Reduction of elevated CSF beta-endorphin by fenfluramine in infantile autism.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outcome of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia has improved because of intensive chemotherapy and supportive care. The frequency of adverse events has also increased, but the data related to acute central nervous system complications during acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment are sparse. The purpos...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Baytan B,Evim MS,Güler S,Güneş AM,Okan M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketoacidosis is one of the common complications of Type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Several neurologic (cerebral) deficiencies have been associated with diabetic ketoacidosis, including cerebral edema with increased intracranial pressure resulting in coma; partial and generalized seizures; and cerebrovascul...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Atluru VL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexia without agraphia is a rare disconnection syndrome characterized by the loss of reading ability with retention of writing and verbal comprehension. We report a patient who developed alexia without agraphia after undergoing a biopsy for a malignant glioma involving the left thalamus. A 15-year-old right-handed ma...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tamhankar MA,Coslett HB,Fisher MJ,Sutton LN,Liu GT

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with the classic form and 1 patient with the connatal form of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease were studied with magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, and multimodal evoked potentials, including brainstem auditory evoked potentials, somatosensory evoked potentials, and visual evoked potentials....

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wang PJ,Young C,Liu HM,Chang YC,Shen YZ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolipid protein (PLP) is the major myelin protein of the central nervous system and is widely believed to play an important structural role in maintaining the myelin compaction. We have studied the early developmental changes of PLP with immunohistochemical methods. Our data demonstrate for the first time a compar...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Iai M,Yamamura T,Takashima S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanishing white matter disease is a chronically progressive leukodystrophy with periods of acute deterioration after head trauma and febrile illness. This report describes a child with genetically and clinically confirmed vanishing white matter disease exhibiting frequent episodes of right-sided hemiplegia, aphasia, a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ramaswamy V,Chan AK,Kolski HK

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We assessed the utilization of the National Institutes of Health Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (Neuro-QoL) in pediatric patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome, a rare neurovascular disorder which frequently results in seizures, brain atrophy, calcification, and a range of neurological impairments. METHODS...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Harmon KA,Day AM,Hammill AM,Pinto AL,McCulloch CE,Comi AM,National Institutes of Health Rare Disease Clinical Research Consortium (RDCRN) Brain and Vascular Malformation Consortium (BVMC) SWS Investigator Group.

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old girl with clinically established tuberous sclerosis complex, and without signs of neurofibromatosis type 1, developed a right retro-ocular optic nerve tumor. After rapid growth for 1 year after its discovery, the optic nerve tumor demonstrated modest progression. The patient received the mammalian target...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sparagana SP,Wilkes DC,Thompson CE,Bowers DC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old girl (Patient 1) and a 5-year-old boy (Patient 2) with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after Japanese B encephalitis vaccination are reported. Drowsiness, paresthesias, and gait disturbance were observed at 14 days (Patient 1) and 17 days (Patient 2) after the vaccination; however, transient impairme...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ohtaki E,Murakami Y,Komori H,Yamashita Y,Matsuishi T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Febrile convulsions and allergic rhinitis are both common childhood disorders and both are considered as generally benign disorders. Yet, especially in the case of allergic rhinitis, adverse effects on school performance and limited socialization are found. The relationship between febrile con...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lin WY,Muo CH,Ku YC,Sung FC,Kao CH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiologic mechanism for stereotypic, bilateral repetitive movements involving the arms and hands (complex motor stereotypies) is unknown. This study used volumetric magnetic resonance imaging to compare cerebral lobes and caudate nucleus in six males with complex stereotypies and average intelligence to age...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kates WR,Lanham DC,Singer HS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier reports on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the classical form of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease seemed to divide the patterns of the high-intensity lesions in the white matter into three subtypes: type I, diffusely hemispheric and corticospinal; type II, diffusely hemispheric without brainstem le...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nezu A,Kimura S,Takeshita S,Osaka H,Kimura K,Inoue K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome is an autosomal dominant condition because of mutations or deletions of the FOXL2 gene. Microcephaly is not associated with FOXL2 mutations but has been reported in individuals with chromosome 3q deletions, which include the FOXL2 gene and other contiguous...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dean SJ,Holden KR,Dwivedi A,Dupont BR,Lyons MJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 16-year-old girl with muscular atrophy of a distal upper extremity (Hirayama disease). The disease progressed insidiously, and during our first examination, she exhibited weakness and wasting in the right hand, accompanied by cold paresis. No sensory disturbance was evident. A nerve conduction test reve...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hosokawa T,Fujieda M,Wakiguchi H,Oosaki Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A boy presented with hypertension, seizures, lethargy, headache, and occipital blindness. He improved with antihypertensive therapy. Other reported children with a similar distinctive clinical condition are compared with adults with a syndrome termed reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy. Because both gray and whit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pavlakis SG,Frank Y,Kalina P,Chandra M,Lu D

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought a simple and accurate method to monitor neonatal hydrocephalic infants using standard computed tomographic scans. Volume measurements were made by means of pixel counting using a personal computer and a drawing device, as a graphic tablet system, over computed tomographic scans of six infants with neonatal h...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Morimoto K,Nishikuni K,Hirano S,Takemoto O,Futagi Y

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertigo, instability, dizziness, or equilibrium disorders are not usually considered as consequences of ophthalmologic problems. We present data indicating that ocular disorders can be responsible for these symptoms in children. In a population of 523 pediatric patients with vertigo or disequilibrium and referred for ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Anoh-Tanon MJ,Bremond-Gignac D,Wiener-Vacher SR

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired chronic hepatocerebral degeneration is a central nervous system disorder secondary to several conditions related to hepatic dysfunction. Clinical features of acquired chronic hepatocerebral degeneration include a hyperkinetic extrapyramidal syndrome, neuropsychiatric symptoms, or both. We present for the firs...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Papapetropoulos S,Tzakis A,Sengun C,Reddy C,Boukas K,Zitser J,Singer C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild encephalopathy with reversible splenial lesions has mainly been associated with influenza A and B virus infection. Patients present with neurologic symptoms 1 to 3 days after a prodromal illness and recover completely within a few days. Magnetic resonance imaging typically shows reversible lesions with reduced di...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Abenhaim Halpern L,Agyeman P,Steinlin M,El-Koussy M,Grunt S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of leukomalacia and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-positive glial cells in prenatal- and postnatal-onset leukomalacia were compared and diagnosed histologically in 128 autopsied infants and the different pathogeneses were examined. Prenatal-onset leukomalacia was diagnosed in 12 of 71 still-bi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Iida K,Takashima S,Takeuchi Y,Ohno T,Ueda K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of postinfectious encephalomyelitis with symmetric lesions in the basal ganglia was confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging in 2 patients. A 7-year-old patient experienced severe dystonia and hyperreflexia; magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated bilateral lesions in the putamina and basis pontes. The ot...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Donovan MK,Lenn NJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A boy diagnosed as having glycogenosis type II at three years of age, underwent a sural nerve biopsy at the age of seven years. The distribution of the diameters of myelinated nerve fibers did not clearly demonstrate a bimodal pattern. However, larger fibers of 8 microns or more in diameter were more abundant. This fi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Origuchi Y,Itai Y,Matsumoto S,Matsuishi T

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiepileptic drug felbamate has demonstrated efficacy against a variety of seizure types in the pediatric population, particularly seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Postmarketing experience, however, revealed serious idiosyncratic adverse effects not observed during clinical trials, including apla...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zupanc ML,Roell Werner R,Schwabe MS,O'Connor SE,Marcuccilli CJ,Hecox KE,Chico MS,Eggener KA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring, using somatosensory, brainstem auditory, and visual evoked potentials, transcranial electric motor stimulation, and electromyography, is typically used during complex surgeries involving the motor and sensory cortex, brainstem, cranial nerves, spinal cord, nerve root, periph...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Galloway GM,Zamel K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) was examined in infants with leukomalacia by means of immunohistochemical methods with an antihuman TNF alpha monoclonal antibody. We studied 23 patients with neonatal leukomalacia, classified as having "focal," "widespread," or "diffuse" disease according to t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Deguchi K,Mizuguchi M,Takashima S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system tumors occur considerably less often in the fetus and neonate than in the older child. They are not entirely the same as those present later in life. Their location, biologic behavior, response to therapy, and histologic types are different. Fetal and neonatal brain tumors (n = 250) were collect...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Isaacs H Jr

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient nutrition is known to lead to disturbances in postnatal myelin formation. This study aims to demonstrate that early myelination is altered in human twin pregnancies. Five brains of twins with a symmetric blood supply and three brains of twins with chronic fetal-fetal transfusion syndrome (one hypervolemic...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ulfig N,Nickel J,Saretzki U

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microcephaly-capillary malformation syndrome is a newly described neurocutaneous entity that is characterized by congenital and progressive microcephaly, intractable epilepsy, profound developmental delay, multiple small capillary malformations on the skin, and poor somatic growth. Recently, mutations in the...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pavlović M,Neubauer D,Al Tawari A,Heberle LC

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rapidly progressive, degenerative neuromuscular disease of infancy. In severe SMA, weakness, hypotonia, and bulbar involvement lead to progressive respiratory insufficiency and swallowing dysfunction, which are frequently complicated by aspirations. There are few studies repor...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Birnkrant DJ,Pope JF,Martin JE,Repucci AH,Eiben RM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many investigators have identified localized cortical involvement in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) by clinical and electrophysiologic criteria. Some investigators have reported such abnormalities in the posterior cerebrum early in the course of the disease, but without radiologic correlation. Recently, ma...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Geller TJ,Vern BA,Sarwar M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00