Potassium uptake in muscle during paramyotonic weakness.

abstract：:We observed acute onset of delayed psychosis in 8 patients 1 month to 11 years after right temporoparietooccipital (TPO) stroke or trauma. The psychotic disorder included hallucinations and, in some patients delusions and agitation. All patients had spatioconstructional difficulties. None had an earlier psychiatric di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Levine DN,Finklestein S

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently published reports have suggested that multiple sclerosis (MS) may be associated with human retrovirus infection. Indeed, an autonomously proliferating T-cell clone was isolated from the CSF of an MS patient, an observation interpreted as indicating an infection with human T lymphotropic virus I (HTLV I). In v...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Birnbaum G,Aubitz S,Kotilinek L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valproic acid (VPA) has been postulated to exert its anticonvulsant effects by interaction with the postsynaptic GABA receptor. To test that hypothesis, we applied VPA in clinically appropriate concentrations to cortical neurons in dissociated cell culture. VPA did not enhance the postsynaptic effect of GABA, but did ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Buchhalter JR,Dichter MA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possible role of potassium deficiency, a recognized cause of myopathy, in the pathogenesis of experimental acute alcoholic myopathy (EAM) in the rat. Alcohol-treated animals receiving the same dietary potassium as controls developed mild hypokalemia; however, muscle potassium was preserved or eleva...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Haller RG,Carter NW,Ferguson E,Knochel JP

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-Leu 7 antibody reacts with determinants on a subset of natural killer (NK) cells and myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG). In a patient patient with peripheral neuropathy and IgM autoantibodies against MAG, we found the distribution and functions of NK cells to be normal. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sriram S,Lanier L

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of AD and other dementias in a rural elderly Hindi-speaking population in Ballabgarh in northern India. DESIGN:The authors performed a community survey of a cohort of 5,126 individuals aged 55 years and older, 73.3% of whom were illiterate. Hindi cognitive and functional screening...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chandra V,Ganguli M,Pandav R,Johnston J,Belle S,DeKosky ST

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed positron emission tomography (PET) with 2-deoxy-2[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) in eight infants and children (aged 18 days to 5 years) with medically refractory epilepsy of neonatal onset. It was hypothesized that in at least some of these infants a surgical approach (focal resection, cerebral hemisphe...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chugani HT,Shewmon DA,Peacock WJ,Shields WD,Mazziotta JC,Phelps ME

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to assess the innervation density of dermal nerves in human skin biopsies by bright-field immunohistochemistry. METHODS:The size of dermal area where nerve length was quantified was validated in 30 skin biopsy sections (5 controls and 5 patients with small-fiber neuropathy [SFN]). It was obtained di...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lauria G,Cazzato D,Porretta-Serapiglia C,Casanova-Molla J,Taiana M,Penza P,Lombardi R,Faber CG,Merkies IS

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated cognitive outcome in a group of 37 patients who had undergone surgery for rupture and repair of a single intracranial aneurysm at least 6 months previously. We compared outcome--assessed by tests of intelligence, attention, executive functions sensitive to frontal lobe lesions, memory, neglect, and mood, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tidswell P,Dias PS,Sagar HJ,Mayes AR,Battersby RD

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the relationship between retinal thinning and nigral dopaminergic loss in de novo Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:Forty-nine patients with PD and 54 age-matched controls were analyzed. Ophthalmologic examination and macula optical coherence tomography scans were performed with additional microperi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ahn J,Lee JY,Kim TW,Yoon EJ,Oh S,Kim YK,Kim JM,Woo SJ,Kim KW,Jeon B

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome of increased intracranial pressure without hydrocephalus or mass lesion and with normal CSF composition, previously referred to as pseudotumor cerebri, is a diagnosis of exclusion now termed idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). Diagnostic criteria of this disorder have not been updated since the Mo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Friedman DI,Jacobson DM

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Since cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Rasmussen's syndrome, we treated four patients with ganciclovir, a potent anti-CMV drug. A 7-year-old girl with seizures escalating to 60/day over 3 months despite triple antiepileptic drug therapy became seizure-free 5 days after initiation of tre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McLachlan RS,Levin S,Blume WT

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We followed 419 patients with a first, unprovoked, primarily or secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizure, randomized to immediate antiepileptic treatment or to treatment only in the event of seizure recurrence. The probability of achieving a 2-year remission was 72 vs 57% at 3 months, 84 to 79% at 3 years, and 85 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Leone MA,Solari A,Beghi E,FIRST Group.

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the relatively poor results of frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) surgery, identification of prognostic factors for surgical outcome is of great importance. METHODS:To identify predictive factors for FLE surgery, we analyzed the data of 61 patients (mean age at surgery 19.2) who had undergone presurgica...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Janszky J,Jokeit H,Schulz R,Hoppe M,Ebner A

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 2 HIV-seropositive patients with neurosyphilis whose initial CSF VDRL tests were negative. The CSF VDRL became positive after 12 days of IV penicillin treatment for syphilitic meningitis in the 1st patient. The 2nd patient developed syphilitic polyradiculopathy and a positive CSF VDRL 3 months after treatmen...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Feraru ER,Aronow HA,Lipton RB

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the diagnosis and management of a 49-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis (MS) developing a progressive hemiparesis and expanding MRI lesion suspicious of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) 19 months after starting natalizumab. RESULTS:Polyomavirus JC (JCV)-specific qPCR in CSF wa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuhle J,Gosert R,Bühler R,Derfuss T,Sutter R,Yaldizli O,Radue EW,Ryschkewitsch C,Major EO,Kappos L,Frank S,Hirsch HH

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein, and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome is a rare multisystem disorder associated with plasma cell dyscrasia. There is increasing evidence that high-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (Auto-PBSCT) is an efficacious t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuwabara S,Misawa S,Kanai K,Suzuki Y,Kikkawa Y,Sawai S,Hattori T,Nishimura M,Nakaseko C

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the Mayo Clinic medical records linkage system to detect all cases of intracranial vascular malformation (IVM) among residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota from 1965 to 1992 and found 48 IVMs over the 27-year period, including four patients with IVM detected at autopsy, without prior symptoms. Twenty-nine of 4...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brown RD Jr,Wiebers DO,Torner JC,O'Fallon WM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 42-year-old man had progressive distal weakness and muscle atrophy, stocking-type sensory loss, upper motor-neuron and visual pathway lesions, and dysautonomia. Electrodiagnostic tests revealed a generalized sensorimotor peripheral neuropathy that largely involved axons. Low recumbent and upright norepinephrine leve...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rechthand E,Reife R,Kaplan JG

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered 3 commonly employed tests of mental status (the Information-Memory-Concentration test [IMC], the Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE], and the Dementia Rating Scale [DRS]) to 92 patients with probable dementia of the Alzheimer type. The 3 tests were readministered to 55 of the patients (2-year subgroup...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Salmon DP,Thal LJ,Butters N,Heindel WC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although psychological distress and cognitive dysfunction are well documented in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS), they are poorly understood in children with the disease. Psychosocial difficulty experienced by children and adolescents with MS involves factors common to all chronic illnesses in children, as well as...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： MacAllister WS,Boyd JR,Holland NJ,Milazzo MC,Krupp LB,International Pediatric MS Study Group.

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine age- and sex-specific AD prevalence rates for whites using each of four severity-based definitions of a case: a person diagnosed as having at least questionable AD, one diagnosed as having at least mild AD, one diagnosed as having moderate or severe AD, and one diagnosed as having severe AD. MET...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hy LX,Keller DM

更新日期：2000-07-25 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：OBJECTIVE:To identify presurgical and postsurgical factors that are independently predictive of the outcome of anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) for intractable epilepsy. BACKGROUND:There have been reports of prognostic factors in epilepsy surgery, but little is known about factors that independently predict outcome o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Radhakrishnan K,So EL,Silbert PL,Jack CR Jr,Cascino GD,Sharbrough FW,O'Brien PC

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distal sensory polyneuropathy (DSP) is the most common neurologic complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Risk factors for DSP have not been adequately defined in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy. METHODS:The authors evaluated 101 subjects with advanced HIV infection ove...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Simpson DM,Kitch D,Evans SR,McArthur JC,Asmuth DM,Cohen B,Goodkin K,Gerschenson M,So Y,Marra CM,Diaz-Arrastia R,Shriver S,Millar L,Clifford DB,ACTG A5117 Study Group.

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the source of delayed visual evoked potential (VEP) latencies in the fellow eyes of patients with optic neuritis (ON) and determine whether these latencies stem from clinically silent demyelination or reflect an adaptive process for synchronization with the affected eyes. METHODS:The study sample...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Raz N,Chokron S,Ben-Hur T,Levin N

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term evolution of Hu antibody (Hu-Ab) titers in patients with paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes (PNSs) is not known. Described is the evolution of Hu-Ab titers in 35 patients with PNS with a median follow-up of 32 months (range 6 to 108 months). No correlation was observed between Hu-Ab titers and neurologi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lladó A,Mannucci P,Carpentier AF,Paris S,Blanco Y,Saiz A,Delattre JY,Graus F

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Large doses of phenytoin were administered on 159 occasions to 139 adult patients. Most patients had had more than three seizures or were in status epilepticus. Based on response to treatment, patients could be divided into two groups. Those with excellent response (recurrent seizures, 10%; mortality, 1%) included kno...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cranford RE,Leppik IE,Patrick B,Anderson CB,Kostick B

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-sectional studies have not adequately resolved the question of whether subjects infected with HIV-1 may suffer cognitive decline during the early, asymptomatic stages of the infection. We studied longitudinally 238 asymptomatic healthy HIV-1-infected homosexual/bisexual men (CDC groups 2 and 3) and 170 uninfecte...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Selnes OA,Miller E,McArthur J,Gordon B,Muñoz A,Sheridan K,Fox R,Saah AJ

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have demonstrated that dipyridamole is not purely an antiplatelet agent but also exerts its antithrombotic properties through the vessel wall. Using a laboratory model in which bovine endothelial cells are seeded to form a subendothelial matrix (SEM), investigators have shown that dipyridamole enhances th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Eisert WG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00