Pediatric cefepime neurotoxicity.

abstract：:Carbamazepine has been used successfully in the treatment of different movement disorders and was recently reported to be effective for nonhereditary chorea. In view of the significant side effects associated with the drugs currently used to treat chorea, we sought to further evaluate the efficacy of carbamazepine in ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Harel L,Zecharia A,Straussberg R,Volovitz B,Amir J

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of a 7-month-old girl with developmental delay and intractable seizures revealed hemispheric asymmetry and an enlarged right cerebral hemisphere. Because of a history of seizures refractory to medical therapy, she was admitted for right hemispherectomy, but died of complications of surgery. Postmortem brain...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jahan R,Mischel PS,Curran JG,Peacock WJ,Shields DW,Vinters HV

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketoacidosis is one of the common complications of Type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Several neurologic (cerebral) deficiencies have been associated with diabetic ketoacidosis, including cerebral edema with increased intracranial pressure resulting in coma; partial and generalized seizures; and cerebrovascul...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Atluru VL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transient bulbar palsy without involvement of the facial or extraocular muscles is a rare presentation. It is considered a form of cranial polyneuropathy, a variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome that is related to the autoimmune mechanisms induced by preceding infections or vaccinations. However, drug-induced c...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Han TH,Kim DY,Park DW,Moon JH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-risk infant follow-up programs provide early identification and referral for treatment of neurodevelopmental delays and impairments. In these programs, a standardized neurological examination is a critical component of evaluation for clinical and research purposes. METHODS:To address primary challenges...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Maitre NL,Chorna O,Romeo DM,Guzzetta A

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case reports of four patients with therapy-resistant lesional partial epilepsies and additional foci of benign epileptic discharges of childhood, in addition to the usual electroencephalogram (EEG) changes, are presented. A family history of epileptic or febrile seizures in childhood was reported in all four patients....

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Degen R,Holthausen H,Pieper T,Tuxhorn I,Wolf P

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balamuthia amebic encephalitis is rarely reported in infants. To the best of our knowledge, amebic encephalitis complicated by a mycotic aneurysm was only described once. We report on an 8-month-child with laboratory-confirmed Balamuthia mandrillaris meningoencephalitis, complicated by a mycotic aneurysm of the middle...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hill CP,Damodaran O,Walsh P,Jevon GP,Blyth CC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether children presenting with a first seizure experienced anxiety and depressive signs. Children (aged 7-17 years) with a first unprovoked afebrile seizure participated. These patients (mean age, 12 +/- 2.7 years S.D.; 14 female/8 male) completed the Revised Child Manifest Anxiety Scale (n = 22) and...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Loney JC,Wirrell EC,Sherman EM,Hamiwka LD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate ophthalmologic manifestations in children with definitive oxidative phosphorylation disorders, a retrospective review was conducted of clinical and laboratory records of all such pediatric patients (n = 103) diagnosed and treated at one center between 1983 and 2006. All were residents of Victoria, Austr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rose LV,Rose NT,Elder JE,Thorburn DR,Boneh A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of the central nervous system is an aggressive infantile embryonal neoplasm, usually presenting as an infratentorial and intraparenchymatous lesion. We report on magnetic resonance imaging findings of a 22-month-old boy with a biopsy-proven primary rhabdoid tumor, presenting as a si...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bing F,Nugues F,Grand S,Bessou P,Salon C

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:We report a 13-year-old female who experienced symptoms and signs of Rasmussen encephalitis for the first time at the age of 5 years. Various therapeutic procedures, including conventional and new antiepileptic drugs, steroids, immunoglobulin, plasma exchanges, and partial hemispherectomy, were applied, but their resu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Marjanovic BD,Stojanov LM,Zdravkovic DS,Kravljanac RM,Djordjevic MS

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen children, 8 months of age or older, from a neonatal follow-up program underwent magnetic resonance imaging and neurologic, cognitive, and language evaluations. Magnetic resonance imaging findings in all children included increased white matter signal on T2-weighted images and ventricular enlargement adjacent t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Feldman HM,Scher MS,Kemp SS

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:The frequency and severity of neurologic symptoms in children with systemic cancer is unknown. The authors reviewed the records of children with systemic cancer for whom a neurologic consultation was requested between 1993 and 1996. The 157 patients had 161 malignancies and 205 consultations. Leukemia (59) and lymphom...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Antunes NL,De Angelis LM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male with developmental dysphasia is documented with fine motor dysfunction whose improvement in expressive language was associated with increased cerebellar perfusion, as detected by serial N-isopropyl-p-[iodine-123] iodoamphetamine single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). His expressive language has bee...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Oki J,Takahashi S,Miyamoto A,Tachibana Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most effective method for the screening and monitoring of optic pathway gliomas in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 remains a dilemma. Children less than 6 years of age are the group at highest risk for the development of optic pathway gliomas. Although an annual ophthalmologic examination currently is recom...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ng YT,North KN

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptic activity, as a component of epileptic encephalopathies, can interfere with brain growth and development. Infantile spasms as a syndrome represent such epileptic activity during the period of spasms and hypsarrhythmia. The rate of head growth in infants with infantile spasms during the period of spasms has no...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rener-Primec Z,Lozar-Krivec J,Krivec U,Neubauer D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in ryanodine receptor 1 gene (RYR1) are frequent causes of myopathies. They classically present with central core disease; however, clinical variability and histopathologic overlap are being increasingly recognized. PATIENTS:Patient 1 is a 15-year-old girl with mild proximal, four-limb weakness fr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rocha J,Taipa R,Melo Pires M,Oliveira J,Santos R,Santos M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary malignant melanoma of the meninges is described in a 5-year-old boy who presented with a 3-month history suggestive of subacute meningitis. Clinically the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis was made and antituberculous treatment was begun. Despite this treatment, the patient's condition continued to deteriora...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nicolaides P,Newton RW,Kelsey A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comorbidities including hearing impairment occur commonly in individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS:Hearing impairment was assessed in a registry-derived population-based sample of children with CP. RESULTS:Hearing impairment was documented in 12.7% (27 of 212) with less than a quarter of these (or ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dufresne D,Dagenais L,Shevell MI,REPACQ Consortium.

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis is rare in childhood. Diagnosis is sometimes difficult, and imaging methods range from MRI to MRA to conventional angiography. In doubtful cases a brain biopsy is necessary for diagnostic purposes. We describe a 6-year old child affected with primary angiitis of the CNS who was ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rosati A,Pianigiani N,Pagnini I,Guerrini R,Cimaz R,Simonini G

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a previously healthy 11-year-old boy with unilateral periorbital mild headache and facial nerve palsy, followed during the next 5 months by recurrent unilateral headaches and subsequent extrinsic paresis of the third cranial nerve and paresis of the sixth cranial nerve, each of which improved with steroid...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cerisola A,González G,Scavone C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the dose of ACTH and the initial effect was investigated in 41 children with infantile spasms. More than 0.015 mg (0.6 IU)/kg/day of ACTH was needed for a good initial response of seizures and electroencephalographic abnormalities. The relationship between the dose of ACTH and long-term progno...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ito M,Okuno T,Fujii T,Mutoh K,Oguro K,Shiraishi H,Shirasaka Y,Mikawa H

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular abnormalities in neurofibromatosis type 1 may arise anywhere in the cardiovascular system, and cerebrovascular involvement is the predominant feature of moyamoya syndrome. Because neurofibromatosis type 1 is a neurocutaneous disorder and routine follow-up with cranial MRI is not standard practice in...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Duat-Rodríguez A,Carceller Lechón F,López Pino MÁ,Rodríguez Fernández C,González-Gutiérrez-Solana L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the implementation of a population-based registry of children with cerebral palsy, caregiver satisfaction with the process by which diagnosis was originally communicated by a professional was assessed. Satisfaction with various aspects of the diagnosis process was assessed using a five-point Likert scale an...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dagenais L,Hall N,Majnemer A,Birnbaum R,Dumas F,Gosselin J,Koclas L,Shevell MI

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) in cerebrospinal fluid was measured by ELISA in ten children with postinfectious diseases and in five children with diseases suggested to be of autoimmune etiology. Three groups of patients were studied: (1) those with moderately elevated concentrations (50.67 +/- 17.02 pg/mL, mean and SEM), ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Riikonen RS,Söderström S,Korhonen LT,Lindholm DB

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many investigators have identified localized cortical involvement in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) by clinical and electrophysiologic criteria. Some investigators have reported such abnormalities in the posterior cerebrum early in the course of the disease, but without radiologic correlation. Recently, ma...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Geller TJ,Vern BA,Sarwar M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this mixed-methods study, utilization data for disease-modifying therapies were reviewed to determine the adherence rate among our pediatric multiple sclerosis cohort. Adolescents were interviewed to explore their experiences with multiple sclerosis and the impact of peer relationships on adherence to treatment. Se...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Thannhauser JE,Mah JK,Metz LM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of Behr syndrome remains uncertain. A 6-year-old girl with a progressive syndrome of optic atrophy, ataxia, myoclonic epilepsy, urinary incontinence, and pyramidal tract degeneration suggestive of Behr syndrome is described. Diffuse, symmetric white matter abnormalities were demonstrated by magnetic reson...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Marzan KA,Barron TF

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00