Acid phosphatase activity of cerebrospinal fluid cells in bacterial and abacterial meningitis.

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：:In a direct (door-to-door) epidemiological study, the prevalence rate of cerebrovascular disease in the rural population of northwest Peloponnese, Greece, was found to be 995 strokes per 100,000 inhabitants over 20 years of age. This number is considerably lower than the prevalence rate (1,417 strokes per 100,000 inha...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Paschalis C,Polychronopoulos P,Makris N,Kondakis X,Papapetropoulos T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MPTP, 1-methyl-4-phenyl-pyridinium ion (MPP+) and the structurally related compounds including N-methyltetrahydroisoquinilinium ion inhibited the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) system in tissue slices of rat striatum at 10(-5) M. Mouse striatum is more susceptible to MPTP than rat striatum. A similar degree of inhibition b...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Nagatsu T,Hirata Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective study aims to assess cognitive involvement in pre-AIDS, not drug abuser subjects and to determine whether CD4 status or disease stage best correlates with cognitive changes that may portend development of ADC. 328 cases were analyzed. No differences in psychometric performance in relation to CDC sta...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Grassi MP,Perin C,Borella M,Mangoni A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Norwegian family with asymmetrical scapuloperoneal atrophy is described. Chronic, aching shoulder pain, slight proximal and distal sensory dysfunction, and atrophy of the extensor digitorum brevis muscle occurred in some individuals. The proband had slightly impaired sensory conduction velocity, and his father exhib...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sand T,Hestnes A

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:A 21-year-old male developed back pain, fever, and rapidly progressive quadriparesis. Lumbar tap yielded frank pus which was confirmed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to be located mainly in the cervical epidural space. Conservative antibiotic remedy was partially effective for restoration of the neurological defi...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Fukui T,Ichikawa H,Kawate N,Nozawa T,Sugita K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with monomelic spinal muscular atrophy are described. Clinical features included insidious onset of wasting and weakness of one limb, lack of involvement of the cranial nerves, brain stem, pyramidal tracts and sensory system, and a stable condition over a period of 4-20 years. Clinical findings, electrom...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： de Visser M,Ongerboer de Visser BW,Verbeeten B Jr

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parkinson's disease (PD) is commonly characterized by its motor symptoms such as resting tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability; however, some of the most debilitating symptoms of this disease are non-motor ones such as dementia and sialorrhea (drooling). Drooling is caused by impaired swall...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Rana AQ,Khondker S,Kabir A,Owalia A,Khondker S,Emre M

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Recently, neurosyphilis was found to be associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). Whether the association was specific to neurosyphilis among central nervous system (CNS) infections, and whether neurosyphilis is associated with other prevalent metabolic disorders deserves further study. METHODS:An in-depth ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Xiao Y,Chen MJ,Shen X,Lin LR,Liu LL,Yang TC,Niu JJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the function of human atrial natriuretic peptide (hANP) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), we examined hANP levels in the CSF of patients with various neurological diseases. The subjects were 16 controls without neurological disease and 45 patients with neurological disease. The 45 patients with neurological...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Yamasaki H,Sugino M,Ohsawa N

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:In a 14-year follow-up the improvement of language functions and the decrease of EEG abnormalities are described in a girl with the Landau-Kleffner syndrome. In this case, the results of subsequent EEG recordings do not permit conclusions about the course of the aphasia. Disappearance of focal spike and waves, bilater...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： van Dongen HR,Meulstee J,Blauw-van Mourik M,van Harskamp F

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate the role of some sex hormones in migraine headaches, the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and characteristics of headache, especially migraine, in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCO) compared with women without this disease. METHODS:One hundred and thirty-three women with...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pourabolghasem S,Najmi S,Arami MA

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:In 128 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 204 blood donors (control persons) the in vitro activation of 'Ficoll-purified' peripheral blood T lymphocytes was measured using the 3H-thymidine incorporation rate without (spontaneous proliferation) and with mitogen addition (concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin). Mito...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Trenn G,Kreuzfelder E,Hierholzer E,Scheiermann N,Bauer HJ,Bushart W

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Prealbumin, was determined in serum, lumbar and ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and compared with albumin and IgG. The measured concentrations of prealbumin in the CSF indicate that there are two sources of prealbumin: a minor fraction enters the CSF via the blood-cerebrospinal fluid (B-CSF) barrier like albumin...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Weisner B,Roethig HJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Saccade may be abnormal in Parkinson's disease (PD), but there have been no systematic studies on directional asymmetries of horizontal saccades in early PD. The aims of this study were to determine the saccadic abnormalities and their directional asymmetries. METHODS:We recorded visually guided horizontal ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Choi SM,Lee SH,Choi KH,Nam TS,Kim JT,Park MS,Kim BC,Kim MK,Cho KH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sir William Gull coined the name 'anorexia nervosa'. Examples of self-starvation appeared in the Hellenistic era. Holy anorexics abused their bodies, rejected marriage and sought religious asylum where many perished and became saints. The condition then paled into obscurity until the 19th century. Louis-Victor Marce (...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pearce JM

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:2 patients with hypoparathyroidism, one idiopathic and the other pseudoform, were studied by overnight polygraphic recording of the sleep EEG and related activities before and after start of treatment to investigate their sleep EEG patterns and states, with the results as follows. (1) Conspicuous abnormalities were no...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Fukuyama Y,Hayashi M

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined interleukin-2 (IL-2) production by phytohemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMs) from 75 untreated myasthenia gravis (MG) patients and 48 control patients. Patients with MG consisted of those with elevated PBM IL-2 production (>1,250 pg/ml; mean + 2SD of the controls) (n = 2...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Utsugisawa K,Nagane Y,Obara D,Kondoh R,Yonezawa H,Tohgi H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficits in the cholinergic system are pronounced in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and are more severe in patients with visual hallucinations (VHs). The aim is to identify the occipital glucose metabolism patterns by positron emission tomography (PET) and the changes following donepezil treatment. 13 DLB patients wi...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Satoh M,Ishikawa H,Meguro K,Kasuya M,Ishii H,Yamaguchi S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a clinical syndrome of unknown etiology characterized by sudden onset anterograde amnesia, which was thought to resolve completely. However, some authors have also suggested permanent memory impairment. It is unclear whether these results reflect a true persistent damage or a simply t...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Uttner I,Weber S,Freund W,Schmitz B,Ramspott M,Huber R

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:The present paper is a study of a microcystic intraspinal tumour that developed in a 4-year-old child. The histologic examination showed the presence of neuroblastic elements developing next to smooth muscle fibers. The tumour had diffusely invaded the meninges, presenting a marked collagen reaction. Ultrastructurally...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Vuia O,Hager H

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：: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