Abstract:
:It was the purpose of this study to compare the efficacy and side effects of lamotrigine (LTG) and vigabatrin (VGB) as add-on therapy in epilepsies of childhood resistant to conventional drugs. Retrospective analysis of the medical charts and electroencephalograms of 134 children (LTG 57, VGB 77) was performed considering the various epileptic seizures and syndromes. In general, LTG and VGB had similar efficacy, with 30-40 % of patients demonstrating significant improvement. Few differences according to seizure type and epileptic syndrome were observed. Primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures more frequently improved and less frequently worsened with LTG than with VGB. In tonic seizures the treatment results were significantly more favorable with VGB. Only insignificantly better results occurred with LTG in the generalized group and with VGB in the localization-related group. VGB was significantly more effective in symptomatic than in idiopathic and cryptogenic syndromes. The frequency of adverse reactions with both drugs was close to 60%. However, treatment had to be discontinued because of severe rashes in only a few patients taking LTG or because of behavior disturbances in patients taking VGB.
journal_name
Pediatr Neuroljournal_title
Pediatric neurologyauthors
Dimova PS,Korinthenberg Rdoi
10.1016/s0887-8994(99)00098-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-11-01 00:00:00pages
802-7issue
5eissn
0887-8994issn
1873-5150pii
S0887-8994(99)00098-3journal_volume
21pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Case reports of four patients with therapy-resistant lesional partial epilepsies and additional foci of benign epileptic discharges of childhood, in addition to the usual electroencephalogram (EEG) changes, are presented. A family history of epileptic or febrile seizures in childhood was reported in all four patients....
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(99)00004-1
更新日期:1999-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Excessive gum-chewing is underreported as a headache precipitant in children and adolescents. We evaluated the influence of daily excessive gum-chewing in older children and teenagers with chronic headache, emphasizing the impact of habit discontinuation and its reintroduction. METHODS:Patients with chronic...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2013.08.015
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::We describe a fetal intracerebral hemorrhage associated with familial thrombophilia. Intraventricular and intraparenchymal hemorrhage of the left cerebral hemisphere was diagnosed at 22 weeks of gestation. Neuropathologic examination demonstrated a large germinal zone hemorrhage and ischemic changes secondary to bleed...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2009.04.027
更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Systemic T-cell lymphoma presenting with neurologic symptoms is infrequently reported in immunocompetent children. We investigated the presenting features in all 20 immunocompetent children diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma at our institution from 1992-2004. Four children presented with neurologic features. These finding...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2006.05.005
更新日期:2006-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Perifascicular atrophy of muscle fibers is generally considered to be a specific feature of autoimmune myopathies, dermatomyositis in particular. We describe a neonate presenting with hypotonia and weakness. A biopsy revealed atrophic and regenerating muscle fibers in a perifascicular distribution, and abnormal alkali...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(96)00127-0
更新日期:1996-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Transient bulbar palsy without involvement of the facial or extraocular muscles is a rare presentation. It is considered a form of cranial polyneuropathy, a variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome that is related to the autoimmune mechanisms induced by preceding infections or vaccinations. However, drug-induced c...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2016.07.011
更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Resting cerebral glucose metabolism was assessed by 18[F]-fluorodeoxyglucose in 11 Down syndrome patients. Standardized uptake values were determined on a pixel-by-pixel basis from the measured tissue-activity data. The results revealed a mean overall 18[F]-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the Down syndrome patients close...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2005.08.035
更新日期:2006-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::A case of alternating hemiplegia of childhood is reported. Tonic fits and generalized tonic-clonic seizures developed during her infancy. Frequent twitching and apneic seizures appeared at 16 years of age. Zonisamide transiently suppressed the tonic, twitching and apneic seizures, as well as the facial and neck dyston...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(98)00016-2
更新日期:1998-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis is rare in childhood. Diagnosis is sometimes difficult, and imaging methods range from MRI to MRA to conventional angiography. In doubtful cases a brain biopsy is necessary for diagnostic purposes. We describe a 6-year old child affected with primary angiitis of the CNS who was ...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2012.12.025
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Magnetic resonance imaging and evoked potential studies were performed on an infant with hydranencephaly. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated the absence of cortical tissue with a structurally intact mid- and hind-brain. Evoked potentials confirmed the loss of cortical activity with preservation of brainstem funct...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(88)90010-0
更新日期:1988-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Normal development of the central nervous system depends on complex, dynamic mechanisms with multiple spatial and temporal components during gestation. Neurodevelopmental disorders may originate during fetal life from genetic as well as intrauterine and extrauterine factors that affect the fetal-maternal environment. ...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.10.009
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::We describe two children from a consanguineous family who manifested mega-corpus callosum, polymicrogyria, and psychomotor retardation. These patients also exhibited the brain anomalies of pontine hypoplasia and an abnormal cerebellar vermis. Our report confirms the genetic nature of megalencephaly-polymicrogyria-mega...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2009.09.012
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Patients in China with juvenile-onset myasthenia gravis present early, with a high prevalence of purely ocular symptoms, spontaneous remission rates, and low antibody seropositivity. Antibody detection using a cell-based assay has been reported to increase the diagnostic sensitivity in adult-onset myasthenia...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2019.01.016
更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Carpal tunnel syndrome, although rare, is known to occur in children mainly because of genetic or metabolic disorders. The clinical findings are variable and include symptoms of burning pain, tingling, numbness, and weakness or atrophy in the hands of the patients. It is usually diagnosed by demonstration of prolonged...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(03)00280-7
更新日期:2003-10-01 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 report presents a new mutation in the first Japanese female infant with spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 1. She manifested the characteristic clinical features, including early-onset respiratory failure due to diaphragmatic paralysis and severe distal muscle weakness. Muscle biopsy in the fe...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2004.11.003
更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::An optimal botulinum toxin dose may be related to the volume of the targeted muscle. We investigated the suitability of using ultrasound and anthropometry to estimate gastrocnemius and soleus muscle volume. Gastrocnemius and soleus muscle thickness was measured in 11 cadaveric human legs, using ultrasound. Lower leg l...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.05.019
更新日期:2007-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Cerebrospinal fluid opening pressure is elevated with central nervous system infection and vasculitis, but has not been studied in inflammatory demyelinating disease. This retrospective study sought to determine whether children with demyelinating disease demonstrate elevated cerebrospinal fluid opening pres...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2015.01.002
更新日期:2015-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::A wide cavum septum pellucidum defined as a separation of greater than 1 cm of the leaves occurs uncommonly. Nine children with wide cavum septum pellucidum were studied; 8 were abnormal. Observed abnormalities included cognitive impairment (8), seizures (4), hypoplasia of the corpus callosum (4), optic nerve hypoplas...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(90)90007-n
更新日期:1990-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy have an increased risk of long bone fractures. Such fractures are sometimes associated with brain dysfunction due to fat embolism syndrome, although this syndrome has seldom been documented in muscular dystrophy patients. PATIENT DESCRIPTION:We describe a child w...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2016.05.013
更新日期:2016-10-01 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::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::Mitochondrial encephalopathies may be caused by mutations in the respiratory chain complex I subunit genes. Described here are the cases of two pediatric patients who presented with MELAS-like calcarine lesions in addition to novel, bilateral rolandic lesions and epilepsia partialis continua, secondary to MT-ND3 mutat...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2009.02.010
更新日期:2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Central nervous system complications of bone marrow transplant are a common occurrence and the differential diagnosis is quite broad, including opportunistic infections, medications toxicities, graft versus host disease, and other autoimmune processes. PATIENT DESCRIPTION:We summarize previously reported ca...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2014.07.007
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Forty-seven patients (39 boys and 8 girls) with infantile autism whose clinical symptoms had matched the diagnostic criteria of DSM III were studied cytogenetically for the occurrence of fragile X [fra(X)] syndrome. The existence of fra(X) chromosome in these patients was screened first by culturing peripheral blood l...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(87)90069-5
更新日期:1987-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Variant forms of the Guillain-Barré syndrome are characterized by their localized or regional involvement of the peripheral and autonomic nerves. As there is no single clinical or serologic marker for Guillain-Barré syndrome, diagnosis of this condition is based upon consistent clinical, laboratory, and neurophysiolog...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2005.04.012
更新日期:2005-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Auditory event-related potentials (P300 latency; odd-ball paradigm) were examined in 129 patients with childhood epilepsies and 53 controls. The P300 latency in the patients with epilepsies (373 +/- 39.4 ms) was significantly longer than in controls (356 +/- 38.4), and the prolongation was greatest in the patients wit...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(95)00001-v
更新日期:1995-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 4-year-old female with choroid plexus carcinoma developed progressive disturbance of consciousness 2 years after postoperative treatment with radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and focal methotrexate injection into a residual tumor cyst. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed white matter lesions localized around the expandin...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2004.06.018
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Relapsing neuromyelitis optica is rare in children. The identification of a highly specific serum autoantibody marker (neuromyelitis optica-immunoglobulin G) differentiates neuromyelitis optica from other demyelinating disorders, particularly in clinically challenging cases. We present a child with multiple episodes o...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2008.05.016
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Positron emission tomography (PET) using 18F-labeled 2-deoxy-D-glucose was performed serially in 5 infants with idiopathic West syndrome. While tonic spasms persisted, 2 infants had hypometabolism in the bilateral temporo-parieto-occipital regions, which disappeared after cessation of spasms. In 2 other infants, PET r...
journal_title:Pediatric neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0887-8994(93)90021-4
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00