Seronegative, non-neoplastic acute cerebellar degeneration.

abstract：:Evidence suggests that untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can lead to hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and stroke. Conversely, the systemic effects of a wide variety of critical illnesses can lead to CNS dysfunction, which can precipitate respiratory failure. Reported is a patient in whom an acute encephalop...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dyken ME,Yamada T,Berger HA

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In 47 patients with Parkinson's disease, we studied the visual evoked potential (VEP) using the pattern-reversal checkerboard (CBVEP) and the grating (GVEP) stimuli before and after 3 months of L-dopa therapy. The P100 latency in both CBVEP and GVEP was prolonged before L-dopa therapy, usually commensurate with the de...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bhaskar PA,Vanchilingam S,Bhaskar EA,Devaprabhu A,Ganesan RA

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the clinical and electrophysiologic features of 36 patients with increased titers of IgM anti-GM1 antibodies. Mildly elevated titers of up to 3,200 were not associated with any particular clinical syndrome or disease. Clinically, 14 of 16 patients with highly elevated titers of 6,400 or higher had progress...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kinsella LJ,Lange DJ,Trojaborg W,Sadiq SA,Younger DS,Latov N

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The current literature provides discrepant results regarding preoperative sociodemographic and clinical factors, and no information about preoperative cerebral metabolic patterns associated with apathy after subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) in Parkinson disease. METHODS:To resolve this is...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Robert GH,Le Jeune F,Lozachmeur C,Drapier S,Dondaine T,Péron J,Houvenaghel JF,Travers D,Sauleau P,Millet B,Vérin M,Drapier D

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether the burden of deep and lobar lacunes differs between patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) with definite/probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) per the Boston criteria and hypertensive small vessel disease (HTN-SVD; ICH in basal ganglia, thalami, brainstem). METHODS:We defined ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pasi M,Boulouis G,Fotiadis P,Auriel E,Charidimou A,Haley K,Ayres A,Schwab KM,Goldstein JN,Rosand J,Viswanathan A,Pantoni L,Greenberg SM,Gurol ME

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the treatment of four patients with inclusion-body myositis (IBM) and severe slowly progressive weakness using high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg). After two monthly infusions, the strength of the proximal and less atrophic muscle groups improved or normalized in three of the four patients. The impro...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Soueidan SA,Dalakas MC

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 20-year-old woman using an oral diet aid preparation containing phenylpropanolamine presented with an intracerebral hemorrhage and angiographic evidence of cerebral vasculitis. Gas chromatography demonstrated phenylpropanolamine in the urine. Even when used within recommended guidelines, phenylpropanolamine usage sh...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fallis RJ,Fisher M

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in POMT1 have been identified in Walker-Warburg syndrome and in patients with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and mental retardation (LGMD2K). The authors report new POMT1 mutations in three unrelated children with severe motor impairment, leg hypertrophy, and mental retardation but without brain and ocular m...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： D'Amico A,Tessa A,Bruno C,Petrini S,Biancheri R,Pane M,Pedemonte M,Ricci E,Falace A,Rossi A,Mercuri E,Santorelli FM,Bertini E

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The childhood type fo dermatomyositis, which occurs in children and young adults, shows a specific constellation of pathologic changes in muscle. Capillary necrosis leads to capillary loss, generally starting on the periphery of muscle fascicles. Electron microscopy discloses undulating tubules in endothelial cells, l...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carpenter S,Karpati G,Rothman S,Watters G

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop evidence-based recommendations for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:We searched the literature (1970-March 2011; March 2011-September 2013 MEDLINE search), classified articles, and linked recommendations to evidence. RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS:Clin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yadav V,Bever C Jr,Bowen J,Bowling A,Weinstock-Guttman B,Cameron M,Bourdette D,Gronseth GS,Narayanaswami P

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given that vagal afferents project to brainstem regions that promote alertness, the authors tested the hypothesis that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) would improve daytime sleepiness in patients with epilepsy. METHODS:Sixteen subjects with medically refractory seizures underwent polysomnography and multiple ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Malow BA,Edwards J,Marzec M,Sagher O,Ross D,Fromes G

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progressive brain atrophy in multiple sclerosis (MS) may reflect neuroaxonal and myelin loss and MRI measures of brain tissue loss are used as outcome measures in MS treatment trials. This study investigated sample sizes required to demonstrate reduction of brain atrophy using three outcome measures in a par...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Altmann DR,Jasperse B,Barkhof F,Beckmann K,Filippi M,Kappos LD,Molyneux P,Polman CH,Pozzilli C,Thompson AJ,Wagner K,Yousry TA,Miller DH

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The most consistent electroencephalographic finding in 16 cases of Sturge-Weber syndrome was a unilateral reduction of background amplitude in the waking record. Comparable asymmetries were noted in those patients in whom sleep recording also was done. Physiologic responses (to hyperventilation and photic driving) usu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brenner RP,Sharbrough FW

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Bevacizumab has been shown to be effective in the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma in combination with chemotherapy compared with historic controls but not in randomized trials. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients treated for recurrent glioblastoma with bevacizumab vs a control group...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nghiemphu PL,Liu W,Lee Y,Than T,Graham C,Lai A,Green RM,Pope WB,Liau LM,Mischel PS,Nelson SF,Elashoff R,Cloughesy TF

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial determinations of spinal fluid homovanillic acid (HVA) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) were made in four patients with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome over a 5-year period. Control spinal fluids for age-matched comparison were obtained from 194 neurologic and nonneurologic pediatric patients. A rapid decline i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Silverstein FS,Johnston MV,Hutchinson RJ,Edwards NL

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who abused multiple drugs developed a rapidly progressive mononeuropathy multiplex, which appeared to respond to corticosteroid therapy with partial resolution. Intravenous methamphetamine had been used almost exclusively from the fourth month prior to the onset of symptoms. Biopsy material revealed a necrot...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stafford CR,Bogdanoff BM,Green L,Spector HB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report a case of Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) in a child and review the existing literature of LEMS in children. METHODS:We report a pediatric case of LEMS with the classic clinical triad of proximal weakness, autonomic dysfunction, and areflexia; the characteristic increment in compound motor...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Morgan-Followell B,de Los Reyes E

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensorimotor polyneuropathy developed in two workers who had been exposed to ethylene oxide gas repeatedly for several months. Sural nerve biopsies revealed axonal degeneration with mild changes of the myelin sheath. Unmyelinated fibers were also involved. Muscle biopsies showed typical denervation atrophy. Symptoms i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuzuhara S,Kanazawa I,Nakanishi T,Egashira T

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial decision in the management of idiopathic parkinsonism is whether any pharmacotherapy is indicated. There is no conclusive evidence that treatment is helpful before symptoms start to affect the patient's life, although some neurologists believe that deprenyl, also known as selegiline, could be useful. Once ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Calne DB

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified seven patients with refractory partial epilepsy and sleep apnea. Treatment of the sleep apnea with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), protriptyline, trazodone, acetazolamide, or tracheostomy reduced seizure frequency and severity in six patients. Success with CPAP depended largely on compl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Devinsky O,Ehrenberg B,Barthlen GM,Abramson HS,Luciano D

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with similar courses of neurologic impairment and subsequent recovery after cerebral air embolism complicating cardiac ablation procedures are described. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, combined with aggressive resuscitative efforts, appears to have contributed to each patient's recovery. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hinkle DA,Raizen DM,McGarvey ML,Liu GT

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examines the anatomical correlates of naming vs recognizing faces using a novel measure that utilizes culturally relevant and age-appropriate items, the Northwestern University Famous Faces (NUFFACE) Test, in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a syndrome characterized by progressive language defic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gefen T,Wieneke C,Martersteck A,Whitney K,Weintraub S,Mesulam MM,Rogalski E

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracarotid amobarbital test (IAT) is used to lateralize language function and assess hemispheric memory. In this study 23 non-lesional epileptic patients were evaluated. The magnitude of the difference in IAT scores between the two hemispheres was significantly greater in the patients whose seizures lateralized ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Swearer JM,Kane KJ,Phillips CA,Weaver JP,Anderson TD,Lavoie MS

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the potential effect of the 2008 Institute of Medicine (IOM) work duty hour (WDH) recommendations on neurology residency programs. METHODS:This study evaluated resident sleepiness, personal study hours, quality of life, and satisfaction and faculty satisfaction during a control month using the Accre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schuh LA,Khan MA,Harle H,Southerland AM,Hicks WJ,Falchook A,Schultz L,Finney GR

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathology and imaging studies have shown that patients with Parkinson disease (PD) have a prolonged period of uncertain duration when vulnerable neuronal populations are degenerating, but typical motor symptoms have not yet developed. This provides both an opportunity-it may be best to test new medications and, ultima...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marek K,Jennings D

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of giant-cell arteritis with cerebral arteritis are presented. The clinical situation and the suggestive but nonspecific angiographic features make the antemortem diagnosis possible. Greater awareness of this entity will facilitate its diagnosis and the institution of effective steroid therapy. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Enzmann D,Scott WR

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cabergoline, a new ergoline derivative, is a D2-specific dopaminergic agonist that is more potent and longer-acting than other agonist agents. We conducted a randomized, double-blind study of increasing doses of cabergoline taken once a day. Twenty-five patients with Parkinson's disease taking stable doses of levodopa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hutton JT,Morris JL,Brewer MA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In the North Dublin Population Stroke Study, we investigated the risk of recurrent stroke within the 14-day time window recommended for endarterectomy. METHODS:In a population-based prospective cohort study, all ischemic stroke patients were identified over 1 year and categorized into those with (CS-positive...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marnane M,Ni Chroinin D,Callaly E,Sheehan OC,Merwick A,Hannon N,Horgan G,Kyne L,Moroney J,McCormack PM,Dolan E,Duggan J,Williams D,Crispino-O'Connell G,Kelly PJ

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-year-old nonimmunocompromised man developed secondary syphilis confirmed by serum and CSF findings. His course was complicated by chorioretinitis, extensive skin lesions, and spastic paraparesis secondary to syphilitic meningomyelitis. MRI of the spinal cord was strikingly abnormal. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Strom T,Schneck SA

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because Hughlings Jackson directed that his personal documents be destroyed upon his death, none of his own clinical records are known. However, we have discovered several pages of notes in the Royal London Hospital Archive written in 1893 by Jackson to his House Physician at Queen Square concerning his proposals for ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Swash M,Evans J

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00