Ambulatory electroencephalography (EEG) in children: diagnostic yield and tolerability.

abstract：:Rett syndrome is a sporadic disorder (except for a few familial cases) occurring in 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 23,000 girls worldwide. It is associated with profound mental and motor handicap. About 90% of cases involve a mutation in the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 gene (MECP2). The role of this gene in the pathogenesis of ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Armstrong DD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromotor function was assessed in 94 children of normal intelligence with Tourette syndrome, Tourette syndrome and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or ADHD only, using the Physical and Neurological Examination of Subtle Signs (PANESS). Time to complete six motor movements was analyzed separately by s...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Schuerholz LJ,Cutting L,Mazzocco MM,Singer HS,Denckla MB

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the results of a study on the relationship between cord blood levels of erythropoietin and periventricular leukomalacia. Cord blood was obtained from 19 infants with gestational age between 27 and 32 weeks. Cystic periventricular leukomalacia was seen in 4 of them. Erythropoietin levels were not d...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

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

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed 10 youth football players (13.4 ± 0.7 y) immediately before and after their season to explore the effects of football participation on selected clinical measures of neurologic function. Postseason postural stability in a closed-eye condition was improved compared to preseason (P = .017). Neurocognitive tes...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Munce TA,Dorman JC,Odney TO,Thompson PA,Valentine VD,Bergeron MF

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed clinical and instrumental data of 403 consecutive newborns with gestational age from 24 to 32 weeks, admitted to the University-Hospital of Parma between January 2000 and December 2007, to evaluate the possible relationship between neonatal mortality and occurrence of neonatal seizures in very preterm newb...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Pisani F,Copioli C,Turco EC,Sisti L,Cossu G,Seri S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation correlated incidence and degree of autonomic dysfunction with the degree of motor impairment in children hospitalized with Guillain-Barré syndrome. Motor weakness varies, as does the effect on autonomic function including heart rate, vasomotor stability, sweating, continence, and blood pressure. Aft...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Dimario FJ Jr,Edwards C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to delineate the educational and behavioral differences between learning disabled children with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A restrospective (TROHOC) multimeasure comparative design was employed. Parents' and teachers' questionnaires (ANSER system) pertaining to atten...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Tirosh E,Berger J,Cohen-Ophir M,Davidovitch M,Cohen A

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis are demyelinating disorders of the central nervous system that can present initially as an acute focal demyelinating syndrome. We report an 11-year-old girl who initially presented with intractable vomiting and hypertension and later developed a subacute onse...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Mostafapour SP,Enzmann D,North W,Hahn JS

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired toxoplasmosis, although relatively common in children, is usually asymptomatic but can also be clinically manifested by a benign and self-limited infectious mononucleosis-like syndrome. Neurological complications are very rare in immunocompetent children. The authors report a 5-year-old boy who presented with...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Galli-Tsinopoulou A,Kyrgios I,Giannopoulou EZ,Gourgoulia S,Maggana I,Katechaki E,Chatzidimitriou D,Evangeliou AE

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a pediatric patient with repaired hypoplastic left heart syndrome developing protein-losing enteropathy, hypocalcemia, vitamin D deficiency, and hemichorea. After correction of nutritional vitamin D deficiency with calcium and vitamin D supplementation, the chorea resolved. Hypoalbuminemia also im...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Fernandez R,Ashraf A,Dure LS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to decrease practice variation in treatment of neonatal status epilepticus by implementing a standardized protocol. Our primary goal was to achieve 80% adherence to the algorithm within 12 months. Secondary outcome measures included serum phenobarbital concentrations, number of patients progressing from seizu...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Harris ML,Malloy KM,Lawson SN,Rose RS,Buss WF,Mietzsch U

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy is a reflex, age- and localization-related syndrome. We describe the clinical and electroencephalographic features, therapy, and outcome of 16 children/adolescents with this syndrome. The cohort included 2 sets of siblings and 7 patients with other first- or second-deg...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Politi-Elishkevich K,Kivity S,Shuper A,Levine H,Goldberg-Stern H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth failure is nearly universal in spinal muscular atrophy type 1 and common in type 2, although acuity is often underappreciated at initial diagnosis. We reviewed 44 consecutive spinal muscular atrophy patients (28 type 1, 16 type 2) under 3 years at initial presentation. Growth failure was conventionally defined:...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Sproule DM,Hasnain R,Koenigsberger D,Montgomery M,De Vivo DC,Kaufmann P

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed metabolic functioning of regional brain areas to address whether there is a neurometabolic profile reflecting the underlying neuropathology in individuals with autism spectrum disorders, and if varied profiles correlate with the clinical subtypes. Thirteen children (7-16 years) with autism spectrum...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Gabis L,Wei Huang,Azizian A,DeVincent C,Tudorica A,Kesner-Baruch Y,Roche P,Pomeroy J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We performed a retrospective chart review of patients with trisomy 21 and infantile spasms in our university-based pediatric epilepsy center between 2002 and 2016 in order to describe the clinical characteristics of children with these diagnoses as well as to evaluate their response to first-line treatments. ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Armstrong D,Said RR

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five children presented in the first months of life with progressive megalencephaly and leukodystrophy characterized by diffuse swelling of the white matter, cystic cavitations in frontal and temporal lobes, and a slow progressive course contrasting with the intensity of the leukodystrophic process. Four had epilepsy....

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Goutières F,Boulloche J,Bourgeois M,Aicardi J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To report the authors' experience with diagnosis and management of Dravet syndrome, or severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy, in the era of commercially available genetic testing, the authors performed a retrospective study of 16 patients diagnosed with Dravet syndrome at a tertiary care pediatric epilepsy center. They...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Korff C,Laux L,Kelley K,Goldstein J,Koh S,Nordli D Jr

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The present study aimed to investigate whether the response variability of infants to modified constraint-induced movement therapy and bimanual therapy are associated with different types of brain lesions. METHOD:Infants with unilateral cerebral palsy (N = 22) ages 8-15 months (mean = 10.95, standard deviation = 2...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Chamudot R,Parush S,Rigbi A,Gross-Tsur V

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the brain autopsy of a boy who at age 4(1/2) years experienced an episode of fulminant Haemophilus influenzae type b bacterial meningitis, resulting in massive brain destruction and the clinical signs of brain death. However, medical intervention maintained him for an additional two decades. Subs...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Repertinger S,Fitzgibbons WP,Omojola MF,Brumback RA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscular dystrophies are composed of a variety of genetic muscle disorders linked to different chromosomes and loci and associated with different gene mutations that lead to progressive muscle atrophy and weakness. Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy is frequently associated with partial and generalized epilepsy an...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Tsao CY,Mendell JR

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of mild mental retardation remains undefined in about 60% of cases. Even though the causes of mild mental retardation are likely to be heterogeneous, the evidence for genetic involvement is increasing, along with the development of specific diagnostic techniques. To improve our understanding of the geneti...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Saccucci P,Arpino C,Rizzo R,Gagliano A,Volzone A,Lalli C,Galasso C,Curatolo P

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive optic nerve demyelinating lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in adults could indicate a diagnosis other than multiple sclerosis with worse prognosis such as neuromyelitis optica. We report the frequency of longitudinally extensive lesions in children with first events of optic neuritis. Subjects had...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Graves J,Kraus V,Soares BP,Hess CP,Waubant E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical, demographic, and electromyographic (EMG) characteristics of 12 earthquake victims in the pediatric age group and to compare the findings with those of the adult group. Following the 1999 Marmara earthquake, 75 subjects with suspected peripheral nerve injury were r...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Uzun N,Savrun FK,Kiziltan ME

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is described as the most common neurobehavioral condition of childhood. We raise the concern that ADHD is not a disease per se but rather a group of symptoms representing a final common behavioral pathway for a gamut of emotional, psychological, and/or learning problems....

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Furman L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to evaluate the cognitive, language, and motor development, after 18 months of life, of nonmicrocephalic children born to mothers with Zika virus infection during pregnancy. Participants were 37 children aged 18-29 months divided into 2 groups: 17 nonmicrocephalic children born to mothers who ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Gerzson LR,de Almeida CS,Silva JHD,Feitosa MMA,de Oliveira LN,Schuler-Faccini L

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been increasing awareness that there are behavioral phenotypes in tuberous sclerosis complex with neuropsychiatric symptom complex such as autistic disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the neurobiologic basis of autistic disorder in tuberous sclerosis complex is still unknow...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Wong V

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis is characterized by acute- or subacute-onset encephalopathy with extrapyramidal, psychiatric, and epileptic manifestations. Diagnosis is confirmed by positive antibodies to NMDA receptor in cerebrospinal fluid and serum. Eleven pediatric cases presented over a 2-y...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Chakrabarty B,Tripathi M,Gulati S,Yoganathan S,Pandit AK,Sinha A,Rathi BS

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 6-month-old boy with diffuse hypertonia and developmental delay who had unilateral separated-lip schizencephaly and contralateral polymicrogyria. The contralateral polymicrogyria was associated with an incomplete clefting in that hemisphere. An umbilical cord hamartoma is presumed to have caused hypoperfus...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Hahn JS,Lewis AJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three normal children with headache occurring only with exertion were advised to try "head cooling" (eg, immersion of the head in cold water, cold water poured over the head, application of a cold, wet towel or ice pack) at the onset of headache. The patients were followed up quarterly as outpatients, and the effectiv...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Singh RK,Martinez A,Baxter P

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a very uncommon first manifestation of a neuroblastoma. A 5-month-old healthy infant presented with acute onset seizures and developmental regression. Extensive investigation was remarkable for urinary vanillylmandelic acid and homovanillic acid peaks. Abdominopelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) disclo...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Martins CL,Monteiro JP,Pereira F,Calhau P,Fonseca MJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00