Transient focal cortical hypometabolism in idiopathic West syndrome.

abstract：:Amiel-Tison neurologic assessment at term has recently been updated for clinical application. Experience in this field, in addition to a better understanding of pathophysiologic characteristics of the immature brain, has taught us that an increased precision in assessing central nervous system function in the neonate ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Amiel-Tison C

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac arrhythmia may be one of the major causes of sudden unexpected death in children with epilepsy. We assessed drug-induced QT prolongation to establish whether the use of antiepileptic drugs contributes to sudden unexpected death. A total of 178 children with epilepsy (93 males and 85 females, with ages ranging ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kwon S,Lee S,Hyun M,Choe BH,Kim Y,Park W,Cho Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient is a 10-year-old male who experienced somnolence and incomplete quadriplegia after headache and vomiting, without exanthema, for 3 days. The clinical course and magnetic resonance imaging findings of the brain and spinal cord were compatible with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The serologic examinat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nagai K,Mori T

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinatal stroke is presented as the ideal human model of developmental neuroplasticity. The precise timing, mechanisms, and locations of specific perinatal stroke diseases provide common examples of well defined, focal, perinatal brain injuries. Motor disability (hemiparetic cerebral palsy) constitutes the primary ad...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kirton A

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral cavernous malformations are the second most common vascular malformations in the central nervous system, and over one-third are found in children. Lesions may be solitary or multiple, be discovered incidentally, be sporadic, or be secondary to familial cavernomatosis or radiation therapy. Children may present...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Paddock M,Lanham S,Gill K,Sinha S,Connolly DJA

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common clinical syndromes associated with 3-methylglutaconic aciduria are presented. In some patients these syndromes are multisystemic, progressive disorders of unknown etiology. Tissues deriving significant energy through oxidative metabolism (notably brain and cardiac muscle) are most often affected and in...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Gibson KM,Elpeleg ON,Jakobs C,Costeff H,Kelley RI

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial oxidation of a variety of substrates produces the bulk of energy requirements for most cell types. Impairment of oxidative metabolism may result in a broad spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms. A disorder of oxidative metabolism should be suspected when an unexplained association of signs and symptoms...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Breningstall GN

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the study was to assess the long-term seizure and neuropsychologic outcomes of patients with tuberous sclerosis and refractory epilepsy who received vagus nerve stimulator implantation. Eleven patients with a follow-up period of at least 12 months were studied retrospectively. The mean age at the time of i...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zamponi N,Petrelli C,Passamonti C,Moavero R,Curatolo P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic oral VP-16 (etoposide) is a chemotherapy regimen with a wide application in oncology and documented efficacy against germ cell tumors, lymphomas, Kaposi's sarcoma, and primary brain tumors. This study was performed to assess the toxicity and activity of chronic oral etoposide in the management of children with...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chamberlain MC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In areas without expanded newborn screening, instead of presenting neonatally, patients with arginase deficiency typically present with spastic paraplegia in early childhood. Diagnosis of this rare neurometabolic disease poses the first challenge because it is often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy during initial stages...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tsang JP,Poon WL,Luk HM,Fung CW,Ching CK,Mak CM,Lam CW,Siu TS,Tam S,Wong VC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychogenic seizures or psychogenic nonepileptic seizures occur in various mental disorders. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms can also imitate epileptic partial seizures, but detailed observations of this phenomenon are rare in the literature. A girl of 13 years was referred to the Department of Child Psychiatry because ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wolańczyk T,Bryńska A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pediatric patients with epilepsy are at risk for low vitamin D levels, increasing the risk for bone fractures, yet standardized bone health screening is not part of routine care. METHODS:We surveyed pediatric neurologists (n = 68) at our center regarding screening practices, using an 11-item survey; constru...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Patel AA,An S,Schomer M,Julich K,Elitt C,Heath J,Putman MS,Loddenkemper T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year, 6-month-old female was evaluated for subacute onset of left-sided hemichorea/hemiballismus, with an old, right parietal, cortical, and subcortical stroke as the presumed cause. Treatment with gabapentin was initiated, with good results at 6-month follow-up. Discussion of the differential diagnosis and evalu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kothare SV,Pollack P,Kulberg AG,Ravin PD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute encephalitis and encephalopathy are life-threatening diseases in children. However, no laboratory examinations are performed for their early diagnosis and treatment. Alpha 2-macroglobulin (α2M) is a blood glycoprotein that increases during the early stages of inflammation. In the present study, we inve...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Suzuki Y,Hashimoto K,Hoshi K,Ito H,Kariya Y,Miyazaki K,Sato M,Kawasaki Y,Yoshida M,Honda T,Hashimoto Y,Hosoya M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic T-cell lymphoma presenting with neurologic symptoms is infrequently reported in immunocompetent children. We investigated the presenting features in all 20 immunocompetent children diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma at our institution from 1992-2004. Four children presented with neurologic features. These finding...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bassuk AG,Mohile NA,Stack C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-year-old boy had a gradual onset of post-exercise myalgia with progressive fatigue and dizziness. He had bradycardia (37 beats/minute) with low supine and normal standing norepinephrine levels (56 and 311 pg/mL, respectively). He had absent sympathetically mediated vasoconstrictor responses during Valsalva maneuv...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Fischer PR,Sandroni P,Pittock SJ,Porter CB,Lehwald LM,Raj SR

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiepileptic drug felbamate has demonstrated efficacy against a variety of seizure types in the pediatric population, particularly seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Postmarketing experience, however, revealed serious idiosyncratic adverse effects not observed during clinical trials, including apla...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zupanc ML,Roell Werner R,Schwabe MS,O'Connor SE,Marcuccilli CJ,Hecox KE,Chico MS,Eggener KA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) are heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders. A better understanding of genotype-phenotype-histology correlation is expected to improve patient care and enhance understanding for phenotypic variability. This meta-analysis studies the correlation of NCL genotypes with cli...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Aungaroon G,Hallinan B,Jain P,Horn PS,Spaeth C,Arya R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Concern exists regarding a possible harmful impact of vacuum extraction on the preterm newborn. We aimed to evaluate the long-term pediatric neurodevelopmental outcomes of the preterm offspring after vacuum extraction. METHODS:A population-based cohort analysis was performed comparing the risk for long-term...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Schwarzman P,Sheiner E,Wainstock T,Mastrolia SA,Segal I,Landau D,Walfisch A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We describe the growth and nutritional status of children with cerebral palsy (2 to 18 years old) in West China and to explore the correlation between the nutritional status and age, gender, and gross and fine motor function. METHODS:We performed a cross-sectional survey of children registered as having cer...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wang F,Cai Q,Shi W,Jiang H,Li N,Ma D,Wang Q,Luo R,Mu D

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy syndrome involves sudden and prolonged unilateral seizures, followed by transient or permanent hemiplegia and epilepsy during infancy or early childhood. Some patients with familial hemiplegic migraine and demonstrating the S218L mutation in CACNA1A experience severe attacks with uni...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yamazaki S,Ikeno K,Abe T,Tohyama J,Adachi Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insomnia and low iron stores are common in children with autism spectrum disorders, and low iron stores have been associated with sleep disturbance. METHODS:We performed a randomized placebo-controlled trial of oral ferrous sulfate to treat insomnia in children with autism spectrum disorders and low normal ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Reynolds AM,Connolly HV,Katz T,Goldman SE,Weiss SK,Halbower AC,Shui AM,Macklin EA,Hyman SL,Malow BA

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：: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：:Early-onset ataxia with oculomotor apraxia and hypoalbuminemia is an autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia characterized by oculomotor apraxia, peripheral neuropathy, and hypoalbuminemia. Mutations in aprataxin gene located at chromosome 9q13 have been identified recently in Japanese and European patients. This study ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ito A,Yamagata T,Mori M,Momoi MY

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Clinical and laboratory findings of 25 patients with classical Cockayne syndrome (CS) are reviewed. A history of consanguinity was present in 21 patients, and 15 patients had at least 1 affected sibling. Apart from the cardinal features of dwarfism, microcephaly, and mental retardation, the most consistent clinical fe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ozdirim E,Topçu M,Ozön A,Cila A

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to further clarify ictal electroencephalographic findings of patients with benign partial epilepsy in infancy in order to better understand its neurophysiologic features. The study group consisted of 13 infants with definite benign partial epilepsy in infancy, in whom ictal electroencephalogra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Okumura A,Watanabe K,Negoro T,Hayakawa F,Kato T,Natsume J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a rare neurologic disorder of childhood and adolescence. We describe a 16-year-old boy who manifested the disease despite proper vaccinations. He was hospitalized because of bedwetting, involuntary limb movements, abnormal speech, and balance disturbances. Immunoglobulin G antibo...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Har-Even R,Aichenbaum S,Rabey JM,Livne A,Bistritzer T

更新日期：2011-06-01 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