Correlations between clinical and magnetic resonance imaging findings in multiple sclerosis.

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：:Regressive painless left third nerve paralysis with pupillary involvement was followed 6 months later by a right painful complete ophthalmoplegia. The two attacks resolved without treatment. The patient, 22 years old, was recognized diabetic and no other cause was found. It is suggested that this clinical pattern is c...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Davous P,Demierre B,Massiou H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The history of Sayk's cell sedimentation chamber is examined and reviewed in the context of clinically utilizable cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytology. METHODS:A review of the literature was undertaken in PubMed and Google Scholar to search for primary and secondary sources on the history of CSF diagnosis. Mor...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Dahlmann N,Zettl UK,Kumbier E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological findings in 10 patients with polyneuropathy and nonmalignant IgMk plasma cell dyscrasia are reported. The amplitude of sensory action potentials and maximum conduction velocity along the sural and median nerves are related to the structural changes found at the biopsy and to the immunologic result...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Galassi G,Nemni R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Statins inhibit the production of 2,3-dimethoxy,5-methyl,6-polyisoprene parabenzoquinone also known as ubiquinone or coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), which is required for mitochondrial electron transport. Idiopathic or primary CoQ10 deficiencies have been known to cause mitochondrial encephalomyopathy. METHODS:We pre...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Thomas JE,Lee N,Thompson PD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of lithium neurotoxic effects are reported. Both cases are expressed by choreoathetotic movements and in both of them intoxication was caused by combined drug therapy. In our opinion caution is advised when lithium is administered in combination with drugs, especially in elderly patients. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Walevski A,Radwan M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:197 cases of patients with CVI, subjected to surgery by carotid endarterectomy, are examined. The results were nearly always good and hence the technique is recommended. Particular interest is attached to the risk connected with carotid clamping, through intraoperative study of CBF with 133Xe, such a risk is practical...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Fiorani P,Pistolese GR,Faraglia V,Spartera C

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heretofore unreported findings in skeletal muscle in a 4th case of pure postganglionic dysautonomia are described. They consist of variation in fiber size, Z line and myofilamentous disorganization, intracytoplasmic inclusions and honeycomb formations. The most striking alterations, however, was excess lipid accumulat...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Afifi AK,Harik SI,Bergman RA,Mire-Salman J,Bahuth NB

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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：:Although many studies have been performed on nervous tissue pathology in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), much less is known about pathological changes in skeletal muscle in this disorder. We have studied muscle biopsies from 5 patients with GBS, 5 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (control A), and 5 patients ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Ono S,Inoue K,Munakata S,Nagao K,Shimizu N

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：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：BACKGROUND:We aimed at measuring the positive predictive value (PPV) of data in the French Hospital Medical Information Database (FHD). SUMMARY:This retrospective multicenter study included 31 hospitals from where 56 hospital stays were randomly selected among all hospitalizations for the years 2009 and 2010 with at l...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Giroud M,Hommel M,Benzenine E,Fauconnier J,Béjot Y,Quantin C,FRESCO Study.

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether corpus callosum atrophy predicts future clinical deterioration in multiple sclerosis. METHODS:In 39 multiple sclerosis patients the area of corpus callosum in the sagittal plane, T2 and T1 lesion volumes, brain parenchymal fraction and brain atrophy were determined at baseline and 1 year after...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Vaneckova M,Kalincik T,Krasensky J,Horakova D,Havrdova E,Hrebikova T,Seidl Z

更新日期：2012-01-01 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 elucidate the influence of insular infarction on blood pressure (BP) variability and outcomes according to the region of the insular cortex affected. METHODS:A total of 90 patients diagnosed with acute unilateral ischemic stroke were registered. The BP variability was calculated...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Kitamura J,Ueno H,Nagai M,Hosomi N,Honjo K,Nakamori M,Mukai T,Imamura E,Nezu T,Aoki S,Ohshita T,Nomura E,Wakabayashi S,Maruyama H,Matsumoto M

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Cavernomas are vascular malformations mostly observed in the central nervous system. They occur in sporadic and familial forms. Familial forms are characterized by the presence of multiple lesions, an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance and possible de novo lesions. We report two sporadic cases whose follow-up s...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Labauge P,Brunereau L,Coubes P,Clanet M,Tannier C,Laberge S,Lévy C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct evidence of the anatomical localization of brain function is provided by functional neurological changes during awake surgery combined with data from preoperative functional magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging studies. The goal of the present study was to analyze the etiology and mechanism o...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Shinoura N,Yoshida M,Yamada R,Tabei Y,Saito K,Suzuki Y,Yagi K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-year-old girl with huge, double arachnoid cysts at the cerebellopontine angle is reported. After a cyst-peritoneal shunt operation, she developed fine, high-frequency gaze nystagmus towards the lesion side combined with coarse, large amplitude nystagmus in the opposite direction, which is the reverse of the Bruns'...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Yokota J,Imai H,Okuda O,Sato K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is one of the most frequent and most disabling symptoms in multiple sclerosis (MS). We investigated the possible association of the MS-related fatigue syndrome with the available disease-modifying therapies and the main disease characteristics in a cross-sectional study on 320 consecutive patients. The prevale...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Putzki N,Katsarava Z,Vago S,Diener HC,Limmroth V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-year-old man with negative family history for neuromuscular diseases showed a distal myopathy. Creatine kinase was slightly increased. Two muscle biopsies were performed. The first showed myopathic features, rimmed vacuoles in a limited area and increase of free glycogen; the second showed only nonspecific pathol...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Mongini T,Doriguzzi C,Palmucci L,Pollo B,Arnaudo E,Bresolin N

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A catamnestic study of 50 patients with Wernicke's disease showed that nearly all patients retained residual symptoms and that the prognosis as to life expectancy and social functioning was poor, even after early institution of vitamin B-complex medication. It is advisable to give vitamin B-complex prophylactically in...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Groen RH,Hoff HC

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to precisely analyse the reduction of the antiparkinsonian treatment in 18 consecutive patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) operated on for bilateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation, first after 1 month of follow-up, then at 1 year postoperatively. Trihexyphenidyle, selegiline, e...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Thobois S,Corvaisier S,Mertens P,Di Guardo C,Mollion H,Guenot M,Rochefort F,Chazot G,Sindou M,Broussolle E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) bear a presumed high risk of early recurrence of stroke. Data in the literature, however, are inconsistent, as recurrence rates range from 9.5 to 20%, at 90 days. AIMS:The study was designed to determine the risk of stroke after TIA. METHODS:94 consecutive patients referre...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Tari Capone F,Cavallari M,Casolla B,Caselli G,Pieroni A,Di Lazzaro V,Napolitano S,Stanzione P,Puca E,Toni D,Rasura M,Orzi F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 60-year-old right-handed Japanese man who showed an isolated persistent typing impairment without aphasia, agraphia, apraxia or any other neuropsychological deficit. We coined the term 'dystypia' for this peculiar neuropsychological manifestation. The symptom was caused by an infarction in the left frontal...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Otsuki M,Soma Y,Arihiro S,Watanabe Y,Moriwaki H,Naritomi H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:26 adult epileptic patients with diffuse slow spikes and waves and start of seizures after the age of 6 years were analyzed. The seizure spectrum encompasses generalized and focal seizures. The occurrence of several types of seizures is the rule. Epileptic drop attacks are most characteristic. Atonic, tonic and myoclo...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Bauer G,Aichner F,Saltuari L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term development of psychological deficits in disability-free early multiple sclerosis (MS) was evaluated in 27 female patients over a period of 7 years and compared with healthy controls. Physical and cognitive parameters deteriorated significantly but not depression scores. In particular, the self-assessed soma...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Haase CG,Tinnefeld M,Daum I,Ganz RE,Haupts M,Faustmann PM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00