Suppression of antiepileptic treatment.

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：: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：:The aim of this study was to investigate whether the side and location of single small infarcts (< or = 3 cm) in the corona radiata (28 patients) and pontine base (36 patients) influence the incidence of contralateral upper or lower limb paresis and dysarthria. While the severity of contralateral limb paresis was not ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Tohgi H,Takahashi S,Takahashi H,Tamura K,Yonezawa H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and jerk-locked EEG back-averaging (JLA) were performed in 2 patients with left-hand myoclonus. Both SEPs were characterized by a normal parietal N20 and an enhanced N27-P27 fronto-parietal complex, but the giant central N40 described by most authors was only observe...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Guérit JM,Van den Bergh P,Gobiet Y,Laterre EC

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：: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：:The authors present 2 cases in which urinary retention was related to supratentorial cortical lesions. These cases support the presence and function of a supratentorial center involved in control of the voiding reflex loop and indicate that lesions affecting this center can result in urinary retention rather than the ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lang EW,Chesnut RM,Hennerici M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-year-old man presented with dystonia, dementia, amyotrophy, choreoathetosis, and ataxia. Partial hexosaminidase A deficiency was documented in serum and leukocytes and confirmed by rectal biopsy with ganglion cells containing membranous cytoplasmic bodies. A brief review of the literature reveals that tremor, dys...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Oates CE,Bosch EP,Hart MN

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of thoracic hematomyelia secondary to anticoagulant therapy is presented. Clinical features, similar to 2 other previously reported cases, are discussed. A high index of suspicion may lead to a quick diagnostic procedure and successful decompressive surgery. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Constantini S,Ashkenazi E,Shoshan Y,Israel Z,Umansky F

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:The child prodigy Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens received his medical degree at Montpellier when aged 19. As a young promising physician Flourens was asked to investigate Gall's controversial views on cerebral localization. To test Gall's assertions, Flourens developed ablation as a procedure to explore the workings of th...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pearce JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a case where a parkinsonian symptomatology is associated with pneumoencephalographic and RISA-cisternographic findings typical of an occult normal pressure hydrocephalus. They discuss their personal contribution in the light of what has been already reported in the literature on the same subject. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Mazza S,Laudisio A,Bergonzi P

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral paramedian thalamic infarcts are characterised initially by the association of acute vigilance disorders and vertical gaze palsy, followed by persisting dementia with severe mnemic disturbance, global aspontaneity and apathy. We describe a patient with a dramatic neuropsychological recovery, confirmed by tes...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Krolak-Salmon P,Croisile B,Houzard C,Setiey A,Girard-Madoux P,Vighetto A

更新日期：2000-01-01 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:Previous studies showed that late-life depression with subjective memory complaints (SMC) may be associated with an increased risk of developing dementia. However, not all such patients have cognitive decline. The aim of this longitudinal study was to identify possible clinical determinants of progressive de...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： von Gunten A,Giannakopoulos P,Duc R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:20 patients who had clinical symptoms and/or signs of compression of the 7th and/or 6th cervical roots were examined. Motor and sensory nerve conduction velocities, velocities in the proximal segment of the median nerve determined by measuring F-wave latencies, cervical somatosensory evoked potentials, and needle elec...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Tackmann W,Radü EW

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To perform a large and detailed epidemiologic study on restless legs syndrome (RLS) during pregnancy in a European country. METHODS:A cross-sectional questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was distributed by the medical staff in different outpatient waiting rooms (obstetrics and gynecology department of the univ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Neau JP,Porcheron A,Mathis S,Julian A,Meurice JC,Paquereau J,Godeneche G,Ciron J,Bouche G

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:A case of peripheral neuropathy due to styrene is described. The diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy was confirmed by a motor-nerve conduction study and sural nerve biopsy. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Behari M,Choudhary C,Roy S,Maheshwari MC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 47-year-old woman presented with paralysis of upward gaze associated with Addison's pernicious anaemia. Administration of cyanocobalamin resulted in significant improvement of eye movements and haematological parameters. Isolated paralysis of upward gaze may be a feature of vitamin B12 deficiency. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sandyk R

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:We assessed the, hitherto unknown, impact of intravenous methylprednisolone (ivMP) pulses during relapses of multiple sclerosis (MS) on the kinetics of anti-interferon-beta neutralizing antibodies (Nabs) and binding antibodies (Babs). METHODS:Babs (ELISA) and Nabs (antiviral cytopathic effect assay) ti...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Giantzi V,Karapanayiotides T,Lagoudaki R,Poulatsidou KN,Lourbopoulos A,Daniilidis M,Taskos N,Milonas I,Grigoriadis N

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marcel Proust is one of the most important French writers of the 20th century. His relationship with medicine and with neurology is possibly linked to the fact that his asthma was considered to be a psychosomatic disease classified as neurasthenia. Stendhal's syndrome is a rare psychiatric syndrome characterized by an...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Teive HA,Munhoz RP,Cardoso F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of psychosocial variables on patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and the relationship between these variables and the onset of MS. BACKGROUND:The current evidence indicates that many types of psychosocial factors are involved in the development and rel...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Liu XJ,Ye HX,Li WP,Dai R,Chen D,Jin M

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Fluctuations in motor performance and dyskinesias are a common problem in the long-term management of Parkinson's disease. The pharmacokinetics and the pharmacodynamics of levodopa, loss of presynaptic dopamine terminals, alterations in postsynaptic dopamine receptor sensitivity, or changes in the modulatory influence...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Stocchi F,Bonamartini A,Vacca L,Ruggieri S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress and generation of reactive oxygen species are believed to be implicated in Parkinson's disease (PD). Erythrocyte activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase, the blood glutathione system, and plasma levels of thiobarbituric-acid-reactive substances (TBARS) were measured in 80 PD patients. Thes...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Younes-Mhenni S,Frih-Ayed M,Kerkeni A,Bost M,Chazot G

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:So-called apraxia of eyelid opening (scAEO) has been described chiefly in the context of extrapyramidal disorders. We described 10 new patients with scAEO developing in the absence of any other CNS sign and reviewed the 11 cases with isolated scAEO reported in the literature. Combining our patients and those from the ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Defazio G,Livrea P,Lamberti P,De Salvia R,Laddomada G,Giorelli M,Ferrari E

更新日期：1998-01-01 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