Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita. Review with comment.

abstract：:In order to examine if specific findings from CT correlate with specific clinical or neurological findings, 30 children, 5 to 16 years old, born at term, affected by congenital hemiparesis without intellectual impairment, were submitted to neurofunctional and psychological assessment and examined by CT. 28 of the 30 c...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Molteni B,Oleari G,Fedrizzi E,Bracchi M

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children with acute transverse myelopathy following adenovirus and Borrelia Burgdorferi infections are presented. The diagnosis stems from the clinical presentation, the determination of specific antibodies in serum and the favorable response to penicillin treatment in the case of neuroborreliosis. Both children m...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Linssen WH,Gabreëls FJ,Wevers RA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of hypomelanosis of Ito with typical skin depigmentation and various noncutaneous findings were described. This neurocutaneous syndrome has been well documented by clinical investigations, especially computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. The literature is surveyed giving speci...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Griebel V,Krägeloh-Mann I,Michaelis R

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal seizures are the most prevalent and distinctive sign of neurologic dysfunction in early life and pose an immense challenge for clinicians. Improvements in neonatal care have increased the survival rate of extremely premature infants, considerably changing the spectrum of underlying etiologies, and instigating...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Ramantani G,Schmitt B,Plecko B,Pressler RM,Wohlrab G,Klebermass-Schrehof K,Hagmann C,Pisani F,Boylan GB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We here report a 13-year-old Marfan patient who suffered from severe, medication-resistant, intermittent headache, which was provoked when getting into an upright position and immediately relieved by lying down or after intravenous rehydration. The postural benefit and the sudden relief after intravenous hydration sug...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Voermans NC,Dijk KG,Bos MM,Geus-Oei LF,Verrips A,Lindert EJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:24 healthy full-term newborns underwent polygraphic recordings of EEG, EMG, EOG, ECG, abdominal and thoracic respiration during day-time-sleep. Transient EEG patterns (rhythmic alpha and beta activity, spikes/sharp waves and frontal sharp transients) were visually evaluated and quantified. Rhythmic alpha activity is n...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Statz A,Dumermuth G,Mieth D,Duc G

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the efficacy of amantadine hydrochloride for two patients with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) that did not respond to flunarizine. Amantadine was administered to one patient at age one year and seven months and to the other at age 25 years. The frequencies and duration of the hemiplegic attac...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Sone K,Oguni H,Katsumori H,Funatsuka M,Tanaka T,Osawa M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of mitochondrial mutations with primary pathogenic significance for Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy in patients with a multiple sclerosis-like phenotype and the preferential maternal transmission points to an involvement of the mitochondrial genome in conferring increased susceptibility to MS. To ev...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Wilichowski E,Ohlenbusch A,Hanefeld F

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate whether antenatal taurine can reduce neuronal apoptosis in fetal rat brains with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and its possible mechanisms. A total of 15 pregnant rats were randomly divided into the following three groups: control, IUGR, and IUGR+ antenatal taurine supplements....

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Liu J,Liu L,Wang XF,Teng HY,Yang N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, biochemical and morphological findings in a 16-month-old infant girl with pseudo-neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy are reported. The parents were first cousins and the baby was born at term, small for gestational age. The neonatal period was characterized by convulsions resistant to treatment, generalized, sever...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kyllerman M,Blomstrand S,Månsson JE,Conradi NG,Hindmarsh T

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalographic (EEG) and brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) findings have not been previously described and correlated with the pathological findings in an autopsied case of neonatal nonketotic hyperglycinemia (NKH). A 38 week gestation male infant presented within two hours of age with stimulus-evoked...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Scher MS,Bergman I,Ahdab-Barmada M,Fria T

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a newborn with exaggerated startle reactions and stiffness of neonatal onset, the prototypical signs of hyperekplexia. Startle and flexor spasms, leading to apnoea, did not respond to treatment with clonazepam but did partially to sodium valproate. Molecular analysis of GLRA1 revealed no mutations. The incid...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Macaya A,Brunso L,Fernández-Castillo N,Arranz JA,Ginjaar HB,Cuenca-León E,Corominas R,Roig M,Cormand B

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim For children with medical complexity, interdisciplinary treatment approaches are required to address the various aspects defined within the biopsychosocial model. Methods The present study identifies dimensions of the biopsychosocial model to generate a standardized visualized severity score for chronic neurologic...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Krieg SM,Sonanini S,Sollmann N,Focke A,Gerstl L,Heinen F

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newborn female born at term was admitted at 28 hours for seizures and generalized hypotonia. Cerebral ultrasound showed a right temporal echogenic lesion confirmed on MRI and thought to be secondary to thrombosis of the vein of Labbé. The EEG showed epileptic discharges over the right temporal region. Extensive thro...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Beretta L,Hauschild M,Jeannet PY,Addor MC,Maeder P,Truttmann AC

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:Birth records of 97 children assessed at 18 months and found to be developmentally delayed were scored according to the optimality concept developed by Prechtl. These children were compared to a control series of 81 children. In order to evaluate the predictive validity of the parental developmental assessments perfor...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Sonnander K,Gustavson KH

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromuscular dysplasia is a segmental, nonatheromatous angiopathy. A 13-year-old patient is reported with stroke. Left-sided carotid angiogram revealed typical findings of fibromuscular dysplasia in the left carotid artery. ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Emparanza JI,Aldamiz-Echevarria L,Perez-Yarza E,Hernandez J,Peña B,Gaztañaga R

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical study of catecholamine synthesizing enzymes tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and phenylethanolamine-N-methyl transferase (PNMT) was performed in lower brain stem of 5 controls and 9 sudden infant death "syndrome" (SIDS) cases. No difference was noticed in TH immunoreactive neuronal groups. With anti-PNMT ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kopp N,Chigr F,Denoroy L,Gilly R,Jordan D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome (AHS) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder. AHS is caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the nuclear gene encoding mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma (POLG, chromosome 15q25). Most patients become symptomatic before the age of 2 years. We report 3 patients who w...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Spiegler J,Stefanova I,Hellenbroich Y,Sperner J

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Two boys developed rhythmic involuntary movements in the extremities on one side of the body after febrile illness. They also showed behavioral disturbances. In both patients, serum antistreptolysin-O and antistreptokinase titers were elevated in acute illness and decreased a few months later. One patient showed tremo...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Maegaki Y,Akaboshi S,Inagaki M,Takeshita K

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:The phenotypic expression of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) ranges from the rapidly progressive childhood cerebral form to the milder adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN) in adults. It is not possible to predict phenotype by mutation analysis or biochemical assays. This study reports on 372 patients ranging in age from ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Moser HW,Loes DJ,Melhem ER,Raymond GV,Bezman L,Cox CS,Lu SE

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:With the identification of mutations in the conserved telomere maintenance component 1 (CTC1) gene as the cause of Coats plus (CP) disease, it has become evident that leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts (LCC) is a distinct genetic entity. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A total of 15 patients with LCC wer...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Livingston JH,Mayer J,Jenkinson E,Kasher P,Stivaros S,Berger A,Cordelli DM,Ferreira P,Jefferson R,Kutschke G,Lundberg S,Ounap K,Prabhakar P,Soh C,Stewart H,Stone J,van der Knaap MS,van Esch H,van Mol C,Wakeling E,

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutis laxa is a heterogeneous group of diseases, characterized by abundant and wrinkled skin and a variable degree of intellectual disability. Cutis laxa, autosomal recessive, type IIIA and autosomal dominant 3 syndromes are caused by autosomal recessive or de novo pathogenic variants in ALDH18A1. Autosomal recessive ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Angelini C,Thibaud M,Aladjidi N,Bessou P,Cabasson S,Colson C,Espil-Taris C,Goizet C,Husson M,Morice-Picard F,De Sandre-Giovannoli A,Pédespan JM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five patients with microcephaly (head circumference < -2SD) were identified. The 55 patients were divided into two groups, consisting of group 1 (34 cases) in which genetic causes were considered primary, and group 2 (21 cases) in which intrauterine and/or postnatal acquired factors were thought to be responsibl...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Sugimoto T,Yasuhara A,Nishida N,Murakami K,Woo M,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Joubert syndrome (JS) was first reported in 1969 by Joubert et al (21), the long-term outcome is not yet documented. We report 19 children (4 pairs of siblings) from a single institution diagnosed with JS. Nine children were last seen between ages 10 and 18 years, seven between ages 1 and 4 years. Three child...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Steinlin M,Schmid M,Landau K,Boltshauser E

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:Chorea Huntington (CH) is a dominantly inherited, neurodegenerative disease usually with adult onset. The course of CH is characterized by movement disturbances, psychiatric symptoms and it may lead to dementia. Typically death occurs after 10 to 20 years of CH duration. Invariably, the underlying mutation concerns an...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gencik M,Hammans C,Strehl H,Wagner N,Epplen JT

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00