Efficacy of phenobarbital monotherapy in treatment of neonatal seizures -- relationship to blood levels.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report a case of Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) in a child and review the existing literature of LEMS in children. METHODS:We report a pediatric case of LEMS with the classic clinical triad of proximal weakness, autonomic dysfunction, and areflexia; the characteristic increment in compound motor...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Morgan-Followell B,de Los Reyes E

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasciculations and cramps may occur in motor neuron disease or as part of a more benign syndrome. A man with apparently benign fasciculations and cramps for 4 years developed progressive muscle weakness and wasting. Such a previously undocumented evolution of benign fasciculations and cramps to motor neuron disease ma...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fleet WS,Watson RT

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the usefulness of a mismatch between the severity of acute clinical manifestations and the diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) lesion in predicting early stroke outcome and infarct volume. METHODS:One hundred sixty-six patients with a hemispheric ischemic stroke of <12 hours' duration were studied. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dávalos A,Blanco M,Pedraza S,Leira R,Castellanos M,Pumar JM,Silva Y,Serena J,Castillo J

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is associated with a high rate of premature mortality from direct and indirect effects of seizures, epilepsy, and antiseizure therapies. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the second leading neurologic cause of total lost potential life-years after stroke, yet SUDEP may account for less than half ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Devinsky O,Spruill T,Thurman D,Friedman D

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of solitary CNS chloroma in a patient with chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) is described. This appears to be the first reported case of intracranial chloroma in CGL without systemic blastic crisis. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lysy J,Globus M,Okon E,Polliack A,Chowers I

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To summarize current and emerging imaging techniques that can be used to assess neuroprotection and repair in multiple sclerosis (MS), and to provide a consensus opinion on the potential utility of each technique in clinical trial settings. METHODS:Clinicians and scientists with expertise in the use of MRI i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Oh J,Ontaneda D,Azevedo C,Klawiter EC,Absinta M,Arnold DL,Bakshi R,Calabresi PA,Crainiceanu C,Dewey B,Freeman L,Gauthier S,Henry R,Inglese M,Kolind S,Li DKB,Mainero C,Menon RS,Nair G,Narayanan S,Nelson F,Pelleti

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligoclonal bands ( OCBs ) were examined in CSF from 23 normal controls, 8 cases of inflammatory neurologic diseases, 24 cases of noninflammatory neurologic diseases, 27 sporadic cases of MS, and the 29 MS twin pairs, by isoelectric focusing followed by silver staining or western transblotting and immunoperoxidase sta...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Xu XH,McFarlin DE

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the complete correction of hyperglycemia of diabetes can rapidly improve abnormal peripheral nerve function, eight hyperglycemic insulin-requiring diabetics underwent 3 days of glucose control with an artificial endocrine pancreas, the BIOSTATOR Glucose Controller. Comparison of neurologic assessm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Service FJ,Daube JR,O'Brien PC,Dyck PJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We developed the Recurrence and Recovery Questionnaire (RRQ) by converting the Pediatric Stroke Outcome Measure (PSOM) to a questionnaire for telephone interview and sought to validate the RRQ in a large cohort. METHOD:We analyzed parents' RRQ responses and same-day PSOM assessments for 232 children who had ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lo WD,Ichord RN,Dowling MM,Rafay M,Templeton J,Halperin A,Smith SE,Licht DJ,Moharir M,Askalan R,Deveber G,International Pediatric Stroke Study (IPSS) Investigators.

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute necrotizing encephalopathy (SNE) or Leigh's disease is associated with various defects in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). However, the relationships between these OXPHOS defects and nuclear DNA or mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations is still unclear. We evaluated three SNE pedigrees (two singleton cases a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Shoffner JM,Fernhoff PM,Krawiecki NS,Caplan DB,Holt PJ,Koontz DA,Takei Y,Newman NJ,Ortiz RG,Polak M

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cohorts of 20 patients diagnosed with neoplastic meningitis (NM) with or without encephalopathy were matched with respect to age, sex, primary tumor, and performance status. Median survival was 10 weeks (range 6 to 20 weeks) in the cohort with NM-related encephalopathy compared to 24 weeks (range 8 to 40 weeks) in...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chamberlain MC,Tsao-Wei D,Groshen S

更新日期：2004-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of age on the occurrence of cognitive disturbances in Parkinson's disease (PD), by evaluating neuropsychological performances in early- and late-onset groups of patients (less than 45 and greater than 65 years, respectively), individually paired for all the variables of parkinsonism and c...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dubois B,Pillon B,Sternic N,Lhermitte F,Agid Y

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated 185 families with ALS for evidence of anticipation and mitochondrial inheritance. Although initial analysis demonstrated significant anticipation of age at death between generations in patients with familial ALS, further analysis demonstrated features of regression to the mean, suggesting that the perc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bradley M,Bradley L,de Belleroche J,Orrell RW

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess cortical inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). BACKGROUND:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have found decreased neuronal inhibition and a reduced cortical silent period in the primary motor area in Tourette's syndrome, focal dystonia, and other ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Greenberg BD,Ziemann U,Corá-Locatelli G,Harmon A,Murphy DL,Keel JC,Wassermann EM

更新日期：2000-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Information about 255 children and adults with Pompe disease was gathered through a questionnaire. Disease severity was associated with disease duration and not with age; an early manifestation of the disease implied earlier wheelchair or ventilator dependency. The patient group under age 15 included a subgroup with a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hagemans ML,Winkel LP,Hop WC,Reuser AJ,Van Doorn PA,Van der Ploeg AT

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a retrospective study on a series of 119 of our patients who have Friedreich's disease to assess the predictive value of age at onset, gender, and left ventricular hypertrophy in regard to disease progression. Outcome variables were survival, time to loss of independent gait, and time to confinement in a ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： De Michele G,Perrone F,Filla A,Mirante E,Giordano M,De Placido S,Campanella G

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To construct a grading score that predicts neurologic function 1 year after diagnosis of anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis. METHODS:Three hundred eighty-two patients with detailed information and functional status at 1 year were studied. Factors associated with poor status (defined as modified Rankin S...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Balu R,McCracken L,Lancaster E,Graus F,Dalmau J,Titulaer MJ

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To further improve the distinction between primary angiitis of the CNS (PACNS) and reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS). METHODS:We compared 2 large French cohorts of patients with PACNS (n = 110, retrospectively and prospectively enrolled) and RCVS (n = 173, prospectively enrolled). RESULT...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： de Boysson H,Parienti JJ,Mawet J,Arquizan C,Boulouis G,Burcin C,Naggara O,Zuber M,Touzé E,Aouba A,Bousser MG,Pagnoux C,Ducros A

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old child with clinical and radiologic evidence of Leigh syndrome (LS) showed a T-->C mutation at position nt 8993 in the mitochondrial DNA (instead of the more common T-->G substitution), resulting in an amino acid change from a highly conserved leucine to proline in subunit 6 of mitochondrial ATPase. The mu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Santorelli FM,Shanske S,Jain KD,Tick D,Schon EA,DiMauro S

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of patient and drug characteristics on medication adherence in people with epilepsy (PWE) in a large cohort representative of the German population. METHODS:Information was obtained from the Disease Analyzer database that collects anonymous demographic and medical data from practice comp...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gollwitzer S,Kostev K,Hagge M,Lang J,Graf W,Hamer HM

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the associations between amyloid-PET, tau-PET, and atrophy with the behavioral/dysexecutive presentation of Alzheimer disease (AD), how these differ from amnestic AD, and how they correlate to clinical symptoms. METHODS:We assessed 15 patients with behavioral/dysexecutive AD recruited from a ter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Therriault J,Pascoal TA,Savard M,Benedet AL,Chamoun M,Tissot C,Lussier F,Kang MS,Thomas E,Terada T,Rej S,Massarweh G,Nasreddine Z,Vitali P,Soucy JP,Saha-Chaudhuri P,Gauthier S,Rosa-Neto P

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There are multiple difficulties in evaluating new treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS). The clinical diagnosis is imprecise, and the correlation between lesion and clinical dysfunction is incomplete. The neurologic evaluation is complex and lacks full precision. The course of MS is complex and has limited predictabi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brown JR

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that brain pathology is associated with total daily physical activity proximate to death in older adults. METHODS:We studied brain autopsies from 428 decedents of the Rush Memory and Aging Project. The quantity of all physical activity was measured continuously for up to 10 days with a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Buchman AS,Dawe RJ,Yu L,Lim A,Wilson RS,Schneider JA,Bennett DA

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relation of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to incident Alzheimer disease (AD), change in cognition, and AD pathology. METHODS:Participants were 1,019 older Catholic clergy followed up annually for up to 12 years (mean baseline age = 75.0 years, education = 18.1 years, Mini-Menta...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arvanitakis Z,Grodstein F,Bienias JL,Schneider JA,Wilson RS,Kelly JF,Evans DA,Bennett DA

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study was to test whether valproic acid relieves painful polyneuropathy. Thirty-one patients completed two treatment phases of 4 weeks' duration with valproic acid (1,500 mg daily) and placebo. There was no significant difference between valproic ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Otto M,Bach FW,Jensen TS,Sindrup SH

更新日期：2004-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is a frequent familial disorder that, in common with most multifactorial disorders, has an unknown etiology. The authors identified several families with multiple individuals affected by typical migraine using a single set of diagnostic criteria and studied these families for cosegregation between the disorde...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nyholt DR,Lea RA,Goadsby PJ,Brimage PJ,Griffiths LR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old girl who had zoster ophthalmicus 10 months earlier presented with hemiparesis and corresponding basal ganglionic infarction related to middle cerebral artery branch thrombosis ipsilateral to the zoster. Hematologic evaluation disclosed protein C deficiency. This represents the first zoster-associated str...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cadavid D,Pearl PL,Dubovsky EC,Angiolillo A,Vezina LG

更新日期：1999-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To detect and quantify lesions of the small-caliber sural nerve (SN) in symptomatic and asymptomatic transthyretin familial amyloid polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP) by high-resolution magnetic resonance neurography (MRN) in correlation with electrophysiologic and histopathologic findings. METHODS:Twenty-five patient...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kollmer J,Sahm F,Hegenbart U,Purrucker JC,Kimmich C,Schönland SO,Hund E,Heiland S,Hayes JM,Kristen AV,Röcken C,Pham M,Bendszus M,Weiler M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and genetic findings are described for 16 patients from a large Italian family with a variant form of hereditary spastic paraplegia and congenital arachnoid cysts inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. A molecular study has revealed a novel missense mutation, T614I, in exon 17 of SPG4, which may play a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Orlacchio A,Gaudiello F,Totaro A,Floris R,St George-Hyslop PH,Bernardi G,Kawarai T

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical features and outcome of anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis in patients ≥45 years old. METHOD:Observational cohort study. RESULTS:In a cohort of 661 patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis, we identified 31 patients ≥45 years old. Compared with younger adults (18-44 years), older ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Titulaer MJ,McCracken L,Gabilondo I,Iizuka T,Kawachi I,Bataller L,Torrents A,Rosenfeld MR,Balice-Gordon R,Graus F,Dalmau J

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00