:Serum HbA1c, C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), f...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Tiftikcioglu BI,Duksal T,Bilgin S,Kose S,Zorlu Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Newly developed troponin assays have superior diagnostic and prognostic performance in acute coronary syndrome (ACS), when compared to conventional troponin assays; however, highly sensitive troponin has not been evaluated in patients with acute ischemic stroke. METHODS:Highly sensitive troponin T (hsTnT) w...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Jensen JK,Ueland T,Aukrust P,Antonsen L,Kristensen SR,Januzzi JL,Ravkilde J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient who showed exaggerated responses to external cues (utilization behavior), motor impersistence, and a right-hand-predominant instinctive grasp reaction after right thalamic infarction. High-resolution computed tomography with stereotaxic lesion localization revealed almost complete destruction of th...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Hashimoto R,Yoshida M,Tanaka Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Recently, neurosyphilis was found to be associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). Whether the association was specific to neurosyphilis among central nervous system (CNS) infections, and whether neurosyphilis is associated with other prevalent metabolic disorders deserves further study. METHODS:An in-depth ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Xiao Y,Chen MJ,Shen X,Lin LR,Liu LL,Yang TC,Niu JJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Missed cerebral aneurysms in CT-negative patients can have serious implications. We set out to determine the usefulness of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) spectrophotometry and the individual significance of CSF oxyhaemoglobin, bilirubin and methaemoglobin in 463 CT scan-negative patients with suspected subarachnoid haemorr...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Gunawardena H,Beetham R,Scolding N,Lhatoo SD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) report sleep disturbances (SD) and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) more frequently than the general population. Our objectives were to evaluate SD and EDS in MS patients and to test the reliability of subjective sleep questionnaires. METHODS:Demographic and clinical ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Neau JP,Paquereau J,Auche V,Mathis S,Godeneche G,Ciron J,Moinot N,Bouche G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 14-year follow-up the improvement of language functions and the decrease of EEG abnormalities are described in a girl with the Landau-Kleffner syndrome. In this case, the results of subsequent EEG recordings do not permit conclusions about the course of the aphasia. Disappearance of focal spike and waves, bilater...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： van Dongen HR,Meulstee J,Blauw-van Mourik M,van Harskamp F

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of the dopamine uptake inhibitor [3H]GBR-12935 to postmortem putamen from a control group and patients with Alzheimer's disease/senile dementia of Alzheimer type (AD/SDAT) or vascular dementia (VD) was studied. The binding density (Bmax) in AD/SDAT was significantly reduced to 50% of control. A reduction o...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Allard P,Alafuzoff I,Carlsson A,Eriksson K,Ericson E,Gottfries CG,Marcusson JO

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocturnal sleep patterns were registered from 6 parkinsonian patients treated with bromocryptine, ("-Br-L-ergocryptine, C.B.-154) a dopamine-like agonist. No significant differences in their sleep patterns were found in comparison with patients treated with L-dopa. Since bromocryptine acts direct on the dopaminergic r...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Rabey J,Vardi J,Glaubman H,Streifler M

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) harbor a network of abnormal vasculatures, namely the nidus between arterial and venous components. The pressure gradient between these two components results in abnormal high-velocity arteriovenous shunts flowing through the nidus and alternate intracranial hemody...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Chuang YM,Guo W,Lin CP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parkinson's disease (PD) is commonly characterized by its motor symptoms such as resting tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability; however, some of the most debilitating symptoms of this disease are non-motor ones such as dementia and sialorrhea (drooling). Drooling is caused by impaired swall...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Rana AQ,Khondker S,Kabir A,Owalia A,Khondker S,Emre M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:40 patients with multiple sclerosis were investigated by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computer tomography (CT). Additionally, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings and evoked potentials (EPs; visual, brainstem) were evaluated. MRI findings were abnormal in 85% of the patients, whilst CT scan showed pathological c...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Boné G,Ladurner G,Artmann W,Bsteh C

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) on blood lymphocytes was studied in multiple sclerosis, patients with acute CNS infections, and healthy controls. No significant differences in lymphocyte proliferation were registered between the group of MS patients and the two other groups, irrespect...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Kinnman J,Link H,Frydén A

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman who had spontaneous pain, hyperpathia and wasting of her left hand due to a subcortical lesion in the right parietal lobe is reported. The presentation and evaluation of this most unusual case are discussed. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sandyk R

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:13 patients with spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVF) diagnosed in our Institution have been the object of this study. The necessity to include the disease in the differential diagnosis with other pathologies affecting the lower thoracic cord, particularly in middle-aged and old males, is emphasized. Involvement...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Bradac GB,Daniele D,Riva A,Bracchi M,Stura G,Riccio A,Pagni CA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a direct (door-to-door) epidemiological study, the prevalence rate of cerebrovascular disease in the rural population of northwest Peloponnese, Greece, was found to be 995 strokes per 100,000 inhabitants over 20 years of age. This number is considerably lower than the prevalence rate (1,417 strokes per 100,000 inha...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Paschalis C,Polychronopoulos P,Makris N,Kondakis X,Papapetropoulos T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00