Madopar HBS: slow-release levodopa and benserazide in parkinsonian patients presenting marked fluctuations in symptoms on standard L-dopa treatment.

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 report deals with the changes of brain functions in the course of traumatic apallic syndrome (TAS) by means of the EEG examination, in the classical way, and by computer analysis as well. The development of EEG changes during individual stages of the TAS is studied. The EEG examination was performed repeatedly in ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Strnad P,Strnadová V

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral choroid plexus papillomas, or villous hypertrophy of the choroid plexus, is a very rare entity that presents serious therapeutical problems in the management of secondary oversecretive hydrocephalus. The authors report the cases of 2 infants affected by this condition, and cured with removal of the lateral v...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Di Rocco C,Iannelli A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of carbamazepine (CBZ) and its metabolite carbamazepine-10, 11-epoxide (CE) were determined in serum (free and total), brain tumors and paratumorous cortex from 37 epileptic patients. Tumor biopsies were available from 25 different gliomas, 5 hamartomas and 1 angioma. The free serum concentrations of CB...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Schnabel R,Rambeck B,May TW,Jürgens U,Lahl R

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Whereas insomnia is frequent in restless legs syndrome (RLS), little is known about daytime sleepiness. We studied a series of 27 consecutive patients with idiopathic RLS in order to identify the characteristics and evolution of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) under dopaminergic treatment. METHODS:P...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Kallweit U,Siccoli MM,Poryazova R,Werth E,Bassetti CL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis is presented of 35 cases of chorea as a symptom of polycythaemia. This analysis reveals: (a) whereas polycythaemia occurs predominantly in males (3:2), polycythaemic chorea (PC) occurs predominantly in females (5:2), at a real ratio of female:male = 4:1, the prevalence being 1-2.5% of polycythaemic patient...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Bruyn GW,Padberg G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To analyze the trajectory to diagnosis and information provided in a series of cluster headache (CH) patients from five headache clinics. METHODS:CH patients were asked to fill in an ad hoc questionnaire. RESULTS:Seventy-five patients (mean age 41.5 years, 67 males) completed the questionnaire. Patients ha...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sánchez Del Rio M,Leira R,Pozo-Rosich P,Laínez JM,Alvarez R,Pascual J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A marked proportion of multiple sclerosis (MS) relapses is followed by incomplete recovery. Our aim was to considerably increase the evidence of the clinical use of immunoadsorption (IA) as escalation therapy for patients with MS relapse. METHODS:A retrospective multicenter study was performed in MS patient...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Schimrigk S,Faiss J,Köhler W,Günther A,Harms L,Kraft A,Ehrlich S,Eberl A,Fassbender C,Klingel R,Galle J,Riedlinger A,Hoffmann F

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lumbar CSF concentrations of homovanillic acid (HVA) and 5-hydroxyindole-acetic acid (5HIAA) have been determined in ten patients suffering from chronic brain post-traumatic syndromes, at various length of time after the brain trauma. Lower concentrations of HVA (mean 21 +/- 14 mug/ml) compared to controls (mean 46 +/...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Bareggi SR,Porta M,Selenati A,Assael BM,Calderini G,Collice M,Rossanda M,Morselli PL

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The profile and degree of cognitive impairment in Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) and the impact of sleep disorders, REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) in particular, in parkinsonism-related cognitive deficits are currently being debated. SUMMARY:We reviewed the cognitive, affective and sleep findings in MSA a...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Stanzani-Maserati M,Gallassi R,Calandra-Buonaura G,Alessandria M,Oppi F,Poda R,Sambati L,Provini F,Cortelli P

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The authors report a case of a giant aneurysm of the distal portion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery presenting the classical picture of a tumor of the posterior fossa. CT scan of a giant aneurysm reveals the clear margin and high density area of aneurysm wall, and the homogeneous and high density area of t...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Yoshii Y,Maki Y,Egashira T

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to evaluate the clinical symptoms of Angelman syndrome (AS) in adults and to identify the neurological pathways affected in this disease. AS is a neurogenetic disorder resulting due to the deletion or inactivation of the ubiquitin-protein-ligase E3A gene on maternal chromosome 15. SUMMARY:A...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Giroud M,Daubail B,Khayat N,Chouchane M,Berger E,Muzard E,Medeiros de Bustos E,Thauvin-Robinet C,Faivre L,Masurel A,Darmency-Stamboul V,Huet F,Béjot Y,Giroud M,Moulin T

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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 49-year-old alcoholic woman was admitted for convulsions. She died after a 4-week clinical course characterized by a persistent coma with diffuse muscular hypertonia. Post-mortem examination of the brain demonstrated a spongy degeneration and gliosis of the cerebral cortex, limited to the 3rd and the 4th layers. No ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Naeije R,Franken L,Jacobovitz D,Flament-Durand J

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：:Cerebrospinal fluid metabolites of dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin were studied in two groups of left temporal lobe epileptic patients, the only difference between the two groups being that one group had paranoid schizophrenic symptomatology. Homovanillic acid accumulation was decreased in this group. This find...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Peters JG

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 52-year-old man with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura accompanying acute oculomotor nerve palsy. At autopsy, intraneural hemorrhage was found in the cavernous portion of the oculomotor nerve. Intraneural bleeding as well as extraneural compression by hematoma formation should be considered as a cause of...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Miyao S,Takano A,Teramoto J,Fujitake S,Hashizume Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Mitochondrial abnormalities and effectiveness of replacement therapy were examined in a murine model of systemic carnitine deficiency, namely the juvenile visceral steatosis (JVS) mouse. Homozygous JVS mice revealed severe lipid deposition and abnormal mitochondria in liver, heart, skeletal muscle, and kidney, but the...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Kaido M,Fujimura H,Ono A,Toyooka K,Yoshikawa H,Nishimura T,Ozaki K,Narama I,Kuwajima M

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：AIM:To determine the frequency of epilepsies in the family members of epileptic patients. METHODS:The records of 4,851 patients with epilepsy were reviewed. The frequency and patterns of different epilepsies and epileptic syndromes in the patients, number of affected relatives and consanguinity were studied. RESULTS:...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sozmen V,Baybas S,Dirican A,Koksal A,Ozturk M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study gender differences of coping with illness strategies in tension-type headaches. METHOD:We enrolled 89 subjects (50 women, 39 men) suffering from episodic (n = 37) and chronic (n = 52) tension-type headaches (TTH). Patients were required to answer a Freiburg Questionnaire of Coping with Illness (FQCI...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Rollnik JD,Karst M,Piepenbrock S,Gehrke A,Dengler R,Fink M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the hallmarks of the α-synucleinopathies is the degeneration of the autonomic nervous system. SUMMARY:This review discusses the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular autonomic failure within the context of the α-synucleinopathies. In addition, it outlines the utility of various laboratory assess...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sambati L,Calandra-Buonaura G,Doria A,Cortelli P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:31 children aged between 6 weeks and 15 years, who had suffered a stroke, were investigated by computer tomography (CT). 8 patients had suffered transient ischemic attacks (TIA), 17 had completed ischemic strokes and 6 had hemorrhagic strokes. The mean interval between the stroke and the first CT investigation was 5 d...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Ladurner G,Fritsch G,Sager WD,Oberbauer R

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disorder affecting neuromuscular transmission. Exacerbations may involve increasing bulbar weakness and/or sudden respiratory failure, both of which can be critically disabling. Management of MG exacerbations includes plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVI...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Karelis G,Balasa R,De Bleecker JL,Stuchevskaya T,Villa A,Van Damme P,Lagrange E,Heckmann JM,Nicolle M,Vilciu C,Bril V,Mondou E,Griffin R,Chen J,Henriquez W,Garcia B,Camprubi S,Ayguasanosa J

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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