Improving uniformity in brain death determination policies over time.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It is uncertain whether patients with cardioembolic stroke and without a guidance-based indication for statin therapy should be administered a statin for prevention of subsequent vascular events. This study was performed to determine whether the statin therapy is beneficial in preventing major vascular events...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Park HK,Lee JS,Hong KS,Cho YJ,Park JM,Kang K,Lee SJ,Kim JG,Cha JK,Kim DH,Nah HW,Han MK,Kim BJ,Park TH,Park SS,Lee KB,Lee J,Lee BC,Yu KH,Oh MS,Kim JT,Choi KH,Kim DE,Ryu WS,Choi JC,Kwon JH,Kim WJ,Shin

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were intoxicated with acrylamide monomer at 50 mg per kilogram per day; lumbar dorsal root ganglia and distal sural and tibial nerves were studied morphologically. At the sixth day of intoxication, large and small neuronal cell bodies showed a spectrum of remodeling changes that included nuclear eccentricity, cyt...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sterman AB

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite evidence for the efficacy of thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke, only 1 to 7% of patients receive this therapy. The authors sought to determine the reasons for exclusion from tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in an acute setting and found avoidable causes in 18% of patients. Improvements in intraho...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cocho D,Belvís R,Martí-Fàbregas J,Molina-Porcel L,Díaz-Manera J,Aleu A,Pagonabarraga J,García-Bargo D,Mauri A,Martí-Vilalta JL

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of latent infection by varicella-zoster virus (VZV) was obtained in the adult rat. Inoculation of VZV-infected cells in the skin led to infection of the peripheral nervous system. Latency was characterized by a long-lasting presence of the viral genome, of selected viral gene transcripts, and of at least one v...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sadzot-Delvaux C,Debrus S,Nikkels A,Piette J,Rentier B

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied performance on tests of visual neglect and left lateral gaze after caloric stimulation in 18 patients with left-sided visual neglect after strokes. Except for one patient with absent vestibulo-ocular responses, all improved during caloric stimulation on the left by cold (LC) or on the right by warm water (R...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rubens AB

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study explored the association between long-term epilepsy surgery outcome and changes in depressive symptoms. METHODS:Adults were enrolled between 1996 and 2001 in a multicenter prospective study to evaluate outcomes of resective epilepsy surgery. The extent of depressive symptoms and depression case st...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hamid H,Liu H,Cong X,Devinsky O,Berg AT,Vickrey BG,Sperling MR,Shinnar S,Langfitt JT,Walczak TS,Barr WB,Dziura J,Bazil CW,Spencer SS

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lubag (X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism) has been considered a sex-linked recessive trait and has been mapped to the pericentromeric region of the X chromosome. We studied a 54-year-old man with lubag and two of his female first cousins. Genetic typing was carried out using X chromosome markers. Fluorodopa PET was perfo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waters CH,Takahashi H,Wilhelmsen KC,Shubin R,Snow BJ,Nygaard TG,Moskowitz CB,Fahn S,Calne DB

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 9 patients with an isolated infarct of the anterior part of the rostral cerebellum, ie, the territory of the lateral branch of the superior cerebellar artery. Clinicoanatomic correlations are based on CT, MRI, or both in 8 patients and on pathologic data in the ninth. The main clinical features were ipsilate...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Amarenco P,Roullet E,Goujon C,Chéron F,Hauw JJ,Bousser MG

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current medical climate, medical education is at risk of being de-emphasized, leading to less financial support and compensation for faculty. A rise in compensation plans that reward clinical or research productivity fails to incentivize and threatens to erode the educational missions of our academic institutio...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weber D,Sarva H,Weaver J,Wang F,Chou J,Cornes S,Nickels K,Safdieh JE,Poncelet A,Stern BJ

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effect of metrizamide and its parent compound glucosamine on the kinetics of dog brain hexokinase. The Michaelis constant (Km) for glucose rose from 0.065 to 0.15 to 0.28 mM in the presence of 0, 16, and 32 mM metrizamide, respectively. For 0, 1.5, and 3.7 mM glucosamine, the Km values were 0.065, 0.4,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bertoni JM,Steinman CG

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the role of current weekly alcohol consumption as a risk factor for cerebral infarction, we administered a pretested questionnaire to 205 middle-aged and elderly acute ischemic stroke patients and 410 outpatient controls matched by age, sex, race, and method of hospital payment. The frequency of hypertension...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gorelick PB,Rodin MB,Langenberg P,Hier DB,Costigan J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frontotemporal dementia associated with motor neuron disease (FTD-MND) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that may be inherited by autosomal dominant trait. No major gene has been identified but a locus was mapped on chromosome 9 (9p21.3-p13.3). METHODS:Ten French families with FTD-MND were tested for lin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Le Ber I,Camuzat A,Berger E,Hannequin D,Laquerrière A,Golfier V,Seilhean D,Viennet G,Couratier P,Verpillat P,Heath S,Camu W,Martinaud O,Lacomblez L,Vercelletto M,Salachas F,Sellal F,Didic M,Thomas-Anterion C,Puel M

更新日期：2009-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that an anticardiolipin antibody (aCL) titer of > or = 10 IgG phospholipid (GPL) at the time of an index ischemic stroke is associated with an increased risk of subsequent thrombo-occlusive events or death. First-time ischemic stroke patients from the Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Stroke Stu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors：

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of cerebral metabolism in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) using PET are artifactually depressed due to partial volume averaging of brain tissue activity with enlarged CSF spaces. To investigate the effects of correction for the expansion of CSF spaces on regional metabolic measures, as well as the ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Meltzer CC,Zubieta JK,Brandt J,Tune LE,Mayberg HS,Frost JJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies link posterior border-zone cerebral infarcts between the middle cerebral artery (MCA) and the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) to hemodynamic causes, not embolism. OBJECTIVE:To study the cause of these infarcts. METHODS:We studied 21 patients (unilateral = 18, bilateral = 3) with acute, sym...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Belden JR,Caplan LR,Pessin MS,Kwan E

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine quantitative size thresholds for enlargement of the optic nerve, chiasm, and tract in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). METHODS:Children 0.5-18.6 years of age who underwent high-resolution T1-weighted MRI were eligible for inclusion. This consisted of children with NF1 with or withou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Avery RA,Mansoor A,Idrees R,Biggs E,Alsharid MA,Packer RJ,Linguraru MG

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the severity of impairments in the decision-making abilities (understanding, appreciation, reasoning, and choice) and competency to make a decision to use an Alzheimer disease (AD)-slowing medication in patients with AD and the relationships between these impairments, insight, and overall cognition...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Karlawish JH,Casarett DJ,James BD,Xie SX,Kim SY

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetization transfer imaging (MTI) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that is now used in multiple sclerosis (MS) studies, and is thought to have a higher pathological specificity than conventional T2-weighted imaging. This review outlines the correlations between magnetization transfer (MT) metrics and...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rovaris M,Horsfield MA,Filippi M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the pathophysiologic changes in patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) based on measures of CSF dynamics, and on the duration of symptoms, in a retrospective case-controlled study. METHODS:We included consecutive patients investigated for SIH at our department from January 2012 to...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Häni L,Fung C,Jesse CM,Ulrich CT,Miesbach T,Cipriani DR,Dobrocky T,Z'Graggen WJ,Raabe A,Piechowiak EI,Beck J

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to examine brain white matter abnormalities based on MRI in adults with Lesch-Nyhan disease (LND) or an attenuated variant (LNV) of this rare, X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder of purine metabolism. METHODS:In this observational study, we compared 21 adults with LND, 17 with LNV, and 33 age-, se...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schretlen DJ,Varvaris M,Vannorsdall TD,Gordon B,Harris JC,Jinnah HA

更新日期：2015-01-13 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

abstract：:The authors recruited 19 nonambulant patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome into a pilot, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled safety trial of interferon beta 1a (IFN[beta]-1a) (Rebif). Participants received IFN[beta]-1a or placebo subcutaneously three times weekly, 22 microg for the first week and then 44 micr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pritchard J,Gray IA,Idrissova ZR,Lecky BR,Sutton IJ,Swan AV,Willison HJ,Winer JB,Hughes RA

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the lifetime prevalence and the concordance risk of cluster headache (CH) in a twin sample representative of the Swedish general population. METHODS:The authors assessed CH as defined by the second edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders in 31,750 registered twins born fr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ekbom K,Svensson DA,Pedersen NL,Waldenlind E

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the electrodiagnostic studies of 40 patients with chronic acquired demyelinative neuropathy and 18 patients with familial demyelinative neuropathy. Patients with acquired neuropathy had differential slowing of conduction velocity when distal latencies were compared with more proximal conduction velocities ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lewis RA,Sumner AJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative studies of the afferent pathways from hollow viscera have been limited by the lack of an easily controlled, reproducible visceral stimulus. We adapted a slow distention device to allow for rapid distention to study the afferent pathways from the rectum. The device produced a pressure increase of 10 mm Hg ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Loening-Baucke V,Anderson RH,Yamada T,Zhu YX

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed brain MRIs on 21 patients with CNS sarcoidosis. Brain CTs were performed in 18 of these. Parenchymal lesions were seen in 17 of 21 with MRI, compared with 9 of 18 with CT. MRI detected a greater number of parenchymal lesions in cases where both CT and MRI were positive, and some lesions appeared more exte...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller DH,Kendall BE,Barter S,Johnson G,MacManus DG,Logsdail SJ,Ormerod IE,McDonald WI

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated four patients with schizencephaly who underwent subtraction ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI (SISCOM) prior to epilepsy surgery. Three patients had a SISCOM alteration that was concordant with the epileptic brain tissue. Two of these patients were rendered seizure-free and one individual experienc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cascino GD,Buchhalter JR,Sirven JI,So EL,Drazkowski JF,Zimmerman RS,Raffel C

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the accuracy of the clinical history performed by epileptologists in the identification of seizures in patients with suspected temporal lobe epilepsy. METHODS:The clinical and EEG telemetry (EEGT) monitoring data of 88 patients with suspected refractory temporal lobe seizures referred for evalua...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Deacon C,Wiebe S,Blume WT,McLachlan RS,Young GB,Matijevic S

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients, clinicians, and hospitals have undergone monumental changes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This crisis has forced us to consider the obligations that we neurologists have to our individual patients as well as the greater community. By returning to our fundamental understanding of th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rubin MA,Bonnie RJ,Epstein L,Hemphill C,Kirschen M,Lewis A,Suarez JI,Ethics, Law, and Humanities Committee, a joint committee of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neurological Association, and Child Neurology Society; in collabor

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), before and after the administration of gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA), in 23 patients with medically refractory partial epilepsy who subsequently had surgical treatment for their seizure disorder. In most patients, 61%, unenhanced and enhanced MRI studies were negative. In 26%...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cascino GD,Hirschorn KA,Jack CR,Sharbrough FW

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00