Abstract:
:A newborn infant with seizures of unknown etiology that were refractory to treatment with phenobarbitone, phenytoin, midazolam, clonazepam, and vigabatrin is reported. The introduction of the new antiepileptic drug lamotrigine was followed by rapid and sustained control of the seizures.
journal_name
Pediatr Neuroljournal_title
Pediatric neurologyauthors
Barr PA,Buettiker VE,Antony JHdoi
10.1016/s0887-8994(98)00125-8subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-02-01 00:00:00pages
161-3issue
2eissn
0887-8994issn
1873-5150pii
S0887-8994(98)00125-8journal_volume
20pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Although acute disseminated encephalomyelitis has been observed after a variety of viral infections and an occasional bacterial infection, it has not been reported in association with rickettsial infections. Reported is a 7-year-old male with magnetic resonance images and clinical manifestations suggestive of acute di...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(99)00028-4
更新日期:1999-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::A morphometric magnetic resonance imaging study was performed, and the results were compared among three groups (group 1, periventricular leukomalacia patients with West syndrome; group 2, periventricular leukomalacia patients without West syndrome; and group 3, control patients) to clarify the characteristics and cau...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(98)00081-2
更新日期:1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome is an autosomal dominant condition because of mutations or deletions of the FOXL2 gene. Microcephaly is not associated with FOXL2 mutations but has been reported in individuals with chromosome 3q deletions, which include the FOXL2 gene and other contiguous...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2014.01.055
更新日期:2014-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::To explore the mechanisms of central nervous system involvement in children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura, levels of lupus anticoagulant, anticardiolipin antibodies, and anti-β2 glycoprotein I antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid were determined in 46 cases of Henoch-Schönlein purpura with central nervous syste...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2012.05.024
更新日期:2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Sturge-Weber syndrome without facial nevus is rare. Twenty-four cases were previously reported. Although hypomelanosis of Ito is a relatively common disorder, there was only one previous case in association with Sturge-Weber syndrome. We describe an 11-year-old boy with Sturge-Weber syndrome without facial nevus, coex...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2008.11.017
更新日期:2009-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Outcome in severe acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood is poor, with high mortality (30%) and moderate to severe disability in survivors despite the use of intravenous corticosteroids or immunoglobulins. Increased blood interleukin 6 level correlates with poor outcome. METHODS:We report the early u...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2019.04.009
更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Fontan operation is one of the most common cardiac operations for children with congenital heart disease beyond the first year of age. Although the surgical mortality of this procedure has improved over the past 2 decades, the neurologic outcome in this population is not well described. We performed a retrospectiv...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(95)00027-d
更新日期:1995-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Visual symptomatology in childhood often presents diagnostic difficulties. Recurrent paroxysmal visual complaints, although typically associated with migraine, may also signal other disorders. We describe a 9-year-old partially sighted male with paroxysmal zoopsias resulting from Charles Bonnet syndrome. This conditio...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(01)00358-7
更新日期:2002-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Comorbidities including hearing impairment occur commonly in individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS:Hearing impairment was assessed in a registry-derived population-based sample of children with CP. RESULTS:Hearing impairment was documented in 12.7% (27 of 212) with less than a quarter of these (or ...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2014.07.005
更新日期:2014-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Two visually impaired children with occipital infarctions are presented. One patient has profound impairment of his primary visual pathway but has good vision for traveling, while the other child presented with the symptoms in reverse. We believe that these two patients provide further evidence that the primary visual...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(86)90079-2
更新日期:1986-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study reports on a patient with Leigh syndrome with a T-to-C mutation at nucleotide 8993 of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (T8993C). The authors reviewed 10 Leigh syndrome patients, including ours, with T8993C. Compared with 18 reported patients with Leigh syndrome caused by a T-to-G mutation at nucleotide 8...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(97)00187-2
更新日期:1998-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mitochondrial oxidation of a variety of substrates produces the bulk of energy requirements for most cell types. Impairment of oxidative metabolism may result in a broad spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms. A disorder of oxidative metabolism should be suspected when an unexplained association of signs and symptoms...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(93)90041-a
更新日期:1993-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a rare neurologic disorder of childhood and adolescence. We describe a 16-year-old boy who manifested the disease despite proper vaccinations. He was hospitalized because of bedwetting, involuntary limb movements, abnormal speech, and balance disturbances. Immunoglobulin G antibo...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2011.01.011
更新日期:2011-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report a boy 20 months of age with encephalopathy, petechiae, and ethylmalonic aciduria (EPEMA). Other clinical features were severe hypotonia, orthostatic acrocyanosis, and chronic diarrhea. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain demonstrated bilateral lesions in the lenticular and caudate nuclei, periaqued...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(97)00048-9
更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Histologic changes in brains from mentally retarded patients are often subtle and may be limited to abnormalities in the dendritic and synaptic organization of the cerebral cortex. Special methods may be necessary for their demonstration. This review summarizes data on dendritic and synaptic pathology in human mental ...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(91)90001-2
更新日期:1991-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The diagnosis of postinfectious encephalomyelitis with symmetric lesions in the basal ganglia was confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging in 2 patients. A 7-year-old patient experienced severe dystonia and hyperreflexia; magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated bilateral lesions in the putamina and basis pontes. The ot...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(89)90024-6
更新日期:1989-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Arterial ischemic stroke occurs more frequently in term newborns than in the elderly, and brain immaturity affects mechanisms of ischemic injury and recovery. The susceptibility to injury of the brain was assumed to be lower in the perinatal period as compared with childhood. This concept was recently challe...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2015.01.016
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Patients with autosomal dominant Segawa disease (dopa-responsive dystonia) demonstrate excellent, sustained response to low-dose levodopa. In contrast, the development of levodopa limiting treatment dyskinesias is thought to support the diagnosis of other early-onset dystonia/parkinsonism syndromes. We describe an aty...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2012.03.003
更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Children with Rett syndrome manifest profound impairments in their ability to speak and use their hands, and exhibit a very limited repertoire of abilities to express themselves, to be neuropsychologically tested, and consequently to be understood. This study examined nonverbal cognitive abilities and visual preferenc...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2012.01.011
更新日期:2012-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:We identified a group of patients with ATP1A3 mutations at residue 756 who display a new phenotype, distinct from alternating hemiplegia of childhood, rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism, and cerebellar ataxia, areflexia, pes cavus, optic atrophy, sensorineural hearing loss syndromes. METHODS:Four patients wi...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2017.04.022
更新日期:2017-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Prevalence and contribution of intracranial and extracranial arterial stenosis to stroke risk were assessed prospectively in children and young adults with sickle cell disease. METHODS:In this cross-sectional study, children and young adults (mean = 19.4 years) with sickle cell disease underwent neurologica...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2020.10.006
更新日期:2021-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The juvenile form of GM1 gangliosidosis lacks specific physical findings and thus is often a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. T2 hypodensity in the globus pallidus is a characteristic radiographic sign of neurodegeneration with iron accumulation in the brain that is observed in GM1 gangliosidosis, but th...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2014.09.022
更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::In a prospective study, we analyzed the intraoperative electroencephalographic (EEG) changes during open heart surgery with deep hypothermia in 66 infants aged 6 months or younger, 70% of whom were neonates. Suppression of amplitude and continuity at the nadir of temperature reduction and following rewarming, and the ...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(94)90044-2
更新日期:1994-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Throughout the Middle Ages, most representations of the brain amounted to highly schematized ventricles housed within abstract squiggles of neural tissue. The works by the pre-eminent Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius in his De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) added considerably more accuracy and detail; stil...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2017.07.004
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The updated American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guidelines include recommendation for thrombectomy in certain adult stroke cases. The safety and efficacy of thrombectomy in children are unknown. An 8-year-old girl experienced acute stroke symptoms on two occasions while therapeutically anticoagulate...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2016.09.007
更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 2-year-old boy with acute optic neuritis, confirmed by gadolinium-DTPA enhancement of the optic nerve using frequency-selective fat-saturation pulse magnetic resonance imaging (Fat-Sat MRI), is reported. Because it is difficult in very young children to sufficiently evaluate visual acuity, visual field, and retroocu...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(95)00254-5
更新日期:1996-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cefepime toxicity is characterized by altered mental status, confusion, and decreased responsiveness. We describe a 14-year-old girl who developed acute encephalopathy associated with supratherapeutic cefepime concentrations in the setting of acute renal failure. The authors were unable to identify any previous report...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2012.08.017
更新日期:2012-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cardiac arrhythmia may be one of the major causes of sudden unexpected death in children with epilepsy. We assessed drug-induced QT prolongation to establish whether the use of antiepileptic drugs contributes to sudden unexpected death. A total of 178 children with epilepsy (93 males and 85 females, with ages ranging ...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S0887-8994(03)00405-3
更新日期:2004-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The acute effects of low-dose clonazepam on seizure frequency in children with epilepsy was evaluated. In an open study, 19 children with epilepsy (15 generalized and four partial) were examined during hospitalization with recordings of seizures by trained personnel. Seizures were counted during two 24-hour periods: b...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(02)00468-x
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Obstetrical brachial plexus palsy, one of the most complex peripheral nerve injuries, presents as an injury during the neonatal period. The majority of the children recover with either no deficit or a minor functional deficit, but it is almost certain that some will not regain adequate limb function. These few cases m...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.09.013
更新日期:2008-04-01 00:00:00