Ocular fundus photography of patients with focal neurologic deficits in an emergency department.

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a paucity of therapies for gait impairment in Parkinson disease (PD). Open-label studies have suggested improved gait after treatment with methylphenidate (MPD). OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of MPD for the treatment of gait impairment in PD. METHODS:Twenty-seven subjects with PD and moderate...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Espay AJ,Dwivedi AK,Payne M,Gaines L,Vaughan JE,Maddux BN,Slevin JT,Gartner M,Sahay A,Revilla FJ,Duker AP,Shukla R

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisternography and ventriculography were performed in five normal anesthetized dogs to study the dynamics of tracer dispersal. Indium 111-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid was injected into lateral ventricles, cisterna magna, thoracic subarachnoid space, and lumbar sac. The patterns of dispersal from each injection s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Schossberger PF,Touya JJ

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of temporal horn volume change were significantly greater in the subjects with mild cognitive impairment who were developing dementia vs those who remained stable. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Erten-Lyons D,Howieson D,Moore MM,Quinn J,Sexton G,Silbert L,Kaye J

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computerized ambulatory monitoring provides real-time assessments of clinical outcomes in natural contexts, and it has been increasingly applied in recent years to investigate symptom expression in a wide range of disorders. The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility and validity of this data c...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johnson EI,Sibon I,Renou P,Rouanet F,Allard M,Swendsen J

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the natural history of asymptomatic meningioma found incidentally on a neuroimaging study, we performed a retrospective analysis of 35 such patients. There were 32 women and three men, with a mean age of 67 years and a mean follow-up of 74 months. Four tumors had progressed on subsequent imaging, and one pat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Go RS,Taylor BV,Kimmel DW

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder is a parasomnia characterized by dream enactment and is commonly a prediagnostic sign of parkinsonism and dementia. Since risk factors have not been defined, we initiated a multicenter case-control study to assess environmental and lifestyle risk factors for REM sleep be...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postuma RB,Montplaisir JY,Pelletier A,Dauvilliers Y,Oertel W,Iranzo A,Ferini-Strambi L,Arnulf I,Hogl B,Manni R,Miyamoto T,Mayer G,Stiasny-Kolster K,Puligheddu M,Ju Y,Jennum P,Sonka K,Santamaria J,Fantini ML,Zucconi

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman with typical features of myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF) had a novel heteroplasmic mutation (G611A) in the mitochondrial DNA tRNA phenylalanine gene. The mutation was heteroplasmic (91%) in muscle but undetectable in accessible tissues from the patient and her maternal relatives. Single-fiber...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mancuso M,Filosto M,Mootha VK,Rocchi A,Pistolesi S,Murri L,DiMauro S,Siciliano G

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with cerebral oligodendrogliomas causing partial complex or generalized seizures presented with completely normal neurologic examinations. CT showed low-density, nonenhancing surface lesions. Although these CT features are usually associated with infarcts or cysts, neoplasm was suspected because of irre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Varma RR,Crumrine PK,Bergman I,Latchaw RE,Price RA,Vries J,Painter MJ

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptors (S1PRs) are G protein-coupled receptors expressed by many cell types, including immune and neural cells. These receptors are promising targets for immunomodulatory and possibly neuromodulatory therapies. Fingolimod (FTY720) is a sphingosine analog that, when phosphorylated, becomes a ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Soliven B,Miron V,Chun J

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Salla disease is a lysosomal storage disorder associated with increased urinary excretion of free sialic acid. The main clinical features in 34 patients were severe psychomotor retardation of early onset, ataxia, athetosis, rigidity, spasticity, and impaired speech. Growth retardation, thick calvarium, and exotropia w...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Renlund M,Aula P,Raivio KO,Autio S,Sainio K,Rapola J,Koskela SL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In seven of eight patients with progressive multiple sclerosis subjected to long-term plasmapheresis in combination with azathioprine and pulsed prednisone therapy, we found modest improvement of neurologic function. There was no change in auditory and visual evoked responses or serum demyelinating activity. In six of...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dau PC,Petajan JH,Johnson KP,Panitch HS,Bornstein MB

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coma is rare in temporal arteritis (TA). We describe a patient with TA who suddenly developed coma with a triphasic EEG pattern that resolved after initiation of steroid treatment. Although the arterial lesions in TA are segmental in nature, TA may present with signs of diffuse neurologic deficit; early treatment can ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tomer Y,Neufeld MY,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cytokine interferon beta (IFNbeta) is successfully used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), although there is a high degree of variability in the response. A common mechanism involved in the modulation of responsiveness to cytokines is represented by regulation of their receptor expression throu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gilli F,Valentino P,Caldano M,Granieri L,Capobianco M,Malucchi S,Sala A,Marnetto F,Bertolotto A

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:SCN1A mutations were recently reported in several patients with severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (SMEI). The authors analyzed SCN1A mutations in 93 patients with SMEI and made genotype-phenotype correlation to clarify the role of this gene in the etiology of SMEI. METHODS:All patients fulfilled the crit...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nabbout R,Gennaro E,Dalla Bernardina B,Dulac O,Madia F,Bertini E,Capovilla G,Chiron C,Cristofori G,Elia M,Fontana E,Gaggero R,Granata T,Guerrini R,Loi M,La Selva L,Lispi ML,Matricardi A,Romeo A,Tzolas V,Valseriati

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional side-by-side visual interpretation of ictal and interictal single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans can be difficult in identifying the surgical focus, particularly in patients with extratemporal or otherwise unlocalized intractable epilepsy. Computer-aided subtraction ictal SPECT co-regist...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： O'Brien TJ,So EL,Mullan BP,Hauser MF,Brinkmann BH,Bohnen NI,Hanson D,Cascino GD,Jack CR Jr,Sharbrough FW

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a familial disorder that is often exacerbated by stress or fatigue. Here we present a family of a TS proband that has several members with obsessive-compulsive symptoms, a bleeding disorder, and an unusual sensitivity to heat. The proband, who is affected by all of these traits...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lombroso PJ,Mack G,Scahill L,King RA,Leckman JF

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study activin signaling and its blockade in sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) through translational studies and a randomized controlled trial. METHODS:We measured transforming growth factor β signaling by SMAD2/3 phosphorylation in muscle biopsies of 50 patients with neuromuscular disease (17 with s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Amato AA,Sivakumar K,Goyal N,David WS,Salajegheh M,Praestgaard J,Lach-Trifilieff E,Trendelenburg AU,Laurent D,Glass DJ,Roubenoff R,Tseng BS,Greenberg SA

更新日期：2014-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of MS was assessed in a nationwide cohort study of 31,990 employees of Danish utility companies between 1900 and 1993. Overall, 32 cases of MS were diagnosed, as compared with 23.7 expected from national incidence rates, to yield a standardized incidence ratio of 1.35 (95% confidence interval, 0.92 to 1....

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Johansen C,Koch-Henriksen N,Rasmussen S,Olsen JH

更新日期：1999-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe four patients with temporal lobe epilepsy with limbic encephalitis unrelated to neoplasm. METHODS:The authors performed a retrospective evaluation of patient data obtained during presurgical evaluation, with additional CSF analyses, serum analyses, and histopathologic investigations. RESULTS:The...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bien CG,Schulze-Bonhage A,Deckert M,Urbach H,Helmstaedter C,Grunwald T,Schaller C,Elger CE

更新日期：2000-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To conduct a comprehensive analysis of circulating metabolites and incident stroke in large prospective population-based settings. METHODS:We investigated the association of metabolites with risk of stroke in seven prospective cohort studies including 1,791 incident stroke events among 38,797 participants in...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vojinovic D,Kalaoja M,Trompet S,Fischer K,Shipley MJ,Li S,Havulinna AS,Perola M,Salomaa V,Yang Q,Sattar N,Jousilahti P,Amin N,Satizabal CL,Taba N,Sabayan B,Vasan RS,Ikram MA,Stott DJ,Ala-Korpela M,Jukema JW,Sesh

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied one family of a pedigree in which bulbospinal muscular atrophy and protanopia were segregated. Genotypes for these disorders were obtained on three generations, and the maximum likelihood estimate of recombination fraction was 0.4 with the lod score method. The results indicated that the two loci are n...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mukai E,Yasuma T

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report two patients with suspected brain death who required confirmatory tests other than clinical examination because of prolonged barbiturate administration for intracranial hypertension. Absence of intracranial blood flow was documented on CT angiography and confirmed by CT perfusion images. Cerebral an...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Qureshi AI,Kirmani JF,Xavier AR,Siddiqui AM

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Resources of the Rochester Epidemiology Project were used to estimate prevalence rates for dementia on January 1, 1975, 1980, and 1985, and to evaluate trends over time. Prevalence rates increased with age for both men and women. There was no difference in the prevalence rates for January 1, 1975, and January 1, 1980,...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Beard CM,Kokmen E,O'Brien PC,Kurland LT

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to review 4 patients with encephalomyeloradiculoneuropathy (EMRN) and assess for autoantibodies against neutral glycolipids. METHODS:We studied the progression of clinical, radiologic, neurophysiologic, and CSF findings, as well as anti-neutral glycolipid antibodies in sera. RESULT...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Shima S,Kawamura N,Ishikawa T,Masuda H,Iwahara C,Niimi Y,Ueda A,Iwabuchi K,Mutoh T

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To empirically validate the expanded concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which differentiates between four clinical subtypes-amnestic MCI-single domain, amnestic MCI-multiple domains, nonamnestic MCI-single domain, and nonamnestic MCI-multiple domains-and to examine the prevalence, course, and outcome...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Busse A,Hensel A,Gühne U,Angermeyer MC,Riedel-Heller SG

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the long-term outcome of patients with spinal cord infarct (SCI) and identify prognostic predictors. METHODS:We reviewed 115 patients with SCI treated between 1990 and 2007. Severity of impairment was defined using the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) scoring. Functional outcome endpo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Robertson CE,Brown RD Jr,Wijdicks EF,Rabinstein AA

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the proportion of APOE ε4 genotype carriers in aphasic vs amnestic variants of Alzheimer disease (AD). METHOD:The proportion of APOE ε4 carriers was compared among the following 3 groups: (1) 42 patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and AD pathology (PPA/AD) enrolled in the Northwestern ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Weintraub S,Teylan M,Rader B,Chan KCG,Bollenbeck M,Kukull WA,Coventry C,Rogalski E,Bigio E,Mesulam MM

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors found serum immunoglobulin M (IgM) autoantibody in a patient with typical acute cerebellar ataxia (ACA) and identified the antigen molecule as triosephosphate isomerase (TPI). TPI antigenicity to the patient's antibody was the highest in the cerebellar tissue. Eight of 23 patients with ACA had increased Ig...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Uchibori A,Sakuta M,Kusunoki S,Chiba A

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This nested case-control study assessed the putative protective effect of human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) against HIV-1-related dementia (dementia). The HHV-8 seropositivity of 210 male age- and HIV disease stage-matched cases and controls was compared. The overall HHV-8 seropositivity of 66% was similar among demented HI...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Polk S,Muñoz A,Sacktor NC,Jenkins FJ,Cohen B,Miller EN,Jacobson LP

更新日期：2002-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myopathy and myoglobinuria with markedly elevated creatine kinase (CK) activity developed in an 18-year-old boy on two occasions after gasoline sniffing. No signs of CNS involvement were seen, and the symptoms receded in a few days. The amount of lead in blood and urine exceeded the reference value for subjects ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kovanen J,Somer H,Schroeder P

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00