Emerging treatments in dementia.

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：:A case of Fisher's syndrome which recurred 10 years apart was reported. Laterality of cranial nerve findings in the initial episode was replicated in the recurrence. Some kind of localized immune sensitization is supposed to play a role in replicating such a laterality. Increased CD4/CD8 ratio and elevated IgE were no...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Uchihara T,Ikeda M,Tsukagoshi H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of lithium neurotoxic effects are reported. Both cases are expressed by choreoathetotic movements and in both of them intoxication was caused by combined drug therapy. In our opinion caution is advised when lithium is administered in combination with drugs, especially in elderly patients. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Walevski A,Radwan M

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：AIM:The aim of this study was to investigate the association of autonomic nervous system abnormalities on head-up tilt table test (HUTT) with generalized joint hypermobility, expressed by Beighton score (BS). METHODS:This was a prospective study that included 115 consecutive patients (91 females; mean age 34.35 ± 14.1...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Adamec I,Junakovic A,Krbot Skorić M,Habek M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Cerebral infarction (CI) occurring soon after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) has been rarely reported. The purpose of the present study was to characterize this condition and discuss the possible pathophysiology. METHOD:We retrospectively studied 6 patients who developed CI within 10 days after ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Kim CH,Kim JS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regressive painless left third nerve paralysis with pupillary involvement was followed 6 months later by a right painful complete ophthalmoplegia. The two attacks resolved without treatment. The patient, 22 years old, was recognized diabetic and no other cause was found. It is suggested that this clinical pattern is c...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Davous P,Demierre B,Massiou H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-year-old girl with huge, double arachnoid cysts at the cerebellopontine angle is reported. After a cyst-peritoneal shunt operation, she developed fine, high-frequency gaze nystagmus towards the lesion side combined with coarse, large amplitude nystagmus in the opposite direction, which is the reverse of the Bruns'...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Yokota J,Imai H,Okuda O,Sato K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 5-year follow-up of a case of adult metachromatic leukodystrophy, already diagnosed in the preclinical stage, the development of the symptoms of this disease could be studied in detail: initially, lack of drive, emotional lability and depressive mood. At the same time, pain in the arms and beginning gait disturba...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pilz H,Duensing I,Heipertz R,Seidel D,Lowitzsch K,Hopf HC,Goebel HH

更新日期：1977-01-01 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：:The efficacy of the 5-HT1 receptor agonist sumatriptan in the acute treatment of migraine has been investigated in an extensive programme of controlled clinical trials. Sumatriptan provided rapid relief from migraine headache with onset of relief occurring within 10 min of a 6 mg subcutaneous injection and within 30 m...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pilgrim AJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MPTP, 1-methyl-4-phenyl-pyridinium ion (MPP+) and the structurally related compounds including N-methyltetrahydroisoquinilinium ion inhibited the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) system in tissue slices of rat striatum at 10(-5) M. Mouse striatum is more susceptible to MPTP than rat striatum. A similar degree of inhibition b...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Nagatsu T,Hirata Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who on presentation fulfilled diagnostic criteria for benign intracranial hypertension subsequently developed a lymphocytic meningitis. A final diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis was made and the patient responded well to oral steroids. ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Redwood MD,Winer JB,Rossor M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Half of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) develop dementia. We studied topographic distribution of cerebral hypometabolism in PD with different types of MCI. METHODS:This study included 61 nondemented PD patients and 14 age-matched controls. PD patients were grouped into...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Lyoo CH,Jeong Y,Ryu YH,Rinne JO,Lee MS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral choroid plexus papillomas, or villous hypertrophy of the choroid plexus, is a very rare entity that presents serious therapeutical problems in the management of secondary oversecretive hydrocephalus. The authors report the cases of 2 infants affected by this condition, and cured with removal of the lateral v...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Di Rocco C,Iannelli A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Intracranial angioplasty stenting may be an efficient therapy in patients with intracranial atherosclerotic symptomatic vertebrobasilar artery stenosis unresponsive to optimal medical therapy. We present our experience in this setting. RESULTS:The study included 12 cases (8 men, 4 women), with an age range ...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Ralea IC,Nighoghossian N,Tahon F,Derex L,Cakmak S,Trouillas P,Turjman F

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：: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：:This study assessed gender differences in diabetic patients with ischemic stroke with respect to vascular risk factors, clinical features and early outcome. Ischemic stroke was diagnosed in 261 diabetic women and 300 diabetic men of 2,446 ischemic stroke patients included in a prospective stroke registry over 17 years...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Arboix A,Milian M,Oliveres M,García-Eroles L,Massons J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We attempted to investigate changes of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) according to walking ability in chronic stroke patients, using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). METHODS:55 consecutive chronic stroke patients who were not able to walk due to injury of the corticospinal tract (CST) at stroke onset and...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Yeo SS,Ahn SH,Choi BY,Chang CH,Lee J,Jang SH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to ascertain the clinical manifestations of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's) (GPA) with the involvement of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS). SUMMARY:All neurologic inpatients in a hospital over a 12-year period were reviewed. Nine pat...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Huang YH,Ro LS,Lyu RK,Chang HS,Wu YR,Chang KH,Kuo HC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:70 cases of multiple sclerosis were seen at the Department of Neurology of the Capital Hospital in 1949--1977. There were 25 males and 45 females averaging 30.6 years of age. The most frequent sites of the lesions based on the clinical symptomatology were the spinal cord and optic nerve, the cerebellum was much less f...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Zhao BX,Liu XQ,Guo YP,Yang YC,Huang HF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum toxin type B (BT-B) therapy failure due to formation of botulinum toxin type B antibodies (BT-B-AB) has only been reported in patients with botulinum toxin type A antibodies (BT-A-AB). We are reporting BT-B-AB-induced therapy failure in 2 patients with no previous exposure to botulinum toxin. In patient 1 co...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Dressler D,Bigalke H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate whether writing errors are predictive of longitudinal brain atrophy progression in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS:The frequency of writing errors in 6 ALS patients without dementia was compared with longitudinal changes in lateral ventricular areas of the bilateral anteri...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Ichikawa H,Ohno H,Murakami H,Ohnaka Y,Kawamura M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The child prodigy Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens received his medical degree at Montpellier when aged 19. As a young promising physician Flourens was asked to investigate Gall's controversial views on cerebral localization. To test Gall's assertions, Flourens developed ablation as a procedure to explore the workings of th...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Pearce JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case presenting continuous muscle fiber activity syndrome, which was slightly reduced by the blocking of nerve conduction and abolished by ischemia. Clinical, electromyographical and bioptical evidence of marked abnormalities of peripheral motoneurons were observed. Association with central motoneuron le...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Cotrufo R,Di Iorio G,Ammendola A,Bravaccio F

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are intracranial vascular malformations that can exist as a single lesion or mixed vascular lesions. The most common mixed form is the coexistence of CCM with an associated developmental venous anomaly (DVA). In this paper, we aim to give a comprehensive review of CCM,...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Idiculla PS,Gurala D,Philipose J,Rajdev K,Patibandla P

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with Down's syndrome (DS) who developed progressive parkinsonian symptomatology at the age of 43 years. His parkinsonism was responsive to levodopa/carbidopa, but he developed end of dose wearing off. We discuss basal ganglia and dopamine abnormalities in DS and suggest that DS may be associated wi...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Singer C,Sanchez-Ramos J,Weiner WJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gradual intraneuronal accumulation of an insoluble fibrous material which partly consists of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein (neurofibrillary change) represents an important neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Neurofibrillary tangles and neuropil threads formed from this material develop in on...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Braak H,Braak E,Bohl J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticonvulsant therapy was stopped in 191 epileptic children (109 males and 82 females) after a seizure-free period of at least 2 years, independent of EEG findings, followed up for a minimum of 2 years after withdrawal. Overall, 43 (22.5%) had recurrence of seizures; of these, 79% relapsed within the 1st year after d...

journal_title：European neurology

authors： Mastropaolo C,Tondi M,Carboni F,Manca S,Zoroddu F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00