[Sjögren-Larsson syndrome. Clinical and laboratory study of 2 cases].

abstract：:In a retrospective study we assessed the outcome of the criptogenic and symptomatic forms of West syndrome and evaluated the efficacy of adrenocorticotropic hormone, vigabatrin, prednisone, valproate and nitrazepam in the spasms control. Seventy patients were follwed up by 2 years. Twelve (17%) were criptogenics and 5...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Antoniuk SA,Bruck I,Spessatto A,Halick SM,de Bruyn LR,Meister E,de Paola D

更新日期：2000-09-01 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

authors： Machado LR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Febrile seizures (FS) affect almost 2-5% of children and factors related to an increase susceptibility of children to FS may involve an imbalance of inflammatory cytokines and genetic factors. FS had low morbidity, but may be associated with the occurrence of late chronic epilepsy. Here we describe factors related to ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Terra VC,Machado HR,Sakamoto AC,Arida RM,Scorza FA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed 27 complex partial seizures arising from the temporal lobes recorded on videotape simultaneously with the EEG emphasizing the motor manifestations specially dystonic posturing, ictal paresis and head and eye forced deviation (version). The temporal lobe origin of the seizures was based on the agreement of ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Yacubian EM,Valério RM,Jorge CL,Fiore LA,Cukiert A,de Assis LM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering the genetical peculiarity of Charcot-Marie-Tooth's muscular atrophy, a family with three affected brothers was investigated, in which beginning date was discovered to be progressively antedated. Afterwards, this possible variant of anticipation is discussed, because such condition is quite ununsual, not on...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gonçalves A,da Salva JB

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important methods and results found in literature on immunoglobulins of the normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are reviewed. A study was made of immunoglobulins in the CSF of 50 individuals who suffered from chronic migraine but showed normal results for the physical and neurological examinations; electroenceph...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained in a casuistic of 170 patients with mental diseases and behavior disturbances treated by neurosurgical procedures are reported. The authors call attention to the advantages of the atraumatic stereotaxic psychosurgery over the major surgical procedures on the frontal lobes for the treatment of psyc...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Grnés RR,Torres DR,Reis AL

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to verify indications for surgery, 27 patients with refractory epileptic seizures and brain tumor, aged up to 19 years at the time of surgery, were studied between 1996 and 2013 and followed up for at least one year. The mean interval between the onset of seizures and the diagnosis of the tumor was 3.6 years,...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bernardino MR,Funayama C,Hamad AP,Machado H,Sakamoto A,Thome U,Terra VC,Santos AC

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the many risk factors suggested for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), higher frequency of seizures is a very consistent issue. Following this reasoning, it has been established that hemodialysis-associated seizure is a complication of dialysis procedure. Based on these facts, this study investigated a po...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gomes RA,Kesrouani S,Cruz J,Silva AL,Henriques TM,Albuquerque Md,Arida RM,Sonoda EY,Cysneiros RM,Terra VC,Scorza CA,Cavalheiro EA,Scorza FA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy was surveyed in the largest psychiatric hospital in the Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. This establishment was designed for one thousand long-term beds but at the time of the survey there were 1126 inpatients. Diagnosis ranged from anxiety neurosis to schizophrenia although patients with epilepsy, with...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Trevisol-Bittencourt PC,Becker N,Pozzi CM,Sander JW

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Art and Medicine often mingle in the most unexpected ways. One can often find in pictorial art the representation of many medical conditions. The same can happen with sculptures; however, the finding of an urban sculpture in a public space with features of parkinsonism is unique. We reported how "The Shaking Man", an ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Germiniani FM,Staziaki PV,Furtado VF,Teive HA

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the clinical and neuroimaging findings in a case series of vascular parkinsonism (VP). METHODS:Seventeen patients with VP were evaluated with motor, cognitive, and neuroimaging standardized tests and scales. RESULTS:All patients had arterial hypertension. Ten patients were male and the mean age of...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Vale TC,Caramelli P,Cardoso F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of radiofrequency trigeminal rhizotomy in treating 135 patients harboring trigeminal neuralgia, and to introduce a technical modification to guide the puncture of the foramen ovale. A hundred and one (74.8%) patients were treated with a single surgical procedure w...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gusmão S,Magaldi M,Arantes A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cavernous sinus is most frequently involved by septic thrombosis. The common sites of primary infection are the medial face, orbits, tonsils, soft palate, sphenoid and ethmoid sinuses. The usual clinical presentation begins with fever and periorbital edema followed by headache, ptosis and ocular muscles palsy. The...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Dini LI,Sonda I,Saraiva GA,Corso RJ,de Almeida FO,Gallo P

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Few donors are available for restoration of sensibility in patients with complete brachial plexus injuries. The objective of our study was to evaluate the anatomical feasibility of using the intercostobrachial nerve (ICBN) as an axon donor to the lateral cord contribution to the median nerve (LCMN). Methods:...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Foroni L,Siqueira MG,Martins RS,Oliveira GP

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several markers have been studied for their ability to make the CNS infiltration diagnosis earlier and more precise; previous studies showed that CSF ferritin concentrations were higher in patients with malignant invasion of CNS. The objective was to determine the importance of CSF ferritin as a biomarker for the diag...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Almeida SM,Cunha DS,Yamada E,Doi EM,Ono M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syringohydromyelia is defined as a longitudinal dilatation of the central canal of the spinal cord with accumulated cerebrospinal fluid. This condition may cause neurologic deficits when the cavity enlarges and compresses the spinal cord. We present the case of a 33 years-old female with progressive paraparesis caused...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Honorato D,Borges W,Vargas AA,Ramina R

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term dystonia was proposed by Hermann Oppenheim in 1911, but reports of cervical dystonia are finding since the Roman Empire. The differentiation of the dystonia between a neurological and a psychiatric disease turned a lot. Sometimes was proposed, further, the exclusion of the dystonia as a different phenomenon a...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Camargo CH,Teive HA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the cases of three patients from the same family, all with intracranial saccular aneurysm (left carotid artery, anterior communicating artery, and middle cerebral artery). All three patients were operated on with good recovery and no complications. The authors call attention for some etiopathogenic ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pinto JR,Godoy JM,Telles CR,Faria CS,Avelar MV,Nicaretta DH

更新日期：1992-12-01 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

authors： Erro MG,Genovese O,Correale J,Sica RE

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52 year-old male patient, had complaint of "restless sleep". His wife informed that for the past ten years the patient had presented intense and aggressive body movements, and sometimes, violent dreams. The patient also complained of excessive daytime sleepiness. His relevant previous medical history included a trau...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rodrigues RN,Silva AA

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a frequent condition in school-age children and commonly presents in comorbidity with other psychiatric diseases. In Brazil, there are few studies concerning non-clinical samples. PURPOSE:The present study aims to calculate the prevalence of this disorder a...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Pastura G,Mattos P,Araújo AP

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The industrialization process and nervous system cancer (NSC) mortality in a urban region of Brazil. METHOD:From registries of the State System of Data Analysis Foundation (SEADE), 103 males deaths by NSC (ICD-9) in Baixada Santista (BS), from 1980 to 1993 were selected. Mortality ratios were calculated com...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Medrado-Faria MD,de Almeida JW,Zanetta DM,Gattás GJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of imipramine on the treatment of comorbid chronic dizziness and panic disorder. METHOD:Nine patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia associated with chronic dizziness underwent otoneurological screening and were treated with a 3-mo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Mezzasalma MA,Mathias Kde V,Nascimento I,Valença AM,Nardi AE

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Status Dystonicus (SD) is characterized by generalized muscle contractions in dystonic patients. We report 5 cases of SD, two of which in patients with dystonic cerebral palsy, one in a patient with primary segmental dystonia, one in a patient with Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome and one in a patient with Wilson's disease...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA,Munhoz RP,Souza MM,Antoniuk SA,Santos ML,Teixeira MJ,Barbosa ER,Carvalho RC,Scaff M,Werneck LC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the central nervous system in paracoccidioidomycosis is more frequent than previously thought. The first reference to the possibility that Paracoccidioides brasiliensis could affect the central nervous system was by Pereira & Jacobs in 1919. Since then, a great number of other studies has showed thi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： da Silva CE,Cordeiro AF,Gollner AM,Cupolilo SM,Quesado-Filgueiras M,Curzio MF

更新日期：2000-09-01 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

authors： Dias-Tosta E,Aguiar MF,Barbosa H,Vilela SS

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the degree of dyslogia in the narrative of ten schizophrenic non-medicated outpatients while they narrated emotionally-loaded or neutral facts. The "emotional narratives" were much more dyslogic than the "neutral narratives". In order to explain these facts we evoke: 1. A fronto-temporo-limbic connection dys...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Caixeta M,Chaves M,Caixeta L,Reis O

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to characterize a group of patients (n=8) with sickle cell disease (SCD) and ischemic stroke concerning the clinical, neurological, imaging and progressive aspects. Data were collected from records and completed with an interview of patients and their parents. In this study there were 8 patie...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira CC,Ciasca SM,Moura-Ribeiro MV

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia become manifest by homolateral paralysis of ocular adduction and contralateral nystagmus. Principal causes are multiple sclerosis and vertebro-basilar insufficiency. We report a case in which this signal appeared as the first clinical manifestation of bacterial endocarditis and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck AL,Gonçalves AJ,Bezerra JM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00