Successful endovascular treatment of cerebral arteriovenous fistula.

abstract：:In patients who undergo metabolic decompensation from urea cycle disorders, cerebrospinal fluid glutamine level may be a better marker of cerebral dysfunction than blood ammonia or glutamine levels. However, obtaining cerebrospinal fluid by lumbar puncture carries risk in these acutely ill patients with cerebral edema...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kojic J,Robertson PL,Quint DJ,Martin DM,Pang Y,Sundgren PC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify reflex profiles in the first year of life in connection with categories of neurologic abnormality, eight primitive reflexes (i.e., the palmar grasp reflex, the plantar grasp reflex, the Galant response, the asymmetric tonic neck reflex, the suprapubic extensor reflex, the crossed extensor reflex, the Rossol...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zafeiriou DI,Tsikoulas IG,Kremenopoulos GM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1991-2006, nine patients below age 18 years, with a microbiologic documentation of Cryptococcus neoformans infection and no evidence of human immunodeficiency virus infection, were identified and treated at Chang Gung Children's Hospital. All exhibited central nervous system involvement. Seven patients were fe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Huang KY,Huang YC,Hung IJ,Lin TY

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young child with Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome is presented. She was well until 8 years of age when she lost interest in activities and her school performance declined. At age 11 years, she began having episodes of blepharospasm, accompanied by bilateral ptosis and occasional episodes of oculogyric crisis. By age 12 y...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zupanc ML,Chun RW,Gilbert-Barness EF

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Searching for a tool to quantify motor impairment in spina bifida, transcranial and lumbar magnetic stimulation were applied in affected newborn infants. Lumbar magnetic stimulation resulted in motor evoked potentials in both the quadriceps muscle and the tibialis anterior muscle in most (11/13) subjects. However, tra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Geerdink N,Pasman JW,Roeleveld N,Rotteveel JJ,Mullaart RA

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Vascular abnormalities in neurofibromatosis type 1 may arise anywhere in the cardiovascular system, and cerebrovascular involvement is the predominant feature of moyamoya syndrome. Because neurofibromatosis type 1 is a neurocutaneous disorder and routine follow-up with cranial MRI is not standard practice in...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Duat-Rodríguez A,Carceller Lechón F,López Pino MÁ,Rodríguez Fernández C,González-Gutiérrez-Solana L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute encephalitis and encephalopathy are life-threatening diseases in children. However, no laboratory examinations are performed for their early diagnosis and treatment. Alpha 2-macroglobulin (α2M) is a blood glycoprotein that increases during the early stages of inflammation. In the present study, we inve...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Suzuki Y,Hashimoto K,Hoshi K,Ito H,Kariya Y,Miyazaki K,Sato M,Kawasaki Y,Yoshida M,Honda T,Hashimoto Y,Hosoya M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an immune-mediated, inflammatory acquired demyelinating syndrome predominantly affecting the white matter of the central nervous system. METHODS:We describe a three-year-old boy whose clinical presentation was suspicious for ADEM but whose initial imaging abnor...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Abu Libdeh A,Goodkin HP,Ramirez-Montealegre D,Brenton JN

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical development in the first years of age for children with very low birth weight is not well characterized. We obtained high-resolution structural magnetic resonance images from children aged 18-22 months (16 very low birth weight/7 term) and 3-4 years (12 very low birth weight/8 term). Cortical surface area and...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Phillips JP,Montague EQ,Aragon M,Lowe JR,Schrader RM,Ohls RK,Caprihan A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyneuritis cranialis is a rare disorder of multiple cranial nerve palsies without spinal cord involvement. The case reported is of a 10-year-old boy with multiple palsies involving cranial nerves III, IV, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI, and XII cranial nerves, unilaterally or bilaterally. After initial, unsuccessful treatmen...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pavone P,Incorpora G,Romantshika O,Ruggieri M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Uniform diagnostic criteria for acute disseminated encephalomyelitis did not exist until publication of expert-defined consensus definitions by the International Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Society Group in 2007, with upda...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cole J,Evans E,Mwangi M,Mar S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Planning strategies to encourage students to pursue a career in pediatric neurology requires assessment of their attitudes and career choices. A structured 30-item questionnaire was designed to examine students' attitudes toward pediatric neurology. In the study, 161 final-year medical students (1999-2000), 20-26 year...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jan MM,Fida NM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although cerebral palsy is reported to have a higher prevalence in low-resource settings, there are few studies describing risk factors for cerebral palsy in these settings. A better understanding of the unique risk factors affecting children with cerebral palsy in low-resource settings could optimize both r...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Monokwane B,Johnson A,Gambrah-Sampaney C,Khurana E,Baier J,Baranov E,Westmoreland KD,Mazhani L,Steenhoff AP,Bearden DR

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports 26 consecutive cases of cerebral cysticercosis in children, 21 presenting with intraparenchymal mass lesions, two with encephalitic disease, and three with intraventricular (racemous) cysticercosis. The intraparenchymal and encephalitic forms of the disease were benign. Regression of the lesions occ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Mitchell WG,Snodgrass SR

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata is a rare genetic disorder of peroxisomal metabolism that is characterized clinically by shortening of the proximal limbs, cataracts, a characteristic facial appearance, failure to thrive, and psychomotor retardation. This report describes a newborn with a severe phenotype whose ne...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Goh S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autopsy studies in Rasmussen encephalitis reveal areas of sparing within the affected hemisphere. Clinical progression and inflammation are milder with an older onset. We sought to demonstrate radiological corroboration for these patterns. METHODS:In our retrospective study, 38 cases were dichotomized into ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Benjamin RN,Thomas M,Muthusamy K,Yoganathan S,Mathew V,Chacko AG,Prabhu K,Chacko G

更新日期：2020-11-01 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 sought a simple and accurate method to monitor neonatal hydrocephalic infants using standard computed tomographic scans. Volume measurements were made by means of pixel counting using a personal computer and a drawing device, as a graphic tablet system, over computed tomographic scans of six infants with neonatal h...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Morimoto K,Nishikuni K,Hirano S,Takemoto O,Futagi Y

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old boy was diagnosed with autism, along with development delay, seizures, and hypoplastic corpus callosum. His karyotype was 47, XY, +mar.ish (15) (D15Z1+, SNRPN+, GABRB3+, PML-(de novo?). The supernumerary marker chromosome 15 with euchromatin was monosatellited and monocentric. Although autism, seizures, ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jovanović-Privrodski JD,Kavecan II,Obrenović MR,Buonadonna LA,Bukvić NM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Concern exists regarding a possible harmful impact of vacuum extraction on the preterm newborn. We aimed to evaluate the long-term pediatric neurodevelopmental outcomes of the preterm offspring after vacuum extraction. METHODS:A population-based cohort analysis was performed comparing the risk for long-term...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Schwarzman P,Sheiner E,Wainstock T,Mastrolia SA,Segal I,Landau D,Walfisch A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spasticity is one of the most common symptoms presented by neurologic patients. Apart from surgical management, drug therapy is an important treatment of children suffering from spasticity. In this review, recent advances in the pharmacologic armamentarium are reported in detail. In particular, there are oral medicati...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Verrotti A,Greco R,Spalice A,Chiarelli F,Iannetti P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychogenic seizures or psychogenic nonepileptic seizures occur in various mental disorders. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms can also imitate epileptic partial seizures, but detailed observations of this phenomenon are rare in the literature. A girl of 13 years was referred to the Department of Child Psychiatry because ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wolańczyk T,Bryńska A

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Ketamine has recently emerged as a promising therapeutic alternative for abortive migraine therapy, likely secondary to N-methyl-d-aspartate antagonism. Most reports examine adults and the intravenous route. Fewer utilize intranasal administration or pediatric populations. Given the limited evidence for intr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Turner AL,Shandley S,Miller E,Perry MS,Ryals B

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulant therapy is usually contraindicated in patients with movement disorders such as tics or chorea. A young boy is reported who had benign hereditary chorea and attention deficit disorder, whose chorea, handwriting, and independent ambulation paradoxically improved with methylphenidate treatment. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Friederich RL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common cause of respiratory tract infection. Extrapulmonary manifestations of M. pneumoniae infection are also common. The present case is that of a previously healthy 4-year-old boy who displayed a novel simultaneous onset of both acute rhabdomyolysis and transverse myelitis associated with...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Weng WC,Peng SS,Wang SB,Chou YT,Lee WT

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to search for STA gene defects in three families with clinically typical Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Emery-Dreifuss is an X-linked muscular dystrophy with humeroperoneal weakness and life-threatening, but treatable, cardiac abnormalities in male patients and in female carriers. The...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nevo Y,Al-Lozi M,Parsadanian AS,Elliott JL,Connolly AM,Pestronk A

更新日期：1999-07-01 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

authors： Lengyel Z,Balogh E,Emri M,Szikszai E,Kollár J,Sikula J,Esik O,Trón L,Oláh E

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opsoclonus is a rare childhood ocular motility disorder characterized by irregular, chaotic, involuntary bursts of high amplitude, back-and-forth oscillations of the eyes,without pause intervals. Although this disorder is associated with neuroblastoma and other neural crest tumors, as well as with other neurologic abn...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Morad Y,Benyamini OG,Avni I

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00