Rolandic mitochondrial encephalomyelopathy and MT-ND3 mutations.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outcome of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia has improved because of intensive chemotherapy and supportive care. The frequency of adverse events has also increased, but the data related to acute central nervous system complications during acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment are sparse. The purpos...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Baytan B,Evim MS,Güler S,Güneş AM,Okan M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematogenous brain metastases are uncommon in childhood. Three patients and a literature review that includes centers reporting up to 36 years of experience are presented in this study. The total of 2,040 patients includes our three examples of one neuroblastoma, one hepatoblastoma, and one adrenal carcinoma. Cerebral...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Curless RG,Toledano SR,Ragheb J,Cleveland WW,Falcone S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the clinical characteristics of children with continuous spike waves during slow-wave sleep syndrome and their treatment response to levetiracetam. Five boys and one girl, diagnosed with epilepsy with continuous spike waves during slow-wave sleep syndrome, were enrolled. Their clinical characteristics,...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wang SB,Weng WC,Fan PC,Lee WT

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild encephalopathy with reversible splenial lesions has mainly been associated with influenza A and B virus infection. Patients present with neurologic symptoms 1 to 3 days after a prodromal illness and recover completely within a few days. Magnetic resonance imaging typically shows reversible lesions with reduced di...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Abenhaim Halpern L,Agyeman P,Steinlin M,El-Koussy M,Grunt S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-year-old boy with severe growth retardation, mild mental retardation, and hypospadia had a high serum CK level without muscle weakness and atrophy. Muscle biopsy revealed a moderate variation in fiber size with a few necrotic and scattered regenerating fibers. Although muscle membranes were clearly stained by immu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nagai T,Tuchiya Y,Maruyama A,Sakuta R,Nonaka I

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A syndrome of rigidity, bradykinesia, spasticity, and often myoclonus and dementia developed acutely in 5 patients who had undergone successful engraftment of bone marrow transplants for the treatment of various hematologic diseases. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated widespread changes in white matter; brain bio...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lockman LA,Sung JH,Krivit W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of sixth nerve palsies in 75 children, all of whom had undergone modern neuroimaging, were reviewed. Neoplasms or their neurosurgical removal was the most common cause (n = 34 [45%]); elevated intracranial pressure (nontumor) (15%), traumatic (12%), congenital (11%), inflammatory (7%), miscellaneous (5%), a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lee MS,Galetta SL,Volpe NJ,Liu GT

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven patients (39 boys and 8 girls) with infantile autism whose clinical symptoms had matched the diagnostic criteria of DSM III were studied cytogenetically for the occurrence of fragile X [fra(X)] syndrome. The existence of fra(X) chromosome in these patients was screened first by culturing peripheral blood l...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Matsuishi T,Shiotsuki Y,Niikawa N,Katafuchi Y,Otaki E,Ando H,Yamashita Y,Horikawa M,Urabe F,Kuriya N

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A debilitating, regularly recurring, biphasic disorder is described in 6 severely multidisabled children. It was characterized by several days of lethargy, withdrawal, loss of abilities, irritability, and hypersomnolence followed or preceded by a high-energy state for several days during which the children slept very ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jan JE,Abroms IF,Freeman RD,Brown GM,Espezel H,Connolly MB

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick type C disease is an autosomal-recessive, inherited neurovisceral lipid storage disorder. This disease results from either protein NPC1 or HE1 deficiency, which leads to cholesterol metabolism disturbance and is characterized by early hepatosplenomegaly and progressive ataxia, dystonia, cataplexy, dysarth...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zafeiriou DI,Triantafyllou P,Gombakis NP,Vargiami E,Tsantali C,Michelakaki E

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy can be used to assess brain integrity and maturation with age. OBJECTIVE:To compare regional cerebral magnetic resonance spectroscopy metabolite ratios in extremely low birth weight and healthy term control infants measured at term-equivalent age and to evaluate associ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bapat R,Narayana PA,Zhou Y,Parikh NA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tourette syndrome is a neurologic disorder characterized by both motor and vocal tics. Recently, two variants, including a single-base deletion resulting in a truncated protein and a 3'-untranslated-region variant altering a binding site for micro-RNA in the Slit and Trk-like 1 gene, were found to be a genetic cause o...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chou IC,Wan L,Liu SC,Tsai CH,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder that almost exclusively affects females. The clinical course as well as the electroencephalogram pattern are characteristic and have been correlated to the clinical stages of the disease. Sixty to 70 percent of the patients develop epilepsy. The aim of this retrospective ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Moser SJ,Weber P,Lütschg J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Herpes simplex virus encephalitis can manifest as a range of clinical presentations including classic adult, neonatal, and biphasic chronic-granulomatous herpes encephalitis. METHOD:We report an infant with granulomatous herpes simplex virus type 2 encephalitis with a subacute course and multicystic encepha...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Schutz PW,Fauth CT,Al-Rawahi GN,Pugash D,White VA,Stockler S,Dunham CP

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of leukomalacia and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-positive glial cells in prenatal- and postnatal-onset leukomalacia were compared and diagnosed histologically in 128 autopsied infants and the different pathogeneses were examined. Prenatal-onset leukomalacia was diagnosed in 12 of 71 still-bi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Iida K,Takashima S,Takeuchi Y,Ohno T,Ueda K

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Two half-siblings with schizencephaly are presented. They have the same mother who had a normal cerebral imaging study. Only one other kindred was found in which 2 siblings had this cerebral lesion. In the present patients, autosomal inheritance from the mother is possible, but other explanations should include famili...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hosley MA,Abroms IF,Ragland RL

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome is a recently recognized disorder with characteristic radiologic findings that mainly involve the white/gray matter of the parieto-occipital lobes. This complex syndrome is associated with cyclosporine A therapy or a variety of other conditions in which blood pressure ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kwon S,Koo J,Lee S

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP), believed to be a major determinant of neurologic outcome, was monitored at the bedside of high-risk premature newborns during the first few days of life. Intraventricular hemorrhage was presumed to have occurred in only one of the seven infants and was associated with ventriculomegal...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Braun MA,Rosman NP,Gould JB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a fetal intracerebral hemorrhage associated with familial thrombophilia. Intraventricular and intraparenchymal hemorrhage of the left cerebral hemisphere was diagnosed at 22 weeks of gestation. Neuropathologic examination demonstrated a large germinal zone hemorrhage and ischemic changes secondary to bleed...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Crespin M,Alhenc-Gelas M,Grangé G,Fallet-Bianco C,Fontenay M

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:About 5-10% of school-age children manifest migraine headaches. Treatment options for pediatric migraine are limited. Topiramate is approved for migraine prophylaxis in adults, but its use in children is limited. We retrospectively reviewed the records of 37 patients, i.e., 22 (60%) girls and 15 (40%) boys (mean age, ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cruz MJ,Valencia I,Legido A,Kothare SV,Khurana DS,Yum S,Hardison HH,Melvin JJ,Marks HG

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：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：: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:Clinically mild encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) is the second commonest cause of encephalopathy. Several pathogens have been detected in patients with MERS type 2, such as influenza A and B, but little is known about the proportion of cases of MERS type 2 with this pathogenesis. Human...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sano F,Fukao T,Tamaru K,Kanemura H,Inukai T,Aihara M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00