Long term follow-up of growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenomas submitted to endoscopic endonasal surgery.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to determine if the University of Pennsylvania's Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) is an accurate diagnostic tool for olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD). METHOD:We included 138 non-demented PD subjects and 175 control subjects matched by gender. Smell identification wa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rodríguez-Violante M,Gonzalez-Latapi P,Camacho-Ordoñez A,Martínez-Ramírez D,Morales-Briceño H,Cervantes-Arriaga A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study is based on 371 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples and 324 serum samples from 40 patients with neurocysticercosis (NC) submitted to treatment with praziquantel. The aim of the study is a critical evaluation on humoral immunity in CSF NC syndrome. The analysis of NC patients at diagnosis and in the follow-up p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38 year-old man presented fever and a clinical picture of intracranial hypertension and ataxic syndrome. A CT-scan disclosed an expanding lesion of the cerebellum. Surgical excision of the lesion was performed and pathological examination made the diagnosis of an actinomycotic abscess. The probable primary source of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Tsubouchi MH,Arruda WO,Pedrozo AA,Meneses MS,Ramina R,Bleggi-Torres LF

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Basilar tip aneurysms (BTAs) have a complex anatomy, making them difficult to treat. We describe our surgical results for BTAs. METHODS:From 2004 to 2015 (12 years), a total of 25 small BTAs and two giant BTAs were treated in the Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual de São Paulo. RESULTS:In 23 patients har...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pahl FH,Oliveira MF,Rotta JM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose was to describe the main features of headache incidence in a hospital community, its frequency and the most requested medical investigation. Due to the stressful work environment, hospital is considered to hold a high-risk population. Interviews and questionnaires were utilized. Of a 1006 files, which were...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Zétola VH,Nóvak EM,Luiz A,Branco BO,Sato BK,Nita CS,Bubna MH,Prado Rde A,Werneck LC

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encephalitozoonosis is an increasingly important opportunistic protozoan infection in immunocompromised individuals. This study aims to examine the development of an experimental Encephalitozoon cuniculi infection in the central nervous system of immunosuppressed mice. Adult Balb-C mice were inoculated intraperitoneal...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lallo MA,Bondan EF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the occipital inter-hemispheric coherence of Electroencephalogram (electrodes O1-O2) for alpha band (alpha1--8.0 to 10.0 Hz and alpha2--10.1 to 12.5 Hz) in two groups of healthy individuals (young adults and subjects older than 50 years-old), to assess if there is significant difference between this two age...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Anghinah R,Caramelli P,Takahashi DY,Nitrini R,Sameshima K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a frequent condition in school-age children and commonly presents in comorbidity with other psychiatric diseases. In Brazil, there are few studies concerning non-clinical samples. PURPOSE:The present study aims to calculate the prevalence of this disorder a...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pastura G,Mattos P,Araújo AP

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term dystonia was proposed by Hermann Oppenheim in 1911, but reports of cervical dystonia are finding since the Roman Empire. The differentiation of the dystonia between a neurological and a psychiatric disease turned a lot. Sometimes was proposed, further, the exclusion of the dystonia as a different phenomenon a...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Camargo CH,Teive HA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen alcoholic male patients that developed delirium tremens (DT) after admission in a psychiatric hospital for treatment of alcoholism (group I) had their clinical and laboratorial records examined. The laboratory samples were taken during the phase previous at the DT. Data on this group were compared to those of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Borini P,da Silva CO

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the brain areas which are activated when normal subjects make moral judgments. METHOD:Ten normal adults underwent BOLD functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during the auditory presentation of sentences that they were instructed to silently judge as either "right" or "wrong". Half of the sent...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moll J,Eslinger PJ,Oliveira-Souza R

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This disease was described by McArdle as an inherited autosomal recessive affection characterized by glycogen storage with normal chain in the skeletal muscles, due to absence of myophosphorylase activity. Under a clinical aspect, excessive fatigability, cramps and myoglobinuria appear following physical exercise. A c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Levy JA,Gagioti SM,Cavalieri MJ,Pereira JR

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Analysis of 52 pediatric patients with head trauma assisted at Intensive Care Unit; to present considerations about epidemiologic factors of trauma, clinical presentation, tomografic aspects, hemodynamic changes and treatment options of intracranial hypertension; to present considerations about the intracran...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Maldaun MV,Zambelli HJ,Dantas VP,Fabiani RM,Martins AM,Brandão MB,Lopes CE,Honorato DC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy is a chronic infectious peripheral neuropathy caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The different clinical presentations of the disease are determined by the quality of the host immune response. Early detection of leprosy and treatment by multidrug therapy are the most important steps in preventing deformity and dis...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Nascimento OJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of gastrointestinal system disorders on Restless Legs Syndrome/Willis-Ekbom disease (RLS/WED) has been previously demonstrated by using serological tests. However, this association has not been supported by histopathological studies so far. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between RLS/WE...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Çam M,Kutluana U

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning disability is common in epileptic children. Epilepsy has been associated with disorders of intelligence. Cognitive potential (P300) is considered to be a clinical aid in the neurophysiological measurement of the cognitive process. Ninety-nine children between the ages of 10 years and 11 years and 11 months fo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Visioli-Melo JF,Rotta NT

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is substantial controversy in literature about human dermatomes. We studied L4, L5, and S1 inferior limb dermatomes by comparing clinical signs and symptoms with conduction studies, electromyographical data, neurosurgical findings, and imaging data from computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Faleiros AT,Resende LA,Zanini MA,Castro HA,Gabarra RC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The low-educated elderly are a vulnerable population in whom studying the role of white matter integrity on memory may provide insights for understanding how memory declines with aging and disease. METHODS:Thirty-one participants (22 women), 23 cognitively healthy and eight with cognitive impairment-no dementia, aged...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Resende EPF,Tovar-Moll FF,Ferreira FM,Bramati I,de Souza LC,Carmona KC,Guimarães HC,Carvalho VA,Barbosa MT,Caramelli P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report 4 different neurological complications of H1N1 virus vaccination. METHOD:Four patients (9, 16, 37 and 69 years of age) had neurological symptoms (intracranial hypertension, ataxia, left peripheral facial palsy of abrupt onset, altered mental status, myelitis) starting 4-15 days after H1N1 vaccinati...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lessa R,Castillo M,Azevedo R,Azevedo F,Azevedo H

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the period March to May 1979, 6 patients with trigeminal neuralgia were operated on, neurovascular decompression being carried out in the posterior fossa. In 5 cases an arterial loop was found compressing the root of the V nerve at its apparent origin in the protuberance, and in one case a large calibrous twisted v...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Niemeyer Filho P

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the clinical quantification of the neurologic symptomatology the authors made observations and avaliated the action of Ciba 34.647-Ba, a GABA derivative, in 12 patients suffering from spasticity and motor incapacity due to spinal cord lesions. The results are reported emphasizing the effects of the drug on the m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Roitman I,Anghinah A

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taking into account the crescent interest in the field of dystonia genetics, we have organized a didactic and fast algorithm to diagnose the main forms of hereditary dystonias. The key branch of this algorithm is pointed to dystonia classification in primary, plus, or paroxysmal. The specific characteristics of each s...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Camargos S,Cardoso F

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of epilepsy in Down syndrome (DS) has been reported in literature varying from 6 to 17%. A typical electroencephalographic (EEG) pattern has not been established for this condition. There is a great variation on EEG abnormalities and most of them are not associated to behavior alterations or neurological...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： da Nóbrega AM,Nunesmaia HG,Viana Nde O,Filgueiras MA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population of 2307 children, 69 (2.99%) showed in the EEG high-voltage evoked potentials (evoked spikes) elicited by tapping on the feet or hands. Febrile convulsions were mentioned in 226 cases, and 13 of them showed the evoked spikes in the EEG and were otherwise neurologically and psychologically normal. Assoc...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fonseca LC,Tedrus GM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of chronic bulbar muscular dysfunction in a thyrotoxic man, with complete remission of the symptoms after the use of propranolol, with and without concomitant use of propylthiouracil. Some aspects of this unique complication of hyperthyroidism are discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Cardoso Bde A,Schulz I,Preger A,Arruda WO

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of acute subdural haematoma evacuated in the presence of a coagulopathy. Some elements necessary for the understanding of the etiopathogenesis of the disease are discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Cavalcanti CE,Jansen E

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of present study was to evaluate the number and basophily of cell bodies of myenteric neurons in the ileum of rats with diabetes mellitus induced by streptozotocin. Four groups of rats were used: diabetes was induced in two (D) whereas the other two worked as controls (N). Animals were sacrificed six (6N, 6D) ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Hernandes L,Bazotte RB,Gama P,Miranda-Neto MH

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are lysosomal storage diseases in which a specific enzyme defect causes glycosaminoglycans storage in tissues. The authors present a necropsy case of a 10 years old boy with clinical and laboratorial diagnosis of MPS. The necropsy revealed thickening of meninges, cardiac valves and hepa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Torres LF,De Noronha L,Jacob GV,Antoniuk S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the survival rate according to the main findings of emergency electroencephalography (EEGs) of patients treated in a tertiary hospital. METHOD:In this prospective study, the findings of consecutive emergency EEGs performed on inpatients in Hospital de Base in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil were c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Borges MA,Botós HJ,Bastos RF,Godoy MF,Marchi NS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait disturbance, dementia and/or urinary incontinence associated with dilation of ventricular system with normal opening cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Wide scientifical evidence confirms association between NPH and psychiatric symptoms. We selected 35 patients w...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira MF,Oliveira JR,Rotta JM,Pinto FC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00