Central nervous system vasculopathy associated with neonatal lupus.

abstract：:Three brothers, born to parents who were first cousins, were referred for progressive diffuse dystonia. Initial physical examinations revealed minor dysmorphic features, e.g., bifrontal narrowing, downslanting palpebral fissures, low-set ears, upturned nostrils, and microretrognathia, as well as neurodevelopmental del...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yosunkaya E,Karaca E,Basaran S,Seven M,Yüksel A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcomes of 60 children unconscious for 90 days or longer following acquired brain injury are reported. Eight children who died had remained in persistent vegetative states. As expected, most neurologic improvement occurred within the first year after injury, although some delayed improvements were observed. Outco...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kriel RL,Krach LE,Jones-Saete C

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most effective method for the screening and monitoring of optic pathway gliomas in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 remains a dilemma. Children less than 6 years of age are the group at highest risk for the development of optic pathway gliomas. Although an annual ophthalmologic examination currently is recom...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ng YT,North KN

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Herpes simplex virus encephalitis can manifest as a range of clinical presentations including classic adult, neonatal, and biphasic chronic-granulomatous herpes encephalitis. METHOD:We report an infant with granulomatous herpes simplex virus type 2 encephalitis with a subacute course and multicystic encepha...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Schutz PW,Fauth CT,Al-Rawahi GN,Pugash D,White VA,Stockler S,Dunham CP

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many investigators have identified localized cortical involvement in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) by clinical and electrophysiologic criteria. Some investigators have reported such abnormalities in the posterior cerebrum early in the course of the disease, but without radiologic correlation. Recently, ma...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Geller TJ,Vern BA,Sarwar M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of anti-muscle specific kinase-positive myasthenia in children has been little reported. Described here is the case of an 8 year-old boy who presented with ptosis and generalized weakness, which resolved within 1 month without any immunomodulatory treatment. This spontaneous remission lasted 6 year...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Anlar B,Yilmaz V,Saruhan-Direskeneli G

更新日期：2009-06-01 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

authors： García-Silva MT,Ribes A,Campos Y,Garavaglia B,Arenas J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of leukomalacia and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-positive glial cells in prenatal- and postnatal-onset leukomalacia were compared and diagnosed histologically in 128 autopsied infants and the different pathogeneses were examined. Prenatal-onset leukomalacia was diagnosed in 12 of 71 still-bi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Iida K,Takashima S,Takeuchi Y,Ohno T,Ueda K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a female who was diagnosed with Wegener's granulomatosis at 4 years of age with life-threatening intracranial bleeding. The patient's serum was positive for c-antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibodies, and histologic analysis of the lung biopsy revealed evidence of granulomatous vasculitis. Initial treatment w...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Haas JP,Metzler M,Ruder H,Waldherr R,Böswald M,Rupprecht T

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick type C disease is an autosomal-recessive, inherited neurovisceral lipid storage disorder. This disease results from either protein NPC1 or HE1 deficiency, which leads to cholesterol metabolism disturbance and is characterized by early hepatosplenomegaly and progressive ataxia, dystonia, cataplexy, dysarth...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zafeiriou DI,Triantafyllou P,Gombakis NP,Vargiami E,Tsantali C,Michelakaki E

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the factors affecting the neurodevelopmental outcome in children with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus, 78 children with intraventricular hemorrhage grade 3 or 4 were analyzed concerning the outcome in relation to the grade of intraventricular hemorrhage and intervention (surgical, medical, or no interventio...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Futagi Y,Suzuki Y,Toribe Y,Nakano H,Morimoto K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autosomal recessive or X-linked inborn errors of intracellular cobalamin metabolism can lead to methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria. In neonates, both increased cerebrospinal fluid glycine and cerebrospinal fluid/plasma glycine ratio are biochemical features of nonketotic hyperglycinemia. METHODS:We d...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Scalais E,Osterheld E,Weitzel C,De Meirleir L,Mataigne F,Martens G,Shaikh TH,Coughlin CR 2nd,Yu HC,Swanson M,Friederich MW,Scharer G,Helbling D,Wendt-Andrae J,Van Hove JLK

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sarcoglycan alpha gene, also known as the adhalin gene, is located on chromosome 17q21; mutations in this gene are associated with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D. We describe two Turkish siblings with findings consistent with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D. The evaluation excluded a dystr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Diniz G,Tosun Yildirim H,Akinci G,Hazan F,Ozturk A,Yararbas K,Tukun A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) changes reported after corpus callosotomy include hyperintensity in the corpus callosum, perifalcine hyperintensity caused by surgical retraction, and acute changes associated with surgical complications. The authors have observed MRI signal changes in the cerebral white matter of corp...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Khurana DS,Strawsburg RH,Robertson RL,Madsen JR,Helmers SL

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with neonatal onset of arm weakness resulting from neoplastic involvement of the brachial plexus who were initially considered to have obstetric brachial plexus palsies are reported. The first patient was a 7-day-old female who presented with a left supraclavicular mass that was first detected at 2 days o...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Alfonso I,Papazian O,Prieto G,Alfonso DT,Melnick SJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder predominantly affecting females, has many characteristic features including psychomotor retardation, impaired language development, hand stereotypies, gait dysfunction, and acquired microcephaly. Although each of these features undoubtedly contributes to the morbidity of this neu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dolce A,Ben-Zeev B,Naidu S,Kossoff EH

更新日期：2013-05-01 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

authors： Maeda N,Watanabe K,Negoro T,Aso K,Haga Y,Kito M,Ohki T,Ito K,Kato T

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 5-year survival profile of 42 children and adolescents between 1 to 21 years of age in an immobile minimally conscious state, chronically dependent on supportive ventilation. Data were collected from a 22-bed pediatric unit dedicated to this unique population, within a 350-bed geriatric hospital, between ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Gale R,Namestnic J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuropathologic study was undertaken to examine associated brain damage in patients with fetal and neonatal posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus (PHH). In PHH the association of periventricular leukomalacia and pontosubicular necrosis was not increased, but that of cerebellar subarachnoid hemorrhage and olivo-cerebellar pa...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Fukumizu M,Takashima S,Becker LE

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormalities of early motor development have been reported in autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, intellectual developmental disorder, developmental coordination disorder, and other Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations (ESSENCE). Howe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hatakenaka Y,Kotani H,Yasumitsu-Lovell K,Suzuki K,Fernell E,Gillberg C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder of purine metabolism resulting from mutations in the ADSL gene on chromosome subband 22q13.1 and associated with a wide range of clinical manifestations. Although there is currently no effective treatment of ADSL deficiency, recognition of the condit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lundy CT,Jungbluth H,Pohl KR,Siddiqui A,Marinaki AM,Mundy H,Champion MP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiel-Tison neurologic assessment at term has recently been updated for clinical application. Experience in this field, in addition to a better understanding of pathophysiologic characteristics of the immature brain, has taught us that an increased precision in assessing central nervous system function in the neonate ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Amiel-Tison C

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination is one of several useful tools for early identification of cerebral palsy; however, cut-off scores for cerebral palsy do not consistently distinguish infants with hemiplegia from those typically developing. We hypothesized that use of an asymmetry score, in add...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hay K,Nelin M,Carey H,Chorna O,Moore-Clingenpeel Ma Mas M,Maitre N,NCH Early Developmental Group.

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A cause cannot be determined in 30% to 50% of patients with intellectual disability. Determining the etiology of intellectual disability is important and useful for pediatric neurologists, geneticists, pediatricians, and patients' families because it allows assessment of recurrence risk, appropriate genetic ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Medina A,Piñeros L,Arteaga C,Velasco H,Izquierdo A,Giraldo A,Espinosa E

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents a patient with Devics neuromyelitis optica associated with primary Sjögrens syndrome. Her first attack was right-sided optic neuritis at age 10 years. Attacks involving both optic nerves and medulla spinalis were recorded during the ensuing years. The diagnosis of Sjögrens syndrome could not be ma...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Gökçay F,Celebisoy N,Gökçay A,Kabasakal Y,Oder G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign paroxysmal torticollis in infancy is characterized by periods of torticollic posturing of the head. The onset of the episodes usually occurs during the first month of life and may recur at varying intervals until the age of 1-5 years. This appears to be a self-limited disorder. The follow-up of 7 patients with ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cohen HA,Nussinovitch M,Ashkenasi A,Straussberg R,Kauschanksy A,Frydman M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 2-year-old patient who showed progressive widespread white-matter abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging 1 month after viral encephalitis, despite her good clinical recovery. These lesions on magnetic resonance imaging had not responded to therapies commonly used to treat secondary immune-mediated de...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Awaya T,Kato T,Shibata M,Yamanaka Y,Nakahata T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tic disorders constitute a neurodevelopmental disorder of childhood. This study sought to determine the prevalence of tic disorders in a school-based sample. A randomized sample of 1158 schoolchildren, based on clusters (classrooms) in the province of Burgos (Spain), was identified on a stratified sampling frame combi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cubo E,Gabriel y Galán JM,Villaverde VA,Velasco SS,Benito VD,Macarrón JV,Guevara JC,Louis ED,Benito-León J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

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_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Barr PA,Buettiker VE,Antony JH

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subclinical rhythmic electroencephalogram (EEG) discharge is an uncommon rhythmic EEG pattern that has been reported to occur in adults. It is thought to be a nonspecific finding with little clinical significance. This article reports this EEG pattern in two children and suggests it be called subclinical rhythmic EEG ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nagarajan L,Gregory PB,Hewitt IK,Gubbay SS,Parry TS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00