Transient dystonia of infancy, a result of intrauterine cocaine exposure?

abstract：:About 5-10% of school-age children manifest migraine headaches. Treatment options for pediatric migraine are limited. Topiramate is approved for migraine prophylaxis in adults, but its use in children is limited. We retrospectively reviewed the records of 37 patients, i.e., 22 (60%) girls and 15 (40%) boys (mean age, ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cruz MJ,Valencia I,Legido A,Kothare SV,Khurana DS,Yum S,Hardison HH,Melvin JJ,Marks HG

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of lipid-lowering statins has been associated with raised serum muscle enzymes and, occasionally, with rhabdomyolysis, especially in patients with pre-existing metabolic myopathies. The A3243G mutation is one of the most common mutations associated with mitochondrial disorders. A teenager harboring the A3243G ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tay SK,Dimauro S,Pang AY,Lai PS,Yap HK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 5-year survival profile of 42 children and adolescents between 1 to 21 years of age in an immobile minimally conscious state, chronically dependent on supportive ventilation. Data were collected from a 22-bed pediatric unit dedicated to this unique population, within a 350-bed geriatric hospital, between ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Gale R,Namestnic J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Chinese girls with hypokalemic periodic paralysis secondary to different types of renal tubular acidosis are presented. One girl has primary distal renal tubular acidosis complicated with nephrocalcinosis. Another has primary Sjögren syndrome with distal renal tubular acidosis, which occurs rarely with hypokalem...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chang YC,Huang CC,Chiou YY,Yu CY

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central neurogenic hyperventilation refers to progressive tachypnea leading to hypocarbia and respiratory alkalosis caused by cortical disorders, initially reported in comatose patients with mainly pontine infarction. Central neurogenic hyperventilation in conscious patients is even rarer, numbering around 30 reported...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Shahar E,Postovsky S,Bennett O

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mean rectal temperatures in neonates were investigated during sleep state transitions as assessed by visually analyzed electroencephalographic-polygraphic recordings. Continuous 3-hour studies were obtained on 3 term and 5 preterm infants at postconceptional term ages using a 24-channel computerized monitoring system....

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Scher MS,Dokianakis SG,Sun M,Steppe DA,Guthrie RD,Sclabassi RJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old female is described with presumed viral encephalitis, who developed progressive catatonia, agitation, and autonomic dysfunction. The diagnosis of malignant catatonia was made, and the patient improved with electroconvulsive treatment. This article discusses features, causes, differential diagnosis, and t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Slooter AJ,Braun KP,Balk FJ,van Nieuwenhuizen O,van der Hoeven J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinically mild encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) is the second commonest cause of encephalopathy. Several pathogens have been detected in patients with MERS type 2, such as influenza A and B, but little is known about the proportion of cases of MERS type 2 with this pathogenesis. Human...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sano F,Fukao T,Tamaru K,Kanemura H,Inukai T,Aihara M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral creatine transporter deficiency, attributable to mutations in the SLC6A8 gene, causes X-linked mental retardation, language delay, epilepsy, and autistic features. In contrast with creatine synthesis defects, the vast majority of patients with SLC6A8 deficiency do not respond to treatment. We describe a Portu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Garcia P,Rodrigues F,Valongo C,Salomons GS,Diogo L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to search for STA gene defects in three families with clinically typical Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Emery-Dreifuss is an X-linked muscular dystrophy with humeroperoneal weakness and life-threatening, but treatable, cardiac abnormalities in male patients and in female carriers. The...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nevo Y,Al-Lozi M,Parsadanian AS,Elliott JL,Connolly AM,Pestronk A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to assess the sensibility of the hand in children with a neonatal brachial plexus palsy (NBPP) involving the C5 and C6, and to correlate results with dexterity. METHODS:Fifty children with NBPP (30 after nerve surgery, mean age 9.8 years) and 25 healthy controls (mean age 9.6 years...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Buitenhuis SM,Pondaag W,Wolterbeek R,Malessy MJA

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy can be used to assess brain integrity and maturation with age. OBJECTIVE:To compare regional cerebral magnetic resonance spectroscopy metabolite ratios in extremely low birth weight and healthy term control infants measured at term-equivalent age and to evaluate associ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bapat R,Narayana PA,Zhou Y,Parikh NA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial diseases comprise a group of complex and heterogeneous genetic disorders. Variable clinical features present a major challenge in pediatric diagnoses. From January 1984-June 2009, 69 patients were diagnosed with either syndromic mitochondrial diseases or nonsyndromic mitochondrial diseases. Clinical mani...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chi CS,Lee HF,Tsai CR,Lee HJ,Chen LH

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peripheral vascular thrombic events are recognized as a serious extra-intestinal complication of inflammatory bowel disease, the occurrence of cerebral vascular events in association with acute exacerbations of this group of diseases is rare. In this article, relevant literature is reviewed and three children...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Keene DL,Matzinger MA,Jacob PJ,Humphreys P

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with Rett syndrome manifest profound impairments in their ability to speak and use their hands, and exhibit a very limited repertoire of abilities to express themselves, to be neuropsychologically tested, and consequently to be understood. This study examined nonverbal cognitive abilities and visual preferenc...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Djukic A,McDermott MV

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute effects of low-dose clonazepam on seizure frequency in children with epilepsy was evaluated. In an open study, 19 children with epilepsy (15 generalized and four partial) were examined during hospitalization with recordings of seizures by trained personnel. Seizures were counted during two 24-hour periods: b...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dahlin MG,Amark PE,Nergårdh AR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary malignant melanoma of the meninges is described in a 5-year-old boy who presented with a 3-month history suggestive of subacute meningitis. Clinically the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis was made and antituberculous treatment was begun. Despite this treatment, the patient's condition continued to deteriora...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nicolaides P,Newton RW,Kelsey A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nestin is a cytoskeletal protein expressed by neural stem cells, and by immature neurons and glial cells. In an effort to explore the potential of the infant brain for repair and plasticity, we immunohistochemically studied nestin expression in the human cerebral cortex of control subjects and of patients with periven...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Okoshi Y,Mizuguchi M,Itoh M,Oka A,Takashima S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify reflex profiles in the first year of life in connection with categories of neurologic abnormality, eight primitive reflexes (i.e., the palmar grasp reflex, the plantar grasp reflex, the Galant response, the asymmetric tonic neck reflex, the suprapubic extensor reflex, the crossed extensor reflex, the Rossol...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zafeiriou DI,Tsikoulas IG,Kremenopoulos GM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A boy presented with hypertension, seizures, lethargy, headache, and occipital blindness. He improved with antihypertensive therapy. Other reported children with a similar distinctive clinical condition are compared with adults with a syndrome termed reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy. Because both gray and whit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pavlakis SG,Frank Y,Kalina P,Chandra M,Lu D

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome is an autosomal dominant condition because of mutations or deletions of the FOXL2 gene. Microcephaly is not associated with FOXL2 mutations but has been reported in individuals with chromosome 3q deletions, which include the FOXL2 gene and other contiguous...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dean SJ,Holden KR,Dwivedi A,Dupont BR,Lyons MJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exome sequencing has recently been proved to be a successful diagnostic method for complex neurodevelopmental disorders. However, the diagnostic yield of exome sequencing for autism spectrum disorders has not been extensively evaluated in large cohorts to date. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We performed diagnostic ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rossi M,El-Khechen D,Black MH,Farwell Hagman KD,Tang S,Powis Z

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel SCN1A gene are responsible for the majority of Dravet syndrome cases. There is evidence that the Nav1.1 channel coded by the SCN1A gene is involved in sleep regulation. We evaluated sleep abnormalities in children with Dravet syndrome using nocturnal polysomnogra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dhamija R,Erickson MK,St Louis EK,Wirrell E,Kotagal S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on a patient with Leigh syndrome with a T-to-C mutation at nucleotide 8993 of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (T8993C). The authors reviewed 10 Leigh syndrome patients, including ours, with T8993C. Compared with 18 reported patients with Leigh syndrome caused by a T-to-G mutation at nucleotide 8...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Fujii T,Hattori H,Higuchi Y,Tsuji M,Mitsuyoshi I

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with perinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAIS) are at risk for later neurocognitive and behavioral deficits, yet the clinical predictors of these outcomes are understudied. We examined the influence of clinical and infarct characteristics on attention and executive functioning in children following ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bosenbark DD,Krivitzky L,Ichord R,Vossough A,Bhatia A,Jastrzab LE,Billinghurst L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine the cost and efficacy of admitting patients for intravenous dihydroergotamine treatment and to identify factors associated with a higher likelihood of response to treatment. METHODS:We performed a retrospective review of all pediatric hospitalizations from 2001 to 2010 for intravenous dihydroer...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nelson GR,Bale JF,Kerr LM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute cerebellitis is a rare inflammatory syndrome in children, with either infectious or autoimmune etiologies. PATIENT:We describe a 7-year-old girl with a presentation of cerebellitis following group A streptococcal infection. RESULTS:Magnetic resonance imaging showed diffuse symmetrical swelling and ed...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Uchizono H,Iwasa T,Toyoda H,Takahashi Y,Komada Y

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought a simple and accurate method to monitor neonatal hydrocephalic infants using standard computed tomographic scans. Volume measurements were made by means of pixel counting using a personal computer and a drawing device, as a graphic tablet system, over computed tomographic scans of six infants with neonatal h...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Morimoto K,Nishikuni K,Hirano S,Takemoto O,Futagi Y

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine the factors associated with the occurrence of behavioral and cognitive abnormalities in children treated with topiramate. A retrospective chart review of patients up to 18 years of age who had been treated with topiramate at a tertiary epilepsy center was performed. Behaviora...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Gerber PE,Hamiwka L,Connolly MB,Farrell K

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium channel subunits encoded by several genes of the KCNQ family underlie the M-current. Specifically, KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 play a major role at most neuronal sites. Mutations in KCNQ2 or KCNQ3 that reduce the M-current are responsible for benign familial neonatal seizures, a rare autosomal dominant idiopathic epilep...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Goldberg-Stern H,Kaufmann R,Kivity S,Afawi Z,Heron SE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00