Abdominal wall weakness due to thoracic syringomyelia.

abstract：:To explore environmental risk factors for Parkinson's disease (PD) in Taiwan, we investigated 120 patients with PD and 240 hospital control subjects matched with patients on age (+/-2 years) and sex. Based on a structured open-ended questionnaire, we carried out standardized interviews to obtain history of exposure to...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Liou HH,Tsai MC,Chen CJ,Jeng JS,Chang YC,Chen SY,Chen RC

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional brain imaging has been a standard tool in the basic and clinical neurosciences for at least 2 decades, and structural brain imaging can claim an even longer track record of successful use for diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease. It is instructive to recall the ways in which brain imaging has been used to...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Habeck C,Whitwell JL

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:People with AD have deficient contrast sensitivity and impaired face discrimination. The authors presented photographs of unfamiliar faces of three different sizes to enhance the low, middle, or high facial frequency information (cycles per face). Patients with AD demonstrated normal discrimination of small faces only...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cronin-Golomb A,Cronin-Golomb M,Dunne TE,Brown AC,Jain K,Cipolloni PB,Auerbach SH

更新日期：2000-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite evidence for the efficacy of thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke, only 1 to 7% of patients receive this therapy. The authors sought to determine the reasons for exclusion from tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in an acute setting and found avoidable causes in 18% of patients. Improvements in intraho...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cocho D,Belvís R,Martí-Fàbregas J,Molina-Porcel L,Díaz-Manera J,Aleu A,Pagonabarraga J,García-Bargo D,Mauri A,Martí-Vilalta JL

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the current study was, first, to determine the critical causative vestibular areas that in exceptional cases manifest with transient vertigo or dizziness in acute strokes of the middle cerebral artery, and second, to try to explain why in most cases unilateral lesions of these areas manifest witho...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dieterich M,Brandt T

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtained continuous EEG/video recordings on four children who had the interictal EEG pattern of multifocal independent epileptiform discharges (MIED). The prominent feature of their evaluation was the evidence that their clinical seizures appeared to be of focal origin; 42/44 seizures were manifested by "fencing po...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Burnstine TH,Vining EP,Uematsu S,Lesser RP

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate trends in atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and TIA in the United States. METHODS:We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample to retrospectively compute weighted prevalence of AF in AIS (n = 4,355,140) and TIA (n = 1,816,459) patients admitted to US hospitals from 200...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Otite FO,Khandelwal P,Chaturvedi S,Romano JG,Sacco RL,Malik AM

更新日期：2016-11-08 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：:There have been few descriptions of spontaneous epidural hematoma of the spinal cord in children. Duration of symptoms in previous cases has varied from hours to days. We recently evaluated a 6-year-old girl with cord compression from an extradural clot, who complained of thoracic back pain for 3 months before becomin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Robertson WC Jr,Lee YE,Edmonson MB

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:A 61-year-old woman presented with two paraneoplastic neurologic disorders--Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) and subacute cerebellar degeneration (SCD)--that antedated the diagnosis of small-cell carcinoma of the lung by 15 months. Plasmapheresis initiated before the identification of the tumor had a beneficia...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Blumenfeld AM,Recht LD,Chad DA,DeGirolami U,Griffin T,Jaeckle KA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the coterminous United States, MS mortality rates demonstrate a north-south gradient, which is confirmed by more sophisticated--and more expensive--prevalence studies. Mortality rates from idiopathic Parkinson's disease show a similar north-south gradient, and they correlate significantly with the MS mortality and ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lux WE,Kurtzke JF

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 11-year-old boy of short stature had recurrent right temporal pounding headaches of 7 months' duration, and progressive visual loss for 3 days. There was a left hemianopia, alexia without agraphia, and diffuse muscle weakness. Investigation established the presence of a mitochondrial myopathy with pyruvate and lacti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Skoglund RR

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, there is no accepted clinical diagnostic test for Parkinson disease (PD) that is based on biochemical analysis of blood or CSF. The discovery of mutations in the SNCA gene encoding α-synuclein in familial parkinsonism and the accumulation of α-synuclein in the PD brain suggested a critical role for ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tokuda T,Qureshi MM,Ardah MT,Varghese S,Shehab SA,Kasai T,Ishigami N,Tamaoka A,Nakagawa M,El-Agnaf OM

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the influence of birthdays on the onset and course of vascular events such as stroke, TIA, and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS:This population-based study included all emergency department (ED) admissions due to ischemic stroke, TIA, or AMI from April 2002 to March 2004 in Ontario, Cana...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Saposnik G,Baibergenova A,Dang J,Hachinski V

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional cerebral glucose metabolism was studied in 16 patients with idiopathic torticollis, using positron emission tomography. Analysis of subcortical regions revealed no consistent focal abnormality of cerebral metabolic rate for glucose, but there was a bilateral breakdown of the normal relationships between the t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stoessl AJ,Martin WR,Clark C,Adam MJ,Ammann W,Beckman JH,Bergstrom M,Harrop R,Rogers JG,Ruth TJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation has an effect on the orthostatic regulation of patients with Parkinson disease (PD), we studied cardiovascular regulation during on and off phases of STN stimulation. METHODS:We examined 14 patients with PD (mean age 58.1 +/- 5.8 years, 4 women, 10 me...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stemper B,Beric A,Welsch G,Haendl T,Sterio D,Hilz MJ

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Functional neuroimaging has shown that the absence of externally observable signs of consciousness and cognition in severely brain-injured patients does not necessarily indicate the true absence of such abilities. However, relative to traumatic brain injury, nontraumatic injury is known to be associated with...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cruse D,Chennu S,Chatelle C,Fernández-Espejo D,Bekinschtein TA,Pickard JD,Laureys S,Owen AM

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can modify spasticity. METHODS:We used high-frequency (5 Hz) and low-frequency (1 Hz) rTMS protocols in 19 remitting patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis and lower limb spasticity. RESULTS:A single session of 1 Hz rTM...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Centonze D,Koch G,Versace V,Mori F,Rossi S,Brusa L,Grossi K,Torelli F,Prosperetti C,Cervellino A,Marfia GA,Stanzione P,Marciani MG,Boffa L,Bernardi G

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate long-term employment outcomes after resective epilepsy surgery in a national population-based cohort of adults. METHODS:In the Swedish National Epilepsy Surgery Register, all adults who were operated with resective epilepsy surgery from 1995 to 2010 were identified. Two-year follow-up was avai...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Edelvik A,Flink R,Malmgren K

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the spectrum and mechanisms of cutaneous adverse events (AEs) in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with daclizumab high-yield process (DAC-HYP). METHODS:A total of 31 participants in an institutional review board-approved open-label phase I study of DAC-HYP (NCT01143441) were prospectively ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cortese I,Ohayon J,Fenton K,Lee CC,Raffeld M,Cowen EW,DiGiovanna JJ,Bielekova B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinergic neurons in the nucleus ambiguus (NA) were counted in autopsy tissue obtained from five patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA), four patients with PD, and five controls. The number of neurons in the dorsal NA was not significantly different among the three groups. Neurons in the ventrolateral portion o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Benarroch EE,Schmeichel AM,Parisi JE

更新日期：2003-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the rate of progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). METHODS:We followed 337 patients with MCI in the Mayo Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (range 2-12 years). Competing risks survival models were used to examine the rates of progression to clinically...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ferman TJ,Smith GE,Kantarci K,Boeve BF,Pankratz VS,Dickson DW,Graff-Radford NR,Wszolek Z,Van Gerpen J,Uitti R,Pedraza O,Murray ME,Aakre J,Parisi J,Knopman DS,Petersen RC

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Several drugs that inhibit the effects of serotonin may reduce or prevent experimental CNS ischemic damage, but these drugs are not approved for human use in the United States. Administration of cyproheptadine (which is available for clinical use) 15 minutes before or 5 minutes after the onset increased the duration o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zivin JA

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To apply multisequence MRI techniques to patients with clinically isolated syndromes, to document the pattern and frequency of abnormalities at baseline and early follow-up, and to determine their predictive values for the early development of clinical MS. BACKGROUND:Disseminated lesions on T2-weighted brain...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brex PA,O'Riordan JI,Miszkiel KA,Moseley IF,Thompson AJ,Plant GT,Miller DH

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the evidence demonstrating efficacy, tolerability, and safety of seven new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) (gabapentin, lamotrigine, topiramate, tiagabine, oxcarbazepine, levetiracetam, and zonisamide) in the treatment of children and adults with refractory partial and generalized epilepsies. METHODS:A ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： French JA,Kanner AM,Bautista J,Abou-Khalil B,Browne T,Harden CL,Theodore WH,Bazil C,Stern J,Schachter SC,Bergen D,Hirtz D,Montouris GD,Nespeca M,Gidal B,Marks WJ Jr,Turk WR,Fischer JH,Bourgeois B,Wilner A,Faught R

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:About 9% of patients presenting to a Huntington disease (HD) clinic for evaluation of possible HD lacked a family history of the disorder. HD was the final diagnosis in 53 to 83% of these patients. As a group, HD-affected individuals without a family history of HD were older and had fewer CAG repeats than the average ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Nance MA,Westphal B,Nugent S

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To incorporate standardized documentation into an epilepsy clinic and to use these standardized data to compare patients' perception of epilepsy diagnosis to provider documentation. METHODS:Using quality improvement methodology, we implemented interventions to increase documentation of epilepsy diagnosis, se...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jones FJS,Smith JR,Ayub N,Herman ST,Buchhalter JR,Fureman BE,Cash SS,Hoch DB,Moura LMVR

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:All but 6% of the subjects with relapsing remitting MS who were randomly assigned to receive glatiramer acetate or placebo for the 9-month controlled phase of the European/Canadian MRI trial entered an open-label extension with quarterly clinical and MRI evaluations for another 9 months. There was a 54% reduction in t...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wolinsky JS,Comi G,Filippi M,Ladkani D,Kadosh S,Shifroni G,European\/Canadian Glatiramer Acetate Study Group.

更新日期：2002-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study were to examine executive dysfunction using an antisaccade (AS) task in normal elderly (NE) and patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD) as well as to evaluate the relationship between AS performance and cortical thinning within AD-associated regions. ME...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Heuer HW,Mirsky JB,Kong EL,Dickerson BC,Miller BL,Kramer JH,Boxer AL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00