New-onset seizures: a possible association with clonidine?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human cytomegalovirus, a major cause of permanent neurodevelopmental disability in children, frequently produces intracranial abnormalities, including calcifications and polymicrogyria, in infants with congenital cytomegalovirus infections. This report describes the features of cerebral cortical clefting, in...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： White AL,Hedlund GL,Bale JF Jr

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three brothers, born to parents who were first cousins, were referred for progressive diffuse dystonia. Initial physical examinations revealed minor dysmorphic features, e.g., bifrontal narrowing, downslanting palpebral fissures, low-set ears, upturned nostrils, and microretrognathia, as well as neurodevelopmental del...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yosunkaya E,Karaca E,Basaran S,Seven M,Yüksel A

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:This study reports on the seizure and psychosocial outcome of 29 patients with electroclinically well-defined childhood-onset symptomatogenic or cryptogenic partial epilepsy with complex partial seizures who were followed prospectively over 14 years. Many were refractory at the time of enrollment. At 14-year follow-up...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Szabó CA,Rothner AD,Kotagal P,Erenberg G,Dinner DS,Wyllie E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier reports on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the classical form of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease seemed to divide the patterns of the high-intensity lesions in the white matter into three subtypes: type I, diffusely hemispheric and corticospinal; type II, diffusely hemispheric without brainstem le...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nezu A,Kimura S,Takeshita S,Osaka H,Kimura K,Inoue K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 2-year-old patient who showed progressive widespread white-matter abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging 1 month after viral encephalitis, despite her good clinical recovery. These lesions on magnetic resonance imaging had not responded to therapies commonly used to treat secondary immune-mediated de...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Awaya T,Kato T,Shibata M,Yamanaka Y,Nakahata T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old female suddenly exhibited high fever and convulsions, and entered a semi-coma. She also had thrombocytopenia, elevated aminotransferase, prolonged prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time, and hemophagocytes in the bone marrow. The brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed multiple low-i...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Akiyoshi K,Hamada Y,Yamada H,Kojo M,Izumi T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal nevus syndrome is a neurocutaneous disorder characterized by the association of epidermal nevi with central nervous system or skeletal abnormalities. Central nervous system abnormalities include hemimegalencephaly, hydrocephalus, various migration disorders, intraspinal lipomas, and enlarged spinal roots. Ra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kara B,Inan N,Bayramgürler D,Altintaş O,Akbulut A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the factors affecting the neurodevelopmental outcome in children with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus, 78 children with intraventricular hemorrhage grade 3 or 4 were analyzed concerning the outcome in relation to the grade of intraventricular hemorrhage and intervention (surgical, medical, or no interventio...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Futagi Y,Suzuki Y,Toribe Y,Nakano H,Morimoto K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well known that febrile seizures are commonly occur in children with exanthem subitum. In this study, we compared the clinical features and backgrounds of patients with complex febrile seizures with and without primary human herpesvirus 6B infection. METHODS:Sixty-two patients were enrolled after expe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Miyake M,Kawamura Y,Hattori F,Miura H,Ishihara N,Yoshikawa T

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report concerns a vertically human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected 7-year-old child, in whom a neurodegenerative disease occurred after an acute neurologic disorder that was in all likelihood symptomatic of HIV-1 encephalitis. At the steady state the neurologic disease fulfilled the accepted...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Angelini L,Zibordi F,Triulzi F,Pinzani R,Plebani A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of intrapartum hypoxia-ischemia to neonatal encephalopathy in the larger preterm infant remains poorly defined. Such infants could become potential candidates for neuroprotective strategies. The objective of this study was to determine in preterm infants of gestation 31 to 36 weeks, with severe fetal ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Salhab WA,Perlman JM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons must respond to a bewildering array of external and internal stimuli and must distinguish among them to generate an appropriate response or change in metabolic or electrical activity. Furthermore, the response of a cell to a given stimulus must depend on what else is happening inside and outside the cell at th...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Schor NF

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal cerebral infarction is a relatively common cause of neonatal seizures, with an incidence of at least 1:4000 live births and is associated with a high incidence of neurological sequelae. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms and predisposing factors responsible for neonatal infarction are not fu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kanda K,Sato A,Abe D,Nishijima S,Ishigami T

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:We studied the sensory evoked potentials in pediatric Wilson disease to verify their subclinical neurologic involvement and to elucidate the role of cirrhosis in abnormal evoked potentials in non-neurologic Wilson disease. Thirty children (17 male, 13 female), diagnosed with Wilson disease before 18 years, were enroll...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hsu YS,Chang YC,Lee WT,Ni YH,Hsu HY,Chang MH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transient bulbar palsy without involvement of the facial or extraocular muscles is a rare presentation. It is considered a form of cranial polyneuropathy, a variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome that is related to the autoimmune mechanisms induced by preceding infections or vaccinations. However, drug-induced c...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Han TH,Kim DY,Park DW,Moon JH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis is rare in childhood. Diagnosis is sometimes difficult, and imaging methods range from MRI to MRA to conventional angiography. In doubtful cases a brain biopsy is necessary for diagnostic purposes. We describe a 6-year old child affected with primary angiitis of the CNS who was ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rosati A,Pianigiani N,Pagnini I,Guerrini R,Cimaz R,Simonini G

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the successful use of electroconvulsive therapy in a 13-year-old boy with congenital hydrocephalus, a history of multiple shunt revisions, and a stable prepontine arachnoid cyst, who experienced profound catatonic deterioration. After initial shunt placement at age 20 months, the patient had followed norm...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wachtel LE,Baranano K,Reti IM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumefactive demyelinating lesions may be misdiagnosed as brain neoplasms or abscesses. In this paper, we present four cases of pediatric tumefactive demyelination. Twelve cases of pediatric tumefactive demyelination previously reported in the English literature are also summarized. We describe the neuroimaging charact...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： McAdam LC,Blaser SI,Banwell BL

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four children with self-inflicted strangulation injuries had cerebral blood flow determined by stable xenon computed tomography (XeCTCBF) within 24 hours of admission. All had suffered a severe hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury; 3 initially had fixed pupils, all were apneic with varying bradyarrhythmias, and the initia...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ashwal S,Perkin RM,Thompson JR,Tomasi LG,van Stralen D,Schneider S

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:Melioidosis from Pseudomonas pseudomallei is common in endemic areas (particularly southeast Asia) and is being recognized with increasing frequency in developed countries. Central nervous system involvement is a rare complication with a high mortality. A patient with multiple cerebral abscesses caused by this organis...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pelekanos JT,Appleton DB

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postictal psychosis is a state of psychosis following repeated or prolonged complex partial seizures with or without secondary generalization and is well described in adult epilepsy literature. It is sparsely reported in the pediatric literature. This report describes a 12-year-old male presenting with status epilepti...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Joshi CN,Booth FA,Sigurdson ES,Bolton JM,Shah NS

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:l-2 hydroxyglutaric aciduria is a rare, autosomal recessively inherited metabolic disorder of organic acid metabolism. A 5-year-old boy presented with eyelid myoclonia with absences that proved difficult to control with first-line anticonvulsants. An electroencephalogram produced profoundly abnormal results, with gene...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Mete A,Isikay S,Sirikci A,Ozkur A,Bayram M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were recorded in 32 children (ages 4 months to 5 years) who were clinically diagnosed as being cortically blind. None of the children had visual or neurologic abnormalities prior to the precipitating insult which included surgery (N = 15), trauma (N = 3), infectious disease (N = 5), hyp...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Taylor MJ,McCulloch DL

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 4-year-old, left-handed male with focal coxsackievirus A3 encephalitis who presented with seizures and acquired aphasia. Electroencephalography exhibited focal spike discharges over the right frontal regions, but cranial magnetic resonance imaging did not reveal any structural abnormalities. However, brain...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wakamoto H,Ohta M,Nakano N,Kunisue K

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guillain-Barré syndrome is the most common cause of acute flaccid paresis in childhood. Few validated large-scale population-based data are available concerning pediatric Guillain-Barré syndrome, including incidence, risk factors, and initial clinical characteristics. METHODS:In the Danish National Patient ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Levison LS,Thomsen RW,Markvardsen LK,Christensen DH,Sindrup SH,Andersen H

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of a 7-month-old girl with developmental delay and intractable seizures revealed hemispheric asymmetry and an enlarged right cerebral hemisphere. Because of a history of seizures refractory to medical therapy, she was admitted for right hemispherectomy, but died of complications of surgery. Postmortem brain...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jahan R,Mischel PS,Curran JG,Peacock WJ,Shields DW,Vinters HV

更新日期：1997-11-01 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