Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination Asymmetry Score Distinguishes Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy From Typical Development.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to search for STA gene defects in three families with clinically typical Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Emery-Dreifuss is an X-linked muscular dystrophy with humeroperoneal weakness and life-threatening, but treatable, cardiac abnormalities in male patients and in female carriers. The...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nevo Y,Al-Lozi M,Parsadanian AS,Elliott JL,Connolly AM,Pestronk A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the outcomes of 28 children who had severe head injuries between 13-18 years of age. All were unconscious at least 24 hours and have been followed at least 2 years after injury. At present, their ages range from 18 to 27 years. Their educational achievements, social activities, marital status, fu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kriel RL,Krach LE,Bergland MM,Panser LA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Throughout the Middle Ages, most representations of the brain amounted to highly schematized ventricles housed within abstract squiggles of neural tissue. The works by the pre-eminent Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius in his De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) added considerably more accuracy and detail; stil...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sutherland-Foggio H

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posterior ischemic optic neuropathy results from ischemia of the retrobulbar aspect of the optic nerve. It presents as acute loss of vision without optic disc swelling. This is rare in children, with only seven cases reported to date. Neuroimaging is frequently used to aid in the diagnosis of acute visual co...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Harrar DB,Solomon J,Shah AS,Vaughn J,Durbin AD,Rivkin MJ

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periventricular hyperintensity was detected using long repetition and echo time on spin-echo magnetic resonance imaging in 24 of 32 children with birth weights less than 2,500 gm. Functionally, 11 children were normal, 6 mildly handicapped, 7 moderately handicapped, and 8 severely handicapped. The functional handicaps...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sugita K,Takeuchi A,Iai M,Tanabe Y

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial diseases comprise a group of complex and heterogeneous genetic disorders. Variable clinical features present a major challenge in pediatric diagnoses. From January 1984-June 2009, 69 patients were diagnosed with either syndromic mitochondrial diseases or nonsyndromic mitochondrial diseases. Clinical mani...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chi CS,Lee HF,Tsai CR,Lee HJ,Chen LH

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We describe the trends in antiepileptic drug (AED) use in children and adolescents with epilepsy in the United States. METHODS:We undertook a cross-sectional study based on Medicaid Analytic eXtract data set from 26 US states. Children and adolescents aged three to 18 years with at least one year continuous ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Liu X,Carney PR,Bussing R,Segal R,Cottler LB,Winterstein AG

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes two patients, a father and son, with autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Although the father had the common phenotype, the son had a severe phenotype including early onset of weakness and fatal cardiomyopathy in childhood. Among the patients with severe phenotype of autosomal do...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Higuchi Y,Hongou M,Ozawa K,Kokawa H,Masaki M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal neurocritical care is a growing and rapidly evolving medical subspecialty, with increasing numbers of dedicated multidisciplinary clinical, educational, and research programs established at academic institutions. The growth of these programs has provided trainees in neurology, neonatology, and pedia...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Smyser CD,Tam EWY,Chang T,Soul JS,Miller SP,Glass HC

更新日期：2016-10-01 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:Classic L-dopa-responsive dystonia is characterized by the triad of dystonia, diurnal fluctuation of signs, and dramatic response of signs to low-dose L-dopa therapy. Dopa-responsive dystonia succinctly summarizes the relevant clinical features. However, literal application of this label or consideration of ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Friedman JR

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The third case of cyclic vomiting syndrome with a large mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid rearrangement is described. Multiple neuromuscular anomalies are present that meet the diagnostic criteria for Kearns-Sayre syndrome, as well as severe symmetrical growth retardation. A 3-kilobase mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Boles RG,Baldwin EE,Prezant TR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe brain disorders can be expressed as markedly abnormal encephalopathic EEG patterns in neonates who are usually neurologically depressed, with abnormal levels of reactivity and tone. This symptomatic group is now a minority of medically ill neonates as a result of more vigorous fetal and neonatal resuscitative e...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Scher MS

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In areas without expanded newborn screening, instead of presenting neonatally, patients with arginase deficiency typically present with spastic paraplegia in early childhood. Diagnosis of this rare neurometabolic disease poses the first challenge because it is often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy during initial stages...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tsang JP,Poon WL,Luk HM,Fung CW,Ching CK,Mak CM,Lam CW,Siu TS,Tam S,Wong VC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arterial ischemic stroke occurs more frequently in term newborns than in the elderly, and brain immaturity affects mechanisms of ischemic injury and recovery. The susceptibility to injury of the brain was assumed to be lower in the perinatal period as compared with childhood. This concept was recently challe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Titomanlio L,Fernández-López D,Manganozzi L,Moretti R,Vexler ZS,Gressens P

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:An adolescent girl with systemic lupus erythematosus presented with selective brainstem dysfunction as the initial sign of central nervous system involvement. Although computed tomography was initially normal, magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated multiple, large brainstem lesions. Serial magnetic resonance imaging,...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： McAbee GN,Barasch ES

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leigh syndrome is an inherited, progressive neurodegenerative disorder of infancy and childhood. Mutations in the nuclear SURF-1 gene are specifically associated with cytochrome C oxidase-deficient Leigh syndrome. This report describes two patients with similar facial features. One of them was a 2(1/2)-year-old male, ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yüksel A,Seven M,Cetincelik U,Yeşil G,Köksal V

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) findings in 2 patients with opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (OMS) who had similar symptoms in the acute stage of the disease are described. In 1 patient with encephalitis, SPECT showed increased blood flow in most of the cerebellum; the highest accumulation of the r...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Oguro K,Kobayashi J,Aiba H,Hojo H

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most effective method for the screening and monitoring of optic pathway gliomas in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 remains a dilemma. Children less than 6 years of age are the group at highest risk for the development of optic pathway gliomas. Although an annual ophthalmologic examination currently is recom...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ng YT,North KN

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encephalopathy has been demonstrated to be associated with respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis. In this study, the data on all patients less than 14 years of age hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis over the past 4 years was reviewed. Patients who had concomitant diagnoses consistent with ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sweetman LL,Ng YT,Butler IJ,Bodensteiner JB

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropsychologic function and white matter changes observed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in Cockayne syndrome were studied. MRI with T2-weighted sequences revealed periventricular hyperintensity and white matter hyperintensity in all 3 Cockayne syndrome patients examined; in contrast, 8 age-matched controls...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sugita K,Takanashi J,Ishii M,Niimi H

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：:Risk factors for mortality of young children with cerebral palsy were studied using a sample of 12,709 children aged 0.5-3.5 years with cerebral palsy who had received services from the State of California between 1980 and 1995. The most powerful prognostic factors for survival were simple functional items: mobility a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Strauss DJ,Shavelle RM,Anderson TW

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hashimoto's encephalopathy is an underdiagnosed, steroid-responsive, progressive or relapsing encephalopathy associated with high titers of serum antithyroid antibodies. Although Hashimoto's encephalopathy is well documented in adults, it is rarely observed or studied in children and adolescents. We describe the clini...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Erol I,Saygi S,Alehan F

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Very-low-birth-weight preterm infants have a higher rate of language impairments compared with children born full term. Early identification of preterm infants at risk for language delay is essential to guide early intervention at the time of optimal neuroplasticity. This study examined near-term structural ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Vassar R,Schadl K,Cahill-Rowley K,Yeom K,Stevenson D,Rose J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four children with self-inflicted strangulation injuries had cerebral blood flow determined by stable xenon computed tomography (XeCTCBF) within 24 hours of admission. All had suffered a severe hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury; 3 initially had fixed pupils, all were apneic with varying bradyarrhythmias, and the initia...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ashwal S,Perkin RM,Thompson JR,Tomasi LG,van Stralen D,Schneider S

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral creatine transporter deficiency, attributable to mutations in the SLC6A8 gene, causes X-linked mental retardation, language delay, epilepsy, and autistic features. In contrast with creatine synthesis defects, the vast majority of patients with SLC6A8 deficiency do not respond to treatment. We describe a Portu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Garcia P,Rodrigues F,Valongo C,Salomons GS,Diogo L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence suggests that the effects of lithium on metabolic and signaling pathways in the brain may vary depending on the specific clinical condition or disease model. For example, lithium increases levels of cerebral N-acetyl aspartate in patients with bipolar disorder but does not appear to affect N-acetyl as...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Janson CG,Assadi M,Francis J,Bilaniuk L,Shera D,Leone P

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two half-siblings with schizencephaly are presented. They have the same mother who had a normal cerebral imaging study. Only one other kindred was found in which 2 siblings had this cerebral lesion. In the present patients, autosomal inheritance from the mother is possible, but other explanations should include famili...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hosley MA,Abroms IF,Ragland RL

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00