Deterioration on magnetic resonance imaging despite good clinical recovery after viral encephalitis.

abstract：:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Uniform diagnostic criteria for acute disseminated encephalomyelitis did not exist until publication of expert-defined consensus definitions by the International Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Society Group in 2007, with upda...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cole J,Evans E,Mwangi M,Mar S

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:High dosages of natural adrenocorticotropic hormone are used in many centers in the United States for the treatment of infantile spasms. However, lower dosages of synthetic adrenocorticotropic hormone (tetracosactide) might be equally efficient as high dosages. We analyzed the treatment options for infantile...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Riikonen R,Lähdetie J,Kokki H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system tumors occur considerably less often in the fetus and neonate than in the older child. They are not entirely the same as those present later in life. Their location, biologic behavior, response to therapy, and histologic types are different. Fetal and neonatal brain tumors (n = 250) were collect...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Isaacs H Jr

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Alagille syndrome is associated with various ocular abnormalities, including pseudopapilledema or optic disk edema due to increased intracranial pressure. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the mechanism of intracranial hypertension in Alagille syndrome. Craniosynostosis is an unusual but significant cau...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yilmaz S,Turhan T,Mutluer S,Aydogdu S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a unique patient with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) presenting optic atrophy, cardiomyopathy, and bilateral striatal necrosis before stoke-like episodes became apparent. Skeletal muscle total mitochondrial DNA analysis identified a heteroplasmic ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sakuta R,Honzawa S,Murakami N,Goto Y,Nagai T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Outcome in severe acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood is poor, with high mortality (30%) and moderate to severe disability in survivors despite the use of intravenous corticosteroids or immunoglobulins. Increased blood interleukin 6 level correlates with poor outcome. METHODS:We report the early u...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Koh JC,Murugasu A,Krishnappa J,Thomas T

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to compare the neurodevelopmental outcome between very low birth weight infants with and without sonographic disproportionate enlargement of occipital horn. We retrospectively reviewed the brain sonography of all very low birth weight infants born at National Taiwan University Hospital b...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tang MP,Chou HC,Tsao PN,Tsou KI,Hsieh WS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT 1A) is an autosomal dominant demyelinating polyneuropathy associated with a 1.5-Mb duplication of the p11.2-p12 region of chromosome 17, including the peripheral myelin protein-22 (PMP-22) gene (CMT 1A duplication). We report a male patient with a de novo CMT 1A diagnosed on cl...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tachi N,Kozuka N,Ohya K,Chiba S

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:The object of this study was to investigate the potential association of infections, especially group A hemolytic streptococcal infection, with the abrupt onset/exacerbation of tics or obsessive-compulsive behaviors. A structured clinical interview was used to evaluate 80 consecutive children, 5-17 years of age, with ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Singer HS,Giuliano JD,Zimmerman AM,Walkup JT

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ring chromosome 20 is a genetic disorder characterized by intractable epilepsy, behavioral problems, and cognitive deficit. The potassium channel-coding gene KCNQ2 is localized at the locus q13.3 on the chromosome 20, the most common site where the ring occurs. Ezogabine is the first potassium channel opener...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Walleigh DJ,Legido A,Valencia I

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:This study reports on a patient with Leigh syndrome with a T-to-C mutation at nucleotide 8993 of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (T8993C). The authors reviewed 10 Leigh syndrome patients, including ours, with T8993C. Compared with 18 reported patients with Leigh syndrome caused by a T-to-G mutation at nucleotide 8...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Fujii T,Hattori H,Higuchi Y,Tsuji M,Mitsuyoshi I

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the efficacy of piracetam therapy, 76 children with breath-holding spells admitted to the Outpatient Clinic of Dicle University Medical Faculty Paediatrics Department and Bakirköy State Hospital, Paediatrics Department between 1988 and 1990 and 1991 and 1996, respectively, were included in this placebo-con...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Donma MM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe Adie's pupil and radiologic changes related to Parry-Romberg syndrome in a child who presented with facial hemiatrophy with no neurologic deficit. We suggest that cerebral lesions in Parry-Romberg syndrome without neurologic symptoms must be carefully investigated. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Aynaci FM,Sen Y,Erdöl H,Ahmetoğlu A,Elmas R

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain plasticity refers to its ability to recover after damage. Visual field plasticity is not well recognized. We report a 12-year-old female who first presented with recurrent seizures and was subsequently found to have a large, right occipital cortical dysplasia on magnetic resonance imaging. Her visual field by Go...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kong CK,Wong LY,Yuen MK

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of anti-muscle specific kinase-positive myasthenia in children has been little reported. Described here is the case of an 8 year-old boy who presented with ptosis and generalized weakness, which resolved within 1 month without any immunomodulatory treatment. This spontaneous remission lasted 6 year...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Anlar B,Yilmaz V,Saruhan-Direskeneli G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although brainstem immaturity has been postulated as one of the pathogenesis underlying cyanosis during feeding (CDF), there has been no widely accepted physiologic parameter that reflects brainstem function. We recently proposed that the dissociation index (DI), one of the phasic sleep parameters, is a reliable and q...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kohyama J,Watanabe S,Iwakawa Y

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonuniform pathologic changes in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy were previously reported only in adult humans. We analyzed the pathologic features of 12 children, aged 2-17 years, with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Six patients manifested a preceding illness. Five patients prese...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Luan X,Zheng R,Chen B,Yuan Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep problems affect 30% to 80% of patients with mild traumatic brain injury. We assessed the prevalence of sleep disorders after mild traumatic brain injury and its correlation with other symptoms. METHODS AND MATERIALS:Individuals with mild traumatic brain injury were assessed at the New York University ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tkachenko N,Singh K,Hasanaj L,Serrano L,Kothare SV

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial encephalopathies may be caused by mutations in the respiratory chain complex I subunit genes. Described here are the cases of two pediatric patients who presented with MELAS-like calcarine lesions in addition to novel, bilateral rolandic lesions and epilepsia partialis continua, secondary to MT-ND3 mutat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Werner KG,Morel CF,Kirton A,Benseler SM,Shoffner JM,Addis JB,Robinson BH,Burrowes DM,Blaser SI,Epstein LG,Feigenbaum AS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute effects of low-dose clonazepam on seizure frequency in children with epilepsy was evaluated. In an open study, 19 children with epilepsy (15 generalized and four partial) were examined during hospitalization with recordings of seizures by trained personnel. Seizures were counted during two 24-hour periods: b...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dahlin MG,Amark PE,Nergårdh AR

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Seizures are an early sign of brain injury in newborns. These seizures are in most cases repetitive or associated with asymptomatic electrographic seizures. Despite the relative resistance of the immature brain to seizure-induced brain damage, there is more and more evidence that neonatal seizures impair normal brain ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Thibeault-Eybalin MP,Lortie A,Carmant L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited data are available on optic neuritis in Asian children. Clinical profiles tend to vary with different races. We aimed to determine the clinical manifestations, visual outcomes, and etiologies of optic neuritis in Malaysian children, and discuss the literature of optic neuritis in Asian children. A retrospectiv...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Shatriah I,Adlina AR,Alshaarawi S,Wan-Hitam WH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the added utility of gadolinium administration in the magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of developmental delay in children less than 2 years of age. A computerized retrospective study identified all brain magnetic resonance imaging examinations using gadolinium performed at ou...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Foerster BR,Ksar J,Petrou M,Eldevik PO,Maly PV,Carlson MD,Sundgren PC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00