Why we prefer levetiracetam over phenytoin for treatment of status epilepticus.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset muscular dystrophy. It is associated with motor symptoms but patients also display non-motor symptoms such as particular personality traits. Studies have reported mixed results about personality characteristics which may be attributable to small ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bertrand JA,Jean S,Laberge L,Gagnon C,Mathieu J,Gagnon JF,Richer L

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To report a peculiar observation of a patient who developed a psychomotor inhibition state after a rapid cessation of lamotrigine (LTG). RESULTS:This man was referred to us at the age of 26 years for presurgical evaluation. His treatment [valproate (VPA), 1200 mg/day and LTG, 200 mg/day] was quickly decreas...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Gelisse P,Kissani N,Crespel A,Jafari H,Baldy-Moulinier M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic analysis using microarray tools has the potential benefit of enhancing our understanding of neurological diseases. The analysis of these data is complex due to the large amount of data generated. Many tools have been developed to assist with this, but standard methods of analysis of these tools have ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hershey AD,Burdine D,Liu C,Nick TG,Gilbert DL,Glauser TA

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The role of the natural anticoagulants, antithrombin III (AT III), protein C (PC), and protein S (PS), in patients with mild to moderate ischemic stroke remains uncertain. We aimed to find out whether their levels in peripheral blood correlated with the severity of neurological deficit or can pre...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Haapaniemi E,Tatlisumak T,Soinne L,Syrjälä M,Kaste M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow and cerebral oxygen uptake were studied during severe arterial hypoxia in anesthetized dogs. It was shown that the hypoxic vasodilatation in the brain reaches a limit at an arterial oxygen saturation at about 25% and that this vasodilatation is less than that which may be induced by hypercapnia. A ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ekström-Jodal B,Elfverson J,von Essen C

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EEG data obtained from 27 patients with presenile Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 28 patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) were compared with data from 30 age- and sex-matched controls. Both patient groups exhibited more pronounced delta and theta activity and less prominent alpha and beta activity t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Miyauchi T,Hagimoto H,Ishii M,Endo S,Tanaka K,Kajiwara S,Endo K,Kajiwara A,Kosaka K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once believed to be extremely uncommon, due to magnetic resonance imaging cavernous hemangiomas of the spinal cord are detected with increasing frequency. Management of both symptomatic and asymptomatic intramedullary cavernous hamangiomas is therefore of growing importance. However, experience with treatment and foll...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kondziella D,Brodersen P,Laursen H,Hansen K

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of motor neuron disease (MND) in Chinese patients are ill known. METHODS:A registered study of 461 MND patients was conducted across 10 facilities in 7 Chinese cities from February 2009 to March 2010. RESULTS:Patients were classified as amyotrophic lateral scleros...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Cui F,Liu M,Chen Y,Huang X,Cui L,Fan D,Pu C,Lu J,Zhou D,Zhang C,Yan C,Li C,Ding X,Liu Y,Li X,Jiang Y,Zhang J,Shang H,Yao X,Ding Y,Niu Q,Wang L

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective was to investigate the incidence of multiple sclerosis (MS) as well as estimate the prevalence as of 1 January 2014 in the southeastern Norwegian county of Buskerud. MATERIALS AND METHODS:All patients with MS living in Buskerud county in Norway between 01 January 2003 and 01 January 2014 were ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Simonsen CS,Edland A,Berg-Hansen P,Celius EG

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a cystic lesion in the left cerebellopontine (CP) angle cistern. The magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features closely resembled an epidermoid inclusion cyst, and was interpreted as such. However, at surgery and on histopathological examination the lesion was found to be a cysticercus cyst. It may b...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Singh S,Gibikote SV,Bannur U,Chacko G,Korah IP,Rajshekhar V

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence on the cystometrogram of repeated filling and varying filling rates was studied in two groups of neurological patients, one with normal and one with uninhibited neurogenic bladder. A technique which permits an even bladder filling and a continuous recording of the intravesical pressure was used. The effe...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen D Jr

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A highly adaptive aspect of human memory is the enhancement of explicit, consciously accessible memory by emotional stimuli. We studied the performance of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and elderly controls using a memory battery with emotional content, and we correlated these results with the amygdala an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Schultz RR,de Castro CC,Bertolucci PH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Valproic acid (VPA) may induce hyperammonemic encephalopathy. On the other hand, seizure-inducing effects of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) may be a paradoxical reaction or a result of AED-induced encephalopathy (commonly induced by VPA). METHODS:We present the case of a 19-year-old male who developed acute men...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Velioğlu SK,Gazioğlu S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Many studies have shown that nitric oxide (NO) and growth factors including insulin growth factors (IGFs) may be involved in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and neurodegenerative diseases. Our previous studies suggested a relationship between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) NO metabolites (nitrates and...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Pirttilä T,Vanhatalo S,Turpeinen U,Riikonen R

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulbar dysfunction resulting from corticobulbar pathway or brainstem neuron degeneration is one of the most important clinical problems encountered in motor neuron disease (MND) and contributes to various respiratory complications which are major causes of morbidity and mortality. Chronic malnutrition as a consequence...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hadjikoutis S,Wiles CM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports concerning the treatment of symptoms deriving from prolapsed lumbar disc with systemic administration of the potent steroid dexamethasone, have shown favourable results. The present clinical study includes 39 patients with symptoms of prolapsed lumbar disc, treated in a controlled double-blind investi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hedeboe J,Buhl M,Ramsing P

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors tested the effects of 2-Br-ergocriptine (bromocriptine, CB-154), a drug which exerts a mixed agonist-antagonist activity on the dopaminergic receptors, in 12 patients with Huntington Chorea in a double-blind crossover trial. This treatment significantly reduced the abnormal involuntary movements and the di...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Frattola L,Albiazzati MG,Spano PF,Trabucchi M

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Health-related quality of life (HRQL) has become an important outcome criterion of medical interventions, but was hardly studied in patients with facial spasms. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Patients with blepharospasm or hemifacial spasm treated with botulinum toxin were included. A healthy control group sociodemo...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Reimer J,Gilg K,Karow A,Esser J,Franke GH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Subjective feelings of memory decline are fairly common among the elderly. The causes of this are heterogeneous, and may be related to both affective and cognitive disorders. We attempted to explore the associations between subjective and cognitive measures. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Healthy subjects were studi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Balash Y,Mordechovich M,Shabtai H,Merims D,Giladi N

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cystatin C (CysC) is associated with many neurodegenerative disorders and autoimmune diseases, but its relationship with anti-N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis is unknown. METHODS:Serum levels of CysC were determined in 66 patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis and 115 healthy controls....

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Shu Y,Chang Y,Wu H,Li J,Cao B,Sun X,Wang J,Peng L,Hu X,Yu X,Qiu W

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a severe autoimmune disorder with a mortality of 5%-7%, but few studies have focused on the predictors of death in this disease. In this study, we aim to investigate predictors and causes of death in patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis. METHODS:In ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Chi X,Wang W,Huang C,Wu M,Zhang L,Li J,Zhou D

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) may provide markers of severity and outcome of optic neuritis. MATERIAL AND METHODS:We examined the CSF from 29 patients with acute monosymptomatic optic neuritis (AMON) for content of myelin basic protein-like material (MBPLM) and correlated the levels with results of cranial ma...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Frederiksen JL,Whitaker JN

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine content of 199 clinical muscle biopsies was determined and correlated to histometric data of 121 cases. Taurine concentration in muscles was markedly dependent on fiber type distribution, taurine being more abundant in the slow, oxidative type 1 fibers than in the type 2 fibers. Taurine concentration rose slig...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Airaksinen EM,Paljärvi L,Partanen J,Collan Y,Laakso R,Pentikäinen T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period 1935-1976, 200 cases of brain abscess were treated in the University Clinic of Neurosurgery, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen. 119 patients survived. Out of 40 deaths during the follow-up period, 37 were unrelated to the previous brain abscess. 12 patients emigrated and were lost to follow-up. History and ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nielsen H,Harmsen A,Gyldensted C

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the efficacy of buccally absorbed prochlorperazine (BAP) to intravenous prochlorperazine (IVP) for the abortive treatment of migraine headaches. METHODS:Randomized double-blind trial. Eighty subjects aged 18-65 presenting with migraines to the ED of a safety-net, urban hospital. Subjects were rand...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Fernando T,Lumanauw DD,Youn S,Shimada M,Yadav K,Chappell B,Horeczko T,Tanen DA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The prognosis after Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) is debated. The aim of this study was to assess health-related Quality of Life (QoL) and neurological symptoms 30 months after treatment in European patients with LNB. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In a prospective case-control designed study, we investigated 50 well-...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Eikeland R,Mygland A,Herlofson K,Ljøstad U

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG and IgM concentrations in tears of multiple sclerosis patients (n = 38) are increased compared to normal controls (n = 23). The occurrence of oligoclonal tear IgG bands (7.9%)--as determined by immunoblotting--did not differ between groups. Our findings suggest an altered reactivity of the secretory immune system ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Liedtke W,Weller M,Wiethölter H,Dichgans J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess predictors of headache in patients who had sustained a head injury 22 years earlier. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A questionnaire about headache was sent to 361 subjects hospitalized for head injury in 1974-1975. RESULTS:A total of 249 patients (69%) responded to the questionnaire. The prevalence of hea...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nestvold K,Lundar T,Mowinckel P,Stavem K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：MATERIALS AND METHODS:In a prospective study we evaluated patients with first generalized tonic-clonic seizure (GTCS) (n = 16, age: 31 +/- 11 years, 8 women) and patients with vaso-vagal syncope (VVS) (n = 17, age: 32 +/- 13 years, 8 women), diagnosed on the basis of past history and clinical presentation who had serum...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Neufeld MY,Treves TA,Chistik V,Korczyn AD

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of disturbed dopamine and serotonin metabolism in senile dementia of Alzheimer type was studied. The basal concentrations of homovanillic acid (HVA) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were studied in 28 patients with senile dementia of Alzheimer type and in 13 controls...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Soininen H,MacDonald E,Rekonen M,Riekkinen PJ

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00