Magnetic resonance spectroscopy at term-equivalent age in extremely preterm infants: association with cognitive and language development.

abstract：:Hashimoto encephalopathy is a rare, clinically heterogenous condition. Its treatment is based on corticosteroids. A previously normal 12-year-old boy was admitted to our pediatric emergency department with status epilepticus. He experienced a recurrence of status epilepticus after pentobarbital withdrawal, and require...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bektas Ö,Yılmaz A,Kendirli T,Sıklar Z,Deda G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intranasal midazolam in the treatment of autonomic crises in children with familial dysautonomia, intranasal midazolam was administered at the hospital to six patients during nine episodes of autonomic crisis. Treatment was successful in seven of nine episodes of autonomic crisis...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lahat E,Goldman M,Barr J,Bistritzer T,Berkovitch M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two children from a consanguineous family who manifested mega-corpus callosum, polymicrogyria, and psychomotor retardation. These patients also exhibited the brain anomalies of pontine hypoplasia and an abnormal cerebellar vermis. Our report confirms the genetic nature of megalencephaly-polymicrogyria-mega...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bindu PS,Taly AB,Sinha S,Bharath RD

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occipital lobe epilepsy in children can present as an idiopathic form (i.e., childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms) or as a symptomatic form. Forty-three children (18 boys, 25 girls) were divided into the idiopathic group or symptomatic group, according to the classification for epileptic seizures of the Interna...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Du JC,Chien YH,Weng WC,Shen YZ,Lee WT

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exome sequencing has recently been proved to be a successful diagnostic method for complex neurodevelopmental disorders. However, the diagnostic yield of exome sequencing for autism spectrum disorders has not been extensively evaluated in large cohorts to date. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We performed diagnostic ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rossi M,El-Khechen D,Black MH,Farwell Hagman KD,Tang S,Powis Z

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a unique patient with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) presenting optic atrophy, cardiomyopathy, and bilateral striatal necrosis before stoke-like episodes became apparent. Skeletal muscle total mitochondrial DNA analysis identified a heteroplasmic ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sakuta R,Honzawa S,Murakami N,Goto Y,Nagai T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young child with Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome is presented. She was well until 8 years of age when she lost interest in activities and her school performance declined. At age 11 years, she began having episodes of blepharospasm, accompanied by bilateral ptosis and occasional episodes of oculogyric crisis. By age 12 y...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zupanc ML,Chun RW,Gilbert-Barness EF

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guillain-Barré syndrome is the most common cause of acute flaccid paresis in childhood. Few validated large-scale population-based data are available concerning pediatric Guillain-Barré syndrome, including incidence, risk factors, and initial clinical characteristics. METHODS:In the Danish National Patient ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Levison LS,Thomsen RW,Markvardsen LK,Christensen DH,Sindrup SH,Andersen H

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the incidence of postneonatal epilepsy in term infants treated with antiepileptic drugs for neonatal seizure discharges that were detected with amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG), 206 term infants were monitored using this modality. They received antiepileptic drugs for clinical as well as su...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Toet MC,Groenendaal F,Osredkar D,van Huffelen AC,de Vries LS

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging and evoked potential studies were performed on an infant with hydranencephaly. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated the absence of cortical tissue with a structurally intact mid- and hind-brain. Evoked potentials confirmed the loss of cortical activity with preservation of brainstem funct...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hanigan WC,Aldrich WM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ATP1A3 mutations have now been recognized in infants and children presenting with a diverse group of neurological phenotypes, including Rapid-onset Dystonia-Parkinsonism (RDP), Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC), and most recently, Cerebellar ataxia, Areflexia, Pes cavus, Optic atrophy, and Sensorineu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sweney MT,Newcomb TM,Swoboda KJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome is a recently recognized disorder with characteristic radiologic findings that mainly involve the white/gray matter of the parieto-occipital lobes. This complex syndrome is associated with cyclosporine A therapy or a variety of other conditions in which blood pressure ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kwon S,Koo J,Lee S

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain plasticity refers to its ability to recover after damage. Visual field plasticity is not well recognized. We report a 12-year-old female who first presented with recurrent seizures and was subsequently found to have a large, right occipital cortical dysplasia on magnetic resonance imaging. Her visual field by Go...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kong CK,Wong LY,Yuen MK

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve patients with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy with the absence of large myelinated fibers have been reported. All of these patients had central nervous system involvement. In this report, we describe the first patient with pure motor and sensory neuropathy with the absence of large myelinated fibers wit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Fukuda M,Morimoto T,Suzuki Y,Kida K,Ohnishi A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used in high-risk infants to assess the myelination process and its relationship with neurologic outcome. The time period when delayed myelination is best detected by MRI was also studied. MRI was performed in 39 high-risk infants (i.e., preterm infants, infants with respiratory di...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Fujii Y,Konishi Y,Kuriyama M,Maeda M,Saito M,Ishii Y,Sudo M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypomelanosis of Ito has been associated with precocious puberty in two cases. This study reports a third case involving a female with hypomelanosis of Ito including severe mental retardation and seizure disorder with autonomic symptoms (gastroesophageal reflux and asthma). At age 5 she developed vaginal discharge, th...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rutland BM,Edgar MA,Horenstein MG

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course and autopsy findings of 2 patients with measles encephalitis that occurred during the 1988-1989 Houston epidemic are reported. A previously healthy 25-month-old boy had serologically-proved measles, hemophagocytic syndrome, and acute disseminated demyelinating encephalitis. A 19-year-old male with ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pearl PL,Abu-Farsakh H,Starke JR,Dreyer Z,Louis PT,Kirkpatrick JB

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Outcome in severe acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood is poor, with high mortality (30%) and moderate to severe disability in survivors despite the use of intravenous corticosteroids or immunoglobulins. Increased blood interleukin 6 level correlates with poor outcome. METHODS:We report the early u...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Koh JC,Murugasu A,Krishnappa J,Thomas T

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The ketogenic diet is a valuable therapy for patients with intractable epilepsy, but it can result in a variety of complications that sometimes limits its usefulness. Hypoproteinemia is one of the common adverse effects of this diet, although the underling mechanism is largely unknown except for the diet's...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Moriyama K,Watanabe M,Yamada Y,Shiihara T

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiologic mechanism for stereotypic, bilateral repetitive movements involving the arms and hands (complex motor stereotypies) is unknown. This study used volumetric magnetic resonance imaging to compare cerebral lobes and caudate nucleus in six males with complex stereotypies and average intelligence to age...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kates WR,Lanham DC,Singer HS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic T-cell lymphoma presenting with neurologic symptoms is infrequently reported in immunocompetent children. We investigated the presenting features in all 20 immunocompetent children diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma at our institution from 1992-2004. Four children presented with neurologic features. These finding...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bassuk AG,Mohile NA,Stack C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients who manifested symptoms of the antiepileptic drug (AED) hypersensitivity syndrome during therapy with carbamazepine are reported. In 3 patients, the syndrome was exacerbated after conversion of therapy to another antiepileptic drug with an aromatic ring chemical structure. In vitro lymphocyte transformat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Alldredge BK,Knutsen AP,Ferriero D

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute effects of low-dose clonazepam on seizure frequency in children with epilepsy was evaluated. In an open study, 19 children with epilepsy (15 generalized and four partial) were examined during hospitalization with recordings of seizures by trained personnel. Seizures were counted during two 24-hour periods: b...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dahlin MG,Amark PE,Nergårdh AR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We describe the trends in antiepileptic drug (AED) use in children and adolescents with epilepsy in the United States. METHODS:We undertook a cross-sectional study based on Medicaid Analytic eXtract data set from 26 US states. Children and adolescents aged three to 18 years with at least one year continuous ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Liu X,Carney PR,Bussing R,Segal R,Cottler LB,Winterstein AG

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital hypotonia with favorable outcome is characterized by an early neonatal onset and a benign clinical course. The old term, proposed by Walton, was benign congenital hypotonia, denoting the presence of muscle weakness and hypotonia, with the exception of Werdnig-Hoffmann disease. It has been clear that this te...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Carboni P,Pisani F,Crescenzi A,Villani C

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postoperative seizures are among the more common complications of cardiac surgery in children. These seizures have traditionally been considered benign, transient phenomena with little, if any, prognostic significance. We report 4 infants with early postoperative seizures following cardiac surgery who later developed ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： du Plessis AJ,Kramer U,Jonas RA,Wessel DL,Riviello JJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on the seizure and psychosocial outcome of 29 patients with electroclinically well-defined childhood-onset symptomatogenic or cryptogenic partial epilepsy with complex partial seizures who were followed prospectively over 14 years. Many were refractory at the time of enrollment. At 14-year follow-up...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Szabó CA,Rothner AD,Kotagal P,Erenberg G,Dinner DS,Wyllie E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 4-year-old, left-handed male with focal coxsackievirus A3 encephalitis who presented with seizures and acquired aphasia. Electroencephalography exhibited focal spike discharges over the right frontal regions, but cranial magnetic resonance imaging did not reveal any structural abnormalities. However, brain...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wakamoto H,Ohta M,Nakano N,Kunisue K

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sulfatides, the most abundant glycosphingolipids, are a major component of myelin. They are degraded by the combined action of sphingolipid activator protein and arylsulfatase A. Deficiency of either of these entities causes metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). On the basis of age of onset, this entity is div...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dubey R,Chakrabarty B,Gulati S,Sharma MC,Deopujari S,Baheti N,Santosh V,Pai G,Kabra M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute dyskinetic or dystonic reactions are a long-recognized complication of medications that alter dopamine signaling. Most reactions occur following exposure to agents that block dopamine receptors (e.g., neuroleptics). However, agents that increase dopaminergic transmission (such as methylphenidate) can a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Waugh JL

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00