Serum creatine phosphokinase and pyruvate kinase in neuromuscular disorders and Duchenne dystrophy carriers.

abstract：:The University of Kentucky provides neurologic services to rural children by a traveling clinic. In 1978, 438 children (including 231 new patients) made 646 clinic visits. The primary diagnoses were appropriate for a neurology clinic; epilepsy was the most common (74 of 231) among new patients. A community survey of s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Baumann RJ,Leonidakis MG

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is characterized by an urge to move the legs. The symptoms are more intense in the evening and during periods of inactivity. RLS symptoms are relieved by movement. It is classified as a sleep disorder, but in many ways it is actually a disorder of wakefulness that seems to intrude upon the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Auerbach S,Walters AS

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-eight multiple sclerosis case-friend pairs were interviewed by telephone to elicit information about early-life exposures. Available mothers were also interviewed. Risk factors included childhood diseases, exposures to animals, and residence. We found a positive association between MS and having measles at a la...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sullivan CB,Visscher BR,Detels R

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We enrolled 11 patients with secondary progressive MS in a randomized single-masked cross-over study of plasma exchange (PE) in combination with azathioprine 2 mg/kg. PE was performed once a week for 4 weeks and thereafter every second week for 20 weeks (14 treatments). Eight patients completed the whole trial, and th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sørensen PS,Wanscher B,Szpirt W,Jensen CV,Ravnborg M,Christiansen P,Schreiber K,Nordenbo A

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:A 46-year-old man had metastasis to the central tegmental tract of the pons with ipsilateral olivary hypertrophy. Although the phenomenon of palatal myochlonus has been repeatedly correlated with the finding of olivary hypertrophy, no palatal myoclonus was noted on repeated examinations. The clinical pathologic correl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Robin JJ,Alcala H

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report eight patients with primary dural lymphoma (PDL). All patients had extra-axial masses on MRI that diffusely enhanced after gadolinium. Pathology revealed low-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma (marginal zone lymphoma of MALT [mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue] type) in all patients. All patients underwent r...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Iwamoto FM,DeAngelis LM,Abrey LE

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:First-degree relatives of narcoleptic subjects (probands) may have sleep pathology related to the transmission of the disorder through their family members. The authors examined four groups: probands (n = 96), first-degree relative (n = 337), environmental reference (n = 85), and general population (n = 6,694) groups....

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ohayon MM,Okun ML

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old patient with seizures experienced decreased right-ear hearing during electrocortical stimulation mapping of the left lateral superior temporal gyrus. Audiometric testing under headphones confirmed a reversible, moderate unilateral hearing loss. Under binaural listening conditions, auditory comprehension ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sinha SR,Crone NE,Fotta R,Lenz F,Boatman DF

更新日期：2005-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-year-old boy with exercise-related myalgia and cramps had several episodes of myoglobinuria since early childhood. An episode at 2 years of age caused acute renal failure. Histochemical and biochemical analysis of muscle showed a combined defect of phosphofructokinase (PFK) and adenosine monophosphate (AMP) deami...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bruno C,Minetti C,Shanske S,Morreale G,Bado M,Cordone G,DiMauro S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe and evaluate the incidence and risk factors of severe neurologic events (SNE) in pediatric recipients of allogeneic or autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for hematologic or nonhematologic diseases. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of 272 consecutive children admitted to the G...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Faraci M,Lanino E,Dini G,Fondelli MP,Morreale G,Dallorso S,Manzitti C,Calevo MG,Gaggero R,Castagnola E,Haupt R

更新日期：2002-12-24 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：:The authors describe an infant with vanishing white matter disease with demyelinating peripheral neuropathy. Sequence analysis of EIF2B5 gene showed that the patient was a double heterozygote, with novel missense mutation CGA-->CAA in codon 269 of exon 6, resulting in the replacement of an arginine residue with glutam...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Federico A,Scali O,Stromillo ML,Di Perri C,Bianchi S,Sicurelli F,De Stefano N,Malandrini A,Dotti MT

更新日期：2006-07-25 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：:Two hundred thirty-nine patients with Bell palsy were randomly distributed into prednisone-treated and control groups. Patients were followed until complete recovery or for 1 year. In the steroid-treated and control groups, respectively, incomplete recovery of facial strength occurred in 12 percent and 20 percent; mot...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wolf SM,Wagner JH,Davidson S,Forsythe A

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 13 patients with severe drug-induced parkinsonism (DIP) using L-6-[18F]fluorodopa positron emission tomography (18F-dopa PET) to investigate the integrity of their dopaminergic nigrostriatal projections. Twelve of these patients were subsequently followed clinically for a median of 23.5 months (range, 6 to ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burn DJ,Brooks DJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assessed the referral pattern and outcome in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (n = 266) after the introduction of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg). Fewer patients were transferred from small to large hospitals after the introduction of IVIg (p = 0.05). This did not result in a worse outcome in patien...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Van Koningsveld R,Van Doorn PA,Schmitz PI,Van der Meché FG

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) study is the first stroke prevention trial to include protocol-driven intensive management of multiple risk factors. In this prespecified analysis, we aimed to investigate the relationship betwee...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Turan TN,Nizam A,Lynn MJ,Egan BM,Le NA,Lopes-Virella MF,Hermayer KL,Harrell J,Derdeyn CP,Fiorella D,Janis LS,Lane B,Montgomery J,Chimowitz MI

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pregnancy registries for women taking anticonvulsant drugs have been developed to determine more efficiently the fetal risks of each drug. A total of 722 drug-exposed pregnancies are needed to identify a sevenfold increase in the rate of occurrence of a specific abnormality, such as spina bifida, with a freq...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Holmes LB,Baldwin EJ,Smith CR,Habecker E,Glassman L,Wong SL,Wyszynski DF

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This community-based study analyzed 54 patients with definite or probable tuberculous meningitis (TBM) in New Mexico from 1970 through 1990. Patients ranged in age from 4 months to 86 years. The highest age-specific incidence occurred in the elderly, but 22% of patients were less than 10 years old. Native American pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Davis LE,Rastogi KR,Lambert LC,Skipper BJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated tyrosine-hydroxylase (TH)-immunoreactive neurons in the medulla oblongata corresponding to the A1 and A2 cell groups in autopsy tissue of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) (n = 3), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) (n = 3), striatonigral degeneration (SND) (n = 2), and in controls (n = 4). The ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Malessa S,Hirsch EC,Cervera P,Duyckaerts C,Agid Y

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the prevalence of Parkinson's disease and other types of parkinsonism in a Sicilian population using a door-to-door two-phase approach. This design called for the administration of a brief screening instrument to all subjects who, on November 1, 1987, were residents of Terrasini (Palermo Province), San...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Morgante L,Rocca WA,Di Rosa AE,De Domenico P,Grigoletto F,Meneghini F,Reggio A,Savettieri G,Castiglione MG,Patti F

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We performed propensity score (PS) models to compare the outcome of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) submitted to 2 different surgical approaches: extended transsternal (T-3b) or thoracoscopic extended thymectomy (VATET). METHODS:Patients' clinical data were retrieved from the MG database of the C. Besta...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brenna G,Antozzi C,Montomoli C,Baggi F,Mantegazza R,INCB-MG Group.

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the attitudes, knowledge, and practice patterns of US neurologists regarding migraine management relative to the US Headache Consortium Guidelines (the Guidelines). METHODS:Two samples of 600 neurologists each were selected from the American Academy of Neurology membership database. The first group...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lipton RB,Bigal ME,Rush SR,Yenkosky JP,Liberman JN,Bartleson JD,Silberstein SD

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used computerized tomography (CT) to look for evidence of cerebral demyelination in children with progressive neurologic disorders. Fourteen patients with a clinical diagnosis of a demyelinating disorder were examined by CT, and five had CT findings suggesting cerebral demyelination. In two patients with a so-...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Robertson WC Jr,Gomez MR,Reese DF,Okazaki H

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To quantify the quality of physicians' emergency first response to status epilepticus (SE) and to identify risk factors for nonadherence to treatment guidelines in a standardized simulated scenario. METHODS:In this prospective trial, 58 physicians (of different background) of the University Hospital Basel, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sutter R,Tisljar K,Opić P,De Marchis GM,Bassetti S,Bingisser R,Hunziker S,Marsch S

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic abnormalities were seen in 13 of 20 patients with a history of chronic solvent vapor (primarily toluene) abuse for 2 or more years. The patients were evaluated after an abstinence period of at least 4 weeks, to avoid neurologic effects of acute intoxication. Neurologic signs included cognitive (60%), pyrami...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hormes JT,Filley CM,Rosenberg NL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the frequency of mutations in C19orf12 in the greater neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) population and further characterize the associated phenotype. METHODS:Samples from 161 individuals with idiopathic NBIA were screened, and C19orf12 mutations were identified in 23 subjects. D...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hogarth P,Gregory A,Kruer MC,Sanford L,Wagoner W,Natowicz MR,Egel RT,Subramony SH,Goldman JG,Berry-Kravis E,Foulds NC,Hammans SR,Desguerre I,Rodriguez D,Wilson C,Diedrich A,Green S,Tran H,Reese L,Woltjer RL,Hayfli

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the late 19th century, a man with a psychogenic movement disorder was evaluated by many of the Philadelphia neurologists associated with Silas Weir Mitchell. In 1885, prior to the development of movie cameras or projectors, the patient was photographed by pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, in col...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lanska DJ

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Because Hughlings Jackson directed that his personal documents be destroyed upon his death, none of his own clinical records are known. However, we have discovered several pages of notes in the Royal London Hospital Archive written in 1893 by Jackson to his House Physician at Queen Square concerning his proposals for ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Swash M,Evans J

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00