Post-traumatic vertigo in children: a diagnostic approach.

abstract：:To investigate ophthalmologic manifestations in children with definitive oxidative phosphorylation disorders, a retrospective review was conducted of clinical and laboratory records of all such pediatric patients (n = 103) diagnosed and treated at one center between 1983 and 2006. All were residents of Victoria, Austr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rose LV,Rose NT,Elder JE,Thorburn DR,Boneh A

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:We report a patient with BH(4)-sensitive phenylketonuria. In neonatal screening, phenylalanine levels above 10 mg/dl were detected. In the tetrahydrobiopterin- (BH(4)) loading test, phenylalanine concentrations in serum fell significantly. Dihydropteridine reductase activity in blood, pterines, and neurotransmitters i...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lücke T,Illsinger S,Aulehla-Scholz C,Sander J,Das AM

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudotumor cerebri is a clinical syndrome characterized by increased intracranial pressure in the absence of an intracranial tumor. It is most frequently diagnosed in obese young women, but it is also reported in children of all age groups, including infants. A variety of medical conditions have been suggested as pos...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Keren T,Lahat E

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloid cysts of the third ventricle are benign intracranial tumors that usually become symptomatic in adults, rather than in children. Rare hemorrhages in these cysts can cause acute obstructive hydrocephalus and sudden death. We report a novel pediatric case of hemorrhagic colloid cyst in a 9-year-old girl who prese...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Farooq MU,Bhatt A,Chang HT

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Musicogenic epilepsy is a relatively rare form of epilepsy. In its pure form, it is characterized by epileptic seizures that are provoked exclusively by listening to music. The usual type of seizure is partial complex or generalized tonic-clonic. Precipitating factors are quite specific, such as listening to only one ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lin KL,Wang HS,Kao PF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebrospinal fluid opening pressure is elevated with central nervous system infection and vasculitis, but has not been studied in inflammatory demyelinating disease. This retrospective study sought to determine whether children with demyelinating disease demonstrate elevated cerebrospinal fluid opening pres...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Narula S,Liu GT,Avery RA,Banwell B,Waldman AT

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare disease of young children. The typical presentation involves acute-onset flaccid paralysis in one or more extremities with a nonspecific viral prodrome. Long-term outcomes demonstrate that functional recovery plateaus around six to nine months. The purpose of this study...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Paziuk TM,Tadley M,Aversano M,Kozin SH,Zlotolow DA

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug metabolism in children may differ from adults and adverse events may occur that are not predictable from the adult experience. Clinical trials of safety and efficacy are needed both for new treatments and those that may already be in use but have not been tested in infants and children. The role and responsibilit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hirtz DG,Gilbert PR,Terrill CM,Buckman SY

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and laboratory findings of 25 patients with classical Cockayne syndrome (CS) are reviewed. A history of consanguinity was present in 21 patients, and 15 patients had at least 1 affected sibling. Apart from the cardinal features of dwarfism, microcephaly, and mental retardation, the most consistent clinical fe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ozdirim E,Topçu M,Ozön A,Cila A

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Herpes simplex virus encephalitis can manifest as a range of clinical presentations including classic adult, neonatal, and biphasic chronic-granulomatous herpes encephalitis. METHOD:We report an infant with granulomatous herpes simplex virus type 2 encephalitis with a subacute course and multicystic encepha...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Schutz PW,Fauth CT,Al-Rawahi GN,Pugash D,White VA,Stockler S,Dunham CP

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old girl with hemolytic uremic syndrome is reported with pituitary hemorrhage in the acute phase. Seizures, hemiplegia, and transient blindness were observed. These symptoms cannot be attributed to the pituitary hemorrhage; however, pituitary hemorrhage should be added to the list of neurologic lesions that c...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nagai T,Hasegawa O,Tuji A,Kamiyama Y,Honda M,Ito H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was the purpose of this study to compare the efficacy and side effects of lamotrigine (LTG) and vigabatrin (VGB) as add-on therapy in epilepsies of childhood resistant to conventional drugs. Retrospective analysis of the medical charts and electroencephalograms of 134 children (LTG 57, VGB 77) was performed conside...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dimova PS,Korinthenberg R

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-month-old girl with a history of Prader-Willi syndrome and progressive macrocephaly manifested large, bilateral, subdural hemorrhages of differing ages on magnetic resonance imaging. Subsequent evaluation revealed a deficiency of von Willebrand factor, but after repeated evaluations, no conclusive evidence of non...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Carr RB,Khanna PC,Saneto RP

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine the cost and efficacy of admitting patients for intravenous dihydroergotamine treatment and to identify factors associated with a higher likelihood of response to treatment. METHODS:We performed a retrospective review of all pediatric hospitalizations from 2001 to 2010 for intravenous dihydroer...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nelson GR,Bale JF,Kerr LM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spasticity is one of the most common symptoms presented by neurologic patients. Apart from surgical management, drug therapy is an important treatment of children suffering from spasticity. In this review, recent advances in the pharmacologic armamentarium are reported in detail. In particular, there are oral medicati...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Verrotti A,Greco R,Spalice A,Chiarelli F,Iannetti P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma associated with the paraneoplastic syndrome of opsoclonus-myoclonus is well-described. However, presentation with narcolepsy-cataplexy is not well-documented in the literature. Narcolepsy with cataplexy is also rare in children younger than 5 years of age. Here we describe three patients, each presenting...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sinsioco C,Silver K,Forrest KM,Gray J,Nechay A,Sheldon S,Chelmicka Schorr E

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic limb movements of sleep are clinically underdiagnosed in children. Polysomnography is the most accurate diagnostic test. There is a paucity of information regarding polysomnography findings in children. We evaluated the prevalence and correlates of pediatric periodic limb movements detected by polysomnography...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bokkala S,Napalinga K,Pinninti N,Carvalho KS,Valencia I,Legido A,Kothare SV

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the expression of some neurotrophic factors (brain-derived neurotrophic factor, glial-derived neurotrophic factor, and nerve growth factor) in the cerebrospinal fluid of infants suffering from idiopathic congenital central hypoventilation syndrome and determines their correlations with this syn...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chiaretti A,Zorzi G,Di Rocco C,Genovese O,Antonelli A,Piastra M,Polidori G,Aloe L

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used in high-risk infants to assess the myelination process and its relationship with neurologic outcome. The time period when delayed myelination is best detected by MRI was also studied. MRI was performed in 39 high-risk infants (i.e., preterm infants, infants with respiratory di...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Fujii Y,Konishi Y,Kuriyama M,Maeda M,Saito M,Ishii Y,Sudo M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A syndrome of rigidity, bradykinesia, spasticity, and often myoclonus and dementia developed acutely in 5 patients who had undergone successful engraftment of bone marrow transplants for the treatment of various hematologic diseases. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated widespread changes in white matter; brain bio...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lockman LA,Sung JH,Krivit W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a rare neurologic disorder of childhood and adolescence. We describe a 16-year-old boy who manifested the disease despite proper vaccinations. He was hospitalized because of bedwetting, involuntary limb movements, abnormal speech, and balance disturbances. Immunoglobulin G antibo...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Har-Even R,Aichenbaum S,Rabey JM,Livne A,Bistritzer T

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic injury to the brain from seizure activity is associated with decreased language skills in pediatric patients, as measured on neuropsychological tests for language function and academic achievement. This makes the study of language in patients with epilepsy clinically necessary. Functional magnetic resonance im...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chou N,Serafini S,Muh CR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess neurologic complications of pertussis infection. A file review of all children (age 7-18 years) in our hospital with serology-positive pertussis infection admitted from 1995 to 2005 yielded six patients with neurologic symptoms in whom electroencephalographic studies were performed. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Eidlitz-Markus T,Zeharia A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal cerebral infarction is a relatively common cause of neonatal seizures, with an incidence of at least 1:4000 live births and is associated with a high incidence of neurological sequelae. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms and predisposing factors responsible for neonatal infarction are not fu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kanda K,Sato A,Abe D,Nishijima S,Ishigami T

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings presented with identical features of progressive peripheral paralysis of the lower motor neuron type, pyramidal signs, cranial nerve palsy which included external ocular palsy and deafness, and internal ocular palsy; both died before 1 year of age. Pathologic examination of the central nervous system in b...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hamano K,Tsukamoto H,Yazawa T,Yoshimura M,Takita H

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypomelanosis of Ito has been associated with precocious puberty in two cases. This study reports a third case involving a female with hypomelanosis of Ito including severe mental retardation and seizure disorder with autonomic symptoms (gastroesophageal reflux and asthma). At age 5 she developed vaginal discharge, th...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rutland BM,Edgar MA,Horenstein MG

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old female is described with presumed viral encephalitis, who developed progressive catatonia, agitation, and autonomic dysfunction. The diagnosis of malignant catatonia was made, and the patient improved with electroconvulsive treatment. This article discusses features, causes, differential diagnosis, and t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Slooter AJ,Braun KP,Balk FJ,van Nieuwenhuizen O,van der Hoeven J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children ranging in age from 2 to 5 years with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) were successfully treated with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). Their symptoms were somnolence, fever, headache, vomiting, and resting tremor. In all of these patients, it was difficult to distinguish the condi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nishikawa M,Ichiyama T,Hayashi T,Ouchi K,Furukawa S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used two strategies to investigate a possible link between predisposition for epilepsy and mutations in the fragile X mental retardation-1 gene. The first entailed performing electroencephalography on 14 patients with an amplification in the fragile X mental retardation-1 gene, and the second involved molecular gen...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kluger G,Böhm I,Laub MC,Waldenmaier C

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00