Left tuberothalamic artery territory infarction: neuropsychological and MRI features.

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：:A 39-year-old intravenous drug user presented with dysarthria and a syndrome of the left cerebellar hemisphere. While in hospital, he developed progressive brainstem findings. Repeated CT scans revealed a lucency in the white matter of the left cerebellar hemisphere. Brainstem auditory and short-latency somatosensory ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lipton RB,Krupp L,Horoupian D,Hershkovitz S,Arezzo JC,Kurtzberg D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Little is known about optic radiation (OR) injury in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). We attempted to investigate OR injury in patients with ICH by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). METHODS:Forty-three consecutive patients with putaminal hemorrhage and 40 normal healthy control subjects were recruited. DTI dat...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Seo JP,Choi BY,Chang CH,Jung YJ,Byun WM,Kim SH,Kwon YH,Jang SH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the possible influence of the blood-CSF barrier function on mathematical formulas for estimating intrathecal IgG production (IgG index, Tourtellotte's formula [TOURT], Schuller and Sagar's formula [Schull], and Reiber and Felgenhauer's formula [IgG(loc)]), we analysed serum and CSF samples from 105 healthy ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Blennow K,Fredman P,Wallin A,Gottfries CG,Skoog I,Wikkelsö C,Svennerholm L

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:This study aimed at assessing the feasibility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in multilevel cervical spondylotic myelopathy (MCSM) and quantifying the association between DTI parameters and neuronal status as a whole. METHODS:Fractional anisotropy (FA) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) were ob...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Ying J,Zhou X,Zhu M,Zhou Y,Huang K,Zhou B,Teng H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Focal embouchure dystonia (FED) is a type of task-specific dystonia affecting wind instrument players, and it frequently ends their professional careers. The results of the treatments of FED in the reported literature are disappointing. OBJECTIVE:We report 3 patients with FED who were brass instrument playe...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Satoh M,Narita M,Tomimoto H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of an 8-year-old boy presenting diffuse, prevalently right-sided nevus flammeus, venous angioma of the right cerebral hemisphere, right-sided facial hyperplasia, lef-handedness and recurring strokes is reported together with the clinical, angiographic and CT features. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Tomaccini D,Venturi C,Scarfò GB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To analyze the trajectory to diagnosis and information provided in a series of cluster headache (CH) patients from five headache clinics. METHODS:CH patients were asked to fill in an ad hoc questionnaire. RESULTS:Seventy-five patients (mean age 41.5 years, 67 males) completed the questionnaire. Patients ha...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Sánchez Del Rio M,Leira R,Pozo-Rosich P,Laínez JM,Alvarez R,Pascual J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that mitochondrial genes may implicate susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS) is supported by an increasing number of case reports on Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON)-associated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) point mutations in patients with MS. A number of mtDNA mutations with primary pathogeni...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Houshmand M,Sanati MH,Rashedi I,Sharifpanah F,Asghari E,Lotfi J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to quantify the accumulation of iron in the basal ganglia in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and in a control group, and to investigate the relationship between iron accumulation and other parameters assessed in MS, i.e. lesion load (LL) and brain parenchymal fraction (BPF). Magnetic resonanc...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Burgetova A,Seidl Z,Krasensky J,Horakova D,Vaneckova M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is one of the most frequent and most disabling symptoms in multiple sclerosis (MS). We investigated the possible association of the MS-related fatigue syndrome with the available disease-modifying therapies and the main disease characteristics in a cross-sectional study on 320 consecutive patients. The prevale...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Putzki N,Katsarava Z,Vago S,Diener HC,Limmroth V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper records a patient of Osler's, who showed many features compatible with the Churg-Strauss syndrome of allergic granulomatous angiitis to be described 50 years later. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pearce JM

更新日期：2007-01-01 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 effect of thoracic duct lymph drainage (5-34 days) in 12 patients with myasthenia gravis on muscular function has been followed for 5-43 months. Among the results obtained were: (1) During the drainage the myasthenic symptoms decreased markedly after 1-4 days and remained so during the drainage. (2) The doses of c...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Bergström K,Franksson C,Matell G,Nilsson BY,Persson A,von Reis G,Stensman R

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to observe the incidence of falls in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with different cognitive levels and to investigate the effect of the cholinesterase inhibitor Rivastigmine on cognitive dysfunction and falling in PD patients. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:Data from 176 PD patients ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Li Z,Yu Z,Zhang J,Wang J,Sun C,Wang P,Zhang J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Camptocormia (bent spine syndrome, cyphose hystérique) is an abnormality characterized by severe forward flexion of the thoracolumbar spine which typically increases during walking or standing and completely disappears in supine position. Camptocormia can be due to central nervous system diseases, such as Parkinson's ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Finsterer J,Strobl W

更新日期：2010-01-01 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 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：: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：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：AIMS:This study was designed to investigate if folate treatment is able to reverse the phenytoin-induced deficiency of salivary immunoglobulin A (IgA). METHODS AND MATERIAL:Twenty-five epileptic patients who had been under phenytoin therapy for at least the last 6 months were randomly selected and subjected to folic a...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Zare M,Ghazvini MR,Yazdi HR,Nezhad VS,Chitsaz A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological findings in 10 patients with polyneuropathy and nonmalignant IgMk plasma cell dyscrasia are reported. The amplitude of sensory action potentials and maximum conduction velocity along the sural and median nerves are related to the structural changes found at the biopsy and to the immunologic result...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Galassi G,Nemni R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies focusing on the anatomy and pathology of the 7th cranial nerve have already been published. However, only scattered cases of herpes zoster oticus (HZO) have been described and only the MRI appearance of the soft temporal bone structures has been reporte...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Berrettini S,Bianchi MC,Segnini G,Sellari-Franceschini S,Bruschini P,Montanaro D

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Platelet counts (PCs) <100,000/µl are considered as a contraindication for intravenous thrombolysis (IVT). While US guidelines recommend IVT initiation before the availability of clotting tests, the guidelines of the European Stroke Organization give no such practical advice. We aimed to assess the incidence...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Breuer L,Huttner HB,Kiphuth IC,Ringwald J,Hilz MJ,Schwab S,Köhrmann M

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:It is generally believed that a homonymous defect of macular vision (HMV) is caused by a small lesion restricted to the occipital lobe tip and rarely results from ischemic stroke. The incidence of HMV was studied retrospectively in 54 patients with infarction of the posterior cerebral artery territory who underwent Go...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Isa K,Miyashita K,Yanagimoto S,Nagatsuka K,Naritomi H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:It is generally assumed that silent brain infarction (SBI) and symptomatic lacunar infarction (sLAC) share common vascular risk factors and their pathogeneses are known to be similar. However, few studies have conducted a risk factor profile analysis of the two diseases in a single study design. METHOD...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Kim MH,Moon JS,Park SY,An SA,Kim OJ,Kim NK,Oh SH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old alcoholic woman was admitted for convulsions. She died after a 4-week clinical course characterized by a persistent coma with diffuse muscular hypertonia. Post-mortem examination of the brain demonstrated a spongy degeneration and gliosis of the cerebral cortex, limited to the 3rd and the 4th layers. No ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Naeije R,Franken L,Jacobovitz D,Flament-Durand J

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old patient with a lifelong history of epileptic attacks is described. A skull X-ray showed a round calcified nonhomogenous left frontotemporal mass. A CT scan confirmed its presence, as well as displacement of the left lateral and the third ventricles. At surgery a calcified inactive hydatid cyst was totall...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Micheli F,Lehkuniec E,Giannaula R,Caputi E,Paradiso G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00