Calcification in brainstem gliomas.

abstract：:We assayed serum folate levels of 60 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and found that 50% had values below 3.0 micrograms/l. Some patients with CFS are deficient in folic acid. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jacobson W,Saich T,Borysiewicz LK,Behan WM,Behan PO,Wreghitt TG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare access to intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and its outcomes in patients with and without dementia. METHODS:This was a longitudinal cohort study of the Swedish dementia and stroke registries. Patients with preexisting dementia who had AIS from 2010 to 2014 (n = 1,356) ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zupanic E,von Euler M,Kåreholt I,Contreras Escamez B,Fastbom J,Norrving B,Religa D,Kramberger MG,Winblad B,Johnell K,Eriksdotter M,Garcia-Ptacek S

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A 48-year-old woman became totally deaf after a head injury. Magnetic resonance imaging showed bilateral contusions around the inferior colliculi and the brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) failed to show any abnormality. This case demonstrates that small, symmetrical, bilateral lesions around the inferior col...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hu CJ,Chan KY,Lin TJ,Hsiao SH,Chang YM,Sung SM

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：:Thirty-eight survivors from among 117 patients hospitalized after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were evaluated approximately 3 1/2 years later. Twenty patients were living; 18 had died. Fifty-three percent had resumed independent social activities, but only 32% had returned to work. Eight of 14 patients tested were n...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Earnest MP,Yarnell PR,Merrill SL,Knapp GL

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report outcomes of pregnancies that occurred during the fingolimod clinical development program. METHODS:Pregnancy outcomes from phase II, phase III, and phase IV clinical studies (with optional extensions) were reported by clinical trial investigators. Fingolimod exposure in utero was defined as fingolim...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Karlsson G,Francis G,Koren G,Heining P,Zhang X,Cohen JA,Kappos L,Collins W

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected large numbers of HLA-DR-positive reactive microglia (macrophages), along with Lewy bodies and free melanin, in the substantia nigra of all cases studied with Parkinson's disease (5) and parkinsonism with dementia (PD) (5). We found similar, but less extensive, pathology in the substantia nigra of six of ni...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McGeer PL,Itagaki S,Boyes BE,McGeer EG

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma exchange (PE) was shown in a previous double-blind randomized controlled study to confer significant additional benefit at 1 year upon patients with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis (CPMS) treated with immunosuppressive drug therapy (ISDT). Efficacy over an extended term, indications for retreatment, and ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Khatri BO,McQuillen MP,Hoffmann RG,Harrington GJ,Schmoll D

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease locus for the clinically heterogeneous childhood spinal muscular atrophies (SMA) maps to the chromosome 5 subregion, 5q11.2-13.3. The beta-subunit of beta-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase (hexosaminidase) (EC 3.2.1.52) (Hex B) maps to the same region, and the protein required for substrate recognition by this enzy...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kleyn PW,Brzustowicz LM,Wilhelmsen KC,Freimer NB,Miller JM,Munsat TL,Gilliam TC

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the surgical outcome and factors of predictive value in patients undergoing reoperation for intractable partial epilepsy. METHODS:The authors retrospectively studied the operative outcome in 64 consecutive patients who underwent reoperation for intractable partial epilepsy. Demographic data, res...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Siegel AM,Cascino GD,Meyer FB,McClelland RL,So EL,Marsh WR,Scheithauer BW,Sharbrough FW

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy manifested in one of girl twins. The twins were monozygous on the basis of red cell and HL antigens and skin graft compatibility. Karyotyping, including banding techniques, showed a normal number of chromosomes and a normal configuration of the X-chromosome in both twins. The twins were ide...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gomez MR,Engel AG,Dewald G,Peterson HA

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Benefit from carotid endarterectomy is greatest when performed within 2 weeks of a presenting TIA or stroke and decreases rapidly thereafter. OBJECTIVE:To determine the delays to carotid imaging and endarterectomy in Oxfordshire, UK, and the consequences for the effectiveness of stroke prevention. METHODS:...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fairhead JF,Mehta Z,Rothwell PM

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the diagnostic value of high-resolution ultrasound (HRUS) for detection of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), Lewis-Sumner syndrome (LSS), and multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN). METHODS:Between January 2013 and January 2015, we enrolled 75 consecutive treatment-naive patie...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Goedee HS,van der Pol WL,van Asseldonk JH,Franssen H,Notermans NC,Vrancken AJ,van Es MA,Nikolakopoulos S,Visser LH,van den Berg LH

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natalizumab is an antibody directed against integrin alpha4 that reduces disease activity in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) by blocking migration of T and B cells into the CNS. The goal of this study was to characterize the effects of natalizumab treatment on cytokine production and expression of acti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kivisäkk P,Healy BC,Viglietta V,Quintana FJ,Hootstein MA,Weiner HL,Khoury SJ

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We tested the hypothesis that admission serum magnesium levels are associated with hematoma volume, hematoma growth, and functional outcomes in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). METHODS:Patients presenting with spontaneous ICH were enrolled in an observational cohort study that prospectively coll...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liotta EM,Prabhakaran S,Sangha RS,Bush RA,Long AE,Trevick SA,Potts MB,Jahromi BS,Kim M,Manno EM,Sorond FA,Naidech AM,Maas MB

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the performance of patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) who participated in the placebo arm of a 12-week clinical trial. Assessments occurred at baseline and at 4, 6, 10, and 12 weeks after starting study medication. Patients received the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale--Cognitive on all fi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Knopman D,Gracon S

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Coccidioides species are the most common etiologic agents of chronic meningitis in regions endemic for coccidioidomycosis. Occasionally, even short-term travel to endemic regions results in the acquisition of meningeal disease, so awareness of this complication of coccidioidomycosis is important even in nonen...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Drake KW,Adam RD

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a case study of a patient with the clinical diagnosis of meningoencephalitis. It demonstrates the in vivo development of plasma cells in the central nervous system. All the stages of in vitro mitogen-induced lymphocyte transformation previously described by light and electron microscopy are recapitulated in th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Glasser L,Payne C,Corrigan JJ Jr

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To define CSF β-amyloid 1-42 (Aβ42) cutpoints to detect cortical amyloid deposition as assessed by 11C-Pittsburgh compound B ([11C]PiB)-PET and to compare these calculated cutpoints with cutpoints currently used in clinical practice. METHODS:We included 433 participants (57 controls, 99 with mild cognitive ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zwan MD,Rinne JO,Hasselbalch SG,Nordberg A,Lleó A,Herukka SK,Soininen H,Law I,Bahl JM,Carter SF,Fortea J,Blesa R,Teunissen CE,Bouwman FH,van Berckel BN,Visser PJ

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has been consistently associated with susceptibility to MS and the course of several other human autoimmune diseases. A putative association between the course and severity of MS and the MHC remains controversial. METHODS:DR and DQ genotyping by either restriction ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weinshenker BG,Santrach P,Bissonet AS,McDonnell SK,Schaid D,Moore SB,Rodriguez M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the ability to recognize epileptiform abnormalities on a video review of ambulatory cassette EEGs (A/EEG) by comparing two independent interpretations of an A/EEG to those derived from a routine recording and intensive monitoring by cable telemetry (C/EEG) of the same 40 patients. Both A/EEG readings concu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ebersole JS,Leroy RF

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether plasma interleukin-6 (IL-6) is cross-sectionally related to poorer cognitive function and whether a baseline plasma IL-6 measurement can predict risk for decline in cognitive function in longitudinal follow-up of a population-based sample of nondisabled elderly people. METHODS:A prospe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weaver JD,Huang MH,Albert M,Harris T,Rowe JW,Seeman TE

更新日期：2002-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved agarose gel electrophoretic technique was used to fractionate serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) proteins in patients with presenile dementia. The CSF electrophoretic patterns demonstrated three abnormal bands in the gamma-globulin region in five out of eight of these patients. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Williams A,Papadopoulos N,Chase TN

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with a clinical syndrome closely resembling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis recovered completely, without treatment, 5 to 12 months after onset. Electrodiagnostic tests revealed acute and chronic denervation, with normal motor and sensory nerve conduction studies. The CSF was normal, and tests for paraprot...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tucker T,Layzer RB,Miller RG,Chad D

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to deliver enzymatically active human hexosaminidase A across the blood-brain barrier and into brain cells of the normal rat was examined. Following osmotic blood-brain barrier modification in the rat, intraarterially administered human hexosaminidase A and B were shown to cross the barrier and enter brain...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Neuwelt EA,Barranger JA,Pagel MA,Quirk JM,Brady RO,Frenkel EP

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize a kindred with a distinctive autosomal dominant neuromuscular disorder. BACKGROUND:The authors studied a large Italian family affected by a progressive neuromyopathy. Ten individuals over three generations were affected. The disease was characterized by onset from the late teens to early 50s ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Servidei S,Capon F,Spinazzola A,Mirabella M,Semprini S,de Rosa G,Gennarelli M,Sangiuolo F,Ricci E,Mohrenweiser HW,Dallapiccola B,Tonali P,Novelli G

更新日期：1999-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wake of dramatic economic success during the past 2 decades, the specialized field of neurology has undergone a significant transformation in China. With an increase in life expectancy, the problems of aging and cognition have grown. Lifestyle alterations have been associated with an epidemiologic transition bo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Shi FD,Jia JP

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the setting of severe immunosuppression, the polyomavirus JC (JCV) can cause a lytic infection of oligodendrocytes. This demyelinating disease of the CNS white matter (WM) is called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). JCV has a very narrow host-cell range and productive infection of neurons ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Du Pasquier RA,Corey S,Margolin DH,Williams K,Pfister LA,De Girolami U,Mac Key JJ,Wüthrich C,Joseph JT,Koralnik IJ

更新日期：2003-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Postexercise facilitation (PEF) with clinical reflexes, H-reflex, and T-reflexes at the ankle and knee was systematically studied in 16 patients with Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS). PEF was observed in ankle and knee deep tendon reflexes in five patients, in H-reflex in three patients, and in T-reflexes in s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Odabasi Z,Demirci M,Kim DS,Lee DK,Ryan HF,Claussen GC,Tseng A,Oh SJ

更新日期：2002-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Twenty-eight percent of patients with the Guillain-Barré syndrome remain able to walk unaided. Studying patients with the mild form of Guillain-Barré syndrome can further contribute to knowledge of the spectrum of the syndrome and explore whether this subgroup may need treatment with IV immunoglobulin. METHO...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Van Koningsveld R,Schmitz PI,Ang CW,Groen J,Osterhaus AD,Van der Meché FG,Van Doorn PA

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00