An unusual form of measles meningoencephalitis. A report of two cases.

abstract：:The similar localization of intracranial calcification in hypoparathyroidism and in Fahr disease without parathyroid gland disorder suggests that in these two disorders the pathomechanism of calcium phosphate deposition in the brain may be similar. It may be that in Fahr disease some factors, such as chronic respirato...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Pronicka E,Kulczycki J,Rowińska E,Kuran W

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss two cases receiving different anti-tumornecrosis-factor alpha antagonists (anti-TNF-alpha); one for psoriatic arthritis (PA) and the other for ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Due to neurological symptoms cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed and cerebral lesions were detected. Our interpretat...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Winkelmann A,Patejdl R,Wagner S,Benecke R,Zettl UK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two right-handed patients who exhibited language disability after left frontal infarction are described. The patients spoke fluently and exhibited excellent repetition ability from the onset of infarction without exhibiting any oral apraxia, but had deficits in auditory comprehension, naming, reading and writing. In b...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Otsuki M,Soma Y,Koyama A,Yoshimura N,Furukawa H,Tsuji S

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alemtuzumab is an anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody recently licensed for use in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Here, we report our experience of its use in neuromyelitis optica (NMO) spectrum disorders. A retrospective case review of patients treated with alemtuzumab in Cambridge, UK, was conducted to identify t...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Azzopardi L,Cox AL,McCarthy CL,Jones JL,Coles AJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte recruitment and inflammatory response play an important patho-physiologic role after cerebral ischemia. This study aimed to evaluate whether leukocyte adhesion molecules can predict clinical outcome in patients after ischemic stroke. We prospectively examined serial changes in p-selectin glycoprotein ligand-...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Tsai NW,Chang WN,Shaw CF,Jan CR,Huang CR,Chen SD,Chuang YC,Lee LH,Lu CH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl with rapid-onset, bulbospinal muscular atrophy and deafness is described. The patient's mother and brother showed EMG features consistent with subclinical involvement. T is bulbospinal form of spinal muscular atrophy associated with deafness described by Vialetto and van Laere closely resembles the Madras type ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Summers BA,Swash M,Schwartz MS,Ingram DA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uric acid (UA) is reduced in multiple sclerosis (MS), and possibly relates to MS outcomes, with lower UA levels in subjects experiencing a relapse or presenting higher disability scores. The present retrospective longitudinal study evaluated UA variations in MS, in relation to clinical relapses, disability progression...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Moccia M,Lanzillo R,Costabile T,Russo C,Carotenuto A,Sasso G,Postiglione E,De Luca Picione C,Vastola M,Maniscalco GT,Palladino R,Brescia Morra V

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a fatal case of neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a muscle sample taken within 1 h of death showed acute myopathic features with absence of muscle glycogen and neutral lipid. These features suggest that hyperpyrexia in this syndrome may be caused by heat production from uncoupled phosphorylation in muscle and imply t...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Martin DT,Swash M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the neuronal antibodies described in CNS disorders in order to clarify their diagnostic value, emphasize potentials pitfalls and limitations in the diagnosis of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS), and examine the current evidence for a possible pathogenic role. We propose to classify the neuronal an...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Graus F,Saiz A,Dalmau J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a clinical, neuro-radiological and genetic study on a family with members suffering from an autosomal dominantly inherited syndrome characterised by epilepsy, cerebral calcifications and cysts, bone abnormalities; progressive neuro-cognitive deterioration and paranasal sinusitis. This syndrome shares severa...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Karlinger K,Tárnoki ÁD,Tárnoki DL,Polvi A,Lehesjoki AE,Kelemen A,Szegedi L,Turányi E,Kamondi A,Szűcs A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-seven cases of the optic-spinal form of multiple sclerosis (OSMS) were collected from 6 institutes in 3 cities of Japan, and the clinical and MRI features were analyzed. Two-thirds of the OSMS patients had longitudinally extensive spinal cord MRI lesions (LESL), and had clinical features similar to those of re...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Nakashima I,Fukazawa T,Ota K,Nohara C,Warabi Y,Ohashi T,Miyazawa I,Fujihara K,Itoyama Y

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinicopathological findings of a 50-year-old man, who developed cervicothoracic syringomyelia at the age of 25 are presented. He was given radiation therapy at the age of 33. At the age of 57 he developed a foramen jugulare syndrome on the left, caused by a low grade leiomyosarcoma. Etiologically, the most attrac...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sieben G,Sieben-Praet M,De Reuck J,De Coster W,Remouchamps A,Roels H,vander Eecken H

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain metastasis is a common complication occurring in about 15-20% of all cancer patients. For the initial management, distinguishing between three types of presentation is essential: de novo brain metastasis, simultaneous presentation of both brain metastasis and the primary tumour (usually lung carcinoma), and the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Vecht CJ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the mitofusin 2 (MFN2) gene are a major cause of primary axonal Charcot- Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathy. This study aims at further characterization of cerebral white matter alterations observed in patients with MFN2 mutations. Molecular genetic, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic resonance spectros...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Brockmann K,Dreha-Kulaczewski S,Dechent P,Bönnemann C,Helms G,Kyllerman M,Brück W,Frahm J,Huehne K,Gärtner J,Rautenstrauss B

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor tests were performed in 50 HIV-infected patients in all stages according to the current CDC classification, but without any clinically evident central nervous system deficit, and the results compared with an age-matched control group. Patients were excluded from the study if there was alcohol or drug abuse, feve...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Arendt G,Hefter H,Elsing C,Strohmeyer G,Freund HJ

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disability in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients is associated with white matter (WM) and gray matter (GM) pathology, and both processes contribute differently over the disease course. Total and regional GM volume loss can be imaged via voxel-based morphometry (VBM). Here, we retrospectively analyzed a group of 213 MS p...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Grothe M,Lotze M,Langner S,Dressel A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both neurologists and urologists might encounter patients with acute urinary retention due to benign inflammatory nervous diseases. Based on the mechanism of urinary retention, these disorders can be divided into two subgroups: disorders of the peripheral nervous system (e.g., sacral herpes) or the central nervous sys...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sakakibara R,Yamanishi T,Uchiyama T,Hattori T

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the association of Medial Temporal lobe Atrophy (MTA) and White Matter Hyperintensities (WMHs) with gray matter perfusion in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). METHODS:56 MCI patients (age = 69.3 +/- 7.0, 32 females) underwent brain MR scan and (99m)Tc ECD SPECT. We evaluated MTA according to Schelte...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Caroli A,Testa C,Geroldi C,Nobili F,Guerra UP,Bonetti M,Frisoni GB

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumefactive demyelinating lesions of the central nervous system can be the initial presentation in various pathological entities [multiple sclerosis (the most common), Balo's concentric sclerosis, Schilder's disease and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis] with overlapping clinical presentation. The aim of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Balloy G,Pelletier J,Suchet L,Lebrun C,Cohen M,Vermersch P,Zephir H,Duhin E,Gout O,Deschamps R,Le Page E,Edan G,Labauge P,Carra-Dallieres C,Rumbach L,Berger E,Lejeune P,Devos P,N'Kendjuo JB,Coustans M,Auffray-Calv

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The vegetative state, also known as the unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, is one of the worst possible outcomes of acquired brain injury and confronts rehabilitation specialists with various challenges. Emergence to (minimal) consciousness is classically considered unlikely beyond 3-6 months after non-traum...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： van Erp WS,Aben AML,Lavrijsen JCM,Vos PE,Laureys S,Koopmans RTCM

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posterior leukoencephalopathy typically denotes neurotoxicity from immunosuppressive agents, malignant hypertension or eclampsia. It has not been documented in central nervous system angiitis. We present three cases associated with isolated cerebral angiitis after review of all cases of isolated CNS angiitis from 1998...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Wijdicks EF,Manno EM,Fulgham JR,Giannini C

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cases of identical twins with ataxia telangiectasia, early intellectual impairment and progressive spasticity are reported. Immunological tests revealed reduced levels of serum and salivary IgA, increased B cells, reduced T cells and raised alpha-fetoprotein. CT scan performed in one of the twins was normal. The p...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Meshram CM,Sawhney IM,Prabhakar S,Chopra JS

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyronine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and reverse-triiodothyronine (rT3) levels were evaluated in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and in serum of 12 patients with definite amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by specific radioimmunoassays. Circulating microsomal and thyroglobulin antibodies were also evaluated. In all patie...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Malin JP,Ködding R,Fuhrmann H,von zur Mühlen A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moderate unilateral cerebral ischemia was produced by microembolism in 24 adult cats. Two million plastic microspheres with a diameter of 15 +/- 5 microns were injected into the left common carotid artery via the lingual artery. The physiological and metabolic responses to embolism were accessed by electrocorticograp...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sugi T,Schuier FJ,Hossmann KA,Zülch KJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of a significant improvement of IFNB-1b in clinical severity in the older population with RRMS has not been established so far. The aim of this exploratory post hoc analysis of the 250 mcg IFNB-1b group of the BEYOND study is to compare the efficacy and safety of older versus younger patients using a cut-off ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lampl C,Nagl S,Arnason B,Comi G,O Connor P,Cook S,Jeffery D,Kappos L,Filippi M,Beckmann K,Bogumil T,Pohl C,Sandbrink R,Hartung HP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of clinical and morphological findings in three fatal cases of acute necrotizing hemorrhagic encephalomyelitis (ANHE) and hyperacute experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (HEAE) in rhesus monkeys is reported. In all cases ANHE was characterized clinically by definite prodromal respiratory infecti...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ravkina L,Harib I,Manovitch Z,Deconenko E,Letchinskaja E,Papilova E

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cause of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) remains unknown, and no consensus exists on how patients should be monitored and treated. Acetazolamide is a common treatment but has never been examined in a randomised controlled trial. The objectives of this pilot trial are to prospectively evaluate the use of...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ball AK,Howman A,Wheatley K,Burdon MA,Matthews T,Jacks AS,Lawden M,Sivaguru A,Furmston A,Howell S,Sharrack B,Davies MB,Sinclair AJ,Clarke CE

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with an infarct limited to the paramedian thalamus and upper mesencephalon on the right side suffered a conjugate upgaze palsy associated with a monocular paresis of downward gaze in the ipsilateral eye (vertical "one-and-a-half" syndrome). This paresis involved tonic and phasic components. Vertical oculocep...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bogousslavsky J,Regli F

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the incidence and type of neurological complications and associated factors, we reviewed 41 consecutive patients who had 45 procedures for liver transplantation. Encephalopathy occurred after 28 procedures (62%) with immediate onset and no significant recovery before death or re-transplantation in 11 (24%), ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ghaus N,Bohlega S,Rezeig M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of multiple sclerosis (MS) attacks relies mostly on clinical assessment. However, their definition based on McDonald criteria refers mostly to timing and when dealing with clinical features is rather ambiguous: "...of the kind seen in multiple sclerosis." This is heightened in clinically isolated syndromes...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sastre-Garriga J,Tintoré M,Nos C,Tur C,Río J,Téllez N,Castilló J,Horga A,Perkal H,Comabella M,Rovira A,Montalban X

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00