Familial band heterotopias simulating tuberous sclerosis.

abstract：:Cytolytic T lymphocyte precursors (CTL-p) and natural killer precursors (NK-p) in the CSF of 15 MS patients and 11 patients with other neurologic disorders (OND) were quantitatively assessed, using a T-lymphocyte microculture system that allows clonal expansion of all human T cells. CSF CTL-p and NK-p frequencies were...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weber WE,Buurman WA,Vandermeeren MM,Medaer RH,Raus JC

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two adult brothers became ill within 48 hours of each other, and both had severe myoglobinuria. One brother died of oliguric renal failure. The other did not have renal failure and survived. Acute influenza A infection was documented serologically and from throat washings in the surviving brother, and by isolation of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zamkoff K,Rosen N

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent positive trials have thrust acute cerebral perfusion imaging into the routine evaluation of acute ischemic stroke. Updated guidelines state that in patients with anterior circulation large vessel occlusions presenting beyond 6 hours from time last known well, advanced imaging selection including perfusion-based...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vagal A,Wintermark M,Nael K,Bivard A,Parsons M,Grossman AW,Khatri P

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between multiple sclerosis (MS) and primary Sjögren's syndrome (PSS) is ambiguous; it was suggested that some patients diagnosed with MS may instead have PSS. In a recent epidemiologic study, the prevalence of PSS was 2.7% in southern Sweden. We randomly selected 30 patients with definite MS from our ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sandberg-Wollheim M,Axéll T,Hansen BU,Henricsson V,Ingesson E,Jacobsson L,Larsson A,Lieberkind K,Manthorpe R

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To apply the ATN scheme to memory clinic patients, to assess whether it discriminates patient populations with specific features. METHODS:We included 305 memory clinic patients (33% subjective cognitive decline [SCD]: 60 ± 9 years, 61% M; 19% mild cognitive impairment [MCI]: 68 ± 9 years, 68% M; 48% dementia...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Altomare D,de Wilde A,Ossenkoppele R,Pelkmans W,Bouwman F,Groot C,van Maurik I,Zwan M,Yaqub M,Barkhof F,van Berckel BN,Teunissen CE,Frisoni GB,Scheltens P,van der Flier WM

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Deep brain stimulation of the internal pallidum (GPi-DBS) is an established therapeutic option in treatment-refractory dystonia, and the identification of factors predicting surgical outcome is needed to optimize patient selection. METHODS:In this retrospective multicenter study, GPi-DBS outcome of 8 patien...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brüggemann N,Kühn A,Schneider SA,Kamm C,Wolters A,Krause P,Moro E,Steigerwald F,Wittstock M,Tronnier V,Lozano AM,Hamani C,Poon YY,Zittel S,Wächter T,Deuschl G,Krüger R,Kupsch A,Münchau A,Lohmann K,Volkmann J,Kle

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pathogenesis of stroke-like episodes in patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) remains unknown. METHODS:Fourteen stroke-like episodes in six patients with MELAS were studied using clinical, neuroradiologic, and electrophysiologic approaches...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Iizuka T,Sakai F,Suzuki N,Hata T,Tsukahara S,Fukuda M,Takiyama Y

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that, in the context of robotic therapy designed to enhance proprioceptive feedback via a Hebbian model, integrity of both somatosensory and motor systems would be important in understanding interparticipant differences in treatment-related motor gains. METHODS:In 30 patients with chro...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ingemanson ML,Rowe JR,Chan V,Wolbrecht ET,Reinkensmeyer DJ,Cramer SC

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Demyelination alone may not explain the progressive disability that frequently develops in MS. An alternative explanation for irreversible disability assumes a contribution from axonal injury or loss. In theory, axonal injury may occur in the focal areas characterized by early inflammation, or can be more di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Simon JH,Kinkel RP,Jacobs L,Bub L,Simonian N

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence and incidence of epilepsy among U.S. Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years old and over, and to compare rates across demographic groups. METHODS:We performed a retrospective analysis of Medicare administrative claims for 2001-2005, defining prevalent cases as persons with ≥1 claim ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Faught E,Richman J,Martin R,Funkhouser E,Foushee R,Kratt P,Kim Y,Clements K,Cohen N,Adoboe D,Knowlton R,Pisu M

更新日期：2012-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of computed tomography (CT), there have been numerous reports of brain abscess treated successfully without surgery. Because pathologic confirmation was lacking in these patients, diagnosis was based on CT abnormalities, usually ring enhancement. However, our recent clinical experience and the e...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dobkin JF,Healton EB,Dickinson PC,Brust JC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate clinical, imaging, and pathologic associations of the cingulate island sign (CIS) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). METHODS:We retrospectively identified and compared patients with a clinical diagnosis of DLB (n=39); patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) matched by age, sex, and education (n...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Graff-Radford J,Murray ME,Lowe VJ,Boeve BF,Ferman TJ,Przybelski SA,Lesnick TG,Senjem ML,Gunter JL,Smith GE,Knopman DS,Jack CR Jr,Dickson DW,Petersen RC,Kantarci K

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediately after a patient with myoclonus epilepsy smoked a nicotine-containing cigarette, tetraparesis and hyperreflexia with ankle clonus developed, but disappeared within several minutes. During paresis, the H-reflex size of the soleus muscle increased, EEG showed more slow waves than before smoking, and the cereb...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yokota T,Kagamihara Y,Hayashi H,Tsukagoshi H,Tanabe H

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) exerts many effects upon spinal cord function in animals, and may also play a role in human spinal cord function. We have used the technique of quantitative autoradiography to anatomically localize specific receptors for TRH within human spinal cord. Highest concentrations of TRH re...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Manaker S,Winokur A,Rhodes CH,Rainbow TC

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placebo, or sham surgery, as a control condition in surgical clinical trials in Parkinson disease (PD) remains controversial. The authors reviewed the adverse effects reported in double blind, placebo surgery controlled trials for PD. Placebo surgeries were generally safe and well tolerated but the number of subjects ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Frank S,Kieburtz K,Holloway R,Kim SY

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation has an effect on the orthostatic regulation of patients with Parkinson disease (PD), we studied cardiovascular regulation during on and off phases of STN stimulation. METHODS:We examined 14 patients with PD (mean age 58.1 +/- 5.8 years, 4 women, 10 me...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stemper B,Beric A,Welsch G,Haendl T,Sterio D,Hilz MJ

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with epilepsy have more behavioral and cognitive problems than children with other chronic illnesses and children in the general population. Risk factors are multiple, probably involving a combination of neurological, seizure, family, and child variables. Problems with attention and symptoms of depression occ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dunn DW,Austin JK

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether congenital arhinia/Bosma arhinia microphthalmia syndrome (BAMS) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 2 (FSHD2), 2 seemingly unrelated disorders both caused by heterozygous pathogenic missense variants in the SMCHD1 gene, might represent different ends of a broad single phenotyp...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mul K,Lemmers RJLF,Kriek M,van der Vliet PJ,van den Boogaard ML,Badrising UA,Graham JM Jr,Lin AE,Brand H,Moore SA,Johnson K,Evangelista T,Töpf A,Straub V,Kapetanovic García S,Sacconi S,Tawil R,Tapscott SJ,Voermans NC

更新日期：2018-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We used riboflavin to treat a patient with lipid myopathy, reduced exercise capacity, intolerance to fasting, and reduced concentrations of carnitine in muscle and serum. Although carnitine concentrations did not change, exercise capacity doubled, and response to fasting improved. Muscle enzyme assay showed that palmi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carroll JE,Shumate JB,Brooke MH,Hagberg JM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors report the results of a prospective, placebo-controlled, randomized study to evaluate the effectiveness of 3,4-diaminopyridine (DAP) in patients with Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) and to determine the acute and long-term side effects of DAP. METHODS:Twenty-six patients with LEMS compl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sanders DB,Massey JM,Sanders LL,Edwards LJ

更新日期：2000-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a paucity of therapies for gait impairment in Parkinson disease (PD). Open-label studies have suggested improved gait after treatment with methylphenidate (MPD). OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of MPD for the treatment of gait impairment in PD. METHODS:Twenty-seven subjects with PD and moderate...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Espay AJ,Dwivedi AK,Payne M,Gaines L,Vaughan JE,Maddux BN,Slevin JT,Gartner M,Sahay A,Revilla FJ,Duker AP,Shukla R

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:While intracranial tuberculomas have become uncommon in industrial nations, 12 patients with signs and symptoms of an intracranial mass lesion were recently found to have tuberculomas. Clinical findings suggestive of tuberculosis were frequently subtle or absent. Five patients did not have extracranial tuberculosis. T...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mayers MM,Kaufman DM,Miller MH

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25-year-old woman with Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) had complete external ophthalmoplegia, short stature, ataxia, cardiac conduction defects, and pigmentary retinopathy. Muscle biopsy revealed ragged-red fibers. Electron microscopy showed increased numbers of mitochondria with disordered structure and paracrystalline...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rivner MH,Shamsnia M,Swift TR,Trefz J,Roesel RA,Carter AL,Yanamura W,Hommes FA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual hallucinations (VHs) occur frequently in Parkinson's disease (PD). VHs occur more frequently in elderly patients with longer duration of illness, cognitive impairment, and sleep disturbances. The relationship between the use of antiparkinsonian drugs and VHs is complicated, but most drugs used to treat parkinso...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kulisevsky J,Roldan E

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of usage of three different versions of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) diagnostic criteria on estimates of CJD incidence. METHODS:A total of 428 patients referred for suspected sporadic CJD between 1991 and 1997 were classified according to different criteria to be compared after analys...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brandel JP,Delasnerie-Lauprêtre N,Laplanche JL,Hauw JJ,Alpérovitch A

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the electrodiagnostic studies of 40 patients with chronic acquired demyelinative neuropathy and 18 patients with familial demyelinative neuropathy. Patients with acquired neuropathy had differential slowing of conduction velocity when distal latencies were compared with more proximal conduction velocities ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lewis RA,Sumner AJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2001, the authors described the clinical features of a genetically distinct autosomal dominant limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD; LGMD 1F). Using a genome-wide screen with more than 400 microsatellite markers, the authors identified a novel LGMD disease locus at chromosome 7q32.1-32.2. Within this chromosomal re...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Palenzuela L,Andreu AL,Gàmez J,Vilà MR,Kunimatsu T,Meseguer A,Cervera C,Fernandez Cadenas I,van der Ven PF,Nygaard TG,Bonilla E,Hirano M

更新日期：2003-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dyskinesia (PNKD) is a rare disorder characterized by episodic hyperkinetic movement attacks. We have recently identified mutations in the MR-1 gene causing familial PNKD. METHODS:We reviewed the clinical features of 14 kindreds with familial dyskinesia that was not clearly induced...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bruno MK,Lee HY,Auburger GW,Friedman A,Nielsen JE,Lang AE,Bertini E,Van Bogaert P,Averyanov Y,Hallett M,Gwinn-Hardy K,Sorenson B,Pandolfo M,Kwiecinski H,Servidei S,Fu YH,Ptácek L

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate capacity to consent to medical treatment (competency) in cognitively impaired patients with PD. BACKGROUND:Although competency has been studied empirically in patients with cortical dementia (AD), no empirical studies have examined competency in patients with PD or other subcortical neurodege...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dymek MP,Atchison P,Harrell L,Marson DC

更新日期：2001-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of the appropriate use of opiate analgesics in the management of chronic headache pain is under debate. Often, the management of headache pain is complicated by the overuse of dependency-promoting analgesics. Because of confusion about the use of analgesics in pain management, some patients are denied acc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Markley HG

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00