Postictal psychosis in a child.

abstract：:Acquired chronic hepatocerebral degeneration is a central nervous system disorder secondary to several conditions related to hepatic dysfunction. Clinical features of acquired chronic hepatocerebral degeneration include a hyperkinetic extrapyramidal syndrome, neuropsychiatric symptoms, or both. We present for the firs...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Papapetropoulos S,Tzakis A,Sengun C,Reddy C,Boukas K,Zitser J,Singer C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early-onset ataxia with oculomotor apraxia and hypoalbuminemia is an autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia characterized by oculomotor apraxia, peripheral neuropathy, and hypoalbuminemia. Mutations in aprataxin gene located at chromosome 9q13 have been identified recently in Japanese and European patients. This study ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ito A,Yamagata T,Mori M,Momoi MY

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:An optimal botulinum toxin dose may be related to the volume of the targeted muscle. We investigated the suitability of using ultrasound and anthropometry to estimate gastrocnemius and soleus muscle volume. Gastrocnemius and soleus muscle thickness was measured in 11 cadaveric human legs, using ultrasound. Lower leg l...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bandholm T,Sonne-Holm S,Thomsen C,Bencke J,Pedersen SA,Jensen BR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nuclear polymerase gamma (POLG) mutations are the most common cause of inherited mitochondrial disease. POLG mutation diseases have a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations; the lethal infantile form is myocerebrohepatopathy spectrum. PATIENT:A 4-month-old boy was referred for poor feeding, emesis, failu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Horst DM,Ruess L,Rusin JA,Bartholomew DW

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year-old female was hospitalized with clinical and electroencephalographic evidence of acute encephalopathy. Five days later the classic signs of Kawasaki disease appeared. The neurologic outcome in this female was poor despite early treatment with immunoglobulin. Like many other vasculitidies, Kawasaki disease ca...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tabarki B,Mahdhaoui A,Selmi H,Yacoub M,Essoussi AS

更新日期：2001-09-01 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 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：:Serial examination of the cerebral hemispheres of 20 sudden infant death syndrome victims revealed high incidence of leukomalacia (40%), leptomeningeal glioneuronal heterotopias (70%) at the base of the cerebrum, and astrogliosis (65%) in the white matter and medulla reticular formation compared with 20 age-matched co...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Obonai T,Takashima S

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Miller-Dieker syndrome (MDS) is a prototype of brain malformations characterized by abnormal neuronal migration. To clarify the pathomechanisms underlying these anomalies, we performed immunohistochemical studies using specific antibodies against the protein product of LIS-1, the candidate gene responsible for the MDS...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Isumi H,Takashima S,Kakita A,Yamada M,Ikeda K,Mizuguchi M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapsing neuromyelitis optica is rare in children. The identification of a highly specific serum autoantibody marker (neuromyelitis optica-immunoglobulin G) differentiates neuromyelitis optica from other demyelinating disorders, particularly in clinically challenging cases. We present a child with multiple episodes o...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Loma IP,Asato MR,Filipink RA,Alper G

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:Ketoacidosis is one of the common complications of Type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Several neurologic (cerebral) deficiencies have been associated with diabetic ketoacidosis, including cerebral edema with increased intracranial pressure resulting in coma; partial and generalized seizures; and cerebrovascul...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Atluru VL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old, previously healthy male presented with fever and lethargy. Tuberculous meningitis was suspected after cerebrospinal fluid examination. Antituberculous drugs were administered, and an initial computed tomographic scan of brain revealed mild ventriculomegaly only. Steroids were instituted on day 16 and gra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tsai MH,Huang YC,Lin TY

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children ranging in age from 2 to 5 years with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) were successfully treated with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). Their symptoms were somnolence, fever, headache, vomiting, and resting tremor. In all of these patients, it was difficult to distinguish the condi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nishikawa M,Ichiyama T,Hayashi T,Ouchi K,Furukawa S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiepileptic drug felbamate has demonstrated efficacy against a variety of seizure types in the pediatric population, particularly seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Postmarketing experience, however, revealed serious idiosyncratic adverse effects not observed during clinical trials, including apla...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zupanc ML,Roell Werner R,Schwabe MS,O'Connor SE,Marcuccilli CJ,Hecox KE,Chico MS,Eggener KA

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:We report a 13-year-old female who experienced symptoms and signs of Rasmussen encephalitis for the first time at the age of 5 years. Various therapeutic procedures, including conventional and new antiepileptic drugs, steroids, immunoglobulin, plasma exchanges, and partial hemispherectomy, were applied, but their resu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Marjanovic BD,Stojanov LM,Zdravkovic DS,Kravljanac RM,Djordjevic MS

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We evaluated the clinical, electrophysiological, imaging, and ultrastructural features of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses and its subtypes. METHODS:The clinical, electrophysiological, imaging, histopathological, and ultrastructural features of 68 (age at onset: 4.3 ± 5.4 years) neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses an...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jadav RH,Sinha S,Yasha TC,Aravinda H,Gayathri N,Rao S,Bindu PS,Satishchandra P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiologic mechanism for stereotypic, bilateral repetitive movements involving the arms and hands (complex motor stereotypies) is unknown. This study used volumetric magnetic resonance imaging to compare cerebral lobes and caudate nucleus in six males with complex stereotypies and average intelligence to age...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kates WR,Lanham DC,Singer HS

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:Two patients with hemophilia and spinal epidural hematoma, who were treated successfully with serial Factor VIII infusions, are reported. This form of conservative therapy may circumvent the need for decompressive laminectomy and its attendant complications in instances in which the neurologic deficit is mild or stabl...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Narawong D,Gibbons VP,McLaughlin JR,Bouhasin JD,Kotagal S

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old girl with clinically established tuberous sclerosis complex, and without signs of neurofibromatosis type 1, developed a right retro-ocular optic nerve tumor. After rapid growth for 1 year after its discovery, the optic nerve tumor demonstrated modest progression. The patient received the mammalian target...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sparagana SP,Wilkes DC,Thompson CE,Bowers DC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Spinal teratomas are extremely rare; they constitute <0.5% of all spinal cord tumors. These rare tumors have nonspecific manifestations but in most cases are accompanied by neurological deficits. Rupture of a mature teratoma can cause chemical meningitis. PATIENT DESCRIPTION:A 7-year-old boy presented wit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Mpayo LL,Liu XH,Xu M,Wang K,Wang J,Yang L

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital hypotonia with favorable outcome is characterized by an early neonatal onset and a benign clinical course. The old term, proposed by Walton, was benign congenital hypotonia, denoting the presence of muscle weakness and hypotonia, with the exception of Werdnig-Hoffmann disease. It has been clear that this te...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Carboni P,Pisani F,Crescenzi A,Villani C

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:In areas without expanded newborn screening, instead of presenting neonatally, patients with arginase deficiency typically present with spastic paraplegia in early childhood. Diagnosis of this rare neurometabolic disease poses the first challenge because it is often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy during initial stages...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tsang JP,Poon WL,Luk HM,Fung CW,Ching CK,Mak CM,Lam CW,Siu TS,Tam S,Wong VC

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:The case reports of 4 pediatric patients illustrate the complex clinical scenarios in which childhood rhabdomyolysis/myoglobinuria occurs. Children ranged in age from 8-18 years. Presumed etiologies of rhabdomyolysis/myoglobinuria included Neisseria sepsis, exertion-related episodes, dialysis disequilibrium, and diabe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chamberlain MC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of lipid-lowering statins has been associated with raised serum muscle enzymes and, occasionally, with rhabdomyolysis, especially in patients with pre-existing metabolic myopathies. The A3243G mutation is one of the most common mutations associated with mitochondrial disorders. A teenager harboring the A3243G ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tay SK,Dimauro S,Pang AY,Lai PS,Yap HK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00