Are the pupils of premature infants affected by intraventricular hemorrhage?

abstract：:A 3 1/2-year-old boy presented with megaloblastic anemia and recurrent episodes of severe lactic acidosis and coma. At age 4 years, he developed sepsis and died; postmortem examination failed to show any gross abnormality in any tissue. Biochemical analysis of muscle showed decreased activities for all respiratory cha...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Akman CI,Sue CM,Shanske S,Tanji K,Bonilla E,Ojaimi J,Krishna S,Schubert R,DiMauro S

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two pharmacoeconomic studies on the treatment of acute seizures have been conducted. In 1991, Kriel and colleagues surveyed parents of children with a history of cluster seizures, prolonged seizures, or status epilepticus who had been instructed in the use of rectal diazepam. A comparison of data before instruction wi...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Graves N

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:To identify early predictive factors of outcome in childhood epilepsy, the case records of all children with new-onset epilepsy presenting to a single neurology practice over a 10-year interval were reviewed. Only children with more than 2 years of follow-up were included. Cox regression analysis was used to identify ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Oskoui M,Webster RI,Zhang X,Shevell MI

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of death in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Congestive heart failure is often sub-clinical and unrecognized as a result of the severe physical limitations of this patient population. We report the case of a 16-year-old boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who demonstrated n...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Wong BL,Mukkada VA,Markham LW,Cripe LH

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computerized neurocognitive testing has become a growing practice across medical populations, but particularly within sports medicine and the management of sports-related concussion. Although traditional neuropsychological measures are solely administered and interpreted by neuropsychologists, computerized cognitive t...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： De Marco AP,Broshek DK

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between tuberous sclerosis complex and intracranial abnormalities such as hemimegalencephaly, schizencephaly, intracranial arterial aneurysms, and corpus callosum agenesis/dysplasia has been reported in the recent literature. However, the association between tuberous sclerosis complex and bilateral tem...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Tatli M,Guzel A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose metabolism of children with drug-resistant epilepsy, controlled by antiepileptic drugs epilepsy, and first-time nonfebrile seizures was studied through the performance of an oral glucose tolerance test and through insulin, C-peptide, and glycosylated hemoglobin measurements. In the refractory epilepsy group, t...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Varlamis S,Vavatsi N,Pavlou E,Kotsis V,Spilioti M,Kavga M,Varlamis G,Sotiriadou F,Agakidou E,Voutoufianakis S,Evangeliou AE

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:To evaluate the consistency of the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination scores of very-low-birth-weight infants at 6 and 12 months of age and its correlation to cranial ultrasonography findings, we designed a prospective study between January 2005 and January 2008, in the tertiary Neonatal Unit of Aristotle Uni...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Karagianni P,Rallis D,Kyriakidou M,Tsakalidis C,Pratsiou P,Nikolaidis N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis complex is an autosomal dominant multisystem disorder. Spontaneous mutations occur in up to 60% of patients with gene loci located on chromosomes 9q34 (TSC1) and 16p13 (TSC2). Diagnosis is established with the identification of various neurocutaneous markers and multiple organ system hamartomas. The...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： DiMario FJ Jr

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven children between 2 and 15 years of age with cerebral palsy and upper extremity dystonia were enrolled in an open-label, dose-escalation pilot clinical trial of botulinum toxin type B (Myobloc), injected into the biceps and brachioradialis muscles of I or both arms. The primary outcome measure was the change in m...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Sanger TD,Kukke SN,Sherman-Levine S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using diffusion tensor imaging tractography and color-coded anisotropy map quantification, we investigated asymmetry of the arcuate fasciculus to determine language laterality in children and compared it with the Wada test. Arcuate fasciculus volume and fractional anisotropy were measured after tractography. We also q...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Tiwari VN,Jeong JW,Asano E,Rothermel R,Juhasz C,Chugani HT

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute cerebellitis is a rare condition often considered within the group of acute postinfectious cerebellar ataxia despite its distinctive clinical and imaging features. We retrieved clinical, laboratory, and follow-up data of 15 children diagnosed with acute cerebellitis in our department between 2011 and 2019. There...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Yildirim M,Gocmen R,Konuskan B,Parlak S,Yalnizoglu D,Anlar B

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging morphometry, we report that the whole brain volumes of patients with neurofibromatosis-1 are significantly larger than normal, confirm the prevalence of macrocephaly as about 50%, and report that macrocephaly in patients with neurofibromatosis-1 does not appear to be relat...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Cutting LE,Koth CW,Burnette CP,Abrams MT,Kaufmann WE,Denckla MB

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extremely low birth weight premature infants are at risk for poor neurodevelopmental outcome. Postnatal dexamethasone has often been used in premature infants to prevent or treat bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and this drug is thought by some to affect neurodevelopmental outcome. We retrospectively examined the effect of...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Needelman H,Evans M,Roberts H,Sweney M,Bodensteiner JB

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute focal neurologic deficits are a rare but known presentation of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, particularly in females. We describe here a 6-year-old girl with newly diagnosed ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency who presents with an episode of acute cortical blindness lasting for 72 hours in the absence...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Prasun P,Altinok D,Misra VK

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiologic findings in an infant with congenital facial diplegia (Möbius syndrome) are presented. As to serial electrically elicited blink reflexes, the R1 amplitude was significantly reduced and the R2 latency was significantly prolonged. The M response of the orbicularis oculi muscle showed slightly redu...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Hatanaka T,Yoshijima S,Hayashi N,Owa K,Suehiro Y,Shinomiya K

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After an initial patient with cerebral palsy had an apparent dramatic reduction in spasticity when placed on modafinil, a pilot study was undertaken in 10 pediatric patients to confirm or refute the benefit of modafinil in cerebral palsy. Nine of 10 patients completed the 1-month treatment period. The study patients w...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Hurst DL,Lajara-Nanson W

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited leukodystrophies are a group of diseases affecting central nervous system myelin that lead to death or significant health problems. Although for most leukodystrophies there are no curative treatments, for a handful of diseases hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT; bone marrow transplant) can stop di...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Bonkowsky JL,Wilkes J,Shyr DC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although long-term follow-up data are available for cases with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, the findings range widely because of the lack of consistent definitions. Using the International Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Study Group definitions strictly, we determined the long-term prognosis of children with acu...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Mar S,Lenox J,Benzinger T,Brown S,Noetzel M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sydenham's chorea results from group A streptococcus infection and subsequent generation of antineuronal antibodies directed at the caudate nucleus and putamen. Predominantly bilateral, in up to 30% of cases the chorea can be unilaterally restricted. Imaging studies, both structural (magnetic resonance imaging) and fu...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Dilenge ME,Shevell MI,Dinh L

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute transverse myelitis is a clinical syndrome affecting the spinal cord, which is characterized by acute onset of motor, sensory, and autonomic dysfunction. Approximately 20% of cases of acute transverse myelitis occur in children. This review summarizes the current published literature on acute transverse myelitis...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Wolf VL,Lupo PJ,Lotze TE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most devastating complications of tuberous sclerosis complex affect the central nervous system and include epilepsy, mental retardation, autism, and glial tumors. Mutations in one of two genes, TSC1 and TSC2, result in a similar disease phenotype by disrupting the normal interaction of their protein products, hama...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Scheidenhelm DK,Gutmann DH

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal ultrasonographic evidence of intracranial mass lesions generally results in a diagnosis of primary glial or primitive neuroectodermal neoplasm. We describe two infants, one who was stillborn at 25 weeks' estimated gestational age and one term infant who was born live and died shortly after birth with large in...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Harris CP,Townsend JJ,Klatt EC

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient neonatal myasthenia gravis is a postsynaptic neuromuscular transmission defect occurring in 21% of infants born to women with active (and, less commonly, in remission) acquired myasthenia gravis. Although passive-transfer acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibodies are found in the majority of these newborns, t...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Papazian O

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a 5-day-old newborn with rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata was investigated with multivoxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy, including chemical shift imaging maps, which disclosed a decrease in the choline peak and the choline signal intensity, respectively, in the right cerebral hemisphere. This is the s...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Sigirci A,Alkan A,Kutlu R,Gülcan H

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of pathologically confirmed Alexander's disease in which serial cranial ultrasound studies demonstrated unique findings of enlarging subependymal cysts with evolving periventricular hyperechogenicity. Computed tomographic scan of the head showed low attenuation of the periventricular white matter an...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Hess DC,Fischer AQ,Yaghmai F,Figueroa R,Akamatsu Y

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

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：:Intravenous immunoglobulin has been reported to be an effective treatment for infantile spasms. Juvenile spasms are electrically and clinically similar to infantile spasms but occur in a later age group. We retrospectively reviewed the charts of five children (aged 4.5-11.5 years) at our institution. Their primary sei...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Bingel U,Pinter JD,Sotero de Menezes M,Rho JM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00