Seizures associated with calcifications and edema in neurocysticercosis.

abstract：:We analyzed the clinical manifestations, genetic mutations, treatment responses to L-dopa, and long-term neurologic outcomes in Taiwanese infants with tyrosine hydroxylase deficiency. From 1999 to May 2011, we enrolled six infants who had been diagnosed with tyrosine hydroxylase deficiency by identifying point mutatio...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chi CS,Lee HF,Tsai CR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three siblings, devoid of hair at birth, had an unusual autosomal recessive disorder characterized by universal congenital alopecia, microcephaly, seizures, psychomotor retardation, and severe growth failure. Metabolic and chromosome studies were normal. Skin biopsies disclosed immature hair follicles, some of which w...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wessel HB,Barmada MA,Hashida Y

更新日期：1987-03-01 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

authors： Yano ST,Silver K,Young R,DeBrosse SD,Ebel RS,Swoboda KJ,Acsadi G

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated by immunohistochemistry the distribution of protective protein in human tissues. Immunoreactivity was observed in the cytoplasm, revealing a granular pattern and cell type specificity. The most intense staining was observed in the large neurons of brain, distal and collecting tubular cells of ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sohma O,Mizuguchi M,Takashima S,Satake A,Itoh K,Sakuraba H,Suzuki Y,Oyanagi K

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel SCN1A gene are responsible for the majority of Dravet syndrome cases. There is evidence that the Nav1.1 channel coded by the SCN1A gene is involved in sleep regulation. We evaluated sleep abnormalities in children with Dravet syndrome using nocturnal polysomnogra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dhamija R,Erickson MK,St Louis EK,Wirrell E,Kotagal S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder that almost exclusively affects females. The clinical course as well as the electroencephalogram pattern are characteristic and have been correlated to the clinical stages of the disease. Sixty to 70 percent of the patients develop epilepsy. The aim of this retrospective ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Moser SJ,Weber P,Lütschg J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal group B streptococcus meningitis causes neurologic morbidity and mortality. Cerebrovascular involvement is a common, poorly studied, and potentially modifiable pathologic process. We hypothesized that imaging patterns of focal brain infarction are recognizable in neonatal group B streptococcal meningitis. A c...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hernández MI,Sandoval CC,Tapia JL,Mesa T,Escobar R,Huete I,Wei XC,Kirton A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study developed a Farsi language Communication Function Classification System and then tested its reliability and validity. METHODS:Communication Function Classification System is designed to classify the communication functions of individuals with cerebral palsy. Up until now, there has been no instru...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Soleymani Z,Joveini G,Baghestani AR

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the case of an 11-year-old girl with a prior history of epilepsy and multiple episodes of status epilepticus who presented with generalized convulsive status epilepticus and left hemiclonic seizures. Magnetic resonance imaging, including diffusion-weighted sequences and spectroscopy, and neuropat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tsuchida TN,Barkovich AJ,Bollen AW,Hart AP,Ferriero DM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the incidence of torticollis associated with neonatal brachial plexus palsy, whether the severity of brachial plexus palsy affects outcomes and the rate of recovery. We performed a retrospective review of 128 consecutive neonatal brachial plexus palsy patients evaluated at the University of Michigan fro...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hervey-Jumper SL,Justice D,Vanaman MM,Nelson VS,Yang LJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence suggests that the effects of lithium on metabolic and signaling pathways in the brain may vary depending on the specific clinical condition or disease model. For example, lithium increases levels of cerebral N-acetyl aspartate in patients with bipolar disorder but does not appear to affect N-acetyl as...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Janson CG,Assadi M,Francis J,Bilaniuk L,Shera D,Leone P

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Triple A" syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessive condition whose main clinical features are alacrima, achalasia, and adrenal failure. Most patients also develop some neurologic abnormalities. We describe an 11-year-old boy with triple A syndrome who presented with progressive axonal motor neuropathy. Molecular analy...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dixit A,Chow G,Sarkar A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 13-year-old female with refractory frontal lobe epilepsy in whom diffusion tensor imaging was useful for exploring subtle cortical malformation. She had frequent simple partial seizures characterized by clonic movement of the right upper extremity. Conventional magnetic resonance imaging was not conclusive...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Okumura A,Fukatsu H,Kato K,Ikuta T,Watanabe K

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hashimoto encephalopathy is a rare, clinically heterogenous condition. Its treatment is based on corticosteroids. A previously normal 12-year-old boy was admitted to our pediatric emergency department with status epilepticus. He experienced a recurrence of status epilepticus after pentobarbital withdrawal, and require...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bektas Ö,Yılmaz A,Kendirli T,Sıklar Z,Deda G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion was recently established clinicoradiologically as an encephalopathy syndrome. The outcome of this encephalopathy is characterized by a low mortality rate and high incidence of neurologic sequelae. Although the exact pathogenesis of this encephalopa...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Matsuo M,Maeda T,Ono N,Sugihara S,Kobayashi I,Koga D,Hamasaki Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the cerebellum in unfavorable outcomes of extreme prematurity is increasingly recognized. Evidence implicates both cerebellar injury and cerebellar growth failure, which, along with supratentorial lesions, aggravate motor and developmental outcomes. We describe clinical and neuroradiologic findings ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zafeiriou DI,Ververi A,Anastasiou A,Soubasi V,Vargiami E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Newborns with congenital heart disease have associated brain damage that affects short-and long-term neurodevelopment. Several neuronal biomarkers exist that could predict brain damage. We investigated the pattern of neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and s100B levels after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery in neona...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Trakas E,Domnina Y,Panigrahy A,Baust T,Callahan PM,Morell VO,Munoz R,Bell MJ,Sanchez-de-Toledo J

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moyamoya is a chronic, progressive steno-occlusive arteriopathy that typically affects the anterior circulation arteries of the circle of Willis. A network of deep thalamoperforating and lenticulostriate collaterals develop to by-pass the occlusion giving rise to the characteristic angiographic "puff of smoke" appeara...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dlamini N,Muthusami P,Amlie-Lefond C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinatal stroke is presented as the ideal human model of developmental neuroplasticity. The precise timing, mechanisms, and locations of specific perinatal stroke diseases provide common examples of well defined, focal, perinatal brain injuries. Motor disability (hemiparetic cerebral palsy) constitutes the primary ad...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kirton A

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old boy with the typical clinical features of infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy was examined with magnetic resonance imaging. The findings suggested increased metal deposition in the globus pallidus. Magnetic resonance imaging findings of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome and infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy are simil...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ito M,Okuno T,Asato R,Mutoh K,Nakano S,Kataoka K,Fujii T,Mikawa H,Saida K

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT 1A) is an autosomal dominant demyelinating polyneuropathy associated with a 1.5-Mb duplication of the p11.2-p12 region of chromosome 17, including the peripheral myelin protein-22 (PMP-22) gene (CMT 1A duplication). We report a male patient with a de novo CMT 1A diagnosed on cl...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tachi N,Kozuka N,Ohya K,Chiba S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We assessed the utilization of the National Institutes of Health Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (Neuro-QoL) in pediatric patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome, a rare neurovascular disorder which frequently results in seizures, brain atrophy, calcification, and a range of neurological impairments. METHODS...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Harmon KA,Day AM,Hammill AM,Pinto AL,McCulloch CE,Comi AM,National Institutes of Health Rare Disease Clinical Research Consortium (RDCRN) Brain and Vascular Malformation Consortium (BVMC) SWS Investigator Group.

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a previously undescribed electroencephalographic pattern of epochs of diffuse delta background (85-240 sec) alternating with epochs of classic "burst suppression" (90-270 sec) in a 13-month-old girl with hemolytic-uremic syndrome. A dramatic electroencephalographic improvement was evident on continuous monit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pascual-Leone A,Dhuna AK,Janousek ST,Talwar D

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A single-center, single-blind, parallel-group, randomized clinical trial was performed to test the null hypothesis that adrenocorticotropic hormone is not superior to high-dose prednisolone for treatment of newly diagnosed West syndrome. METHODS:Newly diagnosed infants with West syndrome were randomized to r...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wanigasinghe J,Arambepola C,Sri Ranganathan S,Sumanasena S,Attanapola G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe the spectrum of possible abnormal neurologic outcomes in term infants with intrapartum asphyxia and to identify those clinical factors associated with the later occurrence of cerebral palsy. All children with term intrapartum asphyxia encountered in a single pediatric neurolog...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Al-Macki N,Miller SP,Hall N,Shevell M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of this study was to investigate the potential association of infections, especially group A hemolytic streptococcal infection, with the abrupt onset/exacerbation of tics or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. A structured clinical interview was used to evaluate 80 consecutive children, 5-17 years of age, with ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Singer HS,Giuliano JD,Zimmerman AM,Walkup JT

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Musicogenic epilepsy is a relatively rare form of epilepsy. In its pure form, it is characterized by epileptic seizures that are provoked exclusively by listening to music. The usual type of seizure is partial complex or generalized tonic-clonic. Precipitating factors are quite specific, such as listening to only one ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lin KL,Wang HS,Kao PF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic soft palate paralysis is an isolated clinical entity of unknown cause. Typical clinical features are sudden onset, rhinolalia, and nasal escape of fluids from the ipsilateral nostril. The disorder affects mainly male children at the ages of 2 to 3 years and resolves spontaneously. This report presents a 5-y...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Alp H,Tan H,Altunkaynak S,Orbak Z

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute dyskinetic or dystonic reactions are a long-recognized complication of medications that alter dopamine signaling. Most reactions occur following exposure to agents that block dopamine receptors (e.g., neuroleptics). However, agents that increase dopaminergic transmission (such as methylphenidate) can a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Waugh JL

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syncope affects all age groups and is characterized by a brief sudden loss of consciousness followed by fast recovery. Vasovagal syncope, the most common type, is generally assumed to be due to venous pooling and an abnormal sympathetic response. In approximately 20% of cases, more than one family member is affected. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Daas A,Mimouni-Bloch A,Rosenthal S,Shuper A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00