The possible adjuvant role of bordetella pertussis and pertussis vaccine in causing severe encephalopathic illness: a presentation of three case histories.

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：:We describe a rare case of diffuse leptomeningeal oligodendrogliomatosis associated with the human herpes virus 6 variant A (HHV-6 A). A 2-year-old boy presented with progressive neurological symptoms and hydrocephalus. The patient had a VP shunt placement but did not fully recover. HHV-6 A was detected in both CSF an...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Stödberg T,Deniz Y,Esteitie N,Jacobsson B,Mousavi-Jazi M,Dahl H,Zweygberg Wirgart B,Grillner L,Linde A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven epileptic patients with permanent ataxic dysfunction following DPH treatment are described. The ataxia correlates with cerebellar atrophy, though the extents of clinical and structural lesions are not necessarily proportional. Cerebellar atrophy is demonstrated by CT scans, the vermal region seems to be predomin...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Baier WK,Beck U,Doose H,Klinge H,Hirsch W

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1970 and 1986, 120 children with central nervous system malignancy were treated with radiation therapy. These included 44 low-grade astrocytomas, 11 high grade astrocytomas, 32 medulloblastomas, 15 ependymomas/ependymoblastomas, 3 primitive neuroectodermal tumors and 8 pineal tumors. Seven children were treate...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Avizonis VN,Fuller DB,Thomson JW,Walker MJ,Nilsson DE,Menlove RL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients who postoperatively developed extensive multiseptated hydrosyringomyelia following surgical repair of a lumbal meningomyelocele are reported. Since MRI has been available, an increasing number of reports showed that MRI is useful in the diagnosis of hydrosyringomyelia. Hydrosyringomyelia can be considered...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： van Hall MH,Beuls EA,Wilmink JT,Boiten J,Vles JS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While prognostic information for Dandy-Walker syndrome and non-progressive cerebellar ataxia/cerebellar hypoplasia is available, surprisingly scant literature reports are found for space-occupying posterior fossa arachnoid cysts (PFAC). We describe the outcome of patients with symptomatic PFAC shunted as infants. Only...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Boltshauser E,Martin F,Altermatt S

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral occipital calcifications, occurring in celiac disease, are factors coming under a particular cerebral syndrome, which also includes epilepsy, migraine-like headache, visual troubles and mental deterioration. They seem to arise from hypofolatemia following gluten-induced enteropathy. ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Crosato F,Senter S

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression in the central nervous system is highly region-specific. We tested the hypothesis that certain developmental biomarkers could be detected in the whole brain or in cortical, subcortical or cerebellar structures. Brain gene expressions of male and female rats at birth, 3 days, and 10 days of age were mea...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Torbati D,Totapally BR,Raszynski A,Osborne J,Zyl Lv,Kalomiris S,Wolfsdorf J

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease is a rare entity of which 10 cases have been reported in the literature. We report a case of biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease with similarities and differences compared to the previously reported cases by Ozand et al. Our case presented much earlier, was milder and respon...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： El-Hajj TI,Karam PE,Mikati MA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aim to correlate size and shape of corpus callosum with severity of motor and cognitive impairments in children with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL). METHODS:Children with PVL were stratified based on the severity of their motor and cognitive impairments. An age-matched control group was established. The...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Davatzikos C,Barzi A,Lawrie T,Hoon AH Jr,Melhem ER

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-four patients aged from one month to 16 years suffering from arterial stroke were carefully studied for any hereditary and acquired risk factors for stroke. No physiologic anticoagulant deficiency or antiphospholipid syndrome was found. Two patients had mitochondrial disease (MELAS). Six patients had migraineous...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Riikonen R,Santavuori P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to describe complications related to ventricular catheter systems with subcutaneous reservoirs (VCSR) (such as Ommaya reservoirs) in pediatric patients with brain tumors. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of consecutive patients with a total of 31 VCSR treated at the Children's University Hospit...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gerber NU,Müller A,Bellut D,Bozinov O,Berger C,Grotzer MA

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Two distinct disorders with elevated urinary excretion of 2-hydroxyglutaric acid are known: L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria and D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria. This paper presents clinical and biochemical studies in three patients and unsuccessful prenatal diagnosis in one case with combined D-2- and L-2-hydroxyglutaric ac...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Muntau AC,Röschinger W,Merkenschlager A,van der Knaap MS,Jakobs C,Duran M,Hoffmann GF,Roscher AA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep is known to improve the yield of EEG recording in children but is often difficult to obtain. In order to evaluate the efficacy and to test the practicability of oral melatonin in obtaining sleep for EEG recording, we studied its use in 70 children. RESULTS:Sleep was obtained in 56 children (80%) with ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Eisermann M,Kaminska A,Berdougo B,Brunet ML

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial extent and distribution of leptomeningeal angiomatosis, visualized by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with Gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA) enhancement, is demonstrated in four children with Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS). Aged 7, 9, 11 and 19 months, they presented with cutaneous, neurologic and ocular symptoms a...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Sperner J,Schmauser I,Bittner R,Henkes H,Bassir C,Sprung C,Scheffner D,Felix R

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphological development of the brainstem was studied by means of MR imaging. The subjects were 74 cases ranging in age from 4 months to 16 years, and 6 adult cases. The brainstem development was rapid until 4-6 years of age and thereafter it slowed down. That is the brainstem showed exponential growth (w', t', v...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hashimoto T,Tayama M,Miyazaki M,Kuroda Y

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birth asphyxia is a major concern in neonatal care. Epileptic seizures are associated with subsequent neurodevelopmental deficits. Eighty-five percent of these seizures remain subclinical and therefore an on-line monitoring device is needed. In an earlier study we showed that the synchronization likelihood was able to...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Smit LS,Vermeulen RJ,Fetter WP,Strijers RL,Stam CJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old boy suffering from X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia and progressive myoclonic encephalopathy is reported. The onset of neurological disturbances is at four years of age with ataxic gait and myoclonic jerks. The EEG shows a progressive slowing of background activity, bilateral diffuse and repetitive, pseudop...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Colamaria V,Marradi P,Boner A,Pajno-Ferrara F,Procacci C,Cesaro G,La Selva L,Capovilla G,Fontana E,Dalla Bernardina B

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A special form of partial occipital epilepsy clinically resembling migraine and possibly related to the benign focal epilepsies of childhood has recently attracted attention (Gastaut 1982) but its existence is still debated. To approach this problem, in a group of 195 children with idiopathic partial or generalized ep...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Deonna T,Ziegler AL,Despland PA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 5.3-year-old girl with autism, mental retardation, hypotonia, marked speech delay, and mild dysmorphic features with a 22q11.2 duplication. Her mother carries the same duplication and presents cleft palate, and normal intelligence. The clinical and behavioural phenotype of this relatively new syndrome is...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Lo-Castro A,Galasso C,Cerminara C,El-Malhany N,Benedetti S,Nardone AM,Curatolo P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant botulism is caused by intestinal colonization by Clostridium botulinum, C. barati or C. butyricum. Infant botulism has only rarely been reported outside the USA. A 3-month-old boy developed constipation, lethargy, feeding difficulties and descending, severe, symmetric weakness. He was breastfed but had also bee...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Balslev T,Ostergaard E,Madsen IK,Wandall DA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the occurrence of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) in two brothers two years after measles infection. The diagnosis was confirmed by compatible data from medical history, occurrence of autochthonic measles virus (MV) IgG production in the central nervous system (CNS), and pathognomonic EEG changes....

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Vieker S,Schmitt JJ,Behrens C,Weissbrich B,Hartmann H

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1-year and 11-month-old female infant with bilateral lesions of the thalamus, basal ganglia, cerebellar and brainstem disease died from heart failure 9 days after being administered a measles vaccination. She had a high fever, hypocarnitinemic and non-ketotic hypoglycemia, serum levels of total carnitine 7.4 micromo...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Okanari K,Takahashi M,Maeda T,Sato K,Suenobu S,Izumi T

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) is an acute or subacute relapsing disorder usually affecting euthyroid patients with evidence of autoimmune thyroiditis. The neurological manifestations are non-specific, with subacute cognitive impairment, movement disorders, generalized seizures, focal neurological symptoms such as st...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mancardi MM,Fazzini F,Rossi A,Gaggero R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay is an early onset form of hereditary spastic paraplegia with a peculiar clinical presentation. In addition to cerebellar findings which manifest first with ataxic gait in early life and spasticity, on an evolutionary basis, there is axonal neuropathy, prominent...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gücüyener K,Ozgül K,Paternotte C,Erdem H,Prud'homme JF,Ozgüç M,Topaloğlu H

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:We report on two Japanese siblings (one female and one male) with PEHO syndrome (progressive encephalopathy with edema, hypsarrhythmia, and optic atrophy). They showed profound generalized hypotonia early in infancy and developed infantile spasms with hypsarrhythmia within the first year of life. Abnormal eye movement...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Fujimoto S,Yokochi K,Nakano M,Wada Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with 2-deoxy-2 [18F]-fluoro-D-glucose provides a measure of functional brain activity, particularly in the dendritic field. In CLN3 (juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis or juvenile Batten disease, with fingerprint inclusions) hypometabolism slowly spreads from calcarine to anteri...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Philippart M,da Silva E,Chugani HT

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00