Infantile epileptic encephalopathy, transient choreoathetotic movements, and hypersomnia due to a De Novo missense mutation in the SCN2A gene.

abstract：:A Japanese girl showed deterioration in development from the age of 13 months. At the age of 16 months, there were mild spastic diplegia, increase in cerebrospinal fluid protein to 61.5 mg/dl and deficient galactosylceramidase I. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a high signal intensity with increased T2 i...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kurokawa T,Chen YJ,Nagata M,Hasuo K,Kobayashi T,Kitaguchi T

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with acute encephalopathy with bilateral striatal necrosis are presented and the literature on the subject is reviewed. The disease is characterized by abrupt onset following a systemic infectious illness, with disturbance of consciousness, absence of speech, dystonic movements of the limbs, general stiff...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Rosemberg S,Amaral LC,Kliemann SE,Arita FN

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) were studied in 93 newborns (49 preterm and 44 fullterm) admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. One group of 42 infants (28-42 wk CA) were considered at low risk for perinatal complications and served to establish the normal ranges of the BAEP parameters (wave I peak ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Streletz LJ,Graziani LJ,Branca PA,Desai HJ,Travis SF,Mikaelian DO

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic expression of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) ranges from the rapidly progressive childhood cerebral form to the milder adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN) in adults. It is not possible to predict phenotype by mutation analysis or biochemical assays. This study reports on 372 patients ranging in age from ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Moser HW,Loes DJ,Melhem ER,Raymond GV,Bezman L,Cox CS,Lu SE

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a newborn with exaggerated startle reactions and stiffness of neonatal onset, the prototypical signs of hyperekplexia. Startle and flexor spasms, leading to apnoea, did not respond to treatment with clonazepam but did partially to sodium valproate. Molecular analysis of GLRA1 revealed no mutations. The incid...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Macaya A,Brunso L,Fernández-Castillo N,Arranz JA,Ginjaar HB,Cuenca-León E,Corominas R,Roig M,Cormand B

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a child with Chudley-McCullough syndrome and re-evaluate the spectrum of imaging findings (in 15 previously reported patients) which appear to be variable and, to some extent, ambiguous in the literature. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed asymmetric colpocephaly with agenesis of the spleniu...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kau T,Veraguth D,Schiegl H,Scheer I,Boltshauser E

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and some laboratory details of three children who had severe neurological sequelae after either infection with Bordetella pertussis or immunisation with diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine and oral polio vaccine are reported. Each of these patients had had a recent or concurrent viral illness. The s...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Cavanagh NP,Brett EM,Marshall WC,Wilson J

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) are rare genetically and clinically heterogeneous disorders characterized by an impaired neuromuscular transmission. Exact prevalence data are not available, approximately 2000 to 3000 patients worldwide have been diagnosed on a molecular level; mutations in 14 different genes are...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Schara U,Della Marina A,Abicht A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five patients with microcephaly (head circumference < -2SD) were identified. The 55 patients were divided into two groups, consisting of group 1 (34 cases) in which genetic causes were considered primary, and group 2 (21 cases) in which intrauterine and/or postnatal acquired factors were thought to be responsibl...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Sugimoto T,Yasuhara A,Nishida N,Murakami K,Woo M,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Rett syndrome the autonomic nervous system is abnormal at various levels, from the central to the peripheral nervous system. A role for serotoninergic dysfunction has been suggested. OBJECTIVES:The aim of our study was to evaluate the relation between cardiac dysautonomia (expressed by means of heart rat...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Guideri F,Acampa M,Blardi P,de Lalla A,Zappella M,Hayek Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM1 and GM2 gangliosidoses are progressive neurodegenerative diseases which accumulate intralysosomal gangliosides--and to a lesser extent oligosaccharides--chiefly in the central and peripheral nervous system owing to deficiencies of beta-galactosidase and hexosaminidases A or/and B, respectively. This intralysosomal...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Goebel HH

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene for the ganglioside-induced-differentiation-associated-protein 1 on 8q21 were recently reported to cause autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth sensorimotor neuropathy. We report a detailed clinical, electrophysiological and genetic study of two young patients harbouring missense GDAP1 mutations...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Rougeot C,Chabrier S,Camdessanche JP,Prieur F,d'Anjou MC,Latour P

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a nine-year-old boy with the features of Leigh syndrome (LS) and a severe cytochrome-c oxidase (COX) deficiency with a single thymidine insertion at nucleotide position 5537 (T 5537i) in the tRNA Trp gene of mitochondrial DNA. During infancy the boy was irritable and hypotonus was noticed. Early motor develo...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Tulinius M,Moslemi AR,Darin N,Westerberg B,Wiklund LM,Holme E,Oldfors A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is the most common demyelinating disorder of childhood. Its clinical features, prognosis and treatment vary in different reports. OBJECTIVES:To examine a series of children with ADEM for clinical findings, course, recurrences, and possible variables affecting outc...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Anlar B,Basaran C,Kose G,Guven A,Haspolat S,Yakut A,Serdaroglu A,Senbil N,Tan H,Karaagaoglu E,Karli Oguz K

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the present study were: to examine the quality of life (QOL) of parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and to establish the possible effect of behaviour problems on their QOL. One-hundred children with CP, aged between 4 and 10 years, and both their parents were included in the study. Both parents co...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Romeo DM,Cioni M,Distefano A,Battaglia LR,Costanzo L,Ricci D,De Sanctis R,Romeo MG,Mazzone D,Mercuri E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report antiphospholipid antibody positivity in three of a consecutive series of 23 children presenting partial epileptic seizures. There was no clinical or serological evidence of systemic lupus erythematosus or other connective-tissue disease. Neither computed tomography nor magnetic resonance imaging revealed isc...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Angelini L,Granata T,Zibordi F,Binelli S,Zorzi G,Besana C

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children with biotinidase deficiency presented with seizures at 2 months of age. The first child had a fluctuating course with continual developmental progress and cessation of seizures despite symptoms of chronic neurologic dysfunction until he was diagnosed at 17 months. The second child had a progressive course...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Bousounis DP,Camfield PR,Wolf B

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While prognostic information for Dandy-Walker syndrome and non-progressive cerebellar ataxia/cerebellar hypoplasia is available, surprisingly scant literature reports are found for space-occupying posterior fossa arachnoid cysts (PFAC). We describe the outcome of patients with symptomatic PFAC shunted as infants. Only...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Boltshauser E,Martin F,Altermatt S

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newborn with multiple congenital contractures (MCC) or arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and a leukodystrophy is described. The clinical features and neurophysiological studies suggested a disorder primarily involving the central white matter. The diagnosis of connatal Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease was made post mor...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Novotny EJ Jr

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a family in whom three members suffered from congenital hydrocephalus and ocular abnormalities. One of these patients showed along with these symptoms congenital muscular dystrophy. In this child, autopsy disclosed severe cerebral malformations consisting of lissencephaly, arhinencephaly, stenosis o...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Pavone L,Gullotta F,Grasso S,Vannucchi C

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several causes of gingival hyperplasia and one of the most well-known is drug-induced gingival enlargement. Nevertheless, causes of congenital gingival enlargement include only hereditary and metabolic disorders. Only one case of drug-induced congenital gingival hyperplasia has been reported. We present the ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Rodríguez-Vázquez M,Carrascosa-Romero MC,Pardal-Fernández JM,Iniesta I

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two patients with congenital cervical spinal atrophy who were born at 37 and 33 weeks of gestation. Both patients were unrelated and had no family history of neuromuscular diseases. They presented at birth with arthrogryposis multiplex and symmetrical severe muscle weakness and wasting confined to the upper...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kaiboriboon K,Hayat GR

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical features of cerebrovascular occlusive disease with the moyamoya network (group 1: twenty-nine children) and those without this network (group 2: nine children) are reported herein. Group 1 was characterized by female preponderance, recurrent and transient ischemic attacks, progression of mental deterioration,...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kurokawa T,Chen YJ,Tomita S,Kishikawa T,Kitamura K

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newborn female born at term was admitted at 28 hours for seizures and generalized hypotonia. Cerebral ultrasound showed a right temporal echogenic lesion confirmed on MRI and thought to be secondary to thrombosis of the vein of Labbé. The EEG showed epileptic discharges over the right temporal region. Extensive thro...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Beretta L,Hauschild M,Jeannet PY,Addor MC,Maeder P,Truttmann AC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI mapping of language areas in children frequently employs a covert verb generation task. Because responses are not monitored, the relationship between fMRI activation and task performance is unknown. We compared fMRI activation during covert and overt verb generation to performance during the overt task....

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Vannest J,Rasmussen J,Eaton KP,Patel K,Schmithorst V,Karunanayaka P,Plante E,Byars A,Holland S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency is usually made by analysis of mitochondrial respiratory chain activity in muscle biopsy. We describe 4 patients in whom the diagnosis was based on mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency in liver alone. In 3 patients, liver complex IV activity was deficie...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Panetta J,Gibson K,Kirby DM,Thorburn DR,Boneh A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old boy suffering from X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia and progressive myoclonic encephalopathy is reported. The onset of neurological disturbances is at four years of age with ataxic gait and myoclonic jerks. The EEG shows a progressive slowing of background activity, bilateral diffuse and repetitive, pseudop...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Colamaria V,Marradi P,Boner A,Pajno-Ferrara F,Procacci C,Cesaro G,La Selva L,Capovilla G,Fontana E,Dalla Bernardina B

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients suffering from neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, 33 of the juvenile type (JNCL) and 7 of the infantile type (INCL), underwent a brain CT. All INCL patients showed severe atrophic changes which were most pronounced supratentorially and in the brainstem. The white matter was hypodense and markedly reduced a...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Raininko R,Santavuori P,Heiskala H,Sainio K,Palo J

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of mitochondrial mutations with primary pathogenic significance for Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy in patients with a multiple sclerosis-like phenotype and the preferential maternal transmission points to an involvement of the mitochondrial genome in conferring increased susceptibility to MS. To ev...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Wilichowski E,Ohlenbusch A,Hanefeld F

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mega-corpus callosum (CC) is not a common manifestation of neurological disease. Previous reports of patients with a constellation of findings including megalencephaly, perisylvian polymicrogyria, distinct facies, psychomotor retardation and mega-corpus callosum were designated as having megalencephaly, mega-corpus ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Pierson TM,Zimmerman RA,Tennekoon GI,Bönnemann CG

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00