Genetic risk variants in African Americans with multiple sclerosis.

abstract：:We report the occurrence of neurologic complications in 23 patients who underwent gastric restriction surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity. Complications occurred 3 to 20 months after surgery. All the patients had had protracted vomiting for the first 3 months after the operation. The following syndromes were f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Abarbanel JM,Berginer VM,Osimani A,Solomon H,Charuzi I

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Using interictal alpha-[11C]methyl-l-tryptophan ([11C]AMT) PET scan, the authors have undertaken a quantitative analysis of all tubers visible on MRI or 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose ([18F]FDG) PET, to determine the relationship between [11C]AMT uptake and epileptic activity on EEG. BACKGROUND:Tuberous scl...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Asano E,Chugani DC,Muzik O,Shen C,Juhász C,Janisse J,Ager J,Canady A,Shah JR,Shah AK,Watson C,Chugani HT

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine associations of orthostatic hypotension (OH) with dementia and long-term cognitive decline and to update previously published results in the same cohort for stroke with an additional 16 years of follow-up. METHODS:We analyzed data from 11,709 participants without a history of coronary heart diseas...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Rawlings AM,Juraschek SP,Heiss G,Hughes T,Meyer ML,Selvin E,Sharrett AR,Windham BG,Gottesman RF

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF lymphocyte subpopulations of eight patients with neurosarcoidosis were examined. CSF or CT was abnormal in all. The CSF T4/T8 (helper/suppressor) ratio was elevated at 6.8 and 7.6 in two patients; in one, there were only CSF T4 cells. The ratio was normal in five patients. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stern BJ,Griffin DE,Luke RA,Krumholz A,Johns CJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because Hughlings Jackson directed that his personal documents be destroyed upon his death, none of his own clinical records are known. However, we have discovered several pages of notes in the Royal London Hospital Archive written in 1893 by Jackson to his House Physician at Queen Square concerning his proposals for ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Swash M,Evans J

更新日期：2006-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This multicenter, double-blind, crossover study compared Tegretol-XR and Tegretol tablets with respect to trough plasma carbamazepine (CBZ) concentrations, seizure control, tolerability, and safety. We randomized 96 patients with epilepsy to 56-day monotherapy with their usual daily CBZ dose administered as (1) Tegret...

journal_title：Neurology

authors：

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether droxidopa, an oral norepinephrine precursor, improves symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (nOH). METHODS:Patients with symptomatic nOH due to Parkinson disease, multiple system atrophy, pure autonomic failure, or nondiabetic autonomic neuropathy underwent open-label droxidopa ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kaufmann H,Freeman R,Biaggioni I,Low P,Pedder S,Hewitt LA,Mauney J,Feirtag M,Mathias CJ,NOH301 Investigators.

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although neurophysiologic doctrine has traditionally referred to "the" voltage-gated sodium channel, it is now clear that there are at least nine genes that encode molecularly and physiologically distinct sodium channels. Mutations of sodium channel genes provide a basis for genetic channelopathies. Dysregulated expre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waxman SG

更新日期：2001-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors demonstrate the potential for poststroke return of activation in regions normally involved in touch discrimination in a serial, whole-brain fMRI study of a patient with marked sensory loss followed by good recovery. A return of activation in ipsilesional primary and bilateral secondary somatosensory cortic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carey LM,Abbott DF,Puce A,Jackson GD,Syngeniotis A,Donnan GA

更新日期：2002-09-10 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：:A 25-year-old man with a long history of temporal lobe epilepsy developed right occipital lobe seizures and a progressive right homonymous hemianopia. MRI showed diffuse enhancement of the left temporoparieto-occipital white matter and cortical thickening of the left medial temporal lobe. The resected temporal lobe re...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Thom M,Moran NF,Plant GT,Stevens JM,Scaravilli F

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance images (MRI), evoked responses (ER), and CSF findings were compared in 39 patients with possible, probable, or definite MS. MRI disclosed multiple lesions (72%) more often than ERs (55%) in the total group of patients. In possible MS, MRI showed multiple lesions in 71%, and ER abnormalities were fou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Farlow MR,Markand ON,Edwards MK,Stevens JC,Kolar OJ

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We established the frequency of Horner's syndrome (HS) in 248 elective patients after coronary artery bypass surgery. Patients were evaluated neurologically pre- and post-operatively and 6 months after surgery. Nineteen patients (7.7%) developed unilateral HS postoperatively, 12 involving the left eye. The finding per...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barbut D,Gold JP,Heinemann MH,Hinton RB,Trifiletti RR

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of intrathecal enhancement using metrizamide (Amipaque) combined with CT imaging enables both the morphologic and dynamic (serial) evaluation of the intracranial cerebrospinal fluid pathways. Three distinct metrizamide CT cisternographic patterns (delayed, intermediate, and normal) emerge in pediatric pa...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Drayer BP,Rosenbaum AE

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inclusion-body myositis (IBM) is an inflammatory muscle disease that has proven resistant to treatment. Tumor necrosis factor molecules have been detected in muscle biopsies from patients with IBM. Etanercept is a TNFalpha receptor fusion protein that binds and inactivates tumor necrosis factor. Nine patients were tre...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barohn RJ,Herbelin L,Kissel JT,King W,McVey AL,Saperstein DS,Mendell JR

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Single motor unit firing rates were measured from the first dorsal interosseous muscle (FDI) of normal subjects and patients with partial denervation of that muscle. Motor unit discharges were recorded at various levels of voluntary, stationary, isometric contraction of the FDI. The mean increase in firing rate associ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller RG,Sherratt M

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and disability outcomes and progression in multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:Health administrative and MS clinical data were linked for 2 cohorts of patients with MS in British Columbia (Canada) and South East Wales (UK). SES was measured at MS sym...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Harding KE,Wardle M,Carruthers R,Robertson N,Zhu F,Kingwell E,Tremlett H

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report imaging and clinical findings of leukoencephalopathy occurring after levamisole. The lesions were hypoattenuating on CT and appeared as multifocal oval or elliptical foci in the white matter or along the subependymal veins on MRI. Most lesions resolve after prompt withdrawal of levamisole. Detailed history t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liu HM,Hsieh WJ,Yang CC,Wu VC,Wu KD

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide variety of movement disorders are associated with alcohol abuse. Some idiopathic movement disorders are markedly improved by small amounts of alcohol and this response occasionally may lead to alcoholism. Alcohol abuse alone or combined with hepatic encephalopathy can cause various types of tremor, asterixis, a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Neiman J,Lang AE,Fornazzari L,Carlen PL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between the presence of a circadian body temperature rhythm and behaviorally assessed consciousness levels in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC; i.e., vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome or minimally conscious state). METHODS:In a cross-sectional stu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Blume C,Lechinger J,Santhi N,del Giudice R,Gnjezda MT,Pichler G,Scarpatetti M,Donis J,Michitsch G,Schabus M

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the difference in risk for dementing diseases between men and women. BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggest women have a higher risk for dementia than men. However, these studies include small sample sizes, particularly in the older age groups, when the incidence of dementia is highest. METHODS:Pooled...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Andersen K,Launer LJ,Dewey ME,Letenneur L,Ott A,Copeland JR,Dartigues JF,Kragh-Sorensen P,Baldereschi M,Brayne C,Lobo A,Martinez-Lage JM,Stijnen T,Hofman A

更新日期：1999-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether severity and progression of periventricular and deep white matter lesions (WML) and lacunar infarcts were associated with progression of brain atrophy. METHODS:Within the SMART-MR study, a prospective cohort on MRI changes in patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic disease, 565 pati...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kloppenborg RP,Nederkoorn PJ,Grool AM,Vincken KL,Mali WP,Vermeulen M,van der Graaf Y,Geerlings MI,SMART Study Group.

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the ability to recognize epileptiform abnormalities on a video review of ambulatory cassette EEGs (A/EEG) by comparing two independent interpretations of an A/EEG to those derived from a routine recording and intensive monitoring by cable telemetry (C/EEG) of the same 40 patients. Both A/EEG readings concu...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ebersole JS,Leroy RF

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine the range and extent of neurologic complications due to pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 infection (pH1N1'09) in children hospitalized with influenza. METHODS:Active hospital-based surveillance in 6 Australian tertiary pediatric referral centers between June 1 and September 30, 2009, f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Khandaker G,Zurynski Y,Buttery J,Marshall H,Richmond PC,Dale RC,Royle J,Gold M,Snelling T,Whitehead B,Jones C,Heron L,McCaskill M,Macartney K,Elliott EJ,Booy R

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old girl who had zoster ophthalmicus 10 months earlier presented with hemiparesis and corresponding basal ganglionic infarction related to middle cerebral artery branch thrombosis ipsilateral to the zoster. Hematologic evaluation disclosed protein C deficiency. This represents the first zoster-associated str...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cadavid D,Pearl PL,Dubovsky EC,Angiolillo A,Vezina LG

更新日期：1999-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied acetaminophen sulfation, plasma sulfate levels, and the activity of sulfotransferase in blood platelets in patients with Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and in controls and did not find any abnormality in the patient groups, independent of the use of medication. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Roos RA,Steenvoorden JM,Mulder GJ,Van Kempen GM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased urinary levels of the polyamines, putrescine, spermidine, and spermine are present in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients. Alterations in excretion are detectable when based on nanomoles per milligram creatinine, micromoles per 24-hour urine collection, or nanomoles per kilogram body weight per 24-hou...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Russell DH,Stern LZ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Structural abnormalities were detected in bilateral primary sensorimotor areas in writer's cramp. Evidence in other primary dystonia, including blepharospasm and cervical dystonia, suggest that structural abnormalities may be observed in other brain areas such as the cerebellum in writer's cramp. OBJECTIVE:...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Delmaire C,Vidailhet M,Elbaz A,Bourdain F,Bleton JP,Sangla S,Meunier S,Terrier A,Lehéricy S

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between urinary hormone levels and migraine, with particular reference to rising and falling levels of estrogen across the menstrual cycle in women with menstrual and menstrually related migraine. METHODS:Women with regular menstrual cycles, who were not using hormonal contrace...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： MacGregor EA,Frith A,Ellis J,Aspinall L,Hackshaw A

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Dravet syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by seizures and other neurologic problems. SCN1A mutations account for ∼80% of cases. Animal studies have implicated mutation-related dysregulated cortical inhibitory networks in its pathophysiology. We investigated such networks in people wi...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stern WM,Sander JW,Rothwell JC,Sisodiya SM

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00