A review of executive functions in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated the relationship between C-reactive protein (CRP)-values in the acute phase of stroke and the risk of further fatal and non-fatal ischemic events. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We analysed 462 consecutive incident ischemic strokes. Patients were divided into two subgroups on the basis of a CRP cut-o...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Corso G,Bottacchi E,Brusa A,Benedetto MD,Giardini G,Lia C,Reggiani M,Veronese Morosini M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delayed-release dimethyl fumarate (DMF) treatment can be associated with reduced lymphocyte and leucocyte counts, which might persist after DMF discontinuation. CASE PRESENTATION:We report the case of a patient with severe disease reactivation despite prolonged lymphopenia after DMF discontinuation. We desc...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Zecca C,Antozzi CG,Torri Clerici V,Ferrazzini M,Mantegazza RE,Rossi S,Gobbi C

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although the recovery from Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is good in most patients, some develop permanent severe disability or even die. Early predictors would increase the likelihood to identify patients at risk for poor outcome at the acute stage, allowing them intensified therapeutic intervention. MATERI...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Axelsson M,Sjögren M,Andersen O,Blennow K,Zetterberg H,Lycke J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) as well as homovanillic acid (HVA) and cyclic AMP were estimated in the morning urine of 41 drug-free parkinsonian patients and 25 hospitalized controls. In 29 patients, the estimations were repeated after 2 weeks treatment with L-dopa plus...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Markianos M,Hadjikonstantinou M,Bistolaki E

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Alzheimer's disease patients with Pisa syndrome were presented. These patients were treated with cholinesterase inhibitors within a post-marketing surveillance study. The clinical and pharmacological histories of these patients suggest a relation between cholinesterase inhibitors and the pleurothotonus. The diff...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Vanacore N,Suzzareddu G,Maggini M,Casula A,Capelli P,Raschetti R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports concerning the treatment of symptoms deriving from prolapsed lumbar disc with systemic administration of the potent steroid dexamethasone, have shown favourable results. The present clinical study includes 39 patients with symptoms of prolapsed lumbar disc, treated in a controlled double-blind investi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hedeboe J,Buhl M,Ramsing P

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG and IgM concentrations in tears of multiple sclerosis patients (n = 38) are increased compared to normal controls (n = 23). The occurrence of oligoclonal tear IgG bands (7.9%)--as determined by immunoblotting--did not differ between groups. Our findings suggest an altered reactivity of the secretory immune system ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Liedtke W,Weller M,Wiethölter H,Dichgans J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Carotid artery disease (CAD) is able to critically impair cerebral autoregulation which increases the risk for stroke. As therapeutic strategy largely depends on the degree of CAD, we investigated whether this gradation is also related to significant changes in autoregulatory capacity. We applied...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Haubrich C,Klemm A,Diehl RR,Möller-Hartmann W,Klötzsch C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare intravenous phenytoin (PHT) and intravenous lacosamide (LCM) for treatment of status epilepticus after failure of the first and second drug. METHODS:We retrospectively identified patients from a large community hospital in northern Germany who had been diagnosed with SE between August 2008 and De...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kellinghaus C,Berning S,Stögbauer F

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a multiple sclerosis (MS)-like disorder in a male patient with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) harbouring the mitochondrial DNA 11778 base pair mutation. Given the population frequencies of MS and LHON, coincidental occurrence is unlikely. Hypothetically the mitochondrial mutation unde...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Olsen NK,Hansen AW,Nørby S,Edal AL,Jørgensen JR,Rosenberg T

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to ascertain whether there is an association between risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) and birth order position. Our reference population was 198,000 persons born in the period 1930-50 and recorded in the register of school health records from the school health service of the Copenhagen council...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Isager H,Andersen E,Hyllested K

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic investigation of 74 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, resistant to medication, who underwent unilateral temporal lobectomy 1960-1969. Thirty per cent had a positive family history of epilepsy; 49 per cent of other neurological diseases; and 46 per cent of major psychiatric disorders. Neither of the genetic...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen I

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been considerable interest in the possible association between impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and neuropathy. A systematic literature search (Medline) and review was here performed. Twenty-three studies were evaluated. Fourteen investigated for the presence of neuropathy in patients with IGT. Nine studied ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Rajabally YA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid concentrations in plasma of patients with Huntington's disease (HD) were determined in 16 patients and 21 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Alanine and isoleucine were significantly decreased in HD plasma whereas arginine, histidine, leucine, lysine, ornithine, proline, serine, threonine, tyrosine, and...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Reilmann R,Rolf LH,Lange HW

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological examinations were done on 20 patients aged 40-71 years with recently diagnosed high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. General chemotherapy and intrathecal chemotherapy in order to prevent central nervous system (CNS) involvement were begun. On the first day of chemotherapeutic cycle patients received...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Grzelec H,Fryze C,Nowacki P,Zdziarska B

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to transcode integers from ideographic to alphabetic script was assessed in patients with dementia of Alzheimer type. Eleven of 13 consecutive patients made characteristic errors of intrusion. We propose that this may be a simple bedside test for dementia. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tegnér R,Nybäck H

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EEG data obtained from 27 patients with presenile Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 28 patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) were compared with data from 30 age- and sex-matched controls. Both patient groups exhibited more pronounced delta and theta activity and less prominent alpha and beta activity t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Miyauchi T,Hagimoto H,Ishii M,Endo S,Tanaka K,Kajiwara S,Endo K,Kajiwara A,Kosaka K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients presented with a distinctive syndrome of "numb, clumsy hand" and tactile agnosia. Myelography and computed tomographic myelography (CTM) of the cervical spine documented major spondylotic compressive lesions mainly between the C3 and C5 levels. The cortical responses of dermatomal somatosensory evoked po...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Chang MH,Liao KK,Cheung SC,Kong KW,Chang SP

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catabolism of orally and subcutaneously administered 14C histamine was studied in myotonic dystrophy patients. No definite abnormalities were observed as for subcutaneously administered histamine. The catabolism of orally administered histamine followed two distinct patterns: In patients with a relatively low endo...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sjaastad O,Sjaastad OV

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are rare remote effect of cancer. The antibodies and tumors associated with PNS have been well described, but there are still many clinically suspected cases in which no tumor or antibody can be identified. This is the first report of PNS showing hot cross-bun sign...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ishikawa H,Kawada N,Taniguchi A,Odachi K,Mizutani A,Asahi M,Tomimoto H

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with intraventricular pentosan polysulphate (PPS) might be beneficial in patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. We report a 68-year-old woman with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease who received continuous intraventricular PPS infusion (1-120 microg/kg/day) for 17 months starting 10 months after the onset ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Terada T,Tsuboi Y,Obi T,Doh-ura K,Murayama S,Kitamoto T,Yamada T,Mizoguchi K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 24 asymptomatic HIV-infected patients (CDC II/III) and 27 HIV-negative controls were tested for speed of reaction and for general neuropsychological functioning. Reaction time was assessed with two computerized tests with differing levels of cognitive complexity. The results show that the asymptomatic HIV-p...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Karlsen NR,Reinvang I,Frøland SS

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To conduct a psychometric analysis to determine the adequacy of instruments that measure cognition in Alzheimer's disease trials. BACKGROUND:Both the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - Cognition (ADAS-Cog) and the Neuropsychological Test Battery (NTB) are validated outcome measures for clinical trials in Alzh...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Karin A,Hannesdottir K,Jaeger J,Annas P,Segerdahl M,Karlsson P,Sjögren N,von Rosen T,Miller F

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients with HTLV-1 associated myelopathy (HAM) were examined for the presence of HTLV-1 provirus genome by Southern blot analysis of genomic DNA from peripheral blood mononuclear (PBM) cells. Random integration of the provirus was detected in 14 of 16 HAM patients. By contrast, the provirus genome could not ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nishimura M,Adachi A,Akiguchi I,Shirahata N,Maeda M,Ishimoto A,Mezaki T,Kimura J

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this study the frequency of inherited thrombophilic risk factors in a population of German CVT patients and their influence on clinical outcome were evaluated. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Twenty-five patients (age 37.1 +/- 16.3 years) with CVT were screened for inherited coagulation disorders. All participants ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Stolz E,Kemkes-Matthes B,Pötzsch B,Hahn M,Kraus J,Wirbartz A,Kaps M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been a long-standing interest in the possible role of the hippocampus in autism and both postmortem brain and neuroimaging studies have documented varying abnormalities in this limbic system structure. AIMS:This study investigates the density of subsets of hippocampal interneurons, immunostained w...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Lawrence YA,Kemper TL,Bauman ML,Blatt GJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen Swedish patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy were tested for the met30 mutation of the transthyretin (TTR) (prealbumin) gene by RFLP analysis of genomic DNA using the restriction enzyme NsiI. The results confirmed previous findings that the Swedish variant of familial polyneuropathy has the same ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Holmgren G,Lundgren E,Kangawa K,Kurihara T,Matsukura S,Matsuo H,Nakazato M,Steen L

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent herpes zoster myelitis is very rare. However, a case was recently observed in our hospital. A 43-year-old woman developed myelitis 2 weeks after development of shingles. Her condition was improved by methylprednisolone. Seven months later, she developed myelitis after development of shingles again. Antibody ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nakano T,Awaki E,Araga S,Takai H,Inoue K,Takahashi K

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demented patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) (n = 67), multi-infarct dementia (MID) (n = 77) and probable vascular dementia (PVD) (n = 45) were studied with electroencephalography (EEG). All patients underwent a routine EEG examination and quantitative EEG was recorded from 14 patients with AD, 20 with MID, and 12 ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Erkinjuntti T,Larsen T,Sulkava R,Ketonen L,Laaksonen R,Palo J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The objective of this study was to describe facial myokymia in experimental animals accompanying kainic acid affects on facial motor neurons. MATERIAL & METHODS:Anesthetized cats were injected with kainic acid into the pons adjacent to the facial nucleus. Facial movements appeared shortly after the inject...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Zaaroor M,Starr A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00