Comparative Analysis of Cerebral Magnetic Resonance Imaging Changes in Nontreated Infantile, Juvenile and Adult Patients with Niemann-Pick Disease Type C.

abstract：:Sleep polygraphic recording was carried out on 52 normal full-term babies. 16 infants were recorded at 2 - 7 days of age, 14 at 2 to 5 weeks, 13 at 6 to 9 weeks and 9 at 10 - 13 weeks. Central apneas of 2 sec and over were analysed in Active Sleep (AS), Quiet Sleep (QS) and Transitional Sleep (TS). Apnea Index (AI, pe...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Flores-Guevara R,Plouin P,Curzi-Dascalova L,Radvanyi MF,Guidasci S,Pajot N,Monod N

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvement of the prognosis for children suffering from hydrocephalus requires prompt diagnosis and reliable indication of surgical treatment. Today, intrauterine hydrocephalus is detectable within the first three months of pregnancy; in infancy, before the cranial sutures have fused, pathological growth of the head ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gaab MR,Koos WT

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the present study were: to examine the quality of life (QOL) of parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and to establish the possible effect of behaviour problems on their QOL. One-hundred children with CP, aged between 4 and 10 years, and both their parents were included in the study. Both parents co...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Romeo DM,Cioni M,Distefano A,Battaglia LR,Costanzo L,Ricci D,De Sanctis R,Romeo MG,Mazzone D,Mercuri E

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family composed of parents and four children is reported. Two brothers presented from early infancy with hypotonia and non-progressive weakness. Muscle biopsy in both revealed numerous typical nemaline rods. The father, suffering from backache, had a slow MNCV of both common peroneal nerves. His muscle revealed vari...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Shapira YA,Yarom R,Blank A

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lacosamide (LCM) due to no known drug interaction and the absence of metabolic enzyme induction is a good candidate for an add-on medication, especially in combination with lamotrigine, levetiracetam (LEV), oxcarbazepine, topiramate, and valproic acid (VPA). Here we report for the first time, to our knowledge, that LC...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Tountopoulou M,Weschke B,Kaindl AM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fucosidosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease, evident in early childhood, is associated with progressive loss of mental and motor function and increasing spasticity and hyperreflexia. We report a Canadian male, with clinical features similar to previously reported fucosidosis patients, however, since age 5 he ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gordon BA,Gordon KE,Seo HC,Yang M,DiCioccio RA,O'Brien JS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common autosomal dominant disorder with an incidence of ∼1 in 4,000 live births. Neurofibromin, the gene product, is ubiquitously expressed at high levels in the nervous system and functions as a tumor suppressor. Haploinsufficiency of neurofibromin through mutation leads to an incr...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Barrea C,Vaessen S,Bulk S,Harvengt J,Misson JP

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Careful clinical delineation and advances in analytical methods have opened new possibilities for the detection of inherited neurometabolic disorders, some of which require specific CSF analyses for diagnosis. Although patients suffering from these disorders have recognizable phenotypes, there are strong indications t...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hoffmann GF,Surtees RA,Wevers RA

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of frequently prescribed gastrointestinal drugs can cause movement disorders in children, as well as in adults. In our centre for paediatric neurology, we saw a 3-year-old girl with abnormal movements mostly of the legs with an inner restlessness (akathisia) while using cisapride. Another patient, a 17-year-o...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Elzinga-Huttenga J,Hekster Y,Bijl A,Rotteveel J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a family in whom three members suffered from congenital hydrocephalus and ocular abnormalities. One of these patients showed along with these symptoms congenital muscular dystrophy. In this child, autopsy disclosed severe cerebral malformations consisting of lissencephaly, arhinencephaly, stenosis o...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Pavone L,Gullotta F,Grasso S,Vannucchi C

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a patient with Gaucher disease type II who developed severe rhabdomyolysis. We treated him successfully and measured various cytokine and chemokine levels sequentially to elucidate the pathophysiology of rhabdomyolysis. The serum levels of interleukin-6, -8, -10, granulocyte colony-stimulating fa...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Wakusawa K,Haginoya K,Ishitobi M,Hino-Fukuyo N,Togashi N,Sato I,Ohura T,Yokoyama H,Kikuchi M,Iinuma K,Tsuchiya S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutis laxa is a heterogeneous group of diseases, characterized by abundant and wrinkled skin and a variable degree of intellectual disability. Cutis laxa, autosomal recessive, type IIIA and autosomal dominant 3 syndromes are caused by autosomal recessive or de novo pathogenic variants in ALDH18A1. Autosomal recessive ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Angelini C,Thibaud M,Aladjidi N,Bessou P,Cabasson S,Colson C,Espil-Taris C,Goizet C,Husson M,Morice-Picard F,De Sandre-Giovannoli A,Pédespan JM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of kidney and bone to parathyroid extract (PTE) was investigated in 8 epileptic children on long-term treatment with primidone in combination with phenytoin or other anticonvulsant drugs. The results indicate a dissociation between normal and cyclic AMP excretion and disturbed renal handling of phosphate ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kruse K,Kracht U,Göpfert G

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old boy with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) presented with visual hallucinations several years after starting methylphenidate (MPH). The hallucinations resolved upon discontinuation of the drug. Reports of toxic hallucinosis during treatment with MPH are rare. Although the pathogenetic mech...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Porfirio MC,Giana G,Giovinazzo S,Curatolo P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newborn with a rare type of lissencephaly is reported, characterized by extreme cerebral and cerebellar hypoplasia. The diagnosis was made by postmortem magnetic resonance imaging, indicating the value of such studies to evaluate neuronal migration disorders in patients in whom autopsy cannot be performed. Two earli...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kroon AA,Smit BJ,Barth PG,Hennekam RC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is often associated with psychosocial comorbidity and this can be more disabling than the seizure activity. Still, these associated conditions are often underdiagnosed and therefore not sufficiently treated. We studied a large pediatric cohort of 371 patients with epilepsy to identify factors associated with ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Valova V,Kochan A,Werry B,John R,Prager C,Schneider J,Kaindl AM

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) carries significant morbidity and mortality even after early treatment with antiviral agents (7). As well as causing acute neurological disease, Herpes viruses are associated with relapsing--remitting (Varicella--Zoster, Epstein-Barr) and chronic (Rasmussen encephalitis) disease...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Asenbauer B,McEntagart M,King MD,Gallagher P,Burke M,Farrell MA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to clarify the significance of positive rolandic sharp waves (PRS) in preterm infants with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) and their relation to background electroencephalographic (EEG) abnormalities. We retrospectively evaluated EEG findings of 93 preterm infants; 31 infants in the PVL gr...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Okumura A,Hayakawa F,Kato T,Kuno K,Watanabe K

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with hypoplasia of the cerebellum and brainstem in association with an unbalanced translocation, resulting in a partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5 and a partial trisomy of the short arm of chromosome 10, is described. A balanced translocation was present in his mother and maternal grandmother. A...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Arts WF,Hofstee Y,Drejer GF,Beverstock GC,Oosterwijk JC

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barbiturate anaesthesia is used in the treatment of status epilepticus and severe epilepsy of children. EEG is then used as a measure of the depth of anaesthesia, burst suppression being an easily identified EEG pattern. In this case report we describe epileptiform discharges during EEG suppression in two children und...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Jäntti V,Eriksson K,Hartikainen K,Baer GA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-year-old boy presented with a febrile illness associated with arthritis. Shortly later he developed mononeuritis multiplex. After certain typical skin lesions had developed after two months, the diagnosis cutaneous polyarteritis could be made. The diagnostic features of this benign disease, which may involve peri...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Draaisma JM,Fiselier TJ,Mullaart RA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 7-year-old boy with serologic evidence of active Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection who developed transient unilateral hypoglossal nerve palsy, with complete recovery within 21 days. This is, to our knowledge, the youngest reported patient with isolated hypoglossal nerve palsy in the context of EBV infecti...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Parano E,Giuffrida S,Restivo D,Saponara R,Greco F,Trifiletti RR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human neuroblastoma cell line, LA-N-1 was used as a target cell in a I131 radiolabeled staphylococcal protein-A (I131-SpA) binding assay, to characterize the pattern of antineuronal activity of human sera in fifty-four cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) including twenty-six patients with neuropsychiatric ma...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Danon YL,Garty BZ

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal nevus syndrome (ENS) is a congenital neurocutaneous disorder characterized by linear nevus with a significant involvement of the nervous, ophthalmological and skeletal systems. Clinical manifestations of ENS include neurological features such as mental retardation, seizures, and movement disorders which are ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mall V,Heinen F,Uhl M,Wellens E,Korinthenberg R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two patients with congenital cervical spinal atrophy who were born at 37 and 33 weeks of gestation. Both patients were unrelated and had no family history of neuromuscular diseases. They presented at birth with arthrogryposis multiplex and symmetrical severe muscle weakness and wasting confined to the upper...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kaiboriboon K,Hayat GR

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of sural nerve biopsy in the diagnosis of metachromatic leucodystrophy (MLD) was studied in 9 MLD-patients and 4 other patients with low arylsulphatase A (ASA)-activities in the leucocytes. In 7 patients (5 of them suffering from MLD) adequate interpretation of low ASA-activity was impossible, either because...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Vos AJ,Joosten EM,Gabreëls-Festen AA,Gabreëls FJ,Notermans SL,Lamers KJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, intrathecal baclofen (ITB) has attained an important role in the treatment of severe spasticity and dystonia in children. There are principal differences between the use of ITB in children and its use in neurology and oncology in adults. Here, we present a consensus report on best practice for the tre...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Berweck S,Lütjen S,Voss W,Diebold U,Mücke KH,Aisch A,Ostertag B,Friedrich M,Wagner C,Kudernatsch M,Granel M,Kluger G,Ludwikowski B,Peraud A,Rauchenzauner M,Schroeder AS,Sprinz A,Wienand R,Wilken B,Kästner S,Zeches

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a rare genetic disorder, which is caused by partial deletion of the short arm of one chromosome 4. Brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings are lacking. We report on brain findings in 10 children with WHS. We evaluated the MR imaging films of 10 subjects affected by WHS, which h...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Righini A,Ciosci R,Selicorni A,Bianchini E,Parazzini C,Zollino M,Lodi M,Triulzi F

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was aimed to assess the accurate incidence of renal stones in severely disabled children treated with topiramate (TPM). METHOD:We reviewed the medical records of severely disabled children with epilepsy under 15 years old who underwent radiological examinations to investigate urinary stones. The stu...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Ishikawa N,Tani H,Kobayashi Y,Kato A,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aims to evaluate the drawings effectiveness in childhood headache assessment. BACKGROUND:Headache is a common cause of pain in children. Although drawings have been used in childhood to recognize psychological insights and pain perception, they were rarely used for headache characterization. MET...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mazzotta S,Pavlidis E,Cordori C,Spagnoli C,Pini LA,Pisani F

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00