Preliminary clinical experience with imipramine HCl in the treatment of sleep apnea syndrome.

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:We prospectively assessed the frequency, type, severity and cause of treatment among the long-term residents of the Kork Epilepsy Centre in the year 2005. METHODS:All long-term residents were exclusively referred to the general surgeon practicing on the campus. Patients were divided into 2 groups compr...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Steinhoff BJ,Hartmann R,Luy M,Rombach A,Ziegler G,Schulte-Mönting J,Gilliam FG

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Missed cerebral aneurysms in CT-negative patients can have serious implications. We set out to determine the usefulness of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) spectrophotometry and the individual significance of CSF oxyhaemoglobin, bilirubin and methaemoglobin in 463 CT scan-negative patients with suspected subarachnoid haemorr...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Gunawardena H,Beetham R,Scolding N,Lhatoo SD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous findings regarding the role of TNF-alpha-308 gene polymorphism in multiple sclerosis (MS) are contradictory. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible influence of TNF-alpha-308 polymorphism on MS susceptibility and the MS disease process in a Croatian and Slovenian population. Genotyping was perf...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Ristić S,Lovrecić L,Starcević-Cizmarević N,Brajenović-Milić B,Sega Jazbec S,Sepcić J,Kapović M,Peterlin B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the advent of whole-body CT scanning in 1974, many studies have been made in its application to all parts of the body. One of the most fruitful areas has been CT of the spinal cord. The only limitation appears to be the technique used; there is no substitute for a good technique. We shall first review standard C...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Ledley RS

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：: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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) report sleep disturbances (SD) and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) more frequently than the general population. Our objectives were to evaluate SD and EDS in MS patients and to test the reliability of subjective sleep questionnaires. METHODS:Demographic and clinical ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Neau JP,Paquereau J,Auche V,Mathis S,Godeneche G,Ciron J,Moinot N,Bouche G

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:An HIV-positive patient presented the classical syndrome of pure alexia. Neuroradiologic investigation by computed tomography showed a ring-like lesion in the left posterior white matter. The clinical manifestations as well as the radiologic findings resolved after antiprotozoal treatment. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lüscher C,Horber FF

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Dementia is one of the most common organic mental syndromes, usually caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD) or vascular dementia (VD) or both. Regarding AD we review the state or the art of the cholinergic approach and discuss some future options regarding preventive and nonsymptomatic strategies. Therapy for VD will cons...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Scheltens P,van Gool WA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 20-year-old woman with Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) suddenly experienced two episodes of diabetic coma. She was studied to determine whether diabetes mellitus (DM) resulted from insulin resistance or from an insulin secretion abnormality, using the euglycemic glucose clamp technique and the glucagon tolerance test. S...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Tanabe Y,Miyamoto S,Kinoshita Y,Yamada K,Sasaki N,Makino E,Nakajima H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pathogenesis of card game-induced reflex epilepsy has not been determined so far. The aim of this study was to evaluate structural abnormalities using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis, which may give some clue about the pathogenesis in card game-induced reflex epilepsy. METHODS:The 3 subjects were...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Park KM,Kim SE,Lee BI

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：:In a prospective study we evaluated myoglobin (MG) and serum creatine kinase (CK) levels in two groups of subjects different in age and carrier status. CK and MG values were significantly lower in the older group. Whereas both parameters fully coincided in the younger group, CK was detected in a higher number of carri...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sabria-Leal M,Gimeno-Leal JM,Paret-Masana A,Rey-Joly Barroso C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preventive effect of Atrovent Dosier-Aerosol on the airway flow resistance (Raw) caused by Tensilon was studied on 10 patients suffering from myasthenia gravis. Atrovent completely prevented the increase of Raw in 8 cases and considerably decreased it in 2 cases. The measure of the reaction observed may be influen...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Szathmáry I,Magyar P,Szobor A

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reviewing the angiograms of 100 patients with RIA or stroke we found intracranial lesions in 67%, extracranial lesions in 64%, and normal angiograms in 13% of the cases. Risk factors occurred more often as the angiographic lesions were more extensive. These findings confirm the importance of angiographic examination o...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： van Oudenaarden WF,Tans JT,Hoogland PH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of early Parkinson's disease (PD) involves the treatment of motor symptoms and, increasingly, non-motor symptoms. Given the fast pace of clinical research in PD, clinicians are faced with the challenge of integrating the latest findings into the ongoing care of individual PD patients. Part 1 of this 2-p...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Simuni T,Lyons KE,Pahwa R,Hauser RA,Comella C,Elmer L,Weintraub D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trials of pharmacological intervention for acute stroke show several points of similarity with legal trials by jury. The relationships between sponsoring organisation and regulatory authorities and the roles of the many other participants are described. Only through a partnership can the common aim of developing impro...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lees KR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors themselves studied 26 patients. The EEGs were classified in terms of increasing severity in 5 categories. Incorporating over 400 cases from the literature, the authors correlated the initial EEG findings with the clinical outcome following cardiac arrest. Grade I EEG findings (normal alpha with theta-delta...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Scollo-Lavizzari G,Bassetti C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the Multiple Sclerosis Neuropsychological Questionnaire (MSNQ) in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). METHODS:130 European CIS patients and 60 relatives completed the MSNQ. RESULTS:The mean (SD) MSNQ score for CIS patients was 15.5 (10.8) and for their informants 11.3 (9.6). Neither ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Langdon DW,Benedict RH,Wicklein EM,Beckmann K,Fredrikson S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Early traumatic epilepsy, whose frequency is rather high, especially in children, is usually characterized by focal motor seizures (57%) or by generalized seizures (43%). The association of both running and laughing fits in the same patient on the contrary is quite exceptional, as only three cases have been reported i...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Jandolo B,Gessini L,Occhipinti E,Pompili A

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease in 5 generations of a family living in Sagamihara City is reported. Clinical features of this family did not differ from common PD, however, neuropathological findings were different from PD. In autopsied cases, the loss of melanin-containing cells was mild to moderate, and the n...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Hasegawa K,Kowa H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SJL/J mice have been studied as the model animals for autoimmunological diseases. Recently it was clarified that SJL/J mice have a defect of dysferlin. Human limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2B and Miyoshi myopathy also have a defect of dysferlin. In this study we present the histological and immunohistological changes ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Nemoto H,Konno S,Nakazora H,Miura H,Kurihara T

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:In order to examine the plasminogen activator (PA) induction involved in the pathogenesis of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and multiple sclerosis (MS), PA activity in peripheral blood lymphocytes derived from 5 ADEM and 3 MS patients was investigated. There was no PA induction in any ADEM, MS or control ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sugita K,Suzuki N,Shimizu N,Takanashi J,Ishii M,Niimi N

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) is still largely unknown and it has been proposed that an impaired venous drainage from the central nervous system, defined as chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), may play a role in this. We investigated the prevalence of extracranial venous drainage pattern alte...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Cardaioli G,Di Filippo M,Bianchi A,Eusebi P,Di Gregorio M,Gaetani L,Gallina A,Calabresi P,Sarchielli P

更新日期：2016-01-01 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