Escalation Therapy of Steroid Refractory Multiple Sclerosis Relapse with Tryptophan Immunoadsorption - Observational Multicenter Study with 147 Patients.

abstract：:Divers may be at risk of long-term CNS damage from non-symptomatic hyperbaric exposure. We investigated the effect of severe, controlled hyperbaric exposure on a group of healthy goats with similar histories. Thirty goats were exposed to various dive profiles over a period of 5 years, with 17 experiencing decompressio...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Blogg SL,Loveman GA,Seddon FM,Woodger N,Koch A,Reuter M,Gennser M,White MG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (EAYNT) is a non-profit organization which acts on behalf of young neurologists in Europe and concertedly exerts influence on the formation of a new generation of neurologists [Struhal et al.: Eur J Neurol 2009;16:e146-e148]. This concerns particularly the Ge...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Struhal W,Falup-Pecurariu C,Sztriha LK,Grisold W,Sellner J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently observed a diffuse slowing of brain waves using serial quantitative electroencephalographic (qEEG) examinations in interferon (IFN)-alpha-treated chronic hepatitis C patients. However, it remains unclear how this alteration could be assessed. We evaluated the correlation between the qEEG changes and t...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Kamei S,Sakai T,Matsuura M,Tanaka N,Kojima T,Arakawa Y,Matsukawa Y,Mizutani T,Oga K,Ohkubo H,Matsumura H,Hirayanagi K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a group of 60 patients of which 30 were affected by myasthenia, we used the regional curare test. The results were evaluated from a critical point of view and were then compared with the results obtained by the repetitive stimulation of the circumflex nerve, deriving from deltoid muscle. We considered too the speci...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Boiardi A,Bussone G,Negri S

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of the 5-HT1 receptor agonist sumatriptan in the acute treatment of migraine has been investigated in an extensive programme of controlled clinical trials. Sumatriptan provided rapid relief from migraine headache with onset of relief occurring within 10 min of a 6 mg subcutaneous injection and within 30 m...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pilgrim AJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) has been linked to oxidative-mediated events including increased monoamine oxidase (MAO) and free-radical generation. We are investigating the ability of the MAO inhibitor, selegiline (deprenyl), and of the free-radical scavenger, tocopherol, to delay the onset of disabilit...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Shoulson I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The English electrophysiologist Edgar Adrian (1889-1977) was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1932 for his research on the functions of neurons. During World War I, at Queen Square in London, he devised an intensive electrotherapeutic treatment for shell-shocked soldiers. The procedure, developed wit...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Tatu L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on management strategies and clinical outcomes in 4 cases of acute symptomatic congestive intracranial hypertension associated with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Congestion resulted from high-volume shunts exhausting the drainage capacity of the cerebral venous system in 3 patients, and from s...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Rosenkranz M,Regelsberger J,Zeumer H,Grzyska U

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticonvulsant therapy was stopped in 191 epileptic children (109 males and 82 females) after a seizure-free period of at least 2 years, independent of EEG findings, followed up for a minimum of 2 years after withdrawal. Overall, 43 (22.5%) had recurrence of seizures; of these, 79% relapsed within the 1st year after d...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Mastropaolo C,Tondi M,Carboni F,Manca S,Zoroddu F

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Focal embouchure dystonia (FED) is a type of task-specific dystonia affecting wind instrument players, and it frequently ends their professional careers. The results of the treatments of FED in the reported literature are disappointing. OBJECTIVE:We report 3 patients with FED who were brass instrument playe...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Satoh M,Narita M,Tomimoto H

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) function improves with blepharospasm (BSP) symptom remission using a verbal fluency task and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). METHODS:Nineteen BSP patients and 9 healthy controls (HCs) matched by gender and education were examined using NIRS. The BSP patients...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Shen CY,Wang YJ,Liu XM,Zhang XQ,Ren XJ,Ma XY,Sun JJ,Feng K,Sun GX,Xu B,Liu PZ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to investigate the association of autonomic nervous system abnormalities on head-up tilt table test (HUTT) with generalized joint hypermobility, expressed by Beighton score (BS). METHODS:This was a prospective study that included 115 consecutive patients (91 females; mean age 34.35 ± 14.1...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Adamec I,Junakovic A,Krbot Skorić M,Habek M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is good evidence that patients with Parkinson's disease have respiratory chain dysfunction in their substantia nigra. Since mitochondrial cytopathies due to enzyme defects in the respiratory chain are predominantly manifested in tissues with a high oxidative metabolism we analyzed oxidative energy metabolism in ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Reichmann H,Janetzky B,Bischof F,Seibel P,Schöls L,Kuhn W,Przuntek H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Half of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) develop dementia. We studied topographic distribution of cerebral hypometabolism in PD with different types of MCI. METHODS:This study included 61 nondemented PD patients and 14 age-matched controls. PD patients were grouped into...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lyoo CH,Jeong Y,Ryu YH,Rinne JO,Lee MS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We investigated the predictive value of standard neurological evaluation, a commercially available biomarker assay and neuroimaging in the subacute phase for outcome after thrombolytic therapy in ischemic stroke. METHODS:Thirty-four consecutive ischemic stroke patients were evaluated by means of the NIH S...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Brouns R,Sheorajpanday R,Kunnen J,De Surgeloose D,De Deyn PP

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:The association of anaemia and gastro-intestinal abnormalities with disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves has been recognized since the mid 19th century. In early reports interpretable as subacute combined degeneration, anaemia was overlooked, and conversely in Addison's and other early reports of...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pearce JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seizures and epilepsy are harmful and worsen the disability of stroke patients. There are currently no good clinical predictors of late-onset seizures and epilepsy in patients with cerebrovascular disease (CVD). PATIENTS AND METHODS:110 patients with delayed seizures after an ischaemic or a haemorrhagic str...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： De Reuck J,Goethals M,Vonck K,Van Maele G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several treatments are available to treat the immune-mediated chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). Among these treatments, intravenous immunoglobulins, corticosteroids and plasma exchanges are validated and widely used. A few immunosuppressive drugs have been tried, but they had little e...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Vallat JM,Mathis S,Ghorab K,Milor MA,Richard L,Magy L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the possible influence of the blood-CSF barrier function on mathematical formulas for estimating intrathecal IgG production (IgG index, Tourtellotte's formula [TOURT], Schuller and Sagar's formula [Schull], and Reiber and Felgenhauer's formula [IgG(loc)]), we analysed serum and CSF samples from 105 healthy ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Blennow K,Fredman P,Wallin A,Gottfries CG,Skoog I,Wikkelsö C,Svennerholm L

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Report on a series of patients suffering from cerebrovascular insufficiency caused by stenosis and/or occlusion of one or several major cerebral vessels. The patients were divided in two groups, one being medically treated with anticoagulants, the other operated on either a carotid artery thrombosis by thromboendarter...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Auer L,Gallhofer B,Ladurner G,Ott E,Heppner F,Lechner H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to ascertain the clinical manifestations of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's) (GPA) with the involvement of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS). SUMMARY:All neurologic inpatients in a hospital over a 12-year period were reviewed. Nine pat...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Huang YH,Ro LS,Lyu RK,Chang HS,Wu YR,Chang KH,Kuo HC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Hu CJ,Sung SM,Liu HC,Lee CC,Tsai CH,Chang JG

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:A 39-year-old intravenous drug user presented with dysarthria and a syndrome of the left cerebellar hemisphere. While in hospital, he developed progressive brainstem findings. Repeated CT scans revealed a lucency in the white matter of the left cerebellar hemisphere. Brainstem auditory and short-latency somatosensory ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lipton RB,Krupp L,Horoupian D,Hershkovitz S,Arezzo JC,Kurtzberg D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Locked-in syndrome (LIS) is a condition characterized by quadriplegia and anarthria. The most common cause is a ventral pontine lesion due to atherosclerotic basilar artery disease. METHODS:Cases with LIS were prospectively identified among the patients with acute ischemic stroke over 3 years, between 2009 ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Nikić PM,Jovanović D,Paspalj D,Georgievski-Brkić B,Savić M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Dopa pioneered the symptomatic therapy of Parkinson's disease. While this treatment proved effective in the treatment of parkinsonian akinesia, rigidity and tremor, prolonged L-dopa treatment was often noted to result in dyskinesia, psychosis and 'on-off' phenomena. This increasing disability of L-Dopa-treated parki...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Kuno S

更新日期：1994-01-01 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