Long remission in muscle-specific kinase antibody-positive juvenile myasthenia.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormalities of early motor development have been reported in autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, intellectual developmental disorder, developmental coordination disorder, and other Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations (ESSENCE). Howe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hatakenaka Y,Kotani H,Yasumitsu-Lovell K,Suzuki K,Fernell E,Gillberg C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyclic vomiting syndrome is characterized by recurrent vomiting that is associated with increased adrenocorticotropic hormone and antidiuretic hormone levels during cyclic vomiting syndrome attacks. However, both prognosis and treatment remain unclear. We therefore evaluated the clinical features, prognosis,...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hikita T,Kodama H,Ogita K,Kaneko S,Nakamoto N,Mimaki M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe the spectrum of possible abnormal neurologic outcomes in term infants with intrapartum asphyxia and to identify those clinical factors associated with the later occurrence of cerebral palsy. All children with term intrapartum asphyxia encountered in a single pediatric neurolog...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Al-Macki N,Miller SP,Hall N,Shevell M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexia without agraphia is a rare disconnection syndrome characterized by the loss of reading ability with retention of writing and verbal comprehension. We report a patient who developed alexia without agraphia after undergoing a biopsy for a malignant glioma involving the left thalamus. A 15-year-old right-handed ma...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tamhankar MA,Coslett HB,Fisher MJ,Sutton LN,Liu GT

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:We report a boy 20 months of age with encephalopathy, petechiae, and ethylmalonic aciduria (EPEMA). Other clinical features were severe hypotonia, orthostatic acrocyanosis, and chronic diarrhea. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain demonstrated bilateral lesions in the lenticular and caudate nuclei, periaqued...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： García-Silva MT,Ribes A,Campos Y,Garavaglia B,Arenas J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporadic nonsyndromic cerebellar hypoplasia is a radiological diagnosis with clinical features and a relation with developmental disability that are presently not known. Through a retrospective review of a comprehensive standardized computerized database containing more than 2,500 patients examined consecutively by a ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Shevell MI,Majnemer A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old Japanese boy had Sakoda complex (basal encephalomeningocele, agenesis of the corpus callosum, and cleft lip and/or palate) associated with bilateral anophthalmia, dysgenesis of the cerebral cortex, severe mental retardation, and intractable epilepsy as core symptoms and hemiparesis, microcephalus, short ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ehara H,Kurimasa A,Ohno K,Takeshita K

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:Positron emission tomography (PET) using 18F-labeled 2-deoxy-D-glucose was performed serially in 5 infants with idiopathic West syndrome. While tonic spasms persisted, 2 infants had hypometabolism in the bilateral temporo-parieto-occipital regions, which disappeared after cessation of spasms. In 2 other infants, PET r...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Maeda N,Watanabe K,Negoro T,Aso K,Haga Y,Kito M,Ohki T,Ito K,Kato T

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of alternating hemiplegia of childhood is reported. Tonic fits and generalized tonic-clonic seizures developed during her infancy. Frequent twitching and apneic seizures appeared at 16 years of age. Zonisamide transiently suppressed the tonic, twitching and apneic seizures, as well as the facial and neck dyston...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Saito Y,Sakuragawa N,Sasaki M,Sugai K,Hashimoto T

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old girl who had Duane retraction syndrome associated with Chiari I malformation is reported. Neuro-ophthalmologic examination revealed severe limitation of abduction of the left eye, as well as narrowing of the palpebral fissure and retraction of the globe on adduction. Electro-oculography of the affected e...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yamanouchi H,Iwasaki Y,Sugai K,Mukuno K

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study developed a Farsi language Communication Function Classification System and then tested its reliability and validity. METHODS:Communication Function Classification System is designed to classify the communication functions of individuals with cerebral palsy. Up until now, there has been no instru...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Soleymani Z,Joveini G,Baghestani AR

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder of purine metabolism resulting from mutations in the ADSL gene on chromosome subband 22q13.1 and associated with a wide range of clinical manifestations. Although there is currently no effective treatment of ADSL deficiency, recognition of the condit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lundy CT,Jungbluth H,Pohl KR,Siddiqui A,Marinaki AM,Mundy H,Champion MP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two visually impaired children with occipital infarctions are presented. One patient has profound impairment of his primary visual pathway but has good vision for traveling, while the other child presented with the symptoms in reverse. We believe that these two patients provide further evidence that the primary visual...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jan JE,Wong PK,Groenveld M,Flodmark O,Hoyt CS

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome were studied over a 26-year period. The nevus flammeus was unilateral in 27 patients (twice as often on left side) and bilateral in 13 patients. Only 3 of these 13 patients had bilateral cerebral lesions. Seizures, most of which were focal, were present in 32 patients (80%). T...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pascual-Castroviejo I,Díaz-Gonzalez C,García-Melian RM,Gonzalez-Casado I,Muñoz-Hiraldo E

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven children, 4-48 months old, with congenital cyanotic heart defects developed choreoathetoid movements 2-12 days after cardiac surgery with hypothermia and extracorporeal circulation (ECC). The abnormal movements mainly involved the limbs, facial musculature, and tongue, leading to a severe dysphagia. The symptom...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Gherpelli JL,Azeka E,Riso A,Atik E,Ebaid M,Barbero-Marcial M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion was recently established clinicoradiologically as an encephalopathy syndrome. The outcome of this encephalopathy is characterized by a low mortality rate and high incidence of neurologic sequelae. Although the exact pathogenesis of this encephalopa...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Matsuo M,Maeda T,Ono N,Sugihara S,Kobayashi I,Koga D,Hamasaki Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rachischisis totalis is a rare open neural tube defect often associated with lethal acrania. When acrania is not present, mortality remains high and morbidity for survivors is extreme. PATIENT:We describe is a term newborn with in-utero diagnosed rachischisis totalis without acrania and Chiari II malformati...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Meadows JT Jr,Hayes D Jr

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We describe the trends in antiepileptic drug (AED) use in children and adolescents with epilepsy in the United States. METHODS:We undertook a cross-sectional study based on Medicaid Analytic eXtract data set from 26 US states. Children and adolescents aged three to 18 years with at least one year continuous ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Liu X,Carney PR,Bussing R,Segal R,Cottler LB,Winterstein AG

更新日期：2017-09-01 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:No therapies have been formally approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in pediatric multiple sclerosis, a rare disease. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetics of dimethyl fumarate in pediatric patients with multiple sclerosis. METHODS:FOCUS, a phase 2, multicenter s...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Alroughani R,Das R,Penner N,Pultz J,Taylor C,Eraly S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A morphometric magnetic resonance imaging study was performed, and the results were compared among three groups (group 1, periventricular leukomalacia patients with West syndrome; group 2, periventricular leukomalacia patients without West syndrome; and group 3, control patients) to clarify the characteristics and cau...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ozawa H,Hashimoto T,Endo T,Kato T,Furusho J,Suzuki Y,Takada E,Ogawa Y,Takashima S

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distinguishing patients with psychogenic nonsyncopal collapse (PNSC), a conversion disorder that resembles syncope, can pose a difficult clinical challenge. Using the open-ended question "what does it feel like to faint?," the present study aimed to characterize how patients with PNSC perceive and communicat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Heyer GL

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although acute disseminated encephalomyelitis has been observed after a variety of viral infections and an occasional bacterial infection, it has not been reported in association with rickettsial infections. Reported is a 7-year-old male with magnetic resonance images and clinical manifestations suggestive of acute di...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wei TY,Baumann RJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The ketogenic diet is a valuable therapy for patients with intractable epilepsy, but it can result in a variety of complications that sometimes limits its usefulness. Hypoproteinemia is one of the common adverse effects of this diet, although the underling mechanism is largely unknown except for the diet's...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Moriyama K,Watanabe M,Yamada Y,Shiihara T

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Cerebral creatine transporter deficiency, attributable to mutations in the SLC6A8 gene, causes X-linked mental retardation, language delay, epilepsy, and autistic features. In contrast with creatine synthesis defects, the vast majority of patients with SLC6A8 deficiency do not respond to treatment. We describe a Portu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Garcia P,Rodrigues F,Valongo C,Salomons GS,Diogo L

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Mitochondrial diseases comprise a group of complex and heterogeneous genetic disorders. Variable clinical features present a major challenge in pediatric diagnoses. From January 1984-June 2009, 69 patients were diagnosed with either syndromic mitochondrial diseases or nonsyndromic mitochondrial diseases. Clinical mani...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chi CS,Lee HF,Tsai CR,Lee HJ,Chen LH

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00