Does apolipoprotein E genotype modify the clinical expression of ALS?

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Depressed mood is a common psychiatric problem associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), and studies have suggested a benefit of rasagiline treatment. METHODS:ACCORDO (see the ) was a 12-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the effects of rasagiline 1 mg/day on depressive sym...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Barone P,Santangelo G,Morgante L,Onofrj M,Meco G,Abbruzzese G,Bonuccelli U,Cossu G,Pezzoli G,Stanzione P,Lopiano L,Antonini A,Tinazzi M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK recommends the use of OnabotulinumtoxinA (BoNTA, Botox® ) in the management of chronic migraine (CM) following specific guidelines within the National Health Service. In view of the lack of data on the efficacy of this therapy...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Andreou AP,Trimboli M,Al-Kaisy A,Murphy M,Palmisani S,Fenech C,Smith T,Lambru G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Cognitive impairment is common in Parkinson's disease (PD), even in the early stages. We aimed to assess the relationship between insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and cognitive functions in early, drug-naïve patients with PD. METHODS:Serum IGF-1 was measured in 65 early, drug-naïve patients ...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Pellecchia MT,Santangelo G,Picillo M,Pivonello R,Longo K,Pivonello C,Vitale C,Amboni M,De Rosa A,Moccia M,Erro R,De Michele G,Santoro L,Colao A,Barone P

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer (pRNFL) thickness is a strong candidate as a biomarker of axonal degeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim was to determine a cut-off value of pRNFL thinning rates in relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) to discriminate between stable and progressing patien...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Bsteh G,Hegen H,Teuchner B,Berek K,Wurth S,Auer M,Di Pauli F,Deisenhammer F,Berger T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of white matter lesions (WML) is an important prognostic factor for the development of stroke. Plasma total homocysteine (tHcy), which increases with diabetes, has been flagged as a novel predictor for cerebrovascular events. We tested the hypothesis that the presence of WML correlates with tHcy and insul...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Shimomura T,Anan F,Umeno Y,Eshima N,Saikawa T,Yoshimatsu H,Fujiki M,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Comorbidity in myasthenia gravis (MG) is important for diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Disease complexity was assessed by examining total drug treatment, immune therapy and comorbidity in a complete national MG cohort. METHODS:All recipients of the MG-specific drug pyridostigmine 2004-2010 r...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Andersen JB,Owe JF,Engeland A,Gilhus NE

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between March 1996 and December 1997, 15 consecutive patients with carotid artery occlusion diagnosed with duplex sonography were treated with intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA), following a protocol similar to that of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) study....

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Rudolf J,Neveling M,Grond M,Schmulling S,Stenzel C,Heiss WD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:The HLA-DRB1*15 allele is consistently associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility in most studied populations. This study investigated the association between HLA-DRB1 alleles and the presence of oligoclonal immunoglobulin G bands (OCB) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in a Spanish ...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Romero-Pinel L,Martínez-Yélamos S,Bau L,Matas E,Gubieras L,María Pujal J,Morandeira F,Bas J,Arbizu T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:To examine the frequencies and clinical characteristics of fallers and non-fallers at different stages of Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS:The sample consisted of 232 patients in an unselected cross-sectional cohort of patients with PD, 207 newly diagnosed and drug naive patients and 175 contro...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Hiorth YH,Lode K,Larsen JP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An immune activation response resembling virus or type I interferon responses has been observed in untreated multiple sclerosis (MS), but its pathogenic significance is uncertain. We studied the relationship between a type I interferon-like response in untreated patients with MS and disease activity. METHODS...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Hesse D,Krakauer M,Lund H,Søndergaard HB,Limborg SJ,Sørensen PS,Sellebjerg F

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine has a selective affinity for H3-receptors and it may specifically inhibit the neurogenic edema response involved in migraine pathophysiology. The objective of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic potential of subcutaneous administration of histamine in migraine prophylaxis, compared with oral administr...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Millán-Guerrero RO,Isais-Millán R,Barreto-Vizcaíno S,Rivera-Castaño L,Garcia-Solorzano A,López-Blanca C,Membrila-Maldonado M,Muñoz-Solis R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Routine screening for asymptomatic cranial-carotid stenosis (ACCS) is controversial and recommendation in clinical practice is vague. The ankle-brachial index (ABI) is reported as a predictor for cardiovascular disease. However, there is a scarcity of data about the association between abnormal A...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Qiu J,Zhou Y,Yang X,Zhang Y,Li Z,Yan N,Wang Y,Ge S,Wu S,Zhao X,Wang W

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no report of patients in whom pathological laughter, a rare condition characterized by uncontrollable episodes of laughter usually triggered by unrelated stimuli, was ever closely associated with a loss of consciousness overtly linked with the onset of such uncontrollable laughter, also referred to as a gelas...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Famularo G,Corsi FM,Minisola G,De Simone C,Nicotra GC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively evaluated an elliptic centric ordered 3D (ec 3D) magnetic resonance venography (MRV) technique in comparison to 2D time-of-flight (2D TOF) MRV in patients with presumptive cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). Twenty-five patients (mean age 40.6 +/- 16.5 years) with presumptive CVST underwent cer...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Klingebiel R,Bauknecht HC,Bohner G,Kirsch R,Berger J,Masuhr F

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Our objective was to study the association between serum levels of anti Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA-1) antibody and 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) in a prospective cohort of patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. METHOD:The study comprised 90 patients with relapsing-...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Wergeland S,Myhr KM,Løken-Amsrud KI,Beiske AG,Bjerve KS,Hovdal H,Midgard R,Kvistad SS,Holmøy T,Riise T,Torkildsen Ø

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined clinical presentations, neuropsychological findings, and perfusion patterns of (99m)Tc-ethyl cysteinate dimer (ECD) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with early stage dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) (n = 17) and Parkinson's disease (PD) (n = 16), with age-matched healthy contro...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Chang CC,Liu JS,Chang YY,Chang WN,Chen SS,Lee CH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnosis/differential diagnosis of patients with clinically isolated syndromes suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS) is widely accepted, adoption of MRI into clinical practice to monitor disease evolution remains a work in progress. However, an accumulating b...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Oreja-Guevara C,ParadigMS Group.

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Humanized monoclonal antibody galcanezumab, which binds to calcitonin-gene-related peptide, has shown efficacy for episodic and chronic migraine prevention. These analyses evaluated galcanezumab response for migraine headache prevention in patients who previously failed onabotulinumtoxinA ('nonre...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Ailani J,Pearlman E,Zhang Q,Nagy AJ,Schuh K,Aurora SK

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several metabolic derangements associated with diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM) have been associated with a better outcome in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), including hyperlipidemia and obesity. Here, we tested the hypothesis that DM would have a positive effect on the motor and cognitive findings of ALS....

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Jawaid A,Salamone AR,Strutt AM,Murthy SB,Wheaton M,McDowell EJ,Simpson E,Appel SH,York MK,Schulz PE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Intrathecal immunoglobulin (Ig) synthesis occurs in various chronic inflammatory neurological diseases. Different formulae have been developed for quantitative determination of Ig synthesis within the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) compartment. The hyperbolic formula of Reiber is frequently used which...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Auer M,Hegen H,Zeileis A,Deisenhammer F

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parkinson´s disease (PD) has a large phenotypic variability, which may, at least partly, be genetically driven including alterations of gene products. Candidates might not only be proteins associated with disease risk but also pathways that play a role in aging. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate phenotype-modifying eff...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Zimmermann M,Köhler L,Kovarova M,Lerche S,Schulte C,Wurster I,Machetanz G,Deuschle C,Hauser AK,Gasser T,Berg D,Schleicher E,Maetzler W,Brockmann K

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Jaw-opening dystonia (oromandibular dystonia with jaw-opening; Brueghel's syndrome) is a rare condition, and only a limited number of cases have been reported in the literature. However, many patients may remain undiscovered or misdiagnosed, like a patient described previously. A case (40-year-old man) of jaw-opening ...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Miyaoka T,Miura S,Seno H,Inagaki T,Horiguchi J

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:An association between parental smoking and multiple sclerosis (MS) in offspring has been reported. This study examined whether maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with MS in offspring. METHODS:Swedish general population registers provided prospectively recorded information on maternal smoking...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Montgomery SM,Bahmanyar S,Hillert J,Ekbom A,Olsson T

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal neuronal intermediate filament (IF) inclusions immunopositive for the type IV IF alpha-internexin have been identified as the pathological hallmark of neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease (NIFID). We studied the topography of these inclusions in the frontal and temporal lobe in 68 areas from 10 ca...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Armstrong RA,Cairns NJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eur J Neurol 6:113 Copyright Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Boller F,Petrov AM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic challenges neurologists in counseling multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with respect to their risk for and by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and in guiding disease-modifying treatment (DMT). The objective was to determine the freque...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Bsteh G,Bitschnau C,Hegen H,Auer M,Di Pauli F,Rommer P,Deisenhammer F,Berger T

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not well established whether seizures and epilepsy after an ischaemic stroke increase the disability of patients. Seventy-two patients with delayed seizures after a hemispheric infarct (37 with a single seizure and 35 with epilepsy) were included in the study. The modified Rankin scale was used to compare disabi...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： De Reuck J,Claeys I,Martens S,Vanwalleghem P,Van Maele G,Phlypo R,Hallez H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water drinking recently has been shown to raise blood pressure in normal subjects and in patients with autonomic failure who have orthostatic hypotension. However, in normal young subjects, ingestion of approximately 500 ml has no pressor effect; but in older subjects there is an increase in blood pressure. An even gr...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Mathias CJ,Young TM

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum A toxin (BT) has been successfully used for the management of spasticity in cerebral palsy (CP). However, the long-term results of BT have not yet been determined. We have studied the evolution of a homogeneous group of patients with CP treated with BT. All these patients had an equinus gait resulting from c...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： García Ruiz PJ,Pascual Pascual I,Sánchez Bernardos V

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have explored antigliadin (AGA) and antireticulin (ARA) antibody tests for the serological screening for coeliac disease (CD) of 206 children with neurological disorders. IgA- or/and IgG-type AGA was discovered in 17 (8.3%) patients and IgA-type ARA in one (0.5%) patient. A small intestinal bio...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Salur L,Uibo O,Talvik I,Justus I,Metsküla K,Talvik T,Uibo R

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00