Valproic acid efficacy, toxicity, and pharmacokinetics in neonates with intractable seizures.

abstract：:The extracranial carotid systems of 105 patients with retinal ischemia were examined using B-mode ultrasonography with integrated pulsed Doppler. Sixty-four patients had amaurosis fugax (AF), 17 central retinal artery occlusions (CRAO), and 21 branch retinal artery occlusions (BRAO). The prevalence of carotid stenosis...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chawluk JB,Kushner MJ,Bank WJ,Silver FL,Jamieson DG,Bosley TM,Conway DJ,Cohen D,Savino PJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intensive study of seizures via serial 24-hour EEG-video monitoring has allowed enhanced observation of sleep patterns among epilepsy patients and has revealed that disturbed rest is common in this population. Previous work has shown that sleep deprivation of any type can exacerbate seizure activity, leading to sp...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sammaritano M,Sherwin A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether correlates of white matter integrity can provide general as well as specific insight into the chronic effects of head injury coupled with depression symptom expression in professional football players. METHOD:We studied 26 retired National Football League (NFL) athletes who underwent dif...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Strain J,Didehbani N,Cullum CM,Mansinghani S,Conover H,Kraut MA,Hart J Jr,Womack KB

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Isovaleric acidemia (IVA) is an inborn error of leucine metabolism, resulting in an accumulation of isovaleric acid in the body fluids. The neuropathologic findings in an 11-day-old infant with IVA consisted of diffuse cerebral edema, massive cerebellar hemorrhage, upward transtentorial herniation, and focal degenerat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fischer AQ,Challa VR,Burton BK,McLean WT

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the clinical, CT, and angiographic findings in 50 black patients with carotid transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). Thirty-two percent had TIAs lasting less than 1 hour, 26% had TIAs lasting 1 to 6 hours, and 42% had TIAs lasting 6 to 24 hours. Fifty-two percent of TIA patients had CT evidence of cerebral inf...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weisberg LA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most cavernous sinus dural arteriovenous malformations (CSdAVM) have a benign clinical course. Those CSdAVM that drain into cortical veins have an increased risk for neurologic complications. OBJECTIVE:To find whether a specific clinical sign predicts cortical venous drainage (CVD) in CSdAVM. METHODS:The r...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stiebel-Kalish H,Setton A,Berenstein A,Kalish Y,Nimii Y,Kupersmith MJ

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate recovery of medical decision-making capacity (MDC) over the first year following traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHODS:A total of 177 participants (111 persons with TBI and 66 healthy controls) were recruited from an inpatient/outpatient TBI rehabilitation unit and outpatient neurology departm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Steward KA,Gerstenecker A,Triebel KL,Kennedy R,Novack TA,Dreer LE,Marson DC

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To discuss the indications and timing for resective surgery in patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) and medication-resistant epilepsy. BACKGROUND:SWS that causes epilepsy severe enough to merit surgery is rare. Because of the variable natural history of the disease, it is difficult to establish clear-cu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Arzimanoglou AA,Andermann F,Aicardi J,Sainte-Rose C,Beaulieu MA,Villemure JG,Olivier A,Rasmussen T

更新日期：2000-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with PD who exhibited disabling tremor and prominent dyskinesia underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the left thalamic ventral intermediate nucleus. The electrode migrated and was replaced but with suboptimal clinical response. Two years later, postmortem analysis found the second electrode tip had ente...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Henderson JM,O'Sullivan DJ,Pell M,Fung VS,Hely MA,Morris JG,Halliday GM

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of 60 Hz deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus internus (GPi) in 15 consecutive patients with primary dystonia. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective analysis of clinic charts relative to 15 consecutive patients with medically refractory primary dystonia who u...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Alterman RL,Miravite J,Weisz D,Shils JL,Bressman SB,Tagliati M

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with unique homonymous hemianopias from occipital lobe infarctions. One patient had vertical meridian sparing, and the other displayed horizontal meridian sparing. MRI correlation with the visual field defects confirmed that the vertical hemianopic meridian was represented along the border of th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gray LG,Galetta SL,Schatz NJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a 55-year-old woman with macrosquare wave jerks and macrosaccadic oscillations with a vertical component. The oscillations almost completely disappeared after administration of diazepam, clonazepam, thiamylal, or phenobarbital. A disorder of GABAergic tonic inhibitory system from the substantia nigra to sup...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fukazawa T,Tashiro K,Hamada T,Kase M

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the ability of nurse clinicians to assess parkinsonian signs in older persons with a modified version of the motor section of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS). After completing a structured training protocol, three nurse clinicians and a neurologist with expertise in movement disorders...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bennett DA,Shannon KM,Beckett LA,Goetz CG,Wilson RS

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:INeuro@neurolist.mcg. edu: An e-mail discussion list for neurologists Neuro@neurolist.mcg.edu (Neurolist) is a discussion list for neurologists. This Internet tool, established in 1994, allows the worldwide community of neurologists to communicate quickly and efficiently using e-mail, web browsers, and newsreaders. Ne...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rivner MH

更新日期：1999-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of acquired demyelination of the CNS (acquired demyelinating syndromes [ADS]) in children is unknown. It is important that physicians recognize the features of ADS to facilitate care and to appreciate the future risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence, clinical fe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Banwell B,Kennedy J,Sadovnick D,Arnold DL,Magalhaes S,Wambera K,Connolly MB,Yager J,Mah JK,Shah N,Sebire G,Meaney B,Dilenge ME,Lortie A,Whiting S,Doja A,Levin S,MacDonald EA,Meek D,Wood E,Lowry N,Buckley D,Yim

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To learn if limb-kinetic apraxia (LKA) is associated with Parkinson disease (PD), participants with PD (on medications) and control subjects performed finger tapping (FT), measuring movement speed, and performed coin rotation (CR), measuring precise coordinated but independent finger movements and speed. There were no...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Quencer K,Okun MS,Crucian G,Fernandez HH,Skidmore F,Heilman KM

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the prevalence of brain MRI abnormalities in people with epilepsy in rural China and to compare it with that of individuals in the United Kingdom. METHODS:Brain MRI scans were obtained in people with epilepsy who participated in a rural community-based program in China between July 2010 and Decembe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Davagnanam I,Chen Z,Hoskote C,Ding D,Yang B,Wang Y,Wang T,Li W,Duncan JS,Wang W,Sander JW,Kwan P

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anti-Purkinje cell antibody was found in the serum and CSF of a man with adenocarcinoma of the lung and paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD). This antibody differed from the autoantibodies found in patients with gynecologic cancer and PCD in that it produced a different pattern of Purkinje cell cytoplasmic ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Anderson NE,Budde-Steffen C,Wiley RG,Thurman L,Rosenblum MK,Nadeau SE,Posner JB

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of two noninvasive diagnostic methods--oculoplethysmography-carotid phonoangiography (OPG/CPA) and directional Doppler ultrasonography--to detect extracranial cerebrovascular disease was examined in 400 consecutive studies. Cerebral arteriography was performed in 74 patients. Transient ischemic attack was ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ginsberg MD,Greenwood SA,Goldberg HI

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) is a relatively common disabling disorder of unknown pathophysiology. From a cohort of 52 patients, carefully selected to fulfill the recently formulated diagnostic criteria for RSD, venous blood samples were taken for typing of class I and II major histocompatibility antigens. The f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kemler MA,van de Vusse AC,van den Berg-Loonen EM,Barendse GA,van Kleef M,Weber WE

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family with Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) that was previously diagnosed with dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA), on the basis of the neuropathologic findings. Because the clinical and pathologic reevaluation strongly suggested a diagnosis of MJD, we conducted a genetic study in the family. Two pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sakai T,Antoku Y,Kawakami H,Maruyama H,Nakamura S,Tanaka K

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cohort of 337 patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), we investigated the relationship between blood glucose levels, baseline characteristics, and outcome by means of Student's t-test and multivariate logistic regression. The mean glucose levels on admission and from day 1 to 10 were significantly higher in ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dorhout Mees SM,van Dijk GW,Algra A,Kempink DR,Rinkel GJ

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:E.C. Seguin was one of the early, influential 19th-century neurologists who participated in the development of neurology as a specialty in the United States. Born in France, but raised from early childhood in the United States, Seguin published widely, developed a high-profile New York City practice, and was named Cli...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Goetz CG,Harter DH

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic inclusion bodies are found in fibers of superior rectus muscle of the eye. They occur in middle-aged and old individuals dying with various unrelated diseases not affecting muscle and in patients with myotonic dystrophy. With light microscopy they can be observed in fibers with pathologic changes, and with...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Culebras A,Merk FB

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) has been found in association with Kaposi's sarcomas in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and -negative patients, primary effusion lymphomas (PELs), multicentric Castleman's disease, and multiple myeloma. The PELs share several features with acquired immuno...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Corboy JR,Garl PJ,Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Compensatory processes involving the recruitment of additional cerebral areas can limit cognitive impairment caused by brain damage as revealed by fMRI. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by frequent cognitive deficiencies and diffuse brain damage. Understanding the missing or disturbed processes resul...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bonnet MC,Allard M,Dilharreguy B,Deloire M,Petry KG,Brochet B

更新日期：2010-10-05 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：:Nigrostriatal dopaminergic function and cerebral energy metabolism were measured with PET in two brothers with early-onset parkinsonism caused by mutation of the parkin gene. Energy metabolism did not differ, but the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pattern was clearly different than that of sporadic PD. Thus parkinsonism i...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Portman AT,Giladi N,Leenders KL,Maguire P,Veenma-van der Duin L,Swart J,Pruim J,Simon ES,Hassin-Baer S,Korczyn AD

更新日期：2001-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Using MRI, we investigated the morphology and blood-nerve barrier function of the peripheral nerve trunk in 10 patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). Eight patients had a focal demyelinative segment in the median or ulnar nerve trunk that was defined by conduction block or abnormal tem...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuwabara S,Nakajima M,Matsuda S,Hattori T

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breastfeeding is known to have beneficial effects, but there is concern that breastfeeding during antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy may be harmful to cognitive development. Animal and human studies have demonstrated that some AEDs can adversely affect the immature brain. However, no investigation has examined...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Meador KJ,Baker GA,Browning N,Clayton-Smith J,Combs-Cantrell DT,Cohen M,Kalayjian LA,Kanner A,Liporace JD,Pennell PB,Privitera M,Loring DW,NEAD Study Group.

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00