Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Clinical analysis of 78 cases from Fortaleza (northeastern Brazil).

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Epileptic manifestations of Neurocysticercosis (NC) appear to depend on number and localization of the cysts. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between CT findings, number of parasites and the evolutive stage of the cysts, and the prognosis of epilepsy in children with NC. ME...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferreira LS,Zanardi VA,Li ML,Guerreiro MM

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-three patients with dermatopolymyositis were evaluated from the clinical, laboratory and therapeutical aspects during a period of 15 years: 39 are women and 24 men. The mean age was 36.8 +/- 15.6 years. No correlation was observed between clinical and isolated therapeutics employed; when corticosteroids and cyto...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Marchiori PE,Hirata MT,Scaff M,de Oliveira RM,Cossermelli W,Levy JA,de Assis JL

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the teratogenic activity of an antiepileptic drug - lamotrigine - was carried out in the brain of fetuses of rats who had received the drug. The dosage levels studied corresponded to four times the median effective dose (ED50) in rats. The drug was administered during the organogenesis period. Rats were sac...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Marchi NS,Azoubel R,Tognola WA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To observe postpartum migraine recurrence among migraine sufferers before pregnancy, its classifications and associated factors and to compare women, who were exclusively breastfeeding, with those that used other forms of infant feeding. METHODS:Out of 686 consecutively assisted women, at the first postnata...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Serva WA,Serva VM,Caminha Mde F,Figueiroa JN,Serva GB,Valença MM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study is based on 371 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples and 324 serum samples from 40 patients with neurocysticercosis (NC) submitted to treatment with praziquantel. The aim of the study is a critical evaluation on humoral immunity in CSF NC syndrome. The analysis of NC patients at diagnosis and in the follow-up p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The many kinds of complication that have been observed following operations of basilar impression and/or malformation of Arnold-Chiari are analysed. Two surgical techniques were adopted in the treatment of the patients. In the first 64 cases, the operation consisted in the craniectomy of the posterior fossa and high c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gonçalves da Silva JA,Gonçalves da Silva CE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoma of the cerebellopontine angle is a very rare tumor. We report the case of a 14-years-old female, with left side deafness during three years, associated with headache. CT scan showed an hypodense mass, without enhancement at the cerebellopontine angle. The patient was treated surgically by left retrosigmoid appr...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fagundes-Pereyra WJ,Marques JA,Carvalho GT,Sousa AA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish preoperatively the localization of the cortical projection of the inferior choroidal point (ICP) and use it as a reliable landmark when approaching the temporal horn through a middle temporal gyrus access. To review relevant anatomical features regarding selective amigdalohippocampectomy (AH) for...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Frigeri T,Rhoton A,Paglioli E,Azambuja N

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the predictive value of cerebral ultrasound in infants diagnoses on meningitis neonatal to the neurological outcome. METHOD:A retrospective study of 16 children admitted at Institute Fernandes Figueira RJ-Brazil, who had neonatal meningitis and were examined by cerebral ultrasound. The neurologic...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Monteiro AM,Bomfim O

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed 27 complex partial seizures arising from the temporal lobes recorded on videotape simultaneously with the EEG emphasizing the motor manifestations specially dystonic posturing, ictal paresis and head and eye forced deviation (version). The temporal lobe origin of the seizures was based on the agreement of ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Yacubian EM,Valério RM,Jorge CL,Fiore LA,Cukiert A,de Assis LM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The association between memory loss and Hodgkin's lymphoma has been given the eponym of Ophelia syndrome, in memory of Shakespeare's character in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Nevertheless, there are differences between the disease and the character. OBJECTIVE:To review the origins and uses of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Soto-Rincón CA,Castillo-Torres SA,Cantú-García DA,Estrada-Bellmann I,Chávez-Luévanos B,Marfil A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings of 78 patients with meningiomas diagnosed in a single institution. METHOD:78 patients with histological proven intracranial meningioma were studied. There were 52 female and 26 male patients (median=56 years). All MR imaging examinations were performed ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gasparetto EL,Leite Cda C,Lucato LT,Barros CV,Marie SK,Santana P,Aguiar PH,Rosemberg S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moyamoya is a chronic progressive cerebrovascular disease with characteristic angiographic findings and a clinical picture with episodes of transient ischemic attacks, headache, seizures, hemiparesis, which may resolve after surgical treatment. We describe the case of a girl with the typical findings of the disease, c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ciasca SM,Alves HL,Guimarães IE,Terra AP,Moura-Ribeiro MV,Camargo EE,Etchebehere ES,Santos Ade O

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant brain tumor experimental models tend to employ cells that are immunologically compatible with the receptor animal. In this study, we have proposed an experimental model of encephalic tumor development by injecting C6 cells into athymic Rowett rats, aiming at reaching a model which more closely resembles to t...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Miura FK,Alves MJ,Rocha MC,Silva RS,Oba-Shinjo SM,Uno M,Colin C,Sogayar MC,Marie SK

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a 46-year old woman with a ventral epidural angiolipoma at the lumbosacral level with erosion of the sacrum. About ninety cases of spinal angiolipomas have been previously described in the literature, most of them situated on the thoracic region, dorsal to the dural sac. Angiolipomas can be radica...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： do Souto AA,Domingues FS,Chimelli L,Lemos AM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of present study was to evaluate the number and basophily of cell bodies of myenteric neurons in the ileum of rats with diabetes mellitus induced by streptozotocin. Four groups of rats were used: diabetes was induced in two (D) whereas the other two worked as controls (N). Animals were sacrificed six (6N, 6D) ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Hernandes L,Bazotte RB,Gama P,Miranda-Neto MH

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize neurological involvement in juvenile systemic lupus erythe-matosus. METHOD:The charts of all patients with the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus before the age of 16 years, followed at the Rheumatology Unit of Pequeno Príncipe Hospital, from January 1992 to January 2006, were retrospe...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Spinosa MJ,Bandeira M,Liberalesso PB,Vieira SC,Janz LL Jr,Sá EG,Löhr A Jr

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of the endoscopic transsphenoidal technique for growth hormone (GH)-secreting adenomas. Methods:A retrospective analysis based on medical records of 23 acromegalic patients submitted to endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery. Biochemical control was defined as ba...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Leopoldo CMDS,Leopoldo FMDS,Santos ARLD,Veiga JCE,Lima JV Junior,Scalissi NM,Lazarini PR,Dolci RLL

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare neuromotor development between patients who did and those who did not undergo intrauterine myelomeningocele repair. METHODS:Children with myelomeningocele aged between 3.5 and 6 years who did undergo intrauterine repair (Group A, n=6) or not (Group B; n=7) were assessed for neuromotor development ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Faria TC,Cavalheiro S,Hisaba WJ,Moron AF,Torloni MR,Oliveira AL,Borges CP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:West syndrome (WS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy of childhood, characterized by spasms, developmental deterioration and hipsarhythymia. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of vigabatrin (VGB) in the treatment of WS. METHOD:We evaluated every patient diagnosed with WS seen at the pediatric ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moraes MH,Montenegro MA,Franzon RC,Avila JO,Guerreiro MM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) is often not recognized with serious consequences on the sufferers. We examined factors contributing to the missed diagnosis of IGE in 41 adults attending our epilepsy clinic with diagnosis of partial epilepsy who had semiology or EEG findings suggesting a possible differential di...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mory SB,Guerreiro CA,Li LM,Teixeira RA,Costa AL,Cardoso TA,Cendes F

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important methods and results found in literature on immunoglobulins of the normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are reviewed. A study was made of immunoglobulins in the CSF of 50 individuals who suffered from chronic migraine but showed normal results for the physical and neurological examinations; electroenceph...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the period March to May 1979, 6 patients with trigeminal neuralgia were operated on, neurovascular decompression being carried out in the posterior fossa. In 5 cases an arterial loop was found compressing the root of the V nerve at its apparent origin in the protuberance, and in one case a large calibrous twisted v...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Niemeyer Filho P

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk/benefit ratio of acute anticoagulation in ischaemic cerebro-vascular disease is not clearly established. A simple and safe intermittent intravenous heparin regimen (20000 IU daily) was used prospectively in 50 patients of 57 +/- 14 (m +/- sd) years of age whose blood pressures ranged from normal to severe hyp...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bittencourt PR,Padilha S,Mazer S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of endolymphatic sac adenocarcinoma is reported and the literature is reviewed. The clinical picture was presented by vertigo and progressive hearing loss caused by a tumor of the endolymphatic sac. The surgical removal was complete, via a retro and translabyrinthine approach. Endolymphatic sac tumors are local...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Silveira RL,Gusmão SS,Pittella JE,Santos SP

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosarcoidosis (NS) more commonly occurs in the setting of systemic disease. The diagnosis is based on a clinical history suggestive of NS, presence of noncaseating granulomas, and supportive evidence of sarcoid pathology, laboratory, and imaging studies. NS could involve any part of the nervous system and often dem...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Dutra LA,Braga-Neto P,Oliveira RA,Pedroso JL,Abrahão A,Barsottini OG

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 32-year-old woman who complained of dull and compressing occipital pain, with unilateral radiation to the left frontal and supraorbital areas (of the sickening type). The radiological, clinical, neurosurgical and neuropathologic investigation disclosed a medulloblastoma bulging and tickening th...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Piovesan EJ,Werneck LC,Teive HA,Navarro F,Kówacs PA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 42 year-old woman developed paraplegia that resolved in six months, followed by sudden right hemiparesis and dysphasia two years later. The clinical work-up, including CT and MR scans, visual evoked potential, CSF examination and cerebral biopsy suggested the possibility of either multiple sclerosis or multiphasic d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Maranhäo-Filho PA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between total plasma homocysteine concentration, C677T and A1298C polymorphisms in MTHFR gene and Alzheimer's disease (AD) development. METHOD:Forty-three patients with probable (63%) and possible (37%) AD and 50 non-demented controls were evaluated. Groups did not differ as to...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： da Silva VC,Ramos FJ,Freitas EM,de Brito-Marques PR,Cavalcanti MN,D'Almeida V,Cabral-Filho JE,Muniz MT

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of occurrence and to characterize the typology of dysfluencies in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), including the variables age, gender, schooling, disease duration, score on the Hoehn and Yahr scale and cognitive status (score on Mini-Mental State Ex...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brabo NC,Minett TS,Ortiz KZ

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00