Neurofibromatosis type 1 associated with moyamoya syndrome in children.

abstract：:The brain structure of 14 infants born with congenital myotonic dystrophy at 2 hospitals was evaluated by cranial ultrasonography, and the findings were correlated with clinical and neuropathologic data. Ventricular dilation was diagnosed in 11 infants (78%). Seven infants died during the neonatal period; all had vent...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Garcia-Alix A,Cabañas F,Morales C,Pellicer A,Echevarria J,Paisan L,Quero J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peripheral vascular thrombic events are recognized as a serious extra-intestinal complication of inflammatory bowel disease, the occurrence of cerebral vascular events in association with acute exacerbations of this group of diseases is rare. In this article, relevant literature is reviewed and three children...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Keene DL,Matzinger MA,Jacob PJ,Humphreys P

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microcephaly-capillary malformation syndrome is a newly described neurocutaneous entity that is characterized by congenital and progressive microcephaly, intractable epilepsy, profound developmental delay, multiple small capillary malformations on the skin, and poor somatic growth. Recently, mutations in the...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pavlović M,Neubauer D,Al Tawari A,Heberle LC

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:Syncope is a common problem in children and adolescents. It is typically caused by benign neurally mediated hypotension, but other, more concerning, etiologies of syncope must be considered. In most instances, the underlying cause of syncope in the pediatric patient can be determined by obtaining a thorough history an...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Anderson JB,Willis M,Lancaster H,Leonard K,Thomas C

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to predict long-term neurologic and neuropsychologic outcomes in 22 children, ages 1 week to 14 years at the time of traumatic brain injury, was investigated using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy acquired post injury and compared with standardized neurologic, intellectual, and neuropsychologic testi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Brenner T,Freier MC,Holshouser BA,Burley T,Ashwal S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the added utility of gadolinium administration in the magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of developmental delay in children less than 2 years of age. A computerized retrospective study identified all brain magnetic resonance imaging examinations using gadolinium performed at ou...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Foerster BR,Ksar J,Petrou M,Eldevik PO,Maly PV,Carlson MD,Sundgren PC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome is an autosomal dominant condition because of mutations or deletions of the FOXL2 gene. Microcephaly is not associated with FOXL2 mutations but has been reported in individuals with chromosome 3q deletions, which include the FOXL2 gene and other contiguous...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dean SJ,Holden KR,Dwivedi A,Dupont BR,Lyons MJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histologic changes in brains from mentally retarded patients are often subtle and may be limited to abnormalities in the dendritic and synaptic organization of the cerebral cortex. Special methods may be necessary for their demonstration. This review summarizes data on dendritic and synaptic pathology in human mental ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Huttenlocher PR

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Concern exists regarding a possible harmful impact of vacuum extraction on the preterm newborn. We aimed to evaluate the long-term pediatric neurodevelopmental outcomes of the preterm offspring after vacuum extraction. METHODS:A population-based cohort analysis was performed comparing the risk for long-term...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Schwarzman P,Sheiner E,Wainstock T,Mastrolia SA,Segal I,Landau D,Walfisch A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxcarbazepine, a carbamazepine analog, was approved for use as an antiepileptic agent in the United States in 2000. A search of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Adverse Event Reporting System identified nine cases of oxcarbazepine-associated angioedema in pediatric patients aged 16 years and younger. W...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Knudsen JF,Flowers CM,Kortepeter C,Awaad Y

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:This paper reports 26 consecutive cases of cerebral cysticercosis in children, 21 presenting with intraparenchymal mass lesions, two with encephalitic disease, and three with intraventricular (racemous) cysticercosis. The intraparenchymal and encephalitic forms of the disease were benign. Regression of the lesions occ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Mitchell WG,Snodgrass SR

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A debilitating, regularly recurring, biphasic disorder is described in 6 severely multidisabled children. It was characterized by several days of lethargy, withdrawal, loss of abilities, irritability, and hypersomnolence followed or preceded by a high-energy state for several days during which the children slept very ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jan JE,Abroms IF,Freeman RD,Brown GM,Espezel H,Connolly MB

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic oral VP-16 (etoposide) is a chemotherapy regimen with a wide application in oncology and documented efficacy against germ cell tumors, lymphomas, Kaposi's sarcoma, and primary brain tumors. This study was performed to assess the toxicity and activity of chronic oral etoposide in the management of children with...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chamberlain MC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyneuritis cranialis is a rare disorder of multiple cranial nerve palsies without spinal cord involvement. The case reported is of a 10-year-old boy with multiple palsies involving cranial nerves III, IV, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI, and XII cranial nerves, unilaterally or bilaterally. After initial, unsuccessful treatmen...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pavone P,Incorpora G,Romantshika O,Ruggieri M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four children with self-inflicted strangulation injuries had cerebral blood flow determined by stable xenon computed tomography (XeCTCBF) within 24 hours of admission. All had suffered a severe hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury; 3 initially had fixed pupils, all were apneic with varying bradyarrhythmias, and the initia...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ashwal S,Perkin RM,Thompson JR,Tomasi LG,van Stralen D,Schneider S

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an immune-mediated, inflammatory acquired demyelinating syndrome predominantly affecting the white matter of the central nervous system. METHODS:We describe a three-year-old boy whose clinical presentation was suspicious for ADEM but whose initial imaging abnor...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Abu Libdeh A,Goodkin HP,Ramirez-Montealegre D,Brenton JN

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year-old male developed encephalitis 2 weeks after the onset of varicella. During his evaluation neuroradiologic procedures documented cerebellar edema and demyelination. Cerebrospinal fluid titers confirmed varicella encephalitis. To our knowledge, this patient is the first reported with focal cerebellar edema, a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hurst DL,Mehta S

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial oxidation of a variety of substrates produces the bulk of energy requirements for most cell types. Impairment of oxidative metabolism may result in a broad spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms. A disorder of oxidative metabolism should be suspected when an unexplained association of signs and symptoms...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Breningstall GN

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-year-old boy with severe growth retardation, mild mental retardation, and hypospadia had a high serum CK level without muscle weakness and atrophy. Muscle biopsy revealed a moderate variation in fiber size with a few necrotic and scattered regenerating fibers. Although muscle membranes were clearly stained by immu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nagai T,Tuchiya Y,Maruyama A,Sakuta R,Nonaka I

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report concerns a vertically human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected 7-year-old child, in whom a neurodegenerative disease occurred after an acute neurologic disorder that was in all likelihood symptomatic of HIV-1 encephalitis. At the steady state the neurologic disease fulfilled the accepted...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Angelini L,Zibordi F,Triulzi F,Pinzani R,Plebani A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Records were reviewed of 17 patients, ages 4 months to 18 years, who had been diagnosed as having brain abscesses between 1975-1984. Serial computed tomography was used to guide treatment; consequently, 8 patients were managed medically and 9 received surgical intervention. All medically treated patients were free of ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ferriero DM,Derechin M,Edwards MS,Berg BO

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP), believed to be a major determinant of neurologic outcome, was monitored at the bedside of high-risk premature newborns during the first few days of life. Intraventricular hemorrhage was presumed to have occurred in only one of the seven infants and was associated with ventriculomegal...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Braun MA,Rosman NP,Gould JB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the frequency of six commonly reported adult migraine premonitory symptoms in children and adolescents with episodic and chronic migraine and elicited psychological or behavioral comorbidities that may be associated with these symptoms. BACKGROUND:Premonitory symptoms are commonly reported in th...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jacobs H,Pakalnis A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A single-center, single-blind, parallel-group, randomized clinical trial was performed to test the null hypothesis that adrenocorticotropic hormone is not superior to high-dose prednisolone for treatment of newly diagnosed West syndrome. METHODS:Newly diagnosed infants with West syndrome were randomized to r...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wanigasinghe J,Arambepola C,Sri Ranganathan S,Sumanasena S,Attanapola G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid eye movement sleep distribution changes during development, but little is known about rapid eye movement latency variation in childhood by age, sex, or pathologic sleep states. We hypothesized that: (1) rapid eye movement latency would differ in normal children by age, with a younger cohort (1-10 years) demonstr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Mason TB 2nd,Teoh L,Calabro K,Traylor J,Karamessinis L,Schultz B,Samuel J,Gallagher PR,Marcus CL

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once-daily ethosuximide was used to treat 10 consecutive children with typical absence seizures. Three patients had gastrointestinal side effects which resolved when the same total daily dose was divided into 2 doses. Two other patients continued to have seizures on ethosuximide, whether given once or twice daily. Fiv...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dooley JM,Camfield PR,Camfield CS,Fraser AD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common clinical syndromes associated with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria are presented. In some patients these syndromes are multisystemic, progressive disorders of unknown etiology. Tissues deriving significant energy through oxidative metabolism (notably brain and cardiac muscle) are most often affected and in...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Gibson KM,Elpeleg ON,Jakobs C,Costeff H,Kelley RI

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal neurocritical care is a growing and rapidly evolving medical subspecialty, with increasing numbers of dedicated multidisciplinary clinical, educational, and research programs established at academic institutions. The growth of these programs has provided trainees in neurology, neonatology, and pedia...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Smyser CD,Tam EWY,Chang T,Soul JS,Miller SP,Glass HC

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00