Predicting neuropsychologic outcome after traumatic brain injury in children.

abstract：:A five-year-old white male presented with a history of progressive loss of vision that was subsequently followed by progressive corticospinal dysfunction. Evaluation revealed the presence of leukodystrophy which was confirmed by a deficiency of the enzyme, galactosylceramide beta-galactosidase. We present the clinical...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Brownsworth RD,Bodensteiner JB,Schaefer GB,Barnes P

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug metabolism in children may differ from adults and adverse events may occur that are not predictable from the adult experience. Clinical trials of safety and efficacy are needed both for new treatments and those that may already be in use but have not been tested in infants and children. The role and responsibilit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hirtz DG,Gilbert PR,Terrill CM,Buckman SY

更新日期：2006-06-01 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

authors： Konishi T,Naganuma Y,Hongou K,Murakami M,Yamatani M,Yagi S

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:The relatively high incidence of persistent post-traumatic headache and vertigo in children and adolescents presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. It is often difficult to differentiate between functional complaints generated by psychological trauma or compensation-seeking and symptoms reflecting an organic ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Eviatar L,Bergtraum M,Randel RM

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：:This study assessed the utility of rectal diazepam gel in the home management of prolonged or repetitive seizures in children. Thirty-eight children being prescribed rectal diazepam gel by their clinician were prospectively recruited. Seizures, rectal diazepam use, emergency department visits, and quality of life data...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： O'Dell C,Shinnar S,Ballaban-Gil KR,Hornick M,Sigalova M,Kang H,Moshé SL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although acute disseminated encephalomyelitis has been observed after a variety of viral infections and an occasional bacterial infection, it has not been reported in association with rickettsial infections. Reported is a 7-year-old male with magnetic resonance images and clinical manifestations suggestive of acute di...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wei TY,Baumann RJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The juvenile form of GM1 gangliosidosis lacks specific physical findings and thus is often a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. T2 hypodensity in the globus pallidus is a characteristic radiographic sign of neurodegeneration with iron accumulation in the brain that is observed in GM1 gangliosidosis, but th...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Takenouchi T,Kosaki R,Nakabayashi K,Hata K,Takahashi T,Kosaki K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once-daily ethosuximide was used to treat 10 consecutive children with typical absence seizures. Three patients had gastrointestinal side effects which resolved when the same total daily dose was divided into 2 doses. Two other patients continued to have seizures on ethosuximide, whether given once or twice daily. Fiv...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dooley JM,Camfield PR,Camfield CS,Fraser AD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a previously healthy 11-year-old boy with unilateral periorbital mild headache and facial nerve palsy, followed during the next 5 months by recurrent unilateral headaches and subsequent extrinsic paresis of the third cranial nerve and paresis of the sixth cranial nerve, each of which improved with steroid...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cerisola A,González G,Scavone C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome were studied over a 26-year period. The nevus flammeus was unilateral in 27 patients (twice as often on left side) and bilateral in 13 patients. Only 3 of these 13 patients had bilateral cerebral lesions. Seizures, most of which were focal, were present in 32 patients (80%). T...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pascual-Castroviejo I,Díaz-Gonzalez C,García-Melian RM,Gonzalez-Casado I,Muñoz-Hiraldo E

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：: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：:As part of the implementation of a population-based registry of children with cerebral palsy, caregiver satisfaction with the process by which diagnosis was originally communicated by a professional was assessed. Satisfaction with various aspects of the diagnosis process was assessed using a five-point Likert scale an...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dagenais L,Hall N,Majnemer A,Birnbaum R,Dumas F,Gosselin J,Koclas L,Shevell MI

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Corpus callosotomy and vagus nerve stimulation are common palliative options for people with drug-resistant epilepsy when resective epilepsy surgery is not feasible. Because most of the published corpus callosotomy experience comes from a period before vagus nerve stimulation was approved and widely used, there...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Arya R,Greiner HM,Horn PS,Turner M,Holland KD,Mangano FT

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Sleep disturbances are common among children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This study sought to evaluate the effects of individualizing wear times of the methylphenidate transdermal system on sleep parameters. In this open-label, randomized trial, 26 children with attention deficit hyp...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ashkenasi A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study, we aimed to determine the serum, urine, and saliva levels of acyl ghrelin, des-acyl ghrelin, and obestatin in the newly diagnosed idiopathic generalized pediatric epilepsy patients in the pretreatment period and in the third month of valproic acid. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Thirty pre- and post-...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Taskin E,Atli B,Kiliç M,Sari Y,Aydin S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tourette syndrome is a neurologic disorder characterized by both motor and vocal tics. Recently, two variants, including a single-base deletion resulting in a truncated protein and a 3'-untranslated-region variant altering a binding site for micro-RNA in the Slit and Trk-like 1 gene, were found to be a genetic cause o...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chou IC,Wan L,Liu SC,Tsai CH,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood intracranial varix is rare and has been associated mostly with vein of Galen fistula or arteriovenous malformation. We present one patient with intracranial arteriovenous fistula with concomitant giant varix in a child. We treated the patient with endovascular embolization and obtained complete closure of fi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hung PC,Wang HS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occipital lobe epilepsy in children can present as an idiopathic form (i.e., childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms) or as a symptomatic form. Forty-three children (18 boys, 25 girls) were divided into the idiopathic group or symptomatic group, according to the classification for epileptic seizures of the Interna...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Du JC,Chien YH,Weng WC,Shen YZ,Lee WT

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：: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：:A 4 1/2-year-old girl with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and prolonged varicella zoster virus skin infection developed multiple ischemic strokes and radiologic and histopathologic evidence of central nervous system vasculitis. Typical features of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome encephalitis were not present an...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Frank Y,Lim W,Kahn E,Farmer P,Gorey M,Pahwa S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy exhibited a phenotype of neurofibromatosis 1. He had large and multiple café-au-lait spots, and had elevated serum levels of very long chain fatty acids. The patient's mother and elder sister also had X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. This case represents novel manifestations ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yamada H,Izumi T

更新日期：2009-09-01 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

authors： Nevo Y,Pestronk A

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient is a 10-year-old male who experienced somnolence and incomplete quadriplegia after headache and vomiting, without exanthema, for 3 days. The clinical course and magnetic resonance imaging findings of the brain and spinal cord were compatible with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The serologic examinat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nagai K,Mori T

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zonisamide is an antiepileptic drug developed and first marketed in Japan in 1989. Cases of oligohydrosis, characterized by deficient production and secretion of sweat, were reported in children treated with zonisamide in Japan during development and in the postmarketing period. Zonisamide was approved in the United S...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Knudsen JF,Thambi LR,Kapcala LP,Racoosin JA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course and autopsy findings of 2 patients with measles encephalitis that occurred during the 1988-1989 Houston epidemic are reported. A previously healthy 25-month-old boy had serologically-proved measles, hemophagocytic syndrome, and acute disseminated demyelinating encephalitis. A 19-year-old male with ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pearl PL,Abu-Farsakh H,Starke JR,Dreyer Z,Louis PT,Kirkpatrick JB

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00