Clinical manifestations of neurofibromatosis-1 in Chinese children.

abstract：:Periodic limb movements of sleep are clinically underdiagnosed in children. Polysomnography is the most accurate diagnostic test. There is a paucity of information regarding polysomnography findings in children. We evaluated the prevalence and correlates of pediatric periodic limb movements detected by polysomnography...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bokkala S,Napalinga K,Pinninti N,Carvalho KS,Valencia I,Legido A,Kothare SV

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guillain-Barré syndrome is the most common cause of acute flaccid paresis in childhood. Few validated large-scale population-based data are available concerning pediatric Guillain-Barré syndrome, including incidence, risk factors, and initial clinical characteristics. METHODS:In the Danish National Patient ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Levison LS,Thomsen RW,Markvardsen LK,Christensen DH,Sindrup SH,Andersen H

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：: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：: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：:The historic and current status of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome diagnosis, classification, and therapies are discussed. A number of symptomatic therapies are available and should be used optimally for each patient. Although one gene locus has been identified, many patients do not manifest linkage to the NBIA1 locus (ne...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Swaiman KF

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autopsy studies in Rasmussen encephalitis reveal areas of sparing within the affected hemisphere. Clinical progression and inflammation are milder with an older onset. We sought to demonstrate radiological corroboration for these patterns. METHODS:In our retrospective study, 38 cases were dichotomized into ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Benjamin RN,Thomas M,Muthusamy K,Yoganathan S,Mathew V,Chacko AG,Prabhu K,Chacko G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outcome of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia has improved because of intensive chemotherapy and supportive care. The frequency of adverse events has also increased, but the data related to acute central nervous system complications during acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment are sparse. The purpos...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Baytan B,Evim MS,Güler S,Güneş AM,Okan M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of alternating hemiplegia of childhood is reported. Tonic fits and generalized tonic-clonic seizures developed during her infancy. Frequent twitching and apneic seizures appeared at 16 years of age. Zonisamide transiently suppressed the tonic, twitching and apneic seizures, as well as the facial and neck dyston...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Saito Y,Sakuragawa N,Sasaki M,Sugai K,Hashimoto T

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute intermittent porphyria is an inherited disease that is rarely diagnosed in prepubertal children. It can affect the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous system. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is a clinicoradiological entity characterized by headache, seizures, altered consciousness, ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zhao B,Wei Q,Wang Y,Chen Y,Shang H

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick type C disease is an autosomal-recessive, inherited neurovisceral lipid storage disorder. This disease results from either protein NPC1 or HE1 deficiency, which leads to cholesterol metabolism disturbance and is characterized by early hepatosplenomegaly and progressive ataxia, dystonia, cataplexy, dysarth...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zafeiriou DI,Triantafyllou P,Gombakis NP,Vargiami E,Tsantali C,Michelakaki E

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebrospinal fluid opening pressure is elevated with central nervous system infection and vasculitis, but has not been studied in inflammatory demyelinating disease. This retrospective study sought to determine whether children with demyelinating disease demonstrate elevated cerebrospinal fluid opening pres...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Narula S,Liu GT,Avery RA,Banwell B,Waldman AT

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are members of a superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast signal transmission at synapses. Mutations in neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor beta 2 subunit have been associated with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsies. A major challenge is t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Peng CT,Chou IC,Li CI,Hsu YA,Tsai CH,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination is one of several useful tools for early identification of cerebral palsy; however, cut-off scores for cerebral palsy do not consistently distinguish infants with hemiplegia from those typically developing. We hypothesized that use of an asymmetry score, in add...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hay K,Nelin M,Carey H,Chorna O,Moore-Clingenpeel Ma Mas M,Maitre N,NCH Early Developmental Group.

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) using 18F-labeled 2-deoxy-D-glucose was performed serially in 5 infants with idiopathic West syndrome. While tonic spasms persisted, 2 infants had hypometabolism in the bilateral temporo-parieto-occipital regions, which disappeared after cessation of spasms. In 2 other infants, PET r...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Maeda N,Watanabe K,Negoro T,Aso K,Haga Y,Kito M,Ohki T,Ito K,Kato T

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylosuccinate lyase (ASL) deficiency is a defect in purine de novo synthesis pathway. The disease has variable clinical presentation involving psychomotor retardation, seizures, hypotonia, and autism. The presence of succinyladenosine and succinylaminoimidazole carboxamide riboside (SAICA riboside) in body fluids c...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Valik D,Miner PT,Jones JD

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Uniform diagnostic criteria for acute disseminated encephalomyelitis did not exist until publication of expert-defined consensus definitions by the International Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Society Group in 2007, with upda...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cole J,Evans E,Mwangi M,Mar S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphetamine-derived medications are being prescribed with increasing frequency to younger pediatric patients to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although choreiform movements were reported in adults with amphetamine abuse and in those under therapeutic treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disor...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ford JB,Albertson TE,Owen KP,Sutter ME,McKinney WB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The details of 328 patients with bacterial meningitis, admitted from 1984 through 1993, were obtained from 46 departments of pediatrics of large hospitals through questionnaires. The incidence rate per 100,000 child-years was 2.32, being higher in children aged 0-4 years (rate, 7.22) than 5-15 years (rate, 0.49). The ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ishikawa T,Asano Y,Morishima T,Nagashima M,Sobue G,Watanabe K,Yamaguchi H

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign paroxysmal torticollis in infancy is characterized by periods of torticollic posturing of the head. The onset of the episodes usually occurs during the first month of life and may recur at varying intervals until the age of 1-5 years. This appears to be a self-limited disorder. The follow-up of 7 patients with ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cohen HA,Nussinovitch M,Ashkenasi A,Straussberg R,Kauschanksy A,Frydman M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal neurocritical care is a growing and rapidly evolving medical subspecialty, with increasing numbers of dedicated multidisciplinary clinical, educational, and research programs established at academic institutions. The growth of these programs has provided trainees in neurology, neonatology, and pedia...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Smyser CD,Tam EWY,Chang T,Soul JS,Miller SP,Glass HC

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylphenidate (MPH) effects on global and complex measures of electroencephalography were examined in boys with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder between the ages of 9 and 11 years. Electroencephalogram (EEG) data were collected separately from the administration of a continuous performance task and were eval...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lubar JF,White JN Jr,Swartwood MO,Swartwood JN

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevalence and contribution of intracranial and extracranial arterial stenosis to stroke risk were assessed prospectively in children and young adults with sickle cell disease. METHODS:In this cross-sectional study, children and young adults (mean = 19.4 years) with sickle cell disease underwent neurologica...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Schlotman AA,Donahue MJ,Kassim AA,Lee CA,Waddle SL,Pruthi S,Davis LT,Rodeghier M,DeBaun MR,Jordan LC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the case of an 11-year-old girl with a prior history of epilepsy and multiple episodes of status epilepticus who presented with generalized convulsive status epilepticus and left hemiclonic seizures. Magnetic resonance imaging, including diffusion-weighted sequences and spectroscopy, and neuropat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tsuchida TN,Barkovich AJ,Bollen AW,Hart AP,Ferriero DM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudotumor cerebri is a clinical syndrome characterized by increased intracranial pressure in the absence of an intracranial tumor. It is most frequently diagnosed in obese young women, but it is also reported in children of all age groups, including infants. A variety of medical conditions have been suggested as pos...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Keren T,Lahat E

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Spinal teratomas are extremely rare; they constitute <0.5% of all spinal cord tumors. These rare tumors have nonspecific manifestations but in most cases are accompanied by neurological deficits. Rupture of a mature teratoma can cause chemical meningitis. PATIENT DESCRIPTION:A 7-year-old boy presented wit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Mpayo LL,Liu XH,Xu M,Wang K,Wang J,Yang L

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Rachischisis totalis is a rare open neural tube defect often associated with lethal acrania. When acrania is not present, mortality remains high and morbidity for survivors is extreme. PATIENT:We describe is a term newborn with in-utero diagnosed rachischisis totalis without acrania and Chiari II malformati...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Meadows JT Jr,Hayes D Jr

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier reports on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the classical form of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease seemed to divide the patterns of the high-intensity lesions in the white matter into three subtypes: type I, diffusely hemispheric and corticospinal; type II, diffusely hemispheric without brainstem le...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nezu A,Kimura S,Takeshita S,Osaka H,Kimura K,Inoue K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00