Neonatal seizure monitoring using non-linear EEG analysis.

abstract：:A newborn with a rare type of lissencephaly is reported, characterized by extreme cerebral and cerebellar hypoplasia. The diagnosis was made by postmortem magnetic resonance imaging, indicating the value of such studies to evaluate neuronal migration disorders in patients in whom autopsy cannot be performed. Two earli...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kroon AA,Smit BJ,Barth PG,Hennekam RC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between blood mercury level and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Chinese children in Hong Kong. METHODS:Fifty-two children with ADHD aged below 18 years diagnosed by DSM IV criteria without perinatal brain insults, mental retardation or neurological deficits w...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Cheuk DK,Wong V

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a nine-year-old boy with the features of Leigh syndrome (LS) and a severe cytochrome-c oxidase (COX) deficiency with a single thymidine insertion at nucleotide position 5537 (T 5537i) in the tRNA Trp gene of mitochondrial DNA. During infancy the boy was irritable and hypotonus was noticed. Early motor develo...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Tulinius M,Moslemi AR,Darin N,Westerberg B,Wiklund LM,Holme E,Oldfors A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report antiphospholipid antibody positivity in three of a consecutive series of 23 children presenting partial epileptic seizures. There was no clinical or serological evidence of systemic lupus erythematosus or other connective-tissue disease. Neither computed tomography nor magnetic resonance imaging revealed isc...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Angelini L,Granata T,Zibordi F,Binelli S,Zorzi G,Besana C

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Rett syndrome the autonomic nervous system is abnormal at various levels, from the central to the peripheral nervous system. A role for serotoninergic dysfunction has been suggested. OBJECTIVES:The aim of our study was to evaluate the relation between cardiac dysautonomia (expressed by means of heart rat...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Guideri F,Acampa M,Blardi P,de Lalla A,Zappella M,Hayek Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis IV, a severe neurologic and ophthalmologic progressive disorder has a clinical range of onset between early childhood and adolescence entailing clinically severe, moderate, and mild forms, all of them majorly affecting Ashkenazi Jewish patients in an autosomal-recessive fashion owing to mutations in the ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Bargal R,Goebel HH,Latta E,Bach G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:134 preterm infants were investigated in their ability to coordinate sucking and breathing. Of those infants who did not coordinate, 79% showed immature cardiorespiratory control whereas of those who suck and breathe simultaneously only 12% had poor cardiorespiratory control. This finding suggests that in infants with...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Daniels H,Devlieger H,Minami T,Eggermont E,Casaer P

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old boy suffering from X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia and progressive myoclonic encephalopathy is reported. The onset of neurological disturbances is at four years of age with ataxic gait and myoclonic jerks. The EEG shows a progressive slowing of background activity, bilateral diffuse and repetitive, pseudop...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Colamaria V,Marradi P,Boner A,Pajno-Ferrara F,Procacci C,Cesaro G,La Selva L,Capovilla G,Fontana E,Dalla Bernardina B

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with insular and striatal postnatal scar had epileptic spasms (ES) that were asymmetrical and the only seizure type, whereas none of the usual ictal symptoms of insular seizures occurred. Ictal electroencephalography (EEG) showed the high-amplitude slow-wave characteristic of ES. Vigabatrin remained effic...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kharytonov V,Dulac O

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A forme fruste Rett variant female with partially preserved speech remnants is described. She was first seen by the author at an age of 4 years. She then presented with an unspecific syndrome of moderate mental retardation. At follow-up when aged 32 she had successively through the years developed a number of Rett cha...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hagberg B

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant botulism is caused by intestinal colonization by Clostridium botulinum, C. barati or C. butyricum. Infant botulism has only rarely been reported outside the USA. A 3-month-old boy developed constipation, lethargy, feeding difficulties and descending, severe, symmetric weakness. He was breastfed but had also bee...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Balslev T,Ostergaard E,Madsen IK,Wandall DA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a rare genetic disorder, which is caused by partial deletion of the short arm of one chromosome 4. Brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings are lacking. We report on brain findings in 10 children with WHS. We evaluated the MR imaging films of 10 subjects affected by WHS, which h...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Righini A,Ciosci R,Selicorni A,Bianchini E,Parazzini C,Zollino M,Lodi M,Triulzi F

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile myasthenia gravis (JMG) is an autoimmune disorder of neuromuscular transmission caused by production of antibodies against components of the postsynaptic membrane of the neuromuscular junction. Ethnicity has influence on incidence, clinical presentation, and the course of the disease. The patients present wit...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Della Marina A,Trippe H,Lutz S,Schara U

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of sural nerve biopsy in the diagnosis of metachromatic leucodystrophy (MLD) was studied in 9 MLD-patients and 4 other patients with low arylsulphatase A (ASA)-activities in the leucocytes. In 7 patients (5 of them suffering from MLD) adequate interpretation of low ASA-activity was impossible, either because...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Vos AJ,Joosten EM,Gabreëls-Festen AA,Gabreëls FJ,Notermans SL,Lamers KJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorea Huntington (CH) is a dominantly inherited, neurodegenerative disease usually with adult onset. The course of CH is characterized by movement disturbances, psychiatric symptoms and it may lead to dementia. Typically death occurs after 10 to 20 years of CH duration. Invariably, the underlying mutation concerns an...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gencik M,Hammans C,Strehl H,Wagner N,Epplen JT

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental language disorder (DLD) is diagnosed when there is a failure of normal language development in a child with normal nonverbal intelligence. The discussion about additional or causal deficits is controversial. In this study a computer-based motor performance series with a tapping, aiming and pegboard movem...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Preis S,Schittler P,Lenard HG

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical study of catecholamine synthesizing enzymes tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and phenylethanolamine-N-methyl transferase (PNMT) was performed in lower brain stem of 5 controls and 9 sudden infant death "syndrome" (SIDS) cases. No difference was noticed in TH immunoreactive neuronal groups. With anti-PNMT ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kopp N,Chigr F,Denoroy L,Gilly R,Jordan D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old boy with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) presented with visual hallucinations several years after starting methylphenidate (MPH). The hallucinations resolved upon discontinuation of the drug. Reports of toxic hallucinosis during treatment with MPH are rare. Although the pathogenetic mech...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Porfirio MC,Giana G,Giovinazzo S,Curatolo P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was aimed to assess the accurate incidence of renal stones in severely disabled children treated with topiramate (TPM). METHOD:We reviewed the medical records of severely disabled children with epilepsy under 15 years old who underwent radiological examinations to investigate urinary stones. The stu...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Ishikawa N,Tani H,Kobayashi Y,Kato A,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galloway-Mowat syndrome (GMS) is a rare autosomal-recessive disorder characterised by nephrotic syndrome, microcephaly, and variable brain anomalies. The prognosis is poor with death almost inevitably supervening before the age of 6 years, but atypical cases with later onset of proteinuria and a more protracted course...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Steiss JO,Gross S,Neubauer BA,Hahn A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulant-associated growth deficits in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have long been a concern. We chose 146 school age children diagnosed with ADHD being treated with methylphenidate (MPH) and 29 drug-free ADHD children, and followed them up for 2-4 years. We recorded the changes in he...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Zhang H,Du M,Zhuang S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has an important role in the diagnosis of metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). We report diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) findings of four cases of juvenile type MLD. DWI showed restricted diffusion lines with greater areas of increased diffusion in three patients and widespread incre...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Oguz KK,Anlar B,Senbil N,Cila A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep polygraphic recording was carried out on 52 normal full-term babies. 16 infants were recorded at 2 - 7 days of age, 14 at 2 to 5 weeks, 13 at 6 to 9 weeks and 9 at 10 - 13 weeks. Central apneas of 2 sec and over were analysed in Active Sleep (AS), Quiet Sleep (QS) and Transitional Sleep (TS). Apnea Index (AI, pe...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Flores-Guevara R,Plouin P,Curzi-Dascalova L,Radvanyi MF,Guidasci S,Pajot N,Monod N

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemimegalencephaly, which previously has been associated with a poor clinical course characterized by intractable seizures and severe encephalopathy, was found without these conditions in two children with neurofibromatosis. These children showed relatively similar and favourable prognostic features: no presence of se...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Cusmai R,Curatolo P,Mangano S,Cheminal R,Echenne B

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence of sudden death in Rett syndrome is greater than that of the general population and cardiac electrical instability is a prime suspect cause. Our study shows that girls with Rett syndrome had significantly lower heart rate variability (marker of autonomic disarray) and longer corrected QT intervals compared w...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Guideri F,Acampa M,Hayek G,Zappella M,Di Perri T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:With the identification of mutations in the conserved telomere maintenance component 1 (CTC1) gene as the cause of Coats plus (CP) disease, it has become evident that leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts (LCC) is a distinct genetic entity. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A total of 15 patients with LCC wer...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Livingston JH,Mayer J,Jenkinson E,Kasher P,Stivaros S,Berger A,Cordelli DM,Ferreira P,Jefferson R,Kutschke G,Lundberg S,Ounap K,Prabhakar P,Soh C,Stewart H,Stone J,van der Knaap MS,van Esch H,van Mol C,Wakeling E,

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old female patient with clinical manifestations typical of Down's syndrome progressively developed intensifying weakness of the proximal muscles from the age of 16 years. CK levels were distinctly elevated. Electromyography showed myogenic lesions and muscle biopsy a myopathic image with extensive fibre hype...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mielke U,Schimrigk K,Edlinger H

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM: Tonic tics (TTs) are a part of a clinical picture of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) and manifest themselves as sustained and isometric contraction of a muscle group devoid of the movement effect or accompanied by only slight visible motion. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and phenomenolo...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kaczyńska J,Janik P

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine kinase (ADK) deficiency (OMIM [online mendelian inheritance in man]: 614300) is an autosomal recessive disorder of adenosine and methionine metabolism, with a unique clinical phenotype, mainly involving the central nervous system and dysmorphic features. Patients usually present early in life with sepsis-lik...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Alhusani A,Obaid A,Blom HJ,Wedell A,Alfadhel M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the Doppler technique, we followed the postnatal changes of the cerebral blood flow velocity longitudinally. Pulsatility index (PI) was measured in 91 neonates. In 26 normal term infants who were supine, PIs were initially raised (PI = 0.91 +/- 0.10), gradually falling over the first 12 hours after birth and rem...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Shuto H,Yasuhara A,Sugimoto T,Iwase S,Kobayashi Y,Nakamura M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00