Is late-onset multiple sclerosis associated with a worse outcome?

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the lifetime prevalence and the concordance risk of cluster headache (CH) in a twin sample representative of the Swedish general population. METHODS:The authors assessed CH as defined by the second edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders in 31,750 registered twins born fr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ekbom K,Svensson DA,Pedersen NL,Waldenlind E

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the number of new gadolinium-enhancing and T2-weighted lesions on six monthly MRI scans in eight patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis before and during treatment with weekly intramuscular interferon beta-1a (Avonex; 30 microg). MRI activity was modestly reduced during treatment (p = 0.016). The treat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waubant E,Goodkin DE,Sloan R,Andersson PB

更新日期：1999-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, twofold crossover study in 16 patients with MS who presented with severe spasticity to investigate safety, tolerability, and efficacy of oral Delta(9)-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and Cannabis sativa plant extract. Both drugs were safe, but adverse ev...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Killestein J,Hoogervorst EL,Reif M,Kalkers NF,Van Loenen AC,Staats PG,Gorter RW,Uitdehaag BM,Polman CH

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with marked impairments in health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Although standard clinical end points such as the Expanded Disability Status Scale and annualized relapse rate remain useful in assessing MS activity and severity, these measur...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller D,Rudick RA,Hutchinson M

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcome after carpal tunnel surgery was studied retrospectively in 32 patients with peripheral neuropathy and carpal tunnel syndrome. Nocturnal paresthesias were almost universally relieved, followed in order of responsiveness by pain, numbness, and weakness. Twenty-five of 28 patients said they would have the surgery...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Morgenlander JC,Lynch JR,Sanders DB

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the risk of seizure recurrence after a first seizure due to neurocysticercosis (NC) and to evaluate risk factors for seizure recurrence, including the influence of antihelminthic treatment. METHODS:The authors prospectively followed 77 patients with a first seizure and active or transitional NC ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carpio A,Hauser WA

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Men and women with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) had more brain atrophy and ventricular dilatation, measured by quantitative CT, than did respective age- and sex-matched healthy controls (p less than 0.05). The male DAT patients with mild dementia had a larger mean third ventricle volume, whereas male patients ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Creasey H,Schwartz M,Frederickson H,Haxby JV,Rapoport SI

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concepts of pathogenesis in Parkinson's disease (PD) have been based on attempts to understand the mechanisms responsible for nigral dopaminergic cell death. Pathogenesis has been proposed to involve oxidative and nitrative stress, excitotoxicity, inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and altered proteolysis. These...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jenner P,Olanow CW

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of Burkitt's cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting with the bilateral numb chin syndrome as the initial symptom of the disease. Postmortem study of the trigeminal nerve showed heavy infiltrations of leukemic cells and destruction of axon and myelin by leukemic cells in the mandibular nerve. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kuroda Y,Fujiyama F,Ohyama T,Watanabe T,Endo C,Neshige R,Kakigi R

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to create an index to stratify cryptogenic stroke (CS) patients with patent foramen ovale (PFO) by their likelihood that the stroke was related to their PFO. METHODS:Using data from 12 component studies, we used generalized linear mixed models to predict the presence of PFO among patients with CS, a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kent DM,Ruthazer R,Weimar C,Mas JL,Serena J,Homma S,Di Angelantonio E,Di Tullio MR,Lutz JS,Elkind MS,Griffith J,Jaigobin C,Mattle HP,Michel P,Mono ML,Nedeltchev K,Papetti F,Thaler DE

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of earlier diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) requires in-depth investigation of its benefits and consequences. First, how good must a treatment be before ALS is determined to be a treatable condition? Analogy with cancer therapy suggests that a good quality of life after treatment is an esse...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Brooks BR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the centralized diagnostic data resource for the population of Rochester, Minnesota, we determined the prevalence of medically diagnosed dementia for this community. There were 289 individuals with dementia who were residing in Rochester on January 1, 1975: 208 women and 81 men. The overall age- and sex-adjusted...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kokmen E,Beard CM,Offord KP,Kurland LT

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of volumetric MRI as a biomarker for assessing transitions to dementia presumes that more rapid brain loss marks the clinical transition from benign aging to mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The trajectory of this volume loss relative to the timing of the clinical transition to dementia has not been ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Carlson NE,Moore MM,Dame A,Howieson D,Silbert LC,Quinn JF,Kaye JA

更新日期：2008-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate if patterns of CSF biomarkers (T-tau, P-tau, and Abeta42) can predict cognitive progression, outcome of cholinesterase inhibitor (ChEI) treatment, and mortality in Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:We included outpatients with AD (n = 151) from a prospective treatment study with ChEI. At baselin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wallin AK,Blennow K,Zetterberg H,Londos E,Minthon L,Hansson O

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe three patients with acute chiasmal visual field loss caused by hemorrhage within an intrachiasmal arteriovenous malformation. One patient had five episodes; vision improved three times without treatment and twice after surgical decompression. Surgical intervention restored vision in two of the three patien...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lavin PJ,McCrary JA 3rd,Roessmann U,Ellenberger C Jr

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relating the onset of clinical attacks as recorded on a videotape to surface and depth electrographic events improves our ability to define the local or diffuse origin of seizures. In two patients with complex partial seizures, all 14 attacks appeared 3 to 6 seconds after focal discharges began in the amygdala or hipp...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Delgado-Escueta AV,Nashold B,Freedman M,Keplinger C,Waddell G,Miller P,Carwille S

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used 1H-MRS to investigate hypothalamic metabolism in 26 patients with cluster headache (CH) and 12 healthy subjects. Hypothalamic N-acetylaspartate/creatine was reduced in patients with CH vs controls (p < 0.01). Dividing the patients into episodic CH outside- and in-cluster periods and chronic CH, the hy...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lodi R,Pierangeli G,Tonon C,Cevoli S,Testa C,Bivona G,Magnifico F,Cortelli P,Montagna P,Barbiroli B

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients surviving retinopathy-positive cerebral malaria (CM) are at high risk for the development of epilepsy, developmental disabilities, and behavioral abnormalities. We aimed to establish whether retinopathy-negative CM is also a risk factor for these outcomes. METHODS:Between 2005 and 2007, survivors o...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Postels DG,Taylor TE,Molyneux M,Mannor K,Kaplan PW,Seydel KB,Chimalizeni YF,Kawaza K,Birbeck GL

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the frequency and predictive value of ocular fundus abnormalities among patients who presented to the emergency department (ED) with focal neurologic deficits to determine the utility of these findings in the evaluation of patients with suspected TIA and stroke. METHODS:In this cross-sectional ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vuong LN,Thulasi P,Biousse V,Garza P,Wright DW,Newman NJ,Bruce BB

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Age at 1st risk for seizures may predict anomia following dominant anterior temporal lobectomy. We assessed confrontation naming before and 2 to 3 weeks after surgery in 45 right-handed patients grouped by side of focus and presence or absence of early (less than or equal to 5 years) risk factors. After left lobectomy...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stafiniak P,Saykin AJ,Sperling MR,Kester DB,Robinson LJ,O'Connor MJ,Gur RC

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a widely held belief that most patients presenting with senile chorea have late-onset Huntington's disease (HD) with an unknown family history. We measured CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in the HD gene in four patients with a clinical presentation of senile chorea and found that CAG repetition lengths wer...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Shinotoh H,Calne DB,Snow B,Hayward M,Kremer B,Theilmann J,Hayden MR

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal formation atrophy (HFA) developed in an adult, who did not have epilepsy previously, after the occurrence of new-onset partial seizures from acute thrombosis of an ipsilateral parietal venous angioma. There was no evidence of hippocampal injury, and the patient had only one brief, generalized tonic-clonic ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Worrell GA,Sencakova D,Jack CR,Flemming KD,Fulgham JR,So EL

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) is a recently described, underrecognized neurodegenerative disorder of aging fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) premutation carriers, particularly men. Core motor features are action tremor, gait ataxia, and parkinsonism. Carriers have expanded CGG repea...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Leehey MA,Berry-Kravis E,Goetz CG,Zhang L,Hall DA,Li L,Rice CD,Lara R,Cogswell J,Reynolds A,Gane L,Jacquemont S,Tassone F,Grigsby J,Hagerman RJ,Hagerman PJ

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte subpopulations ("active' T cells, total T cells, and B cells), leukocyte migration, lymphocyte transformation, complements (CH50, C3, and C4), and immune complexes in serum and cerebrospinal fluid were studied in 23 patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. The percentage of active T cells was norm...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Derakhshan I,Massoud A,Foroozanfar N,Nikbin B,Lotfi J,Shakib N,Ala F

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A) and hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) are inherited peripheral neuropathies. In most cases these disorders are caused by either the duplication (in CMT1A) or the deletion (in HNPP) of a 1.5-megabase DNA fragment on chromosome 17p11.2, which cont...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Young P,Stögbauer F,Wiebusch H,Löfgren A,Timmerman V,Van Broeckhoven C,Ringelstein EB,Assmann G,Funke H

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test efficacy and safety of atorvastatin in subjects with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). METHODS:Subjects with CIS were enrolled in a phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 14-center randomized trial testing 80 mg atorvastatin on clinical and brain MRI activity. Brain MRIs were performed quarter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Waubant E,Pelletier D,Mass M,Cohen JA,Kita M,Cross A,Bar-Or A,Vollmer T,Racke M,Stüve O,Schwid S,Goodman A,Kachuck N,Preiningerova J,Weinstock-Guttman B,Calabresi PA,Miller A,Mokhtarani M,Iklé D,Murphy S,Kopetskie

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the histories and the clinical course of 111 patients who had nonlesional temporal lobe epilepsy. We compared 61 patients with unilateral hippocampal sclerosis (UHS group) and 50 patients with minimal change (MRI negative group) assessed on the basis of MRI. In agreement with previous reports, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kanemoto K,Takeuchi J,Kawasaki J,Kawai I

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a 1.5-tesla GE Signa MR scanner, we imaged the brains of 14 right-handed Tourette's syndrome (TS) patients (11 men, three women), aged 18 to 49 years, who had minimal lifetime neuroleptic exposure. We also studied an equal number of normal controls individually matched for age, sex, and handedness and group-matc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peterson B,Riddle MA,Cohen DJ,Katz LD,Smith JC,Hardin MT,Leckman JF

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracranial carotid systems of 105 patients with retinal ischemia were examined using B-mode ultrasonography with integrated pulsed Doppler. Sixty-four patients had amaurosis fugax (AF), 17 central retinal artery occlusions (CRAO), and 21 branch retinal artery occlusions (BRAO). The prevalence of carotid stenosis...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chawluk JB,Kushner MJ,Bank WJ,Silver FL,Jamieson DG,Bosley TM,Conway DJ,Cohen D,Savino PJ

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the risk of recurrent intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) in patients on vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) after a first episode of ICH. METHODS:The Cerebral Haemorrhage in patients Restarting Oral Anticoagulant Therapy (CHIRONE) Study collected data of patients eligible for the study from the database of 2...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Poli D,Antonucci E,Dentali F,Erba N,Testa S,Tiraferri E,Palareti G,Italian Federation of Anticoagulation Clinics (FCSA).

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00