Intracranial involvement of giant-cell arteritis.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of erenumab, a human monoclonal antibody targeting the calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor, on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), headache impact, and disability in patients with chronic migraine (CM). METHODS:In this double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 667 adults with C...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lipton RB,Tepper SJ,Reuter U,Silberstein S,Stewart WF,Nilsen J,Leonardi DK,Desai P,Cheng S,Mikol DD,Lenz R

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) are CNS vascular anomalies associated with seizures, headaches, and hemorrhagic strokes. The CCM1 gene was screened in 35 sporadic cases with either single or multiple CCM. It was found that 29% of the individuals with multiple CCM have a CCM1 mutation, whereas cases with only on...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Verlaan DJ,Laurent SB,Sure U,Bertalanffy H,Andermann E,Andermann F,Rouleau GA,Siegel AM

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this prospective study was to survey our patients about their experience with our clinic's telemedicine program to better understand telemedicine's utility for families, and to improve patient satisfaction and ultimately patient care. METHODS:This was a prospective survey study of patients and the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Qubty W,Patniyot I,Gelfand A

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Compressive neuropathy due to tight application of handcuffs occurred in 5 patients. The superficial radial nerve was affected in 8 hands and the median nerve in two. Neurologic deficits persisted as long as 3 years after handcuffing. Nerve conduction studies helped to exclude malingering and other diagnoses. All pati...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stone DA,Laureno R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In children with sickle cell disease (SCD), silent cerebral infarcts are the most frequent cause of neurologic injury. We determined the sensitivity and specificity of selective neurocognitive measures when separating children with silent cerebral infarcts and SCD from sibling controls. Additionally, we teste...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DeBaun MR,Schatz J,Siegel MJ,Koby M,Craft S,Resar L,Chu JY,Launius G,Dadash-Zadeh M,Lee RB,Noetzel M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients underwent superficial temporal lobectomy for intractable temporal lobe epilepsy. Total cure rate was 52%, and significant improvement was achieved in 88%. Cytoarchitectural changes in gray and white tissue were analyzed under light microscopy. Neuronal dysgenesis was correlated with the duration of seiz...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hardiman O,Burke T,Phillips J,Murphy S,O'Moore B,Staunton H,Farrell MA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To classify neuropathologic alterations in the brains of nondemented older adults using current sets of criteria for AD. BACKGROUND:AD neuropathologic alterations are found in the brains of some nondemented elderly subjects and suggest the possibility of presymptomatic AD. Three sets of guidelines have been ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schmitt FA,Davis DG,Wekstein DR,Smith CD,Ashford JW,Markesbery WR

更新日期：2000-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of gabapentin on sensory and motor symptoms in patients with restless legs syndrome (RLS). METHODS:Patients with RLS (22 idiopathic, 2 secondary to iron deficiency) were randomized and treated for 6 weeks with either gabapentin or placebo. After a 1-week washout they crossed over to the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Garcia-Borreguero D,Larrosa O,de la Llave Y,Verger K,Masramon X,Hernandez G

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathology and imaging studies have shown that patients with Parkinson disease (PD) have a prolonged period of uncertain duration when vulnerable neuronal populations are degenerating, but typical motor symptoms have not yet developed. This provides both an opportunity-it may be best to test new medications and, ultima...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Marek K,Jennings D

更新日期：2009-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old man with diffuse atherosclerosis developed an organic mental syndrome, followed by hypothalamic symptoms. Autopsy showed an old large cystic infarct involving the left temporal lobe including the hippocampus, and atrophy of the ipsilateral fornix, mammillary body, hypothalamus, mammillothalamic tract, an...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Torch WC,Hirano A,Solomon S

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Using a stereologic approach, the density of nerve fibers innervating sweat gland (SG) fragments in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and healthy controls using protein gene product (PGP), tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) was measured to determine which marker best detect...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liu Y,Billiet J,Ebenezer GJ,Pan B,Hauer P,Wei J,Polydefkis M

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Immitation synkinesia is usually associated with thalamic or parietal lesions. Analysis of three cases shows that the lesions may affect the posterior columns of the spinal cord or even the peripheral nervous system. In our cases, two facts stand out, a large measure of integrity of motor activity and predominant dist...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cambier J,Dehen H

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) to study postictal cerebral blood flow (CBF) in 51 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. There were 78 seizures studied, 77 by early postictal injection of Tc-99m HMPAO (delay from seizure onset = 4.3 +/- 4.5 min) and one by ictal injection. Increased focal te...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rowe CC,Berkovic SF,Austin MC,McKay WJ,Bladin PF

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial Doppler examinations (TCD) of 24 brain-dead adult patients demonstrated persistent movement of blood within the middle cerebral arteries in 21. The characteristic pattern of Doppler shift frequencies, seen in 14, was a sharply contoured, brief anterograde systolic envelope with reversed diastolic flow. Fi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ropper AH,Kehne SM,Wechsler L

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with marked impairments in health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Although standard clinical end points such as the Expanded Disability Status Scale and annualized relapse rate remain useful in assessing MS activity and severity, these measur...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller D,Rudick RA,Hutchinson M

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the diagnostic accuracy of confrontation visual field testing and to compare the accuracy of confrontation tests both individually and in combination. METHODS:Patients were prospectively recruited from ophthalmology clinics over a 6-month period. All patients underwent SITA-standard 24-2 Humphre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kerr NM,Chew SS,Eady EK,Gamble GD,Danesh-Meyer HV

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the aftermath of an acute cardiovascular event such as stroke, patients and families frequently ask whether preceding circumstances such as viral illnesses, stress, and other medical or surgical events brought on the disease. Although it seems intuitive to patients and families that acute precipitants or disease tr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jeerakathil T,Lo W

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We present six patients with acute fulminant episodes of CNS inflammatory demyelination who responded to therapeutic plasmapheresis after failing a course of high-dose methylprednisolone administered IV. Neurologic improvement occurred in three of the patients following the second plasmapheresis. Dramatic improvement ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rodriguez M,Karnes WE,Bartleson JD,Pineda AA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butyrylcholinesterase is implicated in the pathology of AD. Selective inhibitors increase acetylcholine and improve cognitive function in animal models. In dementia with Lewy bodies, cholinergic activities are more affected than in AD. The authors report a highly significant association between temporal cortex butyryl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Perry E,McKeith I,Ballard C

更新日期：2003-06-10 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：OBJECTIVE:To provide updated evidence-based recommendations for migraine prevention using pharmacologic treatment with or without cognitive behavioral therapy in the pediatric population. METHODS:The authors systematically reviewed literature from January 2003 to August 2017 and developed practice recommendations usin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Oskoui M,Pringsheim T,Billinghurst L,Potrebic S,Gersz EM,Gloss D,Holler-Managan Y,Leininger E,Licking N,Mack K,Powers SW,Sowell M,Victorio MC,Yonker M,Zanitsch H,Hershey AD

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation. This is the first such case to be reported. Pharmacologic testing pointed to postganglionic involvement of parasympathetic and sympathe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Williams D,Brust JC,Abrams G,Challenor Y,Devereaux M

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Learning and memory impairments are prevalent among persons with multiple sclerosis (MS); however, such deficits are only weakly associated with MS disease severity (brain atrophy). The cognitive reserve hypothesis states that greater lifetime intellectual enrichment lessens the negative impact of brain disea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sumowski JF,Wylie GR,Chiaravalloti N,DeLuca J

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of the present work is to examine images of the brain dissection by Flemish-born anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) as originally represented in the Fabrica (1543), and later copied without Vesalius' permission by Spanish anatomist Juan Valverde de Hamusco (c1525-c1587) in Historia de la com...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lanska DJ,Lanska JR

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Because hereditary hyperekplexia results from a defect in the glycine receptor, we studied in five patients several spinal inhibitory pathways that are thought to use either glycine or gamma-aminobutyric acid as a neurotransmitter. Three patients had a mutation in the alpha1 subunit of the glycine receptor, whereas tw...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Floeter MK,Andermann F,Andermann E,Nigro M,Hallett M

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:3-Methylglutaconic aciduria type I is a rare inborn error of leucine catabolism. It is thought to present in childhood with nonspecific symptoms; it was even speculated to be a nondisease. The natural course of disease is unknown. METHODS:This is a study on 10 patients with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type I...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wortmann SB,Kremer BH,Graham A,Willemsen MA,Loupatty FJ,Hogg SL,Engelke UF,Kluijtmans LA,Wanders RJ,Illsinger S,Wilcken B,Cruysberg JR,Das AM,Morava E,Wevers RA

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of contrast-induced nephropathy was examined in 1,075 patients receiving routine CT angiography and CT perfusion brain imaging at a single institution. Fifty-two patients had a creatinine rise of > or =0.5 mg/dL. In four patients (0.37%), the administration of IV contrast medium possibly contributed to r...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Josephson SA,Dillon WP,Smith WS

更新日期：2005-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the sensitivity of MRI of the spine compared with CT myelography (CTM) in detecting CSF leaks. METHODS:Between July 1998 and October 2010, 12 patients with orthostatic headache and a CTM-confirmed spinal CSF leak underwent an MRI of the spine with and without contrast. Using CTM as the gold st...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Starling A,Hernandez F,Hoxworth JM,Trentman T,Halker R,Vargas BB,Hastriter E,Dodick D

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed acute onset of delayed psychosis in 8 patients 1 month to 11 years after right temporoparietooccipital (TPO) stroke or trauma. The psychotic disorder included hallucinations and, in some patients delusions and agitation. All patients had spatioconstructional difficulties. None had an earlier psychiatric di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Levine DN,Finklestein S

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare in the Vertebral Artery Ischaemia Stenting Trial (VIST) the risks and benefits of vertebral angioplasty and stenting with best medical treatment (BMT) alone for symptomatic vertebral artery stenosis. METHODS:VIST was a prospective, randomized, open-blinded endpoint clinical trial performed in 14 h...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Markus HS,Larsson SC,Kuker W,Schulz UG,Ford I,Rothwell PM,Clifton A,VIST Investigators.

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00