The treatment of postprandial hypotension in autonomic failure with 3,4-DL-threo-dihydroxyphenylserine.

abstract：:We used the Mayo Clinic medical records linkage system to detect all cases of intracranial vascular malformation (IVM) among residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota from 1965 to 1992 and found 48 IVMs over the 27-year period, including four patients with IVM detected at autopsy, without prior symptoms. Twenty-nine of 4...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brown RD Jr,Wiebers DO,Torner JC,O'Fallon WM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether pergolide, a mixed D1/D2/D3 dopamine agonist, is efficacious and safe in the treatment of children with chronic tic disorders and Tourette syndrome. BACKGROUND:Neuroleptics, which block dopamine transmission, are currently used to treat children with severe tics, but major side effects a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gilbert DL,Dure L,Sethuraman G,Raab D,Lane J,Sallee FR

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In children with sickle cell disease (SCD), silent cerebral infarcts are the most frequent cause of neurologic injury. We determined the sensitivity and specificity of selective neurocognitive measures when separating children with silent cerebral infarcts and SCD from sibling controls. Additionally, we teste...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DeBaun MR,Schatz J,Siegel MJ,Koby M,Craft S,Resar L,Chu JY,Launius G,Dadash-Zadeh M,Lee RB,Noetzel M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 22 patients with human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated chronic progressive myelopathy, agarose isoelectric focusing (AIF) revealed oligoclonal IgG bands in 21: in 3 in CSF only; in 11 in CSF and to some extent in serum; and in 7, identical patterns in CSF and serum. By immunoblot after AIF of CSF...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Link H,Cruz M,Gessain A,Gout O,de Thé G,Kam-Hansen S

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum levels of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and pyruvic kinase (PK) were determined in 42 controls, 57 patients with various neuromuscular disorders, and 23 female relatives of Duchenne dystrophy patients. CPK and PK enzyme activities were increased in comparable numbers of muscle disease patients and female carriers...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Seay AR,Ziter FA,Wu LH,Wu JT

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetization transfer imaging (MTI) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that is now used in multiple sclerosis (MS) studies, and is thought to have a higher pathological specificity than conventional T2-weighted imaging. This review outlines the correlations between magnetization transfer (MT) metrics and...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rovaris M,Horsfield MA,Filippi M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate botulinum toxin (BTX) effects on central and peripheral motor excitability in writer's cramp. METHODS:Using transcranial magnetic stimulation over the motor cortex and brainstem and peripheral electrical stimulation, the authors investigated measures of motor cortical and peripheral motor exci...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Boroojerdi B,Cohen LG,Hallett M

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Gulf War illness (GWI), which afflicts at least 25% of veterans who served in the 1990-1991 war in the Persian Gulf, is thought to be caused by deployment exposures to various neurotoxicants, including pesticides, anti-nerve gas pills, and low-level nerve agents including sarin/cyclosarin. GWI is a multisymptom disord...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Qiang L,Rao AN,Mostoslavsky G,James MF,Comfort N,Sullivan K,Baas PW

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is currently much interest in biomarkers of disease activity in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). We assessed MRI and behavioral measures of progression in a longitudinal FTLD cohort. METHODS:Thirty-two patients with FTLD (11 behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia [bvFTD], 11 semantic deme...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gordon E,Rohrer JD,Kim LG,Omar R,Rossor MN,Fox NC,Warren JD

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the incidence of depression and anxiety and to measure quality of life in women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a matched group cross-sectional study was conducted. Women with IIH (n = 28) were compared with control groups of weight- and age-matched women not diagnosed with IIH (n ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kleinschmidt JJ,Digre KB,Hanover R

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and genetic features of three non-Portuguese and non-Japanese patients with aprataxin gene mutations are reported. Patient 1 came from Italy and presented with typical ataxia with ocular motor apraxia (OMA). She was homozygous for the W279X nonsense mutation, which is associated with the Portuguese foundi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tranchant C,Fleury M,Moreira MC,Koenig M,Warter JM

更新日期：2003-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, twofold crossover study in 16 patients with MS who presented with severe spasticity to investigate safety, tolerability, and efficacy of oral Delta(9)-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and Cannabis sativa plant extract. Both drugs were safe, but adverse ev...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Killestein J,Hoogervorst EL,Reif M,Kalkers NF,Van Loenen AC,Staats PG,Gorter RW,Uitdehaag BM,Polman CH

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of an APOE epsilon4 allele may be a risk factor for neuropathy severity in diabetes. The authors assessed the frequency of APOE epsilon4 in patients presenting with sensory predominant neuropathy. APOE epsilon4 frequency among patients with early diabetic neuropathy and impaired glucose tolerance-associat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zhou Z,Hoke A,Cornblath DR,Griffin JW,Polydefkis M

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The present retrospective cohort study compares the long-term functional outcome, improvement or deterioration, of patients considered in a vegetative state (VS) or a minimally conscious state (MCS) 1 year after coma onset, then yearly for up to 5 years. METHODS:We reviewed the clinical courses of 12 patient...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Luauté J,Maucort-Boulch D,Tell L,Quelard F,Sarraf T,Iwaz J,Boisson D,Fischer C

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Since Alzheimer disease (AD) is a slowly progressive disorder and its pathologic features are likely to be present for many years before symptoms become manifest, we investigated whether microstructural white matter changes similar to those identified in patients with AD can be detected in cognitively normal ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zhuang L,Sachdev PS,Trollor JN,Kochan NA,Reppermund S,Brodaty H,Wen W

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine quantitative size thresholds for enlargement of the optic nerve, chiasm, and tract in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). METHODS:Children 0.5-18.6 years of age who underwent high-resolution T1-weighted MRI were eligible for inclusion. This consisted of children with NF1 with or withou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Avery RA,Mansoor A,Idrees R,Biggs E,Alsharid MA,Packer RJ,Linguraru MG

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Four toluene abusers had evidence of severe multifocal central nervous system damage. Impairment of cognitive, cerebellar, brainstem, auditory, and pyramidal tract function, as well as CT evidence of cerebral cortical, cerebellar, and brainstem atrophy, have been noted. In addition, we found opsoclonus, ocular flutter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lazar RB,Ho SU,Melen O,Daghestani AN

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-nine untreated patients diagnosed with probable AD and 15 control patients underwent two or more clinical and volumetric MRI assessments with intervals ranging from 5 months to 6 years. The change in global cerebral volume for an individual was calculated by a novel method of registration and subtraction of ser...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fox NC,Scahill RI,Crum WR,Rossor MN

更新日期：1999-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Optical coherence tomography (OCT) noninvasively quantifies retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness. Studies show RNFL thinning in multiple sclerosis (MS), and we assessed its association with brain atrophy. METHODS:RNFL thickness was measured in 40 patients with MS and 15 controls. Brain parenchymal frac...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gordon-Lipkin E,Chodkowski B,Reich DS,Smith SA,Pulicken M,Balcer LJ,Frohman EM,Cutter G,Calabresi PA

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the outcome of five patients with a cardiac thrombus selected among 183 patients with stroke (2.7 %) who were given IV tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). No early systemic or cerebral embolism occurred. Two patients made a complete recovery at 3 months. Two patients had a moderate outcome. One pa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Derex L,Nighoghossian N,Perinetti M,Honnorat J,Trouillas P

更新日期：2001-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Retarded mental and motor development was observed during the first year of life of a full-term female who had been delivered with difficulty. Generalized psychomotor seizures and dysplastic "acromegalic" facial changes began to develop when she was 8 years old, and generalized amyotrophy developed over the next sever...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Landau WM,Torack RM,Guggenheim MA

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old woman with levodopa-responsive parkinsonism complicated by motor fluctuations and generalized levodopa dyskinesia underwent bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) 7 years after symptom onset. DBS improved levodopa-responsive upper extremity bradykinesia but aggravated speech, swallowing, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tarsy D,Apetauerova D,Ryan P,Norregaard T

更新日期：2003-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the potential efficacy of immediate-release methylphenidate (MPH) for treating cognitive deficits in epilepsy. METHODS:This was a double-blind, randomized, single-dose, 3-period crossover study in patients with epilepsy and chronic cognitive complaints comparing the effects of placebo and MPH 10 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Adams J,Alipio-Jocson V,Inoyama K,Bartlett V,Sandhu S,Oso J,Barry JJ,Loring DW,Meador K

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:From 536 patients with the CREST syndrome (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasis), seven were identified as having peripheral neuropathy not attributable to another cause. Peripheral neuropathy developed 0 to 25 years after their first symptoms of scleroderma. Unex...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dyck PJ,Hunder GG,Dyck PJ

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After 1 to 4 years, seizure-free children with epilepsy are encouraged to stop daily antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment. Approximately 70% are successful. The authors examined how often intractable epilepsy follows discontinuation of AED treatment in a population-based cohort of children with epilepsy. METH...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Camfield P,Camfield C

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the possible relation between the extent of involvement of catecholaminergic neurons and the presence of alveolar hypoventilation in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MyD). BACKGROUND:Respiratory insufficiency has been reported frequently in MyD patients. Recent data support the hypothesis that th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ono S,Takahashi K,Jinnai K,Kanda F,Fukuoka Y,Kurisaki H,Mitake S,Inagaki T,Yamano T,Shimizu N,Nagao K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective study to determine the frequency of depression, hallucinations, and delusions in patients with diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD) and to compare these findings with those in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). One hundred twelve subjects were included in the study. Of thes...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Klatka LA,Louis ED,Schiffer RB

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with transient neonatal myasthenia gravis had a double-blood-volume exchange transfusion because of maternal-fetal blood group incompatibility. This seemed to accelerate both decline in antiacetylcholine antibody titer and clinical improvement. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Donat JF,Donat JR,Lennon VA

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic trigeminal sensory neuropathy is a benign disorder. We report two patients with transient MRI abnormalities, suggesting transient inflammation of the trigeminal nerve caused temporary facial sensory symptoms. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rorick MB,Chandar K,Colombi BJ

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the ultimate diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) still remains clinical, confirmatory laboratory aids can be of marked assistance, especially in early and atypical cases. Whereas numerous tests have been described, the only ones to withstand scrutiny in numerous laboratories have been various immunoglobulin ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnson KP

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00