Maternal-fetal HLA sharing and risk of newborn encephalopathy and seizures: a pilot study.

abstract：:The etiology of mild mental retardation remains undefined in about 60% of cases. Even though the causes of mild mental retardation are likely to be heterogeneous, the evidence for genetic involvement is increasing, along with the development of specific diagnostic techniques. To improve our understanding of the geneti...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Saccucci P,Arpino C,Rizzo R,Gagliano A,Volzone A,Lalli C,Galasso C,Curatolo P

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a very uncommon first manifestation of a neuroblastoma. A 5-month-old healthy infant presented with acute onset seizures and developmental regression. Extensive investigation was remarkable for urinary vanillylmandelic acid and homovanillic acid peaks. Abdominopelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) disclo...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Martins CL,Monteiro JP,Pereira F,Calhau P,Fonseca MJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe associated ocular, neurologic, and systemic findings in a population of children with optic nerve hypoplasia, a retrospective chart review of 100 patients with optic nerve hypoplasia for the presence of neurologic, radiologic, and endocrine abnormalities was performed. Neuroimaging and endocrine studies we...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Garcia ML,Ty EB,Taban M,David Rothner A,Rogers D,Traboulsi EI

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report preliminary studies in 18 girls with Rett syndrome (15 typical, three atypical cases) who were studied using a number of neuropsychologic measures. Results indicate a relative preservation of gross motor and daily living skills at the developmental level of the age of onset of the condition. Other adaptive f...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Fontanesi J,Haas RH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) typically presents with progressive mental deterioration, behavioral changes, and myoclonic jerks. Atypical presentations are not unknown and may result in diagnostic delays. A 9-year-old girl presented with poor balance and ataxia following an episode of upper respiratory tr...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Goraya J,Marks H,Khurana D,Legido A,Melvin J

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a case of pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency in a 3-year-old boy who presented generalized hypotonia, severe psychomotor development delay, and generalized and partial seizures and was refractory to antiepileptic drugs. After the diagnosis, the patient was put on a ketogenic diet. Six months late...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Di Pisa V,Cecconi I,Gentile V,Di Pietro E,Marchiani V,Verrotti A,Franzoni E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basilar artery occlusion in children is rare. The clinical diagnosis of basilar artery occlusion is often difficult because the initial neurologic findings, most frequently hemiparesis, involuntary movements, or headache, are often transient and can suggest complicated migraine, seizures, or both. We have reviewed 37 ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Rosman NP,Adhami S,Mannheim GB,Katz NP,Klucznik RP,Muriello MA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethical issues concerning the use of fetal tissue as a source for organ transplantation has focused interest on anencephaly. For reasons that are not entirely clear, the incidence of anencephaly has been declining. As anencephaly is easily recognized and invariably fatal, mortality figures provide an excellent ref...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Snyder RD,Fakadej AF,Riggs JE

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this article is to review primary and secondary causes of carnitine deficiency, emphasizing recent advances in our knowledge of fatty acid oxidation. It is now understood that the cellular metabolism of fatty acids requires the cytosolic carnitine cycle and the mitochondrial beta-oxidation cycle. Carn...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Pons R,De Vivo DC

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed metabolic functioning of regional brain areas to address whether there is a neurometabolic profile reflecting the underlying neuropathology in individuals with autism spectrum disorders, and if varied profiles correlate with the clinical subtypes. Thirteen children (7-16 years) with autism spectrum...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Gabis L,Wei Huang,Azizian A,DeVincent C,Tudorica A,Kesner-Baruch Y,Roche P,Pomeroy J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological disorders, including neurodevelopmental disorders, have been identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the greatest threats to global public health. It is generally believed that these conditions are more prevalent in the developing than the developed world because of multiple known risk...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Idro R,Newton C,Kiguli S,Kakooza-Mwesige A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the efficacy and tolerability of potassium bromide in 113 patients (aged, 1-20 years) with severe epilepsy and generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Potassium bromide was started at 45 mg/kg and raised to 70 mg/kg (median). Steady-state blood level was reached after a median of 28 days (range, 5-9...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Korinthenberg R,Burkart P,Woelfle C,Moenting JS,Ernst JP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated familial and environmental risk factors in a cohort of South African children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A prospective, hospital-based case control study was conducted comprising 50 children diagnosed with ADHD and 50 matched non-ADHD controls. The adjusted effect o...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： van Dyk L,Springer P,Kidd M,Steyn N,Solomons R,van Toorn R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures occur in 25% to 40% of children with supratentorial tumors and are the presenting complaint in 10% to 15%. However, when divided by age, only 2% of children with seizures as the presenting complaint of brain tumors were less than 1 year of age. Three children, ranging in age from 20 days to 7 months and seen ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Rutledge SL,Snead OC 3rd,Morawetz R,Chandra-Sekar B

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical course of a 4-year-old girl with chronic cerebellitis (onset 2 days after diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccination at 1 year and 7 months old) associated with anti-glutamate receptor delta 2 antibody, who improved dramatically with steroid therapy (methylprednisolone pulse therapy plus oral pred...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Kubota M,Takahashi Y

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germinal matrix hemorrhage refers to bleeding that arises from the subependymal (or periventricular) germinal region of the immature brain. Clinical studies have shown that infants who experience germinal matrix hemorrhage can develop hydrocephalus or suffer from long-term neurologic dysfunction, including cerebral pa...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Balasubramaniam J,Del Bigio MR

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelastic seizures are characterized by inappropriate, stereotyped laughter and are often first recognized when other epileptic manifestations occur. They are frequently associated with hypothalamic hamartomas. Central nervous system developmental abnormalities are rarely reported with gelastic seizures. There is only ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Akman CI,Schubert R,Duran M,Loh J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonconvulsive status epilepticus is a prolonged and continuous state of increased unawareness without overt motor seizures linked with repetitive generalized epileptic discharges. In children, it may occur de novo but more commonly may complicate a preexisting epileptic disorder. We report on a 2-year-old female who p...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Shinawi M,Shahar E

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is associated with altered cerebellar volume and cerebellum is associated with cognitive performance. However there are mixed results regarding the cerebellar volume in young patients with ADHD. To clarify the size and direction of this effect, we conducted the analysis ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Wyciszkiewicz A,Pawlak MA,Krawiec K

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the increased survival rates in patients with pediatric central nervous system tumors, late effects such as treatment- and/or illness-related neurologic sequelae as well as neuropsychological deficits and social difficulties have moved into focus in follow-up care. In order to provide personalized treatment reco...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Pletschko T,Felnhofer A,Schwarzinger A,Weiler L,Slavc I,Leiss U

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a case report of an otherwise healthy 2-year-old boy with a history of pica, associated with iron deficiency anemia. This boy was referred to our department for a neurologic evaluation because of an acute episode of sialorrhea, difficulty in speaking, dysphagia, and repeated swallowing movements. An uncertain ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Mihailidou H,Galanakis E,Paspalaki P,Borgia P,Mantzouranis E

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report our experience in a cohort of patients with hyperphenylalaninemia in a tertiary care referral center in Lebanon. Forty-one sequential patients were studied: 34 classical phenylketonuria (PKU), 3 hyperphenylalaninemia (non-PKU), and 4 biopterin metabolism defects. The majority of cases were clinically diagnos...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Karam PE,Daher RT,Moller LB,Mikati MA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to assess the emotional and cognitive aspects of social cognition among patients with rolandic epilepsy. A computerized neuropsychological battery was used for cognitive evaluation. Affective and cognitive social cognition were evaluated using two computerized Theory of Mind tasks. Cog...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Genizi J,Shamay-Tsoory SG,Shahar E,Yaniv S,Aharon-Perez J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thromboembolic events during the perinatal period are responsible for irreversible brain damage owing to cerebral hypoxia and neuronal necrosis. We investigated the presence of thrombophilia risk factors in children with congenital neurologic disorders. Nineteen children (9 males and 10 females), aged 1 to 14 years (m...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Tzoufi M,Giotopoulou S,Papadimitriou P,Dokou E,Kolaitis NI,Siamopoulou A,Vartholomatos G

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baclofen is widely used to control spasticity in children with cerebral palsy. Several publications described clinical adverse effects of baclofen oral treatment, but the effect of baclofen on seizure potentiation is still controversial. We describe a 10-year-old female patient with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and menta...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： De Rinaldis M,Losito L,Gennaro L,Trabacca A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two children with transient myasthenia gravis preceded by viral illnesses. The first is a 5-year-old boy who developed oculobulbar weakness 2 weeks following a varicella-zoster infection. The second is a 4-year-old boy who developed facial diplegia and dysarthria several weeks following a viral pharyngitis. ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Felice KJ,DiMario FJ,Conway SR

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether children with epilepsy undergoing valproate therapy and who are otherwise healthy have lower levels of serum and muscle carnitine. A total of 50 patients with epilepsy, 3 to 14 years of age, who were treated solely with valproate and free of abnormal neurologic findin...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Anil M,Helvaci M,Ozbal E,Kalenderer O,Anil AB,Dilek M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tics, patterned movements distinct from stereotypies, myoclonus, and other hyperkinetic movements, are quite common in children, particularly among those with developmental and psychiatric disorders. Thus, tics can indicate the presence of atypical neurodevelopment or broader difficulties with cognition or mood. Tics ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Gilbert D

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia results from platelet-antigen incompatibility between mother and fetus, leading to antibody-mediated destruction of fetal platelets. With a prevalence of 1 in 1000 births, approximately 4000 infants born in the United States each year develop neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia. T...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Sharif U,Kuban K

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-sensitive calcium channel probe 125I-omega-GVIA conotoxin has been shown to be a developmental marker in whole brain preparations of Swiss Webster mice. The present study looks more carefully at regional dissections of the mouse brain (cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem) at postnatal day 8 and postnatal ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Litzinger MJ,Mouritsen CL,Grover BB,Esplin MS,Abbott JR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00