Abstract:
:The authors present a retrospective study of 50 patients with hepatic encephalopathy treated at the University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto since 1959 and discuss clinical, laboratory and anatomo-pathologic aspects. The diagnoses of the different types of liver disease as well as the factors that triggered the episodes of hepatic coma and pre-coma are reported and the role of the measurement of arterial blood gases in establishing the diagnosis is emphasized.
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Arq Neuropsiquiatrjournal_title
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatriaauthors
Resende LA,Speciali JGdoi
10.1590/s0004-282x1984000400002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1984-12-01 00:00:00pages
322-9issue
4eissn
0004-282Xissn
1678-4227journal_volume
42pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Hemimegalencephaly (HME) is a rare congenital brain malformation of unknown etiology. Patients with HME can present with an early onset epileptic syndrome which is often refractory to medical treatment and associated to impaired neurological development. Functional hemispherectomy (FH) has proven to be a valuable trea...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2004000600024
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::To the best of our knowledge this is the seventh case report of monozygotic twins both affected by myasthenia gravis (MG). The monozygotism was proven by sex identity, blood group and HLA determinations ('O' Rh+, A2, A19.2, B40, CW3). One paternal aunt was also affected and the three cases have high titles of anti-ace...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1989000200019
更新日期:1989-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::In order to evaluate the cellular component of the inflammatory chronic response, 357 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 40 patients with neurocysticercosis (NC) were studied. All patients were treated with usual doses of praziquantel (50 mg/kg/day during 21 days) associated with dexamethasone (12 mg/day). NC diag...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1987-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To verify the frequency of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the people between 0 and 19 years of age, in accordance to gender, age and cause of trauma. METHOD:Descriptive study made through a period of a year, in all TBI victims, aged until 19 years admitted in a reference trauma center. RESULTS:The sample h...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2006000600020
更新日期:2006-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::There is substantial controversy in literature about human dermatomes. We studied L4, L5, and S1 inferior limb dermatomes by comparing clinical signs and symptoms with conduction studies, electromyographical data, neurosurgical findings, and imaging data from computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2009000200017
更新日期:2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To study the HLA of class 1and 2 in a multiple sclerosis (MS) population to verify the susceptibility for the disease in the Southern Brazil. METHODS:We analyzed patients with MS and controls, by direct sequencing of the genes related to HLA DRB1, DQB1, DPB1, A, B and C alleles with high resolution technique...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20160100
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::We aimed to determine whether there is an association between cognition and the results of echocardiography and angiography, based on neuropsychological assessments. METHODS:We assessed the cognition of 85 patients who had recently undergone coronary artery angiography. We calculated the Gensini score for the coronar...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282x20180026
更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The choline/N-acetyl-aspartate (Cho/NAA) ratio, obtained by the multivoxel spectroscopy with short echo time (TE), was evaluated, in the histological grading of the brain astrocytomas (grades I, II and III-IV) in comparison with the normal cerebral parenchyma. A significant increase (p<0.05) in the average ratios of C...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2007000200019
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The purpose was to describe the main features of headache incidence in a hospital community, its frequency and the most requested medical investigation. Due to the stressful work environment, hospital is considered to hold a high-risk population. Interviews and questionnaires were utilized. Of a 1006 files, which were...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1998000400007
更新日期:1998-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of this paper is to introduce compliance concept and to classify technicals, biologicas, socials and mixed factors that may influence compliance. The importance of conscious attitudes in a good patient compliance is emphasized. ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1991000200005
更新日期:1991-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a prevalent psychiatric disorder of unknown etiology. However, there is some evidence that the immune system may play an important role in its pathogenesis. In the present study, two polymorphisms (rs1800795 and rs361525) in the promoter region of the cytokine tumor necrosis fact...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2012000200003
更新日期:2012-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Sleep and epilepsy share some common mechanisms. The objective of the present investigation was to study the macrostructure of sleep in patients with idiopathic epilepsies, focal and generalized, comparing these two groups to each other and to a control group of 12 individuals without epilepsy. A total of 35 polysomno...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2002000300002
更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The clinical aspects of the meningiomas are well described. However, there is an important number of reports on a variety of other lesions simulating meningioma, including the prostate cancer. The authors describe one additional patient with prostate cancer who at presentation had clinical and radiographic signs sugge...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1993000200018
更新日期:1993-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Malignant brain tumor experimental models tend to employ cells that are immunologically compatible with the receptor animal. In this study, we have proposed an experimental model of encephalic tumor development by injecting C6 cells into athymic Rowett rats, aiming at reaching a model which more closely resembles to t...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2008000200019
更新日期:2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was analysed in 170 AIDS patients. All of them showed HIV positive serological tests. All of them showed neurologic syndromes related to AIDS. The time period of the investigation was July 1984-April 1989. In 8 cases (4.7%) CSF composition was normal. Lymphoma cells were observed in three cas...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1989000300013
更新日期:1989-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::An electrophysiological investigation of the state of the neuromuscular transmission (nmt) was carried out in 58 patients with the diagnosis of chronic Chagas' disease. On repetitive supramaximal nerve stimulation it was found that some patients did not show abnormalities, others had decremental muscle responses, othe...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1989000300004
更新日期:1989-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:UNLABELLED:The hereditary ataxias comprise a very large spectrum of genetically determined neurodegenerative disorders with progressive ataxia as the prominent symptom. In order to measure the severity of cerebellar ataxia in an easier and more practical way, it was proposed a new scale: the Scale for the Assessment an...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2010000200014
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::There are few descriptions about middle-aged patients who have nonconvulsive status epilepticus, absence status. We reported the clinical case of a woman, 52-year-old, diabetic, referred to the emergency room in a confusional state. Initial electroencephalogram showed continuous typical, bilateral, symmetric and synch...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1997000400022
更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The author gives a brief overview of the career of Professor Octávio da Silveira, the first neurologist and professor of neurology in the State of Paraná, as well as the first full professor of clinical neurology in the Federal University of Paraná. ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2008000400034
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Paroxysmal choreoathetosis (PC) is a rare entity, and professionals who study movement disorders do not find it easily. Paroxysmal occurrence of dystonic, choreic, athetosic movements is the typical feature of this syndrome. The onset is always subtle and the attacks can last from few seconds to hours. Sporadic cases ...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1994000300022
更新日期:1994-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical outcome and the complications of bacterial meningitis according to birth weight of out born neonates admitted in intensive care unit during an 11 year-period. METHOD:Eighty-seven newborns were studied. Thirty-four infants were low birth weight newborn and 53 presented birth weight >o...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2007000700011
更新日期:2007-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Neuroradiologic, neuropathologic and immunohistochemical features are reported in a young man with a impairment of the central nervous system mimicking an acute diffuse encephalomyelitis. A white male, 17 years old, healthy till 4 months before, when developed a right hemiparesis and after 2 months a bilateral hemipar...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1997000300023
更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine the clinical correlates of the restless legs syndrome (RLS) in a Brazilian sleep disorders center. METHODS:We retrospectively studied 118 patients with RLS from January, 2004, to December, 2010. The analyzed variables were: age at disease onset, gender, race, years of school instruction, primary...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2012000700011
更新日期:2012-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significant advances in the understanding and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have occurred since the publication of international guidelines for DMD care in 2010. Our objective was to provide an evidence-based national consensus statement for multidisciplinary care of DMD in Brazil. A combination of t...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20180062
更新日期:2018-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report the case of a 41-year-old man with iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) acquired after the use of growth hormone (GH) obtained from a number of pituitary glands sourced from autopsy material. The incubation period of the disease (from the midpoint of treatment to the onset of clinical symptoms) was rat...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2002000300022
更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::This work aimed to compare performances on the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test and its subtasks between faller and non-faller older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). A prospective study was conducted, with 38 older adults with MCI and 37 with mild AD. Participants underwent an a...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/0004-282X20180055
更新日期:2018-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Between January 1989 and June 1996, 1,059 carpal tunnel syndrome hands (CTS) from 668 patients were studied. None had been previously operated and all had bilateral conduction studies; peripheral neuropathy was excluded. The patients were selected with sensory median/radial difference (MRD) > or = 1.0 ms that strongly...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1999000200008
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Taking into account the crescent interest in the field of dystonia genetics, we have organized a didactic and fast algorithm to diagnose the main forms of hereditary dystonias. The key branch of this algorithm is pointed to dystonia classification in primary, plus, or paroxysmal. The specific characteristics of each s...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2012000900013
更新日期:2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The relationship between depression and epilepsy has been known since ancient times, however, to date, it is not fully understood. The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in persons with epilepsy is high compared to general population. It is assumed that the rate of depression ranges from 20 to 55% in patients with re...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2013000300011
更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report on a case of a 26 year old patient with seizures since the age of 13, who was sent to our service for differential diagnosis between epilepsy and psychogenic pesudoepileptic seizures. Both diagnoses were confirmed and she was operated for the resection of an occipital cystic tumour, that was considered respo...
journal_title:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00