Sensory signs and symptoms in scapuloperoneal atrophy: a report of a family.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to assess the prevalence of headache and migraine, along with comorbidities, in a large -Saudi sample. METHODS:Self-reported information was collected about headache, migraine and migraine comorbidities including depression, restless legs syndrome (RLS), syncope, bruxism, hypertension and ischaemic...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Muayqil T,Al-Jafen BN,Al-Saaran Z,Al-Shammari M,Alkthiry A,Muhammad WS,Murshid R,Alanazy MH

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at examining correlations between quantitative REM sleep EEG, regional cerebral blood flow measured by single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) and global cognitive functioning in nine patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. REM sleep EEG was not correlated with SPECT measure...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Montplaisir J,Petit D,McNamara D,Gauthier S

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：: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：:Continuing the previously published clinical development of a case of adult metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), we now describe the terminal phase and death (at 46 years of age) of our patient. The final phase was characterized clinically by progression of generalized peripheral neuropathy, advanced extrapyramidal and...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Seidel D,Heipertz R,Goebel HH,Duensing I,Pilz H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of oral treatment with acyclovir (ACV) on sensory axonal neuropathy, segmental motor paresis and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) was studied in 105 patients with herpes zoster. Forty-seven patients were treated with ACV at a dose of 4 g/day in 5 doses for at least a week; the others did not undergo any kind of...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Mondelli M,Romano C,Passero S,Porta PD,Rossi A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of Wernicke's encephalopathy with cortical abnormalities (WEc). METHODS:We retrospectively evaluated the clinical features and MRI findings in 3 cases of WEc in comparison with those of 7 previously reported cases. RESULTS:Besides the cla...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sakurai K,Sasaki S,Hara M,Yamawaki T,Shibamoto Y

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined 29 patients with chronic progressive ganglionopathy of different etiology. Neurophysiological abnormalities were dominated by a widespread decrease in sensory nerve action potential amplitudes, which involved both upper and lower limb nerves, even in patients with asymmetrical or patchy clinical presentati...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lauria G,Pareyson D,Sghirlanzoni A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to assess the plasma levels of factor VIII (FVIII), von Willebrand factor (vWF) and their association in patients with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). METHODS:We prospectively included 25 CVST patients admitted to the university hospital and 53 voluntary subjects as a cont...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Shahsavarzadeh T,Javanmard SH,Saadatnia M

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:In this open study patients with advanced Parkinson's disease, who experienced pronounced fluctuations in symptoms while on standard L-dopa, were switched from Madopar/Sinemet to Madopar HBS. The dosage was adjusted until optimal response was obtained. The effect was unsatisfactory in 4 cases and side effects interven...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Jensen NO,Dupont E,Hansen E,Mikkelsen B,Mikkelsen BO

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 167 patients with cerebrovascular disorders 323 carotid bifurcations were investigated by Duplex ultrasound. In 100 of these patients, additionally intravenous digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was performed and in 35 patients, also intra-arterial DSA was carried out. In 32 patients all three procedures were pe...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Boné G,Ladurner G,Karas I,Grobovschek M,Punzengruber J

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：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：:Nocturnal polygraphic recordings (electroencephalography, electro-oculography, submental and intercostal muscle electromyography, electrocardiography, respiration by thoracic strain gauges and oronasal thermistors) with continuous monitoring of arterial oxyhemoglobin saturation by pulse oximeter were performed in 8 pa...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Manni R,Piccolo G,Banfi P,Cerveri I,Bruschi C,Zoia C,Tartara A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dyskinesia (TD) induced by antipsychotic drugs represents a great concern for patients and psychiatrists. Considering its pathophysiological mechanisms, there exists a convergence towards the development of postsynaptic dopaminergic hypersensitivity as a possible cause of TD. Hypersensitivity following recepto...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Mouret J,Khomais M,Lemoine P,Sebert P

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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：: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 electrocardiogram was analyzed in 31 patients with motor neurone disease. ECG abnormalities were encountered in 27 of the patients. The dominating ECG changes consisted of ST-T wave changes and supraventricular arrhythmias. The underlying mechanisms are discussed in relation to the neurological symptomatology. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Hindfelt B

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is a dominantly inherited cerebellar ataxia associated with spasticity, ophthalmoplegia, dystonia and peripheral neuropathy. Presented here are 5 MJD cases. A morphometric analysis of the histopathology of their sural nerves was carried out to know the relationship between axon size and my...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lin KP,Soong BW

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:The frontal lobe is the largest lobe of the brain, and it is thus commonly involved in stroke. Moreover, almost one in five strokes is limited to the prerolandic areas. This high frequency of anatomical involvement is in sharp contrast with the apparent rarity of clinical frontal dysfunction in stroke. It is remarkabl...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Bogousslavsky J

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Increased levels of lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been reported in association with several intracranial pathologies. We studied LDH isoenzymes in the CSF of children with infantile spasms. CSF samples collected from 12 patients (aged 4-9 months) with infantile spasms were analyzed for t...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Nussinovitch M,Harel D,Eidlitz-Markus T,Amir J,Volovitz B

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) function improves with blepharospasm (BSP) symptom remission using a verbal fluency task and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). METHODS:Nineteen BSP patients and 9 healthy controls (HCs) matched by gender and education were examined using NIRS. The BSP patients...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Shen CY,Wang YJ,Liu XM,Zhang XQ,Ren XJ,Ma XY,Sun JJ,Feng K,Sun GX,Xu B,Liu PZ

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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 AND OBJECTIVES:Endovascular mechanical thrombectomy is an important approach for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) treatment. Multimodal neuroimaging methods ideally provide the exact localization, extent, and metabolic activity of target tissues. Post-stroke cognitive impairment has recently been realized to be a...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Xu G,Dong X,Niu X,Zheng G,Wang H,Zhang F,Li L,Lv P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00