Electrocardiographic abnormalities in pediatric neuromuscular disease: a review.

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：:Postoperative seizures are among the more common complications of cardiac surgery in children. These seizures have traditionally been considered benign, transient phenomena with little, if any, prognostic significance. We report 4 infants with early postoperative seizures following cardiac surgery who later developed ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： du Plessis AJ,Kramer U,Jonas RA,Wessel DL,Riviello JJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonidine is used as second-line medication for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. Product information concerning clonidine reported seizures only after overdosage of clonidine, and the prescription of clonidine has not been contraindicated in patients with known epilepsy. The prese...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Feron FJ,Hendriksen JG,Nicolai J,Vles JS

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of the central nervous system is an aggressive infantile embryonal neoplasm, usually presenting as an infratentorial and intraparenchymatous lesion. We report on magnetic resonance imaging findings of a 22-month-old boy with a biopsy-proven primary rhabdoid tumor, presenting as a si...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bing F,Nugues F,Grand S,Bessou P,Salon C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to further clarify ictal electroencephalographic findings of patients with benign partial epilepsy in infancy in order to better understand its neurophysiologic features. The study group consisted of 13 infants with definite benign partial epilepsy in infancy, in whom ictal electroencephalogra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Okumura A,Watanabe K,Negoro T,Hayakawa F,Kato T,Natsume J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal lupus erythematosus, characterized mainly by congenital heart block and transient skin lesions, is usually self-limited. A patient with history of neonatal lupus erythematosus and congenital heart block developed central nervous system vasculopathy resembling moyamoya disease and hypertension at 17 years of a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Inoue K,Fukushige J,Ohno T,Igarashi H,Hara T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tic disorders constitute a neurodevelopmental disorder of childhood. This study sought to determine the prevalence of tic disorders in a school-based sample. A randomized sample of 1158 schoolchildren, based on clusters (classrooms) in the province of Burgos (Spain), was identified on a stratified sampling frame combi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cubo E,Gabriel y Galán JM,Villaverde VA,Velasco SS,Benito VD,Macarrón JV,Guevara JC,Louis ED,Benito-León J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) was examined in infants with leukomalacia by means of immunohistochemical methods with an antihuman TNF alpha monoclonal antibody. We studied 23 patients with neonatal leukomalacia, classified as having "focal," "widespread," or "diffuse" disease according to t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Deguchi K,Mizuguchi M,Takashima S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical child abuse occurs when a child receives unnecessary and harmful, or potentially harmful, medical care at the instigation of a caretaker through exaggeration, falsification, or induction of symptoms of illness in a child. Neurological manifestations are common with this type of maltreatment. OBJECTI...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Doughty K,Rood C,Patel A,Thackeray JD,Brink FW

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive gum-chewing is underreported as a headache precipitant in children and adolescents. We evaluated the influence of daily excessive gum-chewing in older children and teenagers with chronic headache, emphasizing the impact of habit discontinuation and its reintroduction. METHODS:Patients with chronic...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Watemberg N,Matar M,Har-Gil M,Mahajnah M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-year-old man in remission from acute myelogenous leukemia 3 years after a bone marrow transplant presented with signs of pseudotumor cerebri, including headache, visual changes, and papilledema. He manifested elevated opening pressure on lumbar puncture and positive cytology, with a concurrent normal bone marrow...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lipton J,Joffe S,Ullrich NJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A cause cannot be determined in 30% to 50% of patients with intellectual disability. Determining the etiology of intellectual disability is important and useful for pediatric neurologists, geneticists, pediatricians, and patients' families because it allows assessment of recurrence risk, appropriate genetic ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Medina A,Piñeros L,Arteaga C,Velasco H,Izquierdo A,Giraldo A,Espinosa E

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:l-2 hydroxyglutaric aciduria is a rare, autosomal recessively inherited metabolic disorder of organic acid metabolism. A 5-year-old boy presented with eyelid myoclonia with absences that proved difficult to control with first-line anticonvulsants. An electroencephalogram produced profoundly abnormal results, with gene...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Mete A,Isikay S,Sirikci A,Ozkur A,Bayram M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Corpus callosum atrophy has been associated with cognitive and motor deficits in elderly people. However, the role of the corpus callosum in infant development is unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of corpus callosum size on motor development in infants. METHODS:We investigated cerebral...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chang CL,Hung KL,Yang YC,Ho CS,Chiu NC

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Weight loss is one of the most frequent side effects of topiramate treatment. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of topiramate on body mass index, serum glucose, insulin, cortisol, leptin, and neuropeptide-Y levels and the role of these variables on the pathogenesis of weight loss in prepuber...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ozcelik AA,Serdaroglu A,Bideci A,Arhan E,Soysal Ş,Demir E,Gücüyener K

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy have an increased risk of long bone fractures. Such fractures are sometimes associated with brain dysfunction due to fat embolism syndrome, although this syndrome has seldom been documented in muscular dystrophy patients. PATIENT DESCRIPTION:We describe a child w...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bugnitz CJ,Cripe LH,Lo WD,Flanigan KM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiologic mechanism for stereotypic, bilateral repetitive movements involving the arms and hands (complex motor stereotypies) is unknown. This study used volumetric magnetic resonance imaging to compare cerebral lobes and caudate nucleus in six males with complex stereotypies and average intelligence to age...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kates WR,Lanham DC,Singer HS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumefactive demyelinating lesions may be misdiagnosed as brain neoplasms or abscesses. In this paper, we present four cases of pediatric tumefactive demyelination. Twelve cases of pediatric tumefactive demyelination previously reported in the English literature are also summarized. We describe the neuroimaging charact...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： McAdam LC,Blaser SI,Banwell BL

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a previously healthy 11-year-old boy with unilateral periorbital mild headache and facial nerve palsy, followed during the next 5 months by recurrent unilateral headaches and subsequent extrinsic paresis of the third cranial nerve and paresis of the sixth cranial nerve, each of which improved with steroid...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cerisola A,González G,Scavone C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old, previously healthy male presented with fever and lethargy. Tuberculous meningitis was suspected after cerebrospinal fluid examination. Antituberculous drugs were administered, and an initial computed tomographic scan of brain revealed mild ventriculomegaly only. Steroids were instituted on day 16 and gra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tsai MH,Huang YC,Lin TY

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of sixth nerve palsies in 75 children, all of whom had undergone modern neuroimaging, were reviewed. Neoplasms or their neurosurgical removal was the most common cause (n = 34 [45%]); elevated intracranial pressure (nontumor) (15%), traumatic (12%), congenital (11%), inflammatory (7%), miscellaneous (5%), a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lee MS,Galetta SL,Volpe NJ,Liu GT

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Three brothers, born to parents who were first cousins, were referred for progressive diffuse dystonia. Initial physical examinations revealed minor dysmorphic features, e.g., bifrontal narrowing, downslanting palpebral fissures, low-set ears, upturned nostrils, and microretrognathia, as well as neurodevelopmental del...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yosunkaya E,Karaca E,Basaran S,Seven M,Yüksel A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are members of a superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast signal transmission at synapses. Mutations in neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor beta 2 subunit have been associated with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsies. A major challenge is t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Peng CT,Chou IC,Li CI,Hsu YA,Tsai CH,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the efficacy of piracetam therapy, 76 children with breath-holding spells admitted to the Outpatient Clinic of Dicle University Medical Faculty Paediatrics Department and Bakirköy State Hospital, Paediatrics Department between 1988 and 1990 and 1991 and 1996, respectively, were included in this placebo-con...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Donma MM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peroxisomal disorders are classified in two major groups: (1) peroxisome biogenesis disorders and (2) single peroxisomal enzyme/transporter deficiencies. D-bifunctional protein deficiency (OMIM #261515) is included in this last group of rare diseases and leads to an impaired peroxisomal beta-oxidation. D-bif...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nascimento J,Mota C,Lacerda L,Pacheco S,Chorão R,Martins E,Garrido C

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the case of an 11-year-old girl with a prior history of epilepsy and multiple episodes of status epilepticus who presented with generalized convulsive status epilepticus and left hemiclonic seizures. Magnetic resonance imaging, including diffusion-weighted sequences and spectroscopy, and neuropat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tsuchida TN,Barkovich AJ,Bollen AW,Hart AP,Ferriero DM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male adolescent developed a sinovenous thrombosis 4 weeks following a Henoch-Schonlein purpura episode. A hypercoagulation evaluation revealed a positive lupus anticoagulant. This suggests an association between Henoch-Schonlein purpura and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and is the first report of sinovenous thr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Abend NS,Licht DJ,Spencer CH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00