Whole Exon Deletion in the GFAP Gene Is a Novel Molecular Mechanism Causing Alexander Disease.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to ascertain frequency of mutations in POLR3A or POLR3B, which are associated with 4H leukodystrophy, in a cohort of patients with unclassified hypomyelination. METHODS AND RESULTS:In a cohort of 22 patients with the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diagnosis of unclassified hypomyelination a...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Cayami FK,La Piana R,van Spaendonk RM,Nickel M,Bley A,Guerrero K,Tran LT,van der Knaap MS,Bernard G,Wolf NI

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome affects young girls. The molecular basis is mysterious. One tenable hypothesis can be that the programmed early infantile death of neuronal cells is reprogrammed. The bcl-2 gene on chromosome 22 has been shown to play a role in the apoptosis process. No sequence abnormalities were detected in the bcl-2 g...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Anvret M,Zhang ZP,Hagberg B

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lacosamide (LCM) due to no known drug interaction and the absence of metabolic enzyme induction is a good candidate for an add-on medication, especially in combination with lamotrigine, levetiracetam (LEV), oxcarbazepine, topiramate, and valproic acid (VPA). Here we report for the first time, to our knowledge, that LC...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Tountopoulou M,Weschke B,Kaindl AM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome (AHS) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder. AHS is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the nuclear gene encoding mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma (POLG, chromosome 15q25). Most patients become symptomatic before the age of 2 years. We report 3 patients who w...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Spiegler J,Stefanova I,Hellenbroich Y,Sperner J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few years there has been increasing awareness of the association of congenital choanal atresia (CCA) with other congenital defects, including brain abnormalities. We obtained CT scans of the brain in twenty-three consecutive patients with CCA (10 boys and 13 girls) to determine the prevalence and the sco...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Rejjal A,Alaiyan S,Coates R,Abuzeid M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-four patients aged from one month to 16 years suffering from arterial stroke were carefully studied for any hereditary and acquired risk factors for stroke. No physiologic anticoagulant deficiency or antiphospholipid syndrome was found. Two patients had mitochondrial disease (MELAS). Six patients had migraineous...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Riikonen R,Santavuori P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on two Japanese siblings (one female and one male) with PEHO syndrome (progressive encephalopathy with edema, hypsarrhythmia, and optic atrophy). They showed profound generalized hypotonia early in infancy and developed infantile spasms with hypsarrhythmia within the first year of life. Abnormal eye movement...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Fujimoto S,Yokochi K,Nakano M,Wada Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human neuroblastoma cell line, LA-N-1 was used as a target cell in a I131 radiolabeled staphylococcal protein-A (I131-SpA) binding assay, to characterize the pattern of antineuronal activity of human sera in fifty-four cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) including twenty-six patients with neuropsychiatric ma...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Danon YL,Garty BZ

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate whether modified constraint-induced movement therapy (mCIMT) following a botulinum type A toxin (BoNT-A) injection enhances the effects of the BoNT-A injection into the spastic upper limb of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS:A combined therapy with...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Park ES,Rha DW,Lee JD,Yoo JK,Chang WH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of sural nerve biopsy in the diagnosis of metachromatic leucodystrophy (MLD) was studied in 9 MLD-patients and 4 other patients with low arylsulphatase A (ASA)-activities in the leucocytes. In 7 patients (5 of them suffering from MLD) adequate interpretation of low ASA-activity was impossible, either because...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Vos AJ,Joosten EM,Gabreëls-Festen AA,Gabreëls FJ,Notermans SL,Lamers KJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemimegalencephaly, which previously has been associated with a poor clinical course characterized by intractable seizures and severe encephalopathy, was found without these conditions in two children with neurofibromatosis. These children showed relatively similar and favourable prognostic features: no presence of se...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Cusmai R,Curatolo P,Mangano S,Cheminal R,Echenne B

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newborn with multiple congenital contractures (MCC) or arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and a leukodystrophy is described. The clinical features and neurophysiological studies suggested a disorder primarily involving the central white matter. The diagnosis of connatal Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease was made post mor...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Novotny EJ Jr

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin A is a multifunctional growth and differentiation factor belonging to the transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) family. Growing evidence indicates its role as a neurotrophic factor and regulator of synaptic transmission as well as its functional importance in several types of cerebral injury. We recently descri...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Brackmann FA,Alzheimer C,Trollmann R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome biogenesis disorders (PBD) are a heterogeneous group of disorders due to PEX genes mutations, with a broad clinical spectrum comprising severe neonatal disease to mild presentation. Recently, Berendse et al reported an improvement of peroxisomal functions with l-arginine supplementation in fibroblasts with ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Sorlin A,Briand G,Cheillan D,Wiedemann A,Montaut-Verient B,Schmitt E,Feillet F

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulant-associated growth deficits in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have long been a concern. We chose 146 school age children diagnosed with ADHD being treated with methylphenidate (MPH) and 29 drug-free ADHD children, and followed them up for 2-4 years. We recorded the changes in he...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Zhang H,Du M,Zhuang S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article elucidates a clinical and genetic approach to pediatric early-onset chorea in patients with normal neuroimaging. METHODS:We retrospectively studied patients with onset hyperkinetic movement disorders. Only children with onset of chorea in the first 3 years of life were included, those with an ab...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Blumkin L,Lerman-Sagie T,Westenberger A,Ben-Pazi H,Zerem A,Yosovich K,Lev D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, biochemical and morphological findings in a 16-month-old infant girl with pseudo-neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy are reported. The parents were first cousins and the baby was born at term, small for gestational age. The neonatal period was characterized by convulsions resistant to treatment, generalized, sever...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kyllerman M,Blomstrand S,Månsson JE,Conradi NG,Hindmarsh T

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven epileptic patients with permanent ataxic dysfunction following DPH treatment are described. The ataxia correlates with cerebellar atrophy, though the extents of clinical and structural lesions are not necessarily proportional. Cerebellar atrophy is demonstrated by CT scans, the vermal region seems to be predomin...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Baier WK,Beck U,Doose H,Klinge H,Hirsch W

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute cerebellar ataxia with discrete signs of pyramidal and tegmental involvement is reported, several days after recovery from an upper respiratory infection of unknown etiology. Magnetic resonance imaging showed transient pontine lesions, disappearing in the convalescence phase. Laboratory tests establish...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Groen RJ,Begeer JH,Wilmink JT,le Coultre R

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute inflammatory processes of the brain tissue and meninges caused by viruses are relatively common and may be caused by a number of different viral agents. The specific etiological agent is not identified in many instances. Most cases completely recover. The prognosis depends upon the severity of the clinical illne...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Olgar S,Ertugrul T,Nisli K,Aydin K,Caliskan M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syringomyelia is an etiologically diverse affliction caused by disturbance of normal cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics. An evaluation by comprehensive imaging, using advanced three-dimensional constructive interference in steady state and four-dimensional phase contrast imaging techniques, should be focused on finding...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Vandertop WP

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common autosomal dominant disorder with an incidence of ∼1 in 4,000 live births. Neurofibromin, the gene product, is ubiquitously expressed at high levels in the nervous system and functions as a tumor suppressor. Haploinsufficiency of neurofibromin through mutation leads to an incr...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Barrea C,Vaessen S,Bulk S,Harvengt J,Misson JP

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The study aims to describe cerebral MRI in different onset forms of Niemann-Pick type C (NPC). Systematic MRI analyses in this rare lysosomal storage disease are lacking in the infantile and juvenile onset forms. METHODS:Thirty-two cerebral MRI scans from 19 patients with NPC were assessed using a newly establishe...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gburek-Augustat J,Groeschel S,Kern J,Beck-Woedl S,Just J,Harzer K,Stampfer M,Kraegeloh-Mann I

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidosis type III (Sanfilippo syndrome) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by progressive nervous system involvement with mental retardation, behavioural problems and seizures. Three patients, of 20 months to 12 years of age, were followed up for 3 years both clinically and by using brain ma...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Barone R,Nigro F,Triulzi F,Musumeci S,Fiumara A,Pavone L

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several de novo variants in the KIF1A gene have been reported to cause a complicated form of hereditary spastic paraplegia. Additional symptoms include cognitive impairment and varying degrees of peripheral neuropathy, epilepsy, decreased visual acuity, and ataxia. We describe four patients (ages 10-18 years), focusin...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Van Beusichem AE,Nicolai J,Verhoeven J,Speth L,Coenen M,Willemsen MA,Kamsteeg EJ,Stumpel C,Vermeulen RJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fucosidosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease, evident in early childhood, is associated with progressive loss of mental and motor function and increasing spasticity and hyperreflexia. We report a Canadian male, with clinical features similar to previously reported fucosidosis patients, however, since age 5 he ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gordon BA,Gordon KE,Seo HC,Yang M,DiCioccio RA,O'Brien JS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birth asphyxia is a major concern in neonatal care. Epileptic seizures are associated with subsequent neurodevelopmental deficits. Eighty-five percent of these seizures remain subclinical and therefore an on-line monitoring device is needed. In an earlier study we showed that the synchronization likelihood was able to...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Smit LS,Vermeulen RJ,Fetter WP,Strijers RL,Stam CJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition and the clinical picture of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) are discussed and the associated anomalies, deformities and syndromes are listed. It is stressed that isolated congenital contractures in (progressive) neuromuscular disorders may be manifestations of AMC, dependent on the moment of th...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hageman G,Willemse J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculous meningitis is uncommon in western countries and its outcome is poor when it is not diagnosed and treated in good time. Here, we present a case of febrile brain stroke revealing a tuberculous arachnoiditis in a 13-month-old infant living in a non-endemic country. Thanks to prompt specific antibiotherapy, th...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Deiva K,Sothratanak S,Husson B,Chevret L,Landrieu P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with acute encephalopathy with bilateral striatal necrosis are presented and the literature on the subject is reviewed. The disease is characterized by abrupt onset following a systemic infectious illness, with disturbance of consciousness, absence of speech, dystonic movements of the limbs, general stiff...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Rosemberg S,Amaral LC,Kliemann SE,Arita FN

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00