Natalizumab as a Disease-Modifying Therapy in Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy - A Report of Three Cases.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertension and hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) are independent risk factors of stroke and are associated with each other. Although evidence suggests that they are related to cognitive impairment, the relationship between hypertension accompanied with HHcy and poststroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) is unclear. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lu ZH,Li J,Li XL,Ding M,Mao CJ,Zhu XY,Liu CF

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the remote effects of botulinum toxin injections by examining the motor unit architecture of noninjected distant muscles. In 21 dystonia patients treated with botulinum toxin (n = 11, mean cumulative dose = 815 mU; n = 10, mean cumulative dose = 7,207 mU) and 10 control individuals, a blinded s...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Fertl E,Schnider P,Schneider B,Auff E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we review a total of 17 patients, including 4 of our own, with young-adult-onset arteriosclerotic leukoencephalopathy, alopecia and lumbago without hypertension. All were Japanese and the illness seemed to be transmitted in an autosomal recessive fashion. The male to female ratio was 7.5:1. The age of onset usual...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Fukutake T,Hirayama K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of patent foramen ovale (PFO) has long been discussed in the literature in relation to different coexisting medical conditions. Many researchers focused on the occurrence of PFO in ischemic stroke patients, especially in the subgroup of young patients with a recurrent event. Unfortunately, before establ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Piechowski-Jozwiak B,Bogousslavsky J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG oligoclonal bands in CSF can be found in high percentage of MS patients but the existence of a limited number of cases with CSF normal IgG profile is known as well. In the present study 63 out of 70 patients with definite MS and 24 out of 35 with probable MS had oligoclonal bands in the CSF at the isoelectric ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Rocchelli B,Poloni M,Mazzarello P,Delodovici M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen children with definite multiple sclerosis (MS; aged 6-17 years, mean 11.4 +/- 2.7; 8 boys, 8 girls) were reviewed. Cerebellar symptoms and signs were frequent at initial presentation. Among laboratory studies, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) IgG index or oligoclonal bands were informative in 75%, evoked potentia...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Selcen D,Anlar B,Renda Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the advent of whole-body CT scanning in 1974, many studies have been made in its application to all parts of the body. One of the most fruitful areas has been CT of the spinal cord. The only limitation appears to be the technique used; there is no substitute for a good technique. We shall first review standard C...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Ledley RS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of malignant tumours of the nerve sheaths are reported. In the first patient, who had von Recklinghausen's disease, light- and electron-microscopic investigations showed an undifferentiated mesenchymal tumour of the radial nerve with the property of producing collagen fibres, an aspect characteristic of sarc...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Vuia O

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial cases of HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM) and adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), developing in a daughter and father, respectively, are reported. The coexistence of both diseases in a family has not been reported before. This supports the recent findings that ATL and HAM may be brought about by an identical virus...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Shoji H,Kuwasaki N,Natori H,Kaji M,Miyamoto Y,Usuku K,Sonoda S,Osame M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaesthesia is the intriguing, involuntary experience of feeling one sensation in response to a different sensory stimulus. Recognised since described in 1890 by John Locke and clarified by Galton in the 1880s, it has been analysed in the last 50 years. Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is the commonest form, but many oth...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pearce JM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) is now recognized as a distinct, albeit rare, neurological condition, the path to its recognition was long and winding. This article provides an insight into the medical history of MMN "patient zero" and the first scientific publication that led to the recognition of MMN by t...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Ochsner F,Tatu L

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Current treatment options for restless legs syndrome (RLS), based on the American Academy of Sleep Medicine practice parameters, favor dopaminergic agents. The drug of first choice is levodopa, which is now licensed for RLS in two European countries. However, the short duration of action and augmentation of symptoms u...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Stiasny K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ANO10 mutations have recently been reported in autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia type 3 (ARCA3). The objective of this study was to describe the phenotype of 2 siblings with compound heterozygous ANO10 mutations and progressive cerebellar ataxia, epilepsy, and cognitive impairment. A porencephalic cyst w...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Chamard L,Sylvestre G,Koenig M,Magnin E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:QTc intervals were measured in 30 patients with Parkinson's disease and 30 healthy control subjects. The mean value of QTc intervals in patients with Parkinson's disease significantly exceeded that of healthy controls (418 +/- 14 ms vs. 403 +/- 18 ms). Prolongation of the QTc interval was unrelated to the administrati...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Oka H,Mochio S,Sato H,Katayama K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this open study patients with advanced Parkinson's disease, who experienced pronounced fluctuations in symptoms while on standard L-dopa, were switched from Madopar/Sinemet to Madopar HBS. The dosage was adjusted until optimal response was obtained. The effect was unsatisfactory in 4 cases and side effects interven...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Jensen NO,Dupont E,Hansen E,Mikkelsen B,Mikkelsen BO

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the clinical characteristics of aged patients with Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), 4 patients with this disease who were over 50 years were examined. The ages at onset in all patients were later than 30 years. All were proven to have a deletion around exons 45-55 of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Yazaki M,Yoshida K,Nakamura A,Koyama J,Nanba T,Ohori N,Ikeda S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lupus anticoagulant, an immunoglobulin of the IgG or IgM class, is one of a group of antiphospholipid antibodies. Although an anticoagulant in vitro, its action in vivo is that of a procoagulant. This procoagulant activity may involve many organ systems including the nervous system. Thus far cerebral thrombosis, s...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Englert H,Derue G,Hughes GR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocturnal polygraphic recordings (electroencephalography, electro-oculography, submental and intercostal muscle electromyography, electrocardiography, respiration by thoracic strain gauges and oronasal thermistors) with continuous monitoring of arterial oxyhemoglobin saturation by pulse oximeter were performed in 8 pa...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Manni R,Piccolo G,Banfi P,Cerveri I,Bruschi C,Zoia C,Tartara A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed serial neurophysiological tests in 22 patients with confirmed Guillain Barré syndrome (GBS) for 12 months following onset of the disease. Twenty-five age- and sex-matched healthy controls were also tested. Tests included nerve conduction and automated quantitative thermal threshold measurements. The commo...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Thomaides TN,Kerezoudi EP,Zoukos Y,Chaudhuri KR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Don Quixote de la Mancha, which is considered one of the most important and influential works of Western modern prose, contains many references of interest for almost all of the medical specialties. In this regard, numerous references to neurology can be found in Cervantes' immortal work. In this study, we aimed to re...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Palma JA,Palma F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) has opened new fields of investigation on clinicometabolic correlations in subcortical infarcts. Functional changes occurring in structurally unaffected brain regions represent one of the most interesting aspects of PET application. So far, the only one PET study on lacunar infarcts ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Di Piero V,Lenzi GL,Fieschi C

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve conduction of single impulses and the ability to transmit frequent trains of stimuli were studied in sensory median and in sural nerves of controls and patients with diabetes mellitus. Decrease of relative amplitudes and increase of relative latencies were more marked in the diabetics as compared with normal con...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Tackmann W,Lehmann HJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:To examine the therapeutic effect of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) therapy for stroke patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis (HD). methods: Of 600 stroke patients receiving intravenous rt-PA using 0.6 mg/kg alteplase who were enrolled in a multicenter observational study i...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Naganuma M,Mori M,Nezu T,Makihara N,Koga M,Okada Y,Minematsu K,Toyoda K,SAMURAI Study Investigators.

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke as a presenting manifestation of sarcoidosis has rarely been reported. This contrasts with the frequent anatomopathological findings of cerebrovascular involvement in neurosarcoidosis. We present a patient who developed acutely a right brachiofacial weakness and dysarthria. Pulmonary sarcoidosis was found. A br...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Michotte A,Dequenne P,Jacobovitz D,Hildebrand J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-year-old patient presenting with complex partial seizures occurring in the transition from a REM period to wakefulness is described. His baseline EEG showed generalized and symmetrical slow spike and wave complexes, on a normal background activity, activated by NREM sleep. Polygraphic and videotape recordings, ca...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Silvestri R,De Domenico P,Musolino R,Mento G,Marabello L,Longo M,Di Perri R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Fisher's syndrome which recurred 10 years apart was reported. Laterality of cranial nerve findings in the initial episode was replicated in the recurrence. Some kind of localized immune sensitization is supposed to play a role in replicating such a laterality. Increased CD4/CD8 ratio and elevated IgE were no...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Uchihara T,Ikeda M,Tsukagoshi H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are presented with a long clinical history of multiple sclerosis (MS) before the diagnosis of an intracranial brain tumor. In the subsequent brain autopsy, however, both cases presented a diffusely growing anaplastic astrocytoma, only, and no changes similar to MS were seen. Diffuse tumor growth was noted in...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Röyttä M,Latvala M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local cerebral glucose utilization (LCGU) was determined in 2- to 8-day-old beagle dogs by the quantitative 14C-deoxyglucose autoradiographic method. In physiologically controlled puppies (BP 66 +/- 3 mm Hg; paO2 71 +/- 2 mm Hg; paCO2 35 mm Hg, pH 7.39 +/- 0.04; hematocrit 39 +/- 2%), the 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) autorad...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Grégoire N,Pontier R,Salamon G

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superior orbital fissure syndrome is a symptomatologic complex, consisting of retroorbital pain, paralysis of extraocular muscles, impairment of first trigeminal branches and frequent involvement of the optic nerve. From a review of 130 published cases including two personal observations, it appears that the clinical ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lenzi GL,Fieschi C

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00