Melatonin: experience in its use for recording sleep EEG in children and review of the literature.

abstract：:Introduction Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune peripheral neuropathy characterized by demyelination and axonal damage. Biallelic functional polymorphisms in the immunoglobulin G Fc receptors (FcγR)-FcγRIIA: H131/R131, FcγRIIIA: V158/F158, and FcγRIIIB: NA1/NA2 affect the affinity of the IgG-FcγR interacti...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mansour LA,Girgis MY,Abdulhay M,ElEinein EI,ElHawary R,Hanna MO

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL) are a group of inherited progressive encephalopathies. Striking histomorphological feature of the NCL is the accumulation of storage material within the lysosomes in neural and extraneural cells. The basic underlying defect causing the disease is not known. Presupposing a distu...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kieseier BC,Wisniewski KE,Schuller-Levis G,Park E,Goebel HH

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two patients with congenital cervical spinal atrophy who were born at 37 and 33 weeks of gestation. Both patients were unrelated and had no family history of neuromuscular diseases. They presented at birth with arthrogryposis multiplex and symmetrical severe muscle weakness and wasting confined to the upper...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kaiboriboon K,Hayat GR

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galloway-Mowat syndrome (GMS) is a rare autosomal-recessive disorder characterised by nephrotic syndrome, microcephaly, and variable brain anomalies. The prognosis is poor with death almost inevitably supervening before the age of 6 years, but atypical cases with later onset of proteinuria and a more protracted course...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Steiss JO,Gross S,Neubauer BA,Hahn A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following administration of surfactant a marked depression in aEEG activity occurs for about 10 minutes; the mechanism of this depression is unknown. In view of this, twenty-nine preterm infants were investigated with near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to evaluate rapid changes in total cerebral haemoglobin concentrati...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Skov L,Hellström-Westas L,Jacobsen T,Greisen G,Svenningsen NW

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological examination and magnetic resonance imaging were performed in the neonatal period in 58 full-term infants who presented with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the patterns of neurological abnormalities and their correlation to brain lesions on MRI. The prognostic value...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mercuri E,Guzzetta A,Haataja L,Cowan F,Rutherford M,Counsell S,Papadimitriou M,Cioni G,Dubowitz L

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct disorders with elevated urinary excretion of 2-hydroxyglutaric acid are known: L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria and D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria. This paper presents clinical and biochemical studies in three patients and unsuccessful prenatal diagnosis in one case with combined D-2- and L-2-hydroxyglutaric ac...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Muntau AC,Röschinger W,Merkenschlager A,van der Knaap MS,Jakobs C,Duran M,Hoffmann GF,Roscher AA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of periventricular ischemia without hemorrhage in premature infants are described in which positive rolandic sharp waves (PRSW) were predominant in the electroencephalogram (EEG). These findings suggest the relationship of PRSW to periventricular ischemia rather than to intraventricular hemorrhage, per se, ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Marret S,Parain D,Samson-Dollfus D,Jeannot E,Fessard C

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (GDD) is a recessively inherited neurometabolic disorder associated with encephalopathic crises and severe extrapyramidal symptoms. Treatment regimens including glucose and electrolyte infusions during acute illnesses, oral carnitine supplementation and/or a low-protein ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hoffmann GF,Athanassopoulos S,Burlina AB,Duran M,de Klerk JB,Lehnert W,Leonard JV,Monavari AA,Müller E,Muntau AC,Naughten ER,Plecko-Starting B,Superti-Furga A,Zschocke J,Christensen E

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose In periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) reduction, normally shown as dark stripe in the peritrigonal (PT) white matter, may be incomplete. We assessed the PT dark stripe to differentiate between PVL patients and control subjects. Patients and Methods We reviewed the magnetic...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Lu PS,Toh CH,Yeh CH,Wang HS,Lin KL,Wong AM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucolipidosis IV, a severe neurologic and ophthalmologic progressive disorder has a clinical range of onset between early childhood and adolescence entailing clinically severe, moderate, and mild forms, all of them majorly affecting Ashkenazi Jewish patients in an autosomal-recessive fashion owing to mutations in the ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Bargal R,Goebel HH,Latta E,Bach G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few years there has been increasing awareness of the association of congenital choanal atresia (CCA) with other congenital defects, including brain abnormalities. We obtained CT scans of the brain in twenty-three consecutive patients with CCA (10 boys and 13 girls) to determine the prevalence and the sco...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Rejjal A,Alaiyan S,Coates R,Abuzeid M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The content of free amino acids in the cerebrospinal fluid from 52 children in different age groups with febrile seizures were determined and compared to 88 age matched children without seizures. We found that the concentrations of some amino acids in CSF in the control group decreased slowly with age, reaching the co...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Cremades A,Peñafiel R,Monserrat F,Ceron I,Perez-Flores D

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) is a severe brain disorder, mainly characterised by episodes of hemiplegia, progressive mental retardation, and other severe paroxysmal and permanent neurological symptoms. Clinically and genetically, there is some overlap with sporadic (SHM) and familial (FHM) hemiplegic migr...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： de Vries B,Haan J,Stam AH,Vanmolkot KR,Stroink H,Laan LA,Gill DS,Pascual J,Frants RR,van den Maagdenberg AM,Ferrari MD

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Danon disease is caused by a primary deficiency of lysosome-associated membrane protein-2 (LAMP-2). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Our study describes a 19-year-old man with isolated hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in whom we performed DNA analysis and compared results of microscopic analysis of skeletal and cardiac mu...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Fidzianska A,Madej-Pilarczyk A,Walczak E,Kuch M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on two Japanese siblings (one female and one male) with PEHO syndrome (progressive encephalopathy with edema, hypsarrhythmia, and optic atrophy). They showed profound generalized hypotonia early in infancy and developed infantile spasms with hypsarrhythmia within the first year of life. Abnormal eye movement...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Fujimoto S,Yokochi K,Nakano M,Wada Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a newborn with exaggerated startle reactions and stiffness of neonatal onset, the prototypical signs of hyperekplexia. Startle and flexor spasms, leading to apnoea, did not respond to treatment with clonazepam but did partially to sodium valproate. Molecular analysis of GLRA1 revealed no mutations. The incid...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Macaya A,Brunso L,Fernández-Castillo N,Arranz JA,Ginjaar HB,Cuenca-León E,Corominas R,Roig M,Cormand B

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fucosidosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease, evident in early childhood, is associated with progressive loss of mental and motor function and increasing spasticity and hyperreflexia. We report a Canadian male, with clinical features similar to previously reported fucosidosis patients, however, since age 5 he ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gordon BA,Gordon KE,Seo HC,Yang M,DiCioccio RA,O'Brien JS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, biochemical and morphological findings in a 16-month-old infant girl with pseudo-neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy are reported. The parents were first cousins and the baby was born at term, small for gestational age. The neonatal period was characterized by convulsions resistant to treatment, generalized, sever...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kyllerman M,Blomstrand S,Månsson JE,Conradi NG,Hindmarsh T

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with insular and striatal postnatal scar had epileptic spasms (ES) that were asymmetrical and the only seizure type, whereas none of the usual ictal symptoms of insular seizures occurred. Ictal electroencephalography (EEG) showed the high-amplitude slow-wave characteristic of ES. Vigabatrin remained effic...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kharytonov V,Dulac O

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal nevus syndrome (ENS) is a congenital neurocutaneous disorder characterized by linear nevus with a significant involvement of the nervous, ophthalmological and skeletal systems. Clinical manifestations of ENS include neurological features such as mental retardation, seizures, and movement disorders which are ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mall V,Heinen F,Uhl M,Wellens E,Korinthenberg R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate whether antenatal taurine can reduce neuronal apoptosis in fetal rat brains with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and its possible mechanisms. A total of 15 pregnant rats were randomly divided into the following three groups: control, IUGR, and IUGR+ antenatal taurine supplements....

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Liu J,Liu L,Wang XF,Teng HY,Yang N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital bilateral perisylvian syndrome (CBPS) is a rare neurological disorder associated with typical clinical and imaging features such as bilateral symmetrical polymicrogyria, either exclusively or mainly affecting the perisylvian region of the brain. We present a girl with the typical clinical picture of a CBPS ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hecher L,Johannsen J,Bierhals T,Buhk JH,Hempel M,Denecke J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition and the clinical picture of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) are discussed and the associated anomalies, deformities and syndromes are listed. It is stressed that isolated congenital contractures in (progressive) neuromuscular disorders may be manifestations of AMC, dependent on the moment of th...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hageman G,Willemse J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim For children with medical complexity, interdisciplinary treatment approaches are required to address the various aspects defined within the biopsychosocial model. Methods The present study identifies dimensions of the biopsychosocial model to generate a standardized visualized severity score for chronic neurologic...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Krieg SM,Sonanini S,Sollmann N,Focke A,Gerstl L,Heinen F

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective, non-random study, the effect of supplementary medical treatment (Dexamethasone, barbiturates) was investigated upon the prognosis of severe head injuries. Of 107 children and adolescents up to 16 years of age, 51 were treated with Dexamethasone; 56 received only standard therapy. Evaluation of the ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kretschmer H

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography (CT) of the brain has been used to evaluate potential etiologies of hemiplegic cerebral palsy in a population-based group of 28 children born preterm, in whom an obvious postnatal cause of hemiplegia could be excluded. The CT findings were classified according to a system so constructed to reflect ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Wiklund LM,Uvebrant P,Flodmark O

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A special form of partial occipital epilepsy clinically resembling migraine and possibly related to the benign focal epilepsies of childhood has recently attracted attention (Gastaut 1982) but its existence is still debated. To approach this problem, in a group of 195 children with idiopathic partial or generalized ep...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Deonna T,Ziegler AL,Despland PA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence of sudden death in Rett syndrome is greater than that of the general population and cardiac electrical instability is a prime suspect cause. Our study shows that girls with Rett syndrome had significantly lower heart rate variability (marker of autonomic disarray) and longer corrected QT intervals compared w...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Guideri F,Acampa M,Hayek G,Zappella M,Di Perri T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute cerebellar ataxia with discrete signs of pyramidal and tegmental involvement is reported, several days after recovery from an upper respiratory infection of unknown etiology. Magnetic resonance imaging showed transient pontine lesions, disappearing in the convalescence phase. Laboratory tests establish...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Groen RJ,Begeer JH,Wilmink JT,le Coultre R

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00