Decreased serum selenium concentrations in patients with Parkinson's disease.

abstract：:We present the baseline characteristics of 101 patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), entering a study that evaluates the diagnostic reliability of CSF outflow resistance. Patients were assessed by a gait scale consisting of 10 features of walking and the number of steps and seconds necessary for 10 m, a d...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Boon AJ,Tans JT,Delwel EJ,Egeler-Peerdeman SM,Hanlo PW,Wurzer JA,Hermans J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Cognitive impairment (CI) is found in about half of the multiple sclerosis (MS) population and is an important contributor to employment status and social functioning. CI is encountered in all disease stages and correlates only moderately with disease duration or Expanded Disability Status Scale ...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Van Schependom J,D'hooghe MB,Cleynhens K,D'hooge M,Haelewyck MC,De Keyser J,Nagels G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:In a longitudinal population-based dataset of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), we have previously observed a substantial increase in the female to male sex ratio in Canada over the last 50 years. Here, we aimed to determine whether this change in sex ratio is related to the clinical course ...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Ramagopalan SV,Byrnes JK,Orton SM,Dyment DA,Guimond C,Yee IM,Ebers GC,Sadovnick AD

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively evaluated an elliptic centric ordered 3D (ec 3D) magnetic resonance venography (MRV) technique in comparison to 2D time-of-flight (2D TOF) MRV in patients with presumptive cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). Twenty-five patients (mean age 40.6 +/- 16.5 years) with presumptive CVST underwent cer...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Klingebiel R,Bauknecht HC,Bohner G,Kirsch R,Berger J,Masuhr F

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The influence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) on cognitive and affective functions in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) was examined. METHODS:A total of 570 AD patients were divided into two subgroups depending on waist circumference (WC) (normal versus achieving Japanese diagnostic criteria o...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Hishikawa N,Fukui Y,Sato K,Kono S,Yamashita T,Ohta Y,Deguchi K,Abe K

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:To examine the relative risk (RR) for living in nursing homes for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) compared with the general population and to ascertain society's costs related to nursing home placement for this patient group. METHODS:We evaluated the frequency of admission to nursing home...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Vossius C,Nilsen OB,Larsen JP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The relative frequency of the different autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA) varies widely amongst different geographic locations. Here we describe a series of 45 ADCA families from Portugal. METHODS:Patients with progressive cerebellar dysfunction of autosomal dominant transmission under...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Vale J,Bugalho P,Silveira I,Sequeiros J,Guimarães J,Coutinho P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual recognition memory was assessed in terms of delay duration, memory load and amount of interference(s) in non-demented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) using an automated delayed non-matching-to-sample (DNMS) task with trial-unique stimuli. Special attention was focused on the different cognitive functions...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Blanchet S,Marié RM,Dauvillier F,Landeau B,Benali K,Eustache F,Chavoix C

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex painful reflex syndrome is sometimes described in the chronic phase of stroke. Acute autonomic dysfunction (AAD), which is occasionally present in cases of acute stroke, has not been studied prospectively. The aim of the study was to investigate AAD on the hemibody contralateral to the lesion in the acute phas...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Diserens K,Vuadens P,Michel P,Reichhart M,Herrmann FR,Arnold P,Bogousslavsky J,Ghika J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) database of the Dent Neurologic Institute to study the abnormal findings in myelitis. We identified 22 patients, and compared non-MS-related acute transverse myelitis (ATM, n = 9), to myelitis associated with multiple sclerosis (MS-myelitis, n = 13). The ATM patients we...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Bakshi R,Kinkel PR,Mechtler LL,Bates VE,Lindsay BD,Esposito SE,Kinkel WR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:  Although fatigue is recognized as a common and debilitating symptom in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), little is known on how and when this symptom emerges during disease progression. The aim of the study was to explore the presence and severity of fatigue in patients with PD at the tim...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Herlofson K,Ongre SO,Enger LK,Tysnes OB,Larsen JP

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine abuse is a well known cause of cerebrovascular complications. An inflammatory vasculopathy hypothesis has been proposed, but the medical literature has only reported a few pathological confirmations. We report a case with a biopsy demonstrating cerebral inflammatory vascular changes that are associated with co...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Diez-Tejedor E,Frank A,Gutierrez M,Barreiro P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between March 1996 and December 1997, 15 consecutive patients with carotid artery occlusion diagnosed with duplex sonography were treated with intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA), following a protocol similar to that of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) study....

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Rudolf J,Neveling M,Grond M,Schmulling S,Stenzel C,Heiss WD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience gradual progression of disability, either as secondary progressive MS (SPMS) or primary progressive MS (PPMS). A subgroup with relapsing-remitting MS shows a benign course with little or no disease progression and minimal disability decades after the fir...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Ramsaransing GS,Heersema DJ,De Keyser J

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brain death (BD) is the irreversible loss of all functions of the brain and brainstem. Spontaneous and reflex movements of the limbs have been described in this condition. However, facial myokymia (FM) in BD has not been previously reported. The origin of that motor phenomenon in alive patients is still unce...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Saposnik G,Mauriño J,Saizar R

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Venous drainage of dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) with dementia has never been reported. The aim of this study was to discover if specific vascular conditions exist to develop dementia in patients with DAVF. METHODS:Venous drainage in patients embolized in our centre between 1996 and 2012 fo...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Labeyrie MA,Lenck S,Saint-Maurice JP,Bresson D,Houdart E

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) associated with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and Hu antibodies, neuron-specific Hu antigens expressed by the tumour hypothetically trigger an immune response that cross-reacts with Hu antigens in the nervous system, resulting in tumour suppression and neuronal damage. To...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： de Beukelaar JW,Sillevis Smitt PA,Hop WC,Kraan J,Hooijkaas H,Verjans GM,Gratama JW

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report about the Danish Year of the Brain 1997 because it may serve as a model for other countries. It was possible in Denmark to organize a very large scale effort which has been well received by the general public and which has significantly improved the image of the neurological disciplines. The re...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Olesen J,Oberg G,Vestergaard P

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a technique for treatment of relative sialorrhoea by injection of botulinum toxin type A. It includes the rationale for treatment, a description of the regional anatomy, the physiological basis for treatment and the applied pharmacology of the drug. Included also is a case report which is intended...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Glickman S,Deaney CN

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of the study is to investigate the epidemiology and medical expenses of Wilson's disease in Taiwan. METHODS:Cases of Wilson's disease were identified from the National Health Insurance Research Database with corresponding International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) code 275....

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Lai CH,Tseng HF

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mirror movements (MM), involuntary movements of homologous muscles opposite to unilateral limb activity, decrease in the course of motor development, but may reappear in adults after brain damage. To better characterize this type of acquired MM, grip forces of 36 healthy subjects and 35 patients suffering from focal b...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Uttner I,Mai N,Esslinger O,Danek A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) is an inherited neurodegenerative adult-onset movement disorder associated with striatal atrophy. As the dopaminergic system has not yet been systemically studied in this basal ganglia model disease, it is unclear whether nigrostriatal dysfunction contributes ...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Brüggemann N,Rosales RL,Waugh JL,Blood AJ,Domingo A,Heldmann M,Jamora RD,Münchau A,Münte TF,Lee LV,Buchmann I,Klein C

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alanin-9valin (Ala-9Val) polymorphism in the mitochondrial targeting sequence of manganese-containing superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) has recently been described. We studied this polymorphism in 72 Swedish patients with sporadic motor neuron diseases (MND) and controls using an oligonucleotide ligation assay. There w...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Van Landeghem GF,Tabatabaie P,Beckman G,Beckman L,Andersen PM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and sixty records of patients with primary torsion dystonia (296 women and 164 men) were evaluated. The mean age at disease onset was 48.3 +/- 17.7 years; 13 patients carried the DYT1 CAG deletion. The distribution of age at onset was represented by a bi-modal curve, with a nadir at 21 year separating ear...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Elia AE,Filippini G,Bentivoglio AR,Fasano A,Ialongo T,Albanese A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of general antiepileptic treatment patterns and utilization of particular drugs was carried out based on the prevalence study of adult active epilepsy in a sample of the Estonian population. The antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) used, and their doses were recorded and compared with clinical characteristics. Nin...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Oun A,Haldre S,Mägi M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Risk-stratification models based on patient and disease characteristics are useful for aiding clinical decisions and for comparing the quality of care between different physicians or hospitals. In addition, prediction of mortality is beneficial for optimizing resource utilization. We evaluated th...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Peng SY,Chuang YC,Kang TW,Tseng KH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efficacy and safety data have not previously been compiled for intramuscular interferon beta-1a (IM IFNβ-1a) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) ≥ 50 years of age. We investigated the efficacy and safety of IM IFNβ-1a in patients segregated by 50 and 40 years of age in separate meta-analyses. METHODS:T...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Lampl C,You X,Limmroth V

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Although Labrune syndrome is a well-known disorder characterized by a typical neuroradiological triad, namely leukoencephalopathy, intracranial calcifications and cysts, there are no reports of systemic involvement in this disorder. This paper attempts to describe a peculiar clinical manifestatio...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Bonomo G,Monfrini E,Borellini L,Bonomo R,Arienti F,Saetti MC,Di Fonzo A,Locatelli M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether eosinophils play a critical role in muscle fiber damage in patients with eosinophilic myositis (EM). We investigated expression of eosinophilic major basic protein (MBP) and interleukin (IL)-5 at the protein and mRNA levels in muscle biopsies from three patients with idiopathic EM. MBP deposits we...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Murata K,Sugie K,Takamure M,Fujimoto T,Ueno S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of these experiments was to compare the spread of three formulations of botulinum neurotoxin A. A gelatin/phosphate buffer (C), DysportR (D {0.5 U}, BotoxR (B {0.167 U}), or a purified preparation of botulinum neurotoxin A [Bont A] (BA {0.5 U}) was injected into the tibialis anterior of male, Wistar rats. ...

journal_title：European journal of neurology

authors： Dodd SL,Rowell BA,Vrabas IS,Arrowsmith RJ,Weatherill PJ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00