Plasmapheresis in multiple sclerosis: preliminary findings.

abstract：:Large doses of phenytoin were administered on 159 occasions to 139 adult patients. Most patients had had more than three seizures or were in status epilepticus. Based on response to treatment, patients could be divided into two groups. Those with excellent response (recurrent seizures, 10%; mortality, 1%) included kno...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cranford RE,Leppik IE,Patrick B,Anderson CB,Kostick B

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pathogenesis of stroke-like episodes in patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) remains unknown. METHODS:Fourteen stroke-like episodes in six patients with MELAS were studied using clinical, neuroradiologic, and electrophysiologic approaches...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Iizuka T,Sakai F,Suzuki N,Hata T,Tsukahara S,Fukuda M,Takiyama Y

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the incidence of depression and anxiety and to measure quality of life in women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a matched group cross-sectional study was conducted. Women with IIH (n = 28) were compared with control groups of weight- and age-matched women not diagnosed with IIH (n ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kleinschmidt JJ,Digre KB,Hanover R

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors recorded the acoustic startle response in 32 patients with stroke, 6 patients with incomplete cervical cord lesions, and 26 controls. Increased startle occurred in about one quarter of both stroke and spinal cord injury patients. The response in biceps demonstrated the greatest deviation from normal, with ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jankelowitz SK,Colebatch JG

更新日期：2004-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the accuracy and interobserver variability of selected ictal and postictal behavioral changes. Three observers, blinded to clinical history, EEG, and side of surgical resection, analyzed videotapes of 166 seizures in 38 patients, looking for lateralizing signs. Twenty-seven patients with temporal lobe res...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chee MW,Kotagal P,Van Ness PC,Gragg L,Murphy D,Lüders HO

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the influence of birthdays on the onset and course of vascular events such as stroke, TIA, and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS:This population-based study included all emergency department (ED) admissions due to ischemic stroke, TIA, or AMI from April 2002 to March 2004 in Ontario, Cana...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Saposnik G,Baibergenova A,Dang J,Hachinski V

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In 10 patients with chronic autonomic failure, the sympathetic perivascular nerve plexuses from quadriceps muscle biopsies were studied by catecholamine fluorescence and electronmicroscopy. There was almost complete absence of catecholamine fluorescence and fewer than normal numbers of small granular (noradrenergic) v...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bannister R,Crowe R,Eames R,Burnstock G

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define potential pathogenic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) point mutations in a patient with myoclonus epilepsy with ragged-red fibers (MERRF) syndrome. BACKGROUND:MERRF syndrome is typically associated with point mutations in the mtDNA tRNALys gene. METHODS:We performed morphologic, biochemical, and genetic ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arenas J,Campos Y,Bornstein B,Ribacoba R,Martín MA,Rubio JC,Santorelli FM,Zeviani M,DiMauro S,Garesse R

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the frequency, clinical and etiologic features, and short- and long-term outcomes of early recurrent TIA. METHODS:This prospective observational cohort study enrolled all consecutive patients with TIA referred to our emergency department and diagnosed by a vascular neurologist. Expedited assessm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Foschi M,Pavolucci L,Rondelli F,Spinardi L,Favaretto E,Filippini M,Degli Esposti D,Strocchi E,Faggioli G,Cortelli P,Guarino M,Bologna TIA Study-Group.

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe a new familial association of late-onset dementia, patchy leukoencephalopathy, intracerebral hemorrhages, bilateral occipital calcifications (BOC), and external carotid artery dysplasia (ECAD). METHODS:At age 62, the proband, who was of Spanish descent, had left temporal hemorrhage in a backgroun...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Iglesias S,Chapon F,Baron JC

更新日期：2000-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen patients with congenital nystagmus were studied with the techniques of electronystagmography and computer analysis. We found several complex wave forms of congenital nystagmus in the primary position of gaze above those of jerk and pendular nystagmus as defined clinically. An etiologic classification of motor...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Yee RD,Wong EK,Baloh RW,Honrubia V

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of long-term fish oil (FO) dietary supplementation on brain edema, polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) infiltration, and infarct size in a rat stroke model. Rats were given regular rat chow with or without FO supplement (20% of total calories) for 7 weeks. Body weight did not differ between the t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lai ML,Hsu CY,Liu TH,He YY,Xu J,Navidi M,Sun G,Hogan EL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined six patients with an abrupt change in behavior after infarction involving the inferior genu of the internal capsule. The acute syndrome featured fluctuating alertness, inattention, memory loss, apathy, abulia, and psychomotor retardation, suggesting frontal lobe dysfunction. Contralateral hemiparesis and d...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tatemichi TK,Desmond DW,Prohovnik I,Cross DT,Gropen TI,Mohr JP,Stern Y

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitoxantrone is the first drug approved for the treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) in the United States. This assessment considers use of mitoxantrone in the treatment of MS. Mitoxantrone probably reduces the clinical attack rate and reduces attack-related MRI outcomes in patients with relaps...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Goodin DS,Arnason BG,Coyle PK,Frohman EM,Paty DW,Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors demonstrate the potential for poststroke return of activation in regions normally involved in touch discrimination in a serial, whole-brain fMRI study of a patient with marked sensory loss followed by good recovery. A return of activation in ipsilesional primary and bilateral secondary somatosensory cortic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carey LM,Abbott DF,Puce A,Jackson GD,Syngeniotis A,Donnan GA

更新日期：2002-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify clinical and electrophysiologic features related to IV immunoglobulin (IVIg) responsiveness in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), the authors conducted a multicenter study on 312 patients with CIDP (199 responders and 113 nonresponders). Muscle atrophy and decreased compound muscle a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Iijima M,Yamamoto M,Hirayama M,Tanaka F,Katsuno M,Mori K,Koike H,Hattori N,Arimura K,Nakagawa M,Yoshikawa H,Hayasaka K,Onodera O,Baba M,Yasuda H,Saito T,Nakazato M,Nakashima K,Kira J,Kaji R,Oka N,Sobue G

更新日期：2005-04-26 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：BACKGROUND:Periodic paralyses and paramyotonia congenita are rare disorders causing disabling weakness and myotonia. Mutations in sodium, calcium, and potassium channels have been recognized as causing disease. OBJECTIVE:To analyze the clinical phenotype of patients with and without discernible genotype and to identif...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller TM,Dias da Silva MR,Miller HA,Kwiecinski H,Mendell JR,Tawil R,McManis P,Griggs RC,Angelini C,Servidei S,Petajan J,Dalakas MC,Ranum LP,Fu YH,Ptácek LJ

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To improve our understanding of early β-amyloid (Aβ) accumulation processes using florbetapir-PET scan in 20- to 60-year-old individuals. METHODS:Seventy-six cognitively normal individuals aged 20 to 60 years, 57 cognitively normal older individuals (61-84 years old), and 70 patients with mild cognitive impa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gonneaud J,Arenaza-Urquijo EM,Mézenge F,Landeau B,Gaubert M,Bejanin A,de Flores R,Wirth M,Tomadesso C,Poisnel G,Abbas A,Desgranges B,Chételat G

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Affective-motivational and sensory-discriminative aspects of pain were investigated in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) and healthy elderly controls using the cold pressor test tolerance and repetitive stimuli of warmth and heat stimuli, evaluating the stimulus-response function. METHOD...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jensen-Dahm C,Werner MU,Jensen TS,Ballegaard M,Andersen BB,Høgh P,Waldemar G

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-year 8-month-old girl died after 14 months of illness characterized by episodes of intermittent ataxia associated with oculomotor palsy, hypotonia, mental confusion, and disturbances of consciousness. In the last 4 months of life, there were signs of liver dysfunction. Pyruvate dehydrogenase and alpha-ketoglutarat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DiDonato S,Rimoldi M,Moise A,Bertagnoglio B,Uziel G

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate brain amyloid pathology in a dementia-risk population defined as cardiovascular risk factors, aging, and dementia risk (CAIDE) score of at least 6 but with normal cognition and to examine associations between brain amyloid load and cognitive performance and vascular risk factors. METHODS:A sub...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kemppainen N,Johansson J,Teuho J,Parkkola R,Joutsa J,Ngandu T,Solomon A,Stephen R,Liu Y,Hänninen T,Paajanen T,Laatikainen T,Soininen H,Jula A,Rokka J,Rissanen E,Vahlberg T,Peltoniemi J,Kivipelto M,Rinne JO

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and any clinically diagnosed α-synucleinopathy including Parkinson disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), PD dementia (PDD), and multiple system atrophy (MSA). METHODS:Using the medical records-linkage system of the Rochester Epidemiol...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hasan S,Mielke MM,Turcano P,Ahlskog JE,Bower JH,Savica R

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate patient-acceptable symptom state (PASS) cut points for myasthenia gravis (MG) health scales. METHODS:We conducted an electronic survey that included the Myasthenia Gravis Impairment Index (MGII), EuroQol 5-Dimension (EQ5D), and a simple PASS question. PASS-anchored thresholds were estimated for ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mendoza M,Tran C,Bril V,Katzberg HD,Barnett C

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied imagery for learned, skilled movements (praxis imagery) in a patient with severe ideomotor apraxia and intact language abilities. This patient, who made predominantly spatial and movement errors when performing transitive movements demonstrating the use of tools (transitive gestures), was also impaired in h...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ochipa C,Rapcsak SZ,Maher LM,Rothi LJ,Bowers D,Heilman KM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of plasma free carnitine and ketone bodies have been found to fluctuate inversely in fasting individuals without muscle disease. Circulating short-chain acyl-carnitines paralleled beta-hydroxybutyrate levels. A patient with lipid storage myopathy and muscle carnitine deficiency, and his two daughters, devel...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DiDonato S,Cornelio F,Storchi G,Rimoldi M

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, randomized clinical trial, we studied the efficacy of long-term (1-year) oral treatment with acetyl-L-carnitine in 130 patients with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. We employed 14 outcome measures to assess functional and cognitive impairment. After 1...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Spagnoli A,Lucca U,Menasce G,Bandera L,Cizza G,Forloni G,Tettamanti M,Frattura L,Tiraboschi P,Comelli M

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective diagnosis and treatment of cytomegalovirus infection of the nervous system in AIDS patients has been limited by a lack of sensitive diagnostic measures. Retrospective series suggest a poor prognosis for cytomegalovirus encephalitis with rapid mortality. Polymerase chain reaction amplification of cytomegalovi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cohen BA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the outcome of five patients with a cardiac thrombus selected among 183 patients with stroke (2.7 %) who were given IV tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). No early systemic or cerebral embolism occurred. Two patients made a complete recovery at 3 months. Two patients had a moderate outcome. One pa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Derex L,Nighoghossian N,Perinetti M,Honnorat J,Trouillas P

更新日期：2001-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare refractory convulsive status epilepticus (rSE) management and outcome in children with and without a prior diagnosis of epilepsy and with and without a history of status epilepticus (SE). METHODS:This was a prospective observational descriptive study performed from June 2011 to May 2016 on pediatr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sánchez Fernández I,Jackson MC,Abend NS,Arya R,Brenton JN,Carpenter JL,Chapman KE,Gaillard WD,Gaínza-Lein M,Glauser TA,Goldstein JL,Goodkin HP,Helseth A,Kapur K,McDonough TL,Mikati MA,Peariso K,Riviello J Jr,Tasker RC

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00