General convulsions and rhabdomyolysis. Case reports.

abstract：:This is the first epidemiological study of myasthenia gravis (MG) in the area of Belgrade. During the survey period (1983 1992), 124 incidental cases of MG were observed, producing an average annual incidence rate of 7.1 per million population (women, 8.3; men, 5.8). Age and sex specific incidence rates for females de...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Lavrnić D,Jarebinski M,Rakocević-Stojanović V,Stević Z,Lavrnić S,Pavlović S,Trikić R,Tripković I,Nesković V,Apostolski S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Valproic acid (VPA) may induce hyperammonemic encephalopathy. On the other hand, seizure-inducing effects of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) may be a paradoxical reaction or a result of AED-induced encephalopathy (commonly induced by VPA). METHODS:We present the case of a 19-year-old male who developed acute men...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Velioğlu SK,Gazioğlu S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk of stroke related to asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis is known to be increased in high-grade or rapidly progressive stenosis. Information of the prevalence in the general population is required for the recommendation of screening methods to detect patients needing prophylactic treatment. We studied the pr...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Harer C,Gusev EI

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the mortality rate in Parkinson's disease (PD) with a control group without PD, and to assess the relationship between mortality and features of PD. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Ninety PD patients and 50 controls, mortality ascertained at 11 years follow-up. RESULTS:The hazard ratio (HR) for mortality in...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hughes TA,Ross HF,Mindham RH,Spokes EG

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Orthostatic hypotension (OH) and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) are well-known causes of orthostatic intolerance (OI). In addition, there are OI patients who are characterized by the symptoms of OI and lack of abnormal findings in head-up tilt (HUT) test. The aim of this study was to determ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Shin KJ,Kim SE,Park KM,Park J,Ha SY,Kim SE,Kwon OY

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microtechnique was established for the study of the limited numbers of cells available in CSF. The method allowed for the determination of the number of immunoglobulin-secreting cells (IgSC) as well as the quantitation of immunoglobulin or specific antibody secreted into the culture medium. Dose-response curves and ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sandberg M,Levinson AI,Zweiman B,Lisak RP

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous system involvement in patients with AIDS is frequent either due to direct infection by the HIV-1 or to opportunistic infections or neoplasms. In the present study we evaluate the epidemiologic characteristics of patients in whom the first AIDS manifestation was an indicative neurologic disease (IND) and the in...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Casabona J,Sánchez E,Graus F,Abós J,Segura A

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients are described with muscular dystrophy and contractures. Although this disorder bears similarities to Emery-Dreifuss disease and variants previously described, absence of cardiomyopathy is a distinguishing feature. Electrodiagnostic testing and muscle biopsy are consistent with a myopathy. An autosomal d...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bailey RO,Dentinger MP,Toms ME,Hans MB

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) contributes to dementia and disability in the elderly, and may negatively affect stroke outcomes. We aimed to evaluate to what extent single features and global burden of SVD detected with magnetic resonance (MR) are associated with worse outcomes in patients with ischae...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Arba F,Inzitari D,Ali M,Warach SJ,Luby M,Lees KR,STIR\/VISTA Imaging Collaboration.

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four male patients, all homosexual except one, with asymptomatic HIV-infection were studied. The patients had no signs of opportunistic CNS-infections but 6 had been treated for syphilis. The patients were tested with auditory brainstem response (ABR) audiometry and with oculomotor tests (saccades and smooth pu...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Rosenhall U,Håkansson C,Löwhagen GB,Hanner P,Jonsson-Ehk B

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterise a Swedish family with a rare hereditary myopathy with unique sarcoplasmic inclusion bodies in the muscle biopsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Part of the pedigree was described in 1980. Nine new members of the included and the phenotype further characterised through clinical, neurophysiological and...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Engvall M,Ahlberg G,Hedberg B,Edström L,Ansved T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The role of the natural anticoagulants, antithrombin III (AT III), protein C (PC), and protein S (PS), in patients with mild to moderate ischemic stroke remains uncertain. We aimed to find out whether their levels in peripheral blood correlated with the severity of neurological deficit or can pre...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Haapaniemi E,Tatlisumak T,Soinne L,Syrjälä M,Kaste M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the effectiveness and safety/tolerability of eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL) in patients included in the Euro-Esli study who had focal seizures associated with post-stroke epilepsy (PSE). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Euro-Esli was a pooled analysis of 14 European clinical practice studies. Effectiveness as...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sales F,Chaves J,McMurray R,Loureiro R,Fernandes H,Villanueva V

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow and cerebral oxygen uptake were studied during severe arterial hypoxia in anesthetized dogs. It was shown that the hypoxic vasodilatation in the brain reaches a limit at an arterial oxygen saturation at about 25% and that this vasodilatation is less than that which may be induced by hypercapnia. A ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ekström-Jodal B,Elfverson J,von Essen C

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and three control patients with lumbar disc herniation were treated with dexamethazone during 14 days. The effect on peripheral blood T-cell subsets and on the proliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to pokeweed mitogen (PWM) an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Salmaggi A,Baldetorp B,Milanese C,Nespolo A,Parma R,Sandberg-Wollheim M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although leukoaraosis (LA) is a common CT findings, its pathogenesis remains debated: if small-artery pathology may explain in some cases white matter changes, many other factors, such as hemodynamic perturbations, might also lead to LA. To test these hypothesis, we determined the types of cerebrovascular ri...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hénon H,Godefroy O,Lucas C,Pruvo JP,Leys D

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional blood flow in the spinal cord was measured in rabbits, cats and monkeys with radioactively labelled microspheres. The reproducibility of the method was tested in rabbits by 3 consecutive determinations with differently labelled microspheres within the different cord regions, and was found to be good. In all 3...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nyström B,Stjernschantz J,Smedegård G

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Soluble APO-1 (sAPO-1) may prevent apoptosis of lymphocytes induced by activation of the APO-1/Fas receptor. OBJECTIVES:To determine sAPO-1 levels in the serum of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and controls in order to investigate if abnormal lymphocyte apoptosis occurs in this disease. METHODS:Serum sam...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bansil S,Holtz CR,Cook SD,Rohowsky-Kochan C

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, but the relationship between the virus and the disease is not clear. As many different types of EBV exist, it is possible that MS is caused by one particular type of EBV. Objectives - The aim of this study was to determine whether...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Lindsey JW,Patel S,Zou J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is paucity of information about the association of seizure severity and quality of life in people with epilepsy (PWE) in sub-Saharan Africa. We evaluated the relationship of seizure severity to health-related quality of life of patients with epilepsy being followed up in an outpatient neurology clinic ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Adebayo PB,Akinyemi RO,Ogun SA,Ogunniyi A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological survey of multiple sclerosis was carried out in the western part of Poland. The estimated prevalence rate on December 31, 1981 was compared with that established on the same territory on January 1, 1965. The disease was less frequent in 1981. The prevalence rate for definite cases was only 42.87 ver...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Wender M,Pruchnik-Grabowska D,Hertmanowska H,Kowal P,Zielińska M,Namysł I,Marcinkowski J

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of action of dantrolene sodium was studied in 11 multiple sclerosis patients with spastic paresis of the legs by measurements of changes in electromyographic and mechanomyographic proprioceptive reflex responses and in voluntary power. Dantrolene sodium 0.5 mg per kg body weight given intravenously clearly re...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Mai J,Pedersen E

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen Swedish patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy were tested for the met30 mutation of the transthyretin (TTR) (prealbumin) gene by RFLP analysis of genomic DNA using the restriction enzyme NsiI. The results confirmed previous findings that the Swedish variant of familial polyneuropathy has the same ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Holmgren G,Lundgren E,Kangawa K,Kurihara T,Matsukura S,Matsuo H,Nakazato M,Steen L

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is an autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system (CNS). Interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-17A may play important roles in the pathogenesis of this disease. High-mobility group box protein 1 (HMGB1), a small but highly conserved ubiquitous protein, is rec...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ai P,Zhang X,Xie Z,Liu G,Liu X,Pan S,Wang H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with pseudotumor cerebri were studied. The diagnosis was based on bilateral papilledema and absence of intracranial masses and hydrocephalus. Based on the radiological findings, three groups of patients emerged: (A) Five patients with an empty sella. Four had an enlarged sella; (B) Two patients with a pit...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bjerre P,Lindholm J,Gyldensted C

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a multiple sclerosis (MS)-like disorder in a male patient with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) harbouring the mitochondrial DNA 11778 base pair mutation. Given the population frequencies of MS and LHON, coincidental occurrence is unlikely. Hypothetically the mitochondrial mutation unde...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Olsen NK,Hansen AW,Nørby S,Edal AL,Jørgensen JR,Rosenberg T

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the need for and the costs of carotid Doppler and carotid endarterectomy after stroke or TIA in non-selected hospitalized patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:During 25 months hospitalized patients with stroke or TIA, in whom carotid endarterectomy could be relevant, were examined with carotid Doppler...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jespersen HF,Jørgensen HS,Nakayama H,Reith J,Olsen TS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from some patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been demonstrated to significantly reduce the neuronal viability of primary cell cultures of motor neurons. We aimed to study the potential clinical consequences associated with the cytotoxicity of CSF in a cohort of pa...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Galán L,Matías-Guiu J,Matias-Guiu JA,Yáñez M,Pytel V,Guerrero-Sola A,Vela-Souto A,Arranz-Tagarro JA,Gómez-Pinedo U,García AG

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy/adrenomyeloneuropathy presents a wide variation of clinical manifestations and may mimic several diseases. A screening investigation by measuring plasma saturated very long-chain fatty acids was performed in two groups of patients. Among six patients with hereditary spastic paraparesis on...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Holmberg BH,Hägg E,Duchek M,Hagenfeldt L

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-phase epidemiological study of essential tremor was carried out by investigating a rural population aged over 40 years in 2 municipalities in southwestern Finland. In the first phase, the subjects answered a questionnaire as to whether they had experienced tremor during the month preceding the inquiry. In the se...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Rautakorpi I,Takala J,Marttila RJ,Sievers K,Rinne UK

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00