Cognitive function in early adult and adult onset myotonic dystrophy.

abstract：:A total of 158 recordings of brain stem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) were obtained in 121 patients with multiple sclerosis. A statistically significant increased incidence of abnormality and diffusely abnormal recordings was found with increasing duration and severity of symptoms. Alterations in follow-up record...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kjaer M

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine headache characteristics in the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and in insomnia. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Fifty-six OSAS patients and 50 insomnia patients were assessed in the same time period. Patients in both groups underwent an accurate interview to investigate headache occurrence and it...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Alberti A,Mazzotta G,Gallinella E,Sarchielli P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the incidence of adverse reactions to albendazole therapy in patients presenting with seizures and a persistent (>3 months after diagnosis), solitary cysticercus granuloma and to determine whether the occurrence of adverse reactions predicted the response of the granuloma to therapy. MATERIAL AND ME...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Rajshekhar V

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of cerebral infarction in patients with transient global amnesia (n = 43) was evaluated by CT scan and compared to that of patients with transient ischemic attacks (TIA) (n = 58) and with no neurological disease (n = 52). Significant differences were demonstrated between TGA and TIA patients in relation...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Matias-Guiu J,Colomer R,Segura A,Codina A

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-eight patients with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, 30 patients with cerebrovascular dementia, and 48 normal controls were assessed with a battery of neuropsychological tests designed to measure the following cognitive processes: orientation to time and place, memory, visual-perceptual and construct...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Villardita C

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify how chronic solvent abuse affects cognitive function using magnetic resonance imaging as an index of brain damage. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A total of 25 chronic solvent abusers underwent magnetic resonance imaging with quantitative neurometry and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales revised. RESULTS:T...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Yamanouchi N,Okada S,Kodama K,Sakamoto T,Sekine H,Hirai S,Murakami A,Komatsu N,Sato T

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined whether the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) allele epsilon4 influences imaging findings in stroke as assessed by diffusion- (DWI) and perfusion-weighted (PWI) magnetic resonance imaging, and MR angiography (MRA). METHODS:Eight ApoE epsilon4 carriers and 15 non-carriers with acute ischemic stroke in the ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Liu Y,Nuutinen J,Laakso MP,Karonen JO,Soimakallio S,Aronen HJ,Vanninen RL

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is characterized in polysomnography by recurrent airflow obstruction during sleep. The underlying pathogenic mechanisms of neuropsychological and cerebrovascular events in patients with OSAS have not been clarified unequivocally. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Case-control st...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jiménez Caballero PE,Coloma Navarro R,Segura Martín T,Ayo Martín O

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and carotid artery stenting (CAS) are common treatments for carotid artery stenosis. Several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have compared CEA to CAS in the treatment of carotid artery stenosis. These studies have suggested that CAS is more strongly associated with periprocedural ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Lamanna A,Maingard J,Barras CD,Kok HK,Handelman G,Chandra RV,Thijs V,Brooks DM,Asadi H

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existence of clinical subgroups among cases of Wilson's disease has long been postulated and various classifications suggested but none statistically tested. This study analyses, by means of pattern recognition techniques, 400 cases from 4 series including our own (n = 195). Factor analysis (to summarise variables) an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Dening TR,Berrios GE

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings of 16 patients with mycoplasma pneumoniae infections and different neurologic complications are presented. In acute meningitis there was predominantly a mononuclear cell reaction remitting in accordance with the improvement of the clinical symptoms. An early switch from IgM to Ig...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Maida E,Kristoferitsch W

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic mutation underlying Huntington's disease (HD) has been identified as an expansion and instability of a specific CAG repeat sequence in a gene on chromosome 4. A simple polymerase chain reaction assay has been used for the assessment of the (CAG)n expansion in a 72-year-old woman with typical HD symptoms, b...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bozza A,Malagù S,Calzolari E,Novelletto A,Pavoni M,del Senno L

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The common prion protein gene (PRNP) codon 129 polymorphism modifies the susceptibility to and the phenotype of prion diseases. However, no truly representative normal population-based data, or data stratified according to age or gender are available on the distribution of this polymorphism. MATERIAL AND ME...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nurmi MH,Bishop M,Strain L,Brett F,McGuigan C,Hutchison M,Farrell M,Tilvis R,Erkkilä S,Simell O,Knight R,Haltia M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether Parkinson's disease (PD) can be distinguished from multiple system atrophy (MSA) on the basis of the assessment of iodine-123 meta-iodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) radioactivity in heart and cardiovascular autonomic function. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Seventeen patients with MSA, 39 with PD, ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Oka H,Mochio S,Yoshioka M,Morita M,Onouchi K,Inoue K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown that status epilepticus can lead to neuronal injury. However, the effect of a small number of isolated seizures is uncertain. METHODS:We used structural MRI and neuropathology to study the effects of isolated seizures induced by kainic acid (KA), (RS)-2-amino-3-(3-hydroxy-5-tert-...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Acosta MT,Munashinge J,Zhang L,Guerron DA,Vortmeyer A,Theodore WH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) acts in angiogenesis and neuroprotection, although the beneficial effects on experimental ischemic stroke (IS) have not been replicated in clinical studies. We investigated serum VEGF (s-VEGF) in the acute stage (baseline) and 3 months post-stroke in relation to stro...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Åberg ND,Wall A,Anger O,Jood K,Andreasson U,Blennow K,Zetterberg H,Isgaard J,Jern C,Svensson J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental alcoholic myopathy was induced in rats by a combination of prolonged alcohol intake (mean 15.3 g ethanol/kg/day for up to 10 weeks) and a short fast. In view of literature evidence for impairment of both glycolytic and oxidative metabolism in alcoholic myopathy, we combined histological and histochemical ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Trounce I,Byrne E,Dennett X

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset muscular dystrophy. It is associated with motor symptoms but patients also display non-motor symptoms such as particular personality traits. Studies have reported mixed results about personality characteristics which may be attributable to small ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bertrand JA,Jean S,Laberge L,Gagnon C,Mathieu J,Gagnon JF,Richer L

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts were made to trace a possible retrovirus in multiple sclerosis (MS) by means of polymerase chain reaction. The primers derived from conserved sequences in the genome of human T cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type I (HTLV-I) and the amplifications were carried out at varying stringency conditions (i.a. annealing...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Rasmussen HB,Clausen J

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional blood flow in the spinal cord was measured in rabbits, cats and monkeys with radioactively labelled microspheres. The reproducibility of the method was tested in rabbits by 3 consecutive determinations with differently labelled microspheres within the different cord regions, and was found to be good. In all 3...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nyström B,Stjernschantz J,Smedegård G

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the long-term effectiveness of rufinamide in managing Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), other epileptic encephalopathies, and intractable focal epilepsies in adults and children in routine clinical practice. METHODS:A multicentre, retrospective chart review of patients prescribed adjunctive rufinamid...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jaraba S,Santamarina E,Miró J,Toledo M,Molins A,Burcet J,Becerra JL,Raspall M,Pico G,Miravet E,Cano A,Fossas P,Fernández S,Falip M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterise a Swedish family with a rare hereditary myopathy with unique sarcoplasmic inclusion bodies in the muscle biopsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Part of the pedigree was described in 1980. Nine new members of the included and the phenotype further characterised through clinical, neurophysiological and...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Engvall M,Ahlberg G,Hedberg B,Edström L,Ansved T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated the occurrence in hypertensive patients of new subclinical changes in the brain by serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS:MRI was performed serially in 98 hypertensive subjects without neurologic deficits at least once a year for 3 years. All received antihypertensive medicines Blo...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Shintani S,Shiigai T,Arinami T

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients who developed rhabdomyolysis secondary to generalized seizures are presented. Minor traumas of skeletal muscles due to seizures may be associated with myoglobinuria and the development of acute renal failure. The diagnosis rhabdomyolysis may easily be confirmed by following serum creatine kinase. Myoglobi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Os I,Lyngdal PT

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the most important inhibitory transmitter, quantitatively, in the CNS. Evidence exists that decreased GABAergic neurotransmission may play a role in some forms of epilepsy. Consequently, manipulating the GABA system may be a therapeutic possibility in the treatment of this disease. In...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Gram L

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with acute severe headache may have a secondary form of headache. Standard head computer tomography (CT) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination are often performed in the absence of neurological deficits to exclude subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Increasingly, patients undergo subsequent CT angiography (CTA...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Alons IM,van den Wijngaard IR,Verheul RJ,Lycklama à Nijeholt G,Wermer MJ,Algra A,Jellema K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with multiple sclerosis have an increased risk of infections compared to the general population. The increased risk has been described for decades and is not alone attributed to the use of disease-modifying drugs, but secondary to the disability. The introduction of more potent immunomodulatory drugs may caus...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Celius EG

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether variants in the Slit and Trk-like 1 gene (SLITRK1) are present in American Caucasian population of patients with Tourette syndrome (TS). METHODS:We sequenced the 3'-untranslated region for var321 and the whole coding region in the SLITRK1 gene in 82 Caucasian patients with TS from North ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Deng H,Le WD,Xie WJ,Jankovic J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The death rate from Parkinson's disease (PD) were analyzed using Japanese vital statistics for 1950-1992. The age-adjusted PD death rate increased statistically significantly with the years between 1950 and 1992 for both sexes. However, decline in the PD death rate were observed among the population under 65 years old...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Imaizumi Y,Kaneko R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have quantified the pattern of electrical muscle activity at a force of 0.3 kg, 30% of maximum force, and maximum force in the abductor pollicis brevis muscle of 21 patients with neurogenic disorders (10 with carpal tunnel syndrome, 9 with polyneuropathy and 2 with motor neurone disease) and of 15 normal subjects. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bril V,Fuglsang-Frederiksen A

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00