Chorea and systemic lupus erythematosus. A critical review.

abstract：:We present a long-term follow-up examination concerning patients with isolated extra-ocular muscle involvement in thyroid-related orbitopathy. Within the previous 13 years we observed 7 patients with endocrine orbitopathy and marked myopathy of the extra-ocular muscles. Five of these patients had no detectable proptos...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Gerlach M,Ferbert A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The biological mechanisms by which cerebral aneurysms emerge, enlarge and rupture are not totally understood. In the present study, we analyzed the genome-wide gene expression profile in human intracranial aneurysms using cDNA microarrays. METHODS:Affymetrix HU133 Plus 2.0 microarrays were used to compare g...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Li L,Yang X,Jiang F,Dusting GJ,Wu Z

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:13 patients with spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVF) diagnosed in our Institution have been the object of this study. The necessity to include the disease in the differential diagnosis with other pathologies affecting the lower thoracic cord, particularly in middle-aged and old males, is emphasized. Involvement...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Bradac GB,Daniele D,Riva A,Bracchi M,Stura G,Riccio A,Pagni CA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of the dopamine uptake inhibitor [3H]GBR-12935 to postmortem putamen from a control group and patients with Alzheimer's disease/senile dementia of Alzheimer type (AD/SDAT) or vascular dementia (VD) was studied. The binding density (Bmax) in AD/SDAT was significantly reduced to 50% of control. A reduction o...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Allard P,Alafuzoff I,Carlsson A,Eriksson K,Ericson E,Gottfries CG,Marcusson JO

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interpretation of the total phenytoin (PT) concentration can be problematic if valproic acid (VPA) is given as a comedication, because VPA displaces PT from the protein binding sites and can increase the free fraction of PT. In order to estimate the free or unbound PT concentration (PTf) from the total PT concentr...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： May TW,Rambeck B,Nothbaum N

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:A 28-year-old man with negative family history for neuromuscular diseases showed a distal myopathy. Creatine kinase was slightly increased. Two muscle biopsies were performed. The first showed myopathic features, rimmed vacuoles in a limited area and increase of free glycogen; the second showed only nonspecific pathol...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Mongini T,Doriguzzi C,Palmucci L,Pollo B,Arnaudo E,Bresolin N

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to quantitatively assess the motor performance characteristics of 14 patients with congenital myotonia, the reaction time, speed of movement, synergy of different muscle groups and accuracy were measured. The Human Performance Measurement/Basic Elements of Performance device was used for recordings. Warned si...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Baumann P,Vanharanta H,Kauranen K,Myllylä V

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid phosphatase staining is performed on cerebrospinal fluid cells of 365 samples from 105 patients with various types of meningitis. This enzyme activity is strongly positive in the early samples of bacterial meningitis, as far as the patients had not received a pretreatment with antibiotics for more than 24 h. It a...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： De Reuck JL,De Coster WJ,vander Eecken HM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percussion of the skull dates from a time when there were virtually no radiological methods for examining the skull and brain. Three apparently independent contributions appeared within the years 1893-1895. The sound elicited, tenderness, and auscultatory percussion have each been employed for diagnostic purposes, but...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pearce JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Two cases of malignant tumours of the nerve sheaths are reported. In the first patient, who had von Recklinghausen's disease, light- and electron-microscopic investigations showed an undifferentiated mesenchymal tumour of the radial nerve with the property of producing collagen fibres, an aspect characteristic of sarc...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Vuia O

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial cases of HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM) and adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), developing in a daughter and father, respectively, are reported. The coexistence of both diseases in a family has not been reported before. This supports the recent findings that ATL and HAM may be brought about by an identical virus...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Shoji H,Kuwasaki N,Natori H,Kaji M,Miyamoto Y,Usuku K,Sonoda S,Osame M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG oligoclonal bands in CSF can be found in high percentage of MS patients but the existence of a limited number of cases with CSF normal IgG profile is known as well. In the present study 63 out of 70 patients with definite MS and 24 out of 35 with probable MS had oligoclonal bands in the CSF at the isoelectric ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Rocchelli B,Poloni M,Mazzarello P,Delodovici M

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：: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：:The purpose of this study was to estimate the risk factors, early course, outcome and neuroimaging patterns in primary intracerebral hemorrhages (PIH). Using the Besançon Stroke Registry, 350 patients with first PIH documented by computed tomography (CT) between 1987 and 1993 were included in the present study. Patien...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Tatu L,Moulin T,El Mohamad R,Vuillier F,Rumbach L,Czorny A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic analysis of EMG (T/A analysis) and invasive muscle fiber conduction velocity in situ (MFCV) were performed in 15 patients after traumatic lesions of the knee and immobilization with quadriceps atrophy. T/A analysis showed transient reduced number of turns, consistent with inhibition of quadriceps motoneurons...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Cruz-Martínez A,Ramírez A,Arpa J

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Profound cellular and biochemical remodeling processes occur in the brain following an ischemic stroke, raising the possibility that we may be able to promote neurological recovery by harnessing the brain's endogenous recovery processes with pharmacological or cell-based therapies. There is a compelling body...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Hermann DM,Chopp M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently observed a diffuse slowing of brain waves using serial quantitative electroencephalographic (qEEG) examinations in interferon (IFN)-alpha-treated chronic hepatitis C patients. However, it remains unclear how this alteration could be assessed. We evaluated the correlation between the qEEG changes and t...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Kamei S,Sakai T,Matsuura M,Tanaka N,Kojima T,Arakawa Y,Matsukawa Y,Mizutani T,Oga K,Ohkubo H,Matsumura H,Hirayanagi K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cortical microinfarcts (CoMIs) are considered as barely visible lesions in clinical-neuroradiological correlation studies. On postmortem 7.0-tesla MRI, however, CoMIs of different size are easily detected. SUMMARY:The present MRI study investigates 84 postmortem brains with different neurodegenerative disea...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： De Reuck JL,Auger F,Durieux N,Cordonnier C,Deramecourt V,Pasquier F,Maurage CA,Leys D,Bordet R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Antioxidant enzymes like copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase and gluthatione peroxidase (GSHPx) are part of intracellular protection mechanisms to overcome oxidative stress and are known to be activated in vascular diseases and acute stroke. We investigated the differences of antioxi...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Zimmermann C,Winnefeld K,Streck S,Roskos M,Haberl RL

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Changes in the maximal rate of some cerebral enzymatic activities related to 400ene transduction and neurotransmission (lactate dehydrogenase; citrate synthase and malate dehydrogenase; total NADH-cytochrome c reductase and cytochrome oxidase; glutamate dehydrogenase; acetylcholine esterase) were assayed both in the c...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Villa RF

更新日期：1981-01-01 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: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:Hypertension and hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) are independent risk factors of stroke and are associated with each other. Although evidence suggests that they are related to cognitive impairment, the relationship between hypertension accompanied with HHcy and poststroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) is unclear. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lu ZH,Li J,Li XL,Ding M,Mao CJ,Zhu XY,Liu CF

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen children with definite multiple sclerosis (MS; aged 6-17 years, mean 11.4 +/- 2.7; 8 boys, 8 girls) were reviewed. Cerebellar symptoms and signs were frequent at initial presentation. Among laboratory studies, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) IgG index or oligoclonal bands were informative in 75%, evoked potentia...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Selcen D,Anlar B,Renda Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical severity of EAE is enhanced by pre-treatment with distemper, measles and BCG vaccine, measles vaccine gives a more severe onset of disease. Rubella vaccine and TAB leads to mild disease which recurs on re-treatment with the appropriate vaccine. These findings and their possible significance in MS are brie...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Caspary EA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00