Thymus changes in anti-MuSK-positive and -negative myasthenia gravis.

abstract：:The authors examined the neural function of a postmeningitic deaf-blind patient who regained his hearing with a multichannel cochlear implant. Auditory stimuli activated the temporal cortices of both sides in a manner similar to that of controls, reflecting the successful recruitment of the auditory cortex after impla...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Osaki Y,Takasawa M,Doi K,Nishimura H,Iwaki T,Imaizumi M,Oku N,Hatazawa J,Kubo T

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional decline for each decade at symptom onset and need for cane, walker, or wheelchair were assessed in 78 biopsy-proved patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis. Patients with disease onset between 40 and 59 years used a walker after 10.2 +/- 5.8 years, whereas those with disease onset between 60 and 79 y...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Peng A,Koffman BM,Malley JD,Dalakas MC

更新日期：2000-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system involvement in melioidosis is unusual. We describe a 34-year-old man who developed a Pseudomonas pseudomallei meningitis, manifested as bilateral third-nerve palsies, 13 years after having been in southeast Asia. Diagnosis was established by a fourfold rise in the serum antibody titer for the ba...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Beck RW,Janssen RS,Smiley ML,Schatz NJ,Savino PJ,Rubin DH

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:A national survey, based on a probability sample of patients admitted to short-term hospitals in the United States during 1973 to 1974 with a discharge diagnosis of an intracranial neoplasm, was conducted in 157 hospitals. The annual incidence was estimated at 17,000 for primary intracranial neoplasms and 17,400 for s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Walker AE,Robins M,Weinfeld FD

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a retrospective study on a series of 119 of our patients who have Friedreich's disease to assess the predictive value of age at onset, gender, and left ventricular hypertrophy in regard to disease progression. Outcome variables were survival, time to loss of independent gait, and time to confinement in a ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： De Michele G,Perrone F,Filla A,Mirante E,Giordano M,De Placido S,Campanella G

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the clinical and electrophysiologic features of 36 patients with increased titers of IgM anti-GM1 antibodies. Mildly elevated titers of up to 3,200 were not associated with any particular clinical syndrome or disease. Clinically, 14 of 16 patients with highly elevated titers of 6,400 or higher had progress...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kinsella LJ,Lange DJ,Trojaborg W,Sadiq SA,Younger DS,Latov N

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We transplanted autologous adrenal medullary tissue into the caudate nucleus of 3 patients with advanced Parkinson's disease. The 1st patient, a 59-year-old man with parkinsonian symptoms for 15 years, had mild improvement in his motor functioning after the operation. However, his postoperative course was characterize...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jankovic J,Grossman R,Goodman C,Pirozzolo F,Schneider L,Zhu Z,Scardino P,Garber AJ,Jhingran SG,Martin S

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the prognostic significance of preoperative EEG findings in 25 patients who underwent functional hemispherectomy. Bilateral independent epileptogenic foci, found in five patients, generally indicate a less satisfactory outcome, with only three of the five patients becoming seizure free following hemisphere...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smith SJ,Andermann F,Villemure JG,Rasmussen TB,Quesney LF

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 48-year-old man presented with progressive spastic paraparesis and diffuse white matter involvement on neuroimaging that suggested a primary demyelinating disease. Brain biopsy 3 years after onset of symptoms demonstrated idiopathic granulomatous angiitis. In patients with MRI features of diffuse white matter diseas...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Finelli PF,Onyiuke HC,Uphoff DF

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many aging-associated neurologic disorders, including primary malignant brain tumors (MBT), share a common biphasic age-specific mortality rate pattern: initially increasing exponentially with age, and then declining. A modeling study using MBT mortality was conducted to determine if the observed biphasic pattern of M...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Riggs JE

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a postoperative fistula of the left posterior semicircular canal is presented. Negative pressure in the external ear canal produced upbeat-torsional nystagmus, which was recorded in three dimensions using binocular scleral search coils. The nystagmus was conjugate, without skew deviation, and its trajec...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cremer PD,Migliaccio AA,Pohl DV,Curthoys IS,Davies L,Yavor RA,Halmagyi GM

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the efficacy and safety of low-dose oral tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the treatment of dementia-related neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS). METHODS:This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Patients with dementia and clinically relevant NPS were randomly assigned to receive THC 1.5...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： van den Elsen GA,Ahmed AI,Verkes RJ,Kramers C,Feuth T,Rosenberg PB,van der Marck MA,Olde Rikkert MG

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the ability of nurse clinicians to assess parkinsonian signs in older persons with a modified version of the motor section of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS). After completing a structured training protocol, three nurse clinicians and a neurologist with expertise in movement disorders...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bennett DA,Shannon KM,Beckett LA,Goetz CG,Wilson RS

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligoclonal bands ( OCBs ) were examined in CSF from 23 normal controls, 8 cases of inflammatory neurologic diseases, 24 cases of noninflammatory neurologic diseases, 27 sporadic cases of MS, and the 29 MS twin pairs, by isoelectric focusing followed by silver staining or western transblotting and immunoperoxidase sta...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Xu XH,McFarlin DE

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether the burden of deep and lobar lacunes differs between patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) with definite/probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) per the Boston criteria and hypertensive small vessel disease (HTN-SVD; ICH in basal ganglia, thalami, brainstem). METHODS:We defined ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Pasi M,Boulouis G,Fotiadis P,Auriel E,Charidimou A,Haley K,Ayres A,Schwab KM,Goldstein JN,Rosand J,Viswanathan A,Pantoni L,Greenberg SM,Gurol ME

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemorrhage complicating acute carbon monoxide poisoning is usually confined to the basal ganglia. The authors report three people with acute carbon monoxide poisoning manifesting selective or prominent white matter involvement complicated by hemorrhagic infarction on CT and MRI in one and by subcortical T2*-weighted M...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Finelli PF,DiMario FJ Jr

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate clinical and economic consequences following generic substitution of one vs multiple generics of topiramate (Topamax; Ortho-McNeil Neurologics, Titusville, NJ). METHODS:Medical and pharmacy claims data of Régie de l'Assurance-Maladie du Québec from January 2006 to October 2007 were used. Patie...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Duh MS,Paradis PE,Latrémouille-Viau D,Greenberg PE,Lee SP,Durkin MB,Wan GJ,Rupnow MF,LeLorier J

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid protease activity was increased in skeletal muscle of patients with ALS. The highest levels of activity were found in individuals with the clinically and histologically most affected muscle. High levels of proteolytic activity correlated with the extent of muscle atrophy, the presence of target fibers and the ove...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Antel JP,Chelmicka-Schorr E,Sportiello M,Stefansson K,Wollmann RL,Arnason BG

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid therapy slows the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In muscle cultures, the addition of the glucocorticoid methylprednisolone increases myogenesis in most normal mixed and clonal cultures. Conversely, in some normal clonal and most dystrophic cultures, methylprednisolone inhibits fusion. Howev...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hardiman O,Sklar RM,Brown RH Jr

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) changes in the hippocampus within 48 hours of acute symptomatic seizures or status epilepticus in 12 patients. DWI showed increased signal and a decreased apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in all patients, with correspon...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Parmar H,Lim SH,Tan NC,Lim CC

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the distribution of prior scoliosis among patients with primary adult-onset cervical dystonia (CD) and matched control subjects. METHODS:Case and control subjects were selected among consecutive outpatients attending four Italian centers. Control outpatients were matched for age (+/-5 years), sex, a...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Defazio G,Abbruzzese G,Girlanda P,Buccafusca M,Currà A,Marchese R,Martino D,Masi G,Mazzella L,Vacca L,Livrea P,Berardelli A

更新日期：2003-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants in children with a first episode of acquired demyelinating syndromes (PD-ADS) of the CNS and their relationship to disease phenotype, including subsequent diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:This exploratory analysis included the initial 213 childr...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Venkateswaran S,Zheng K,Sacchetti M,Gagne D,Arnold DL,Sadovnick AD,Scherer SW,Banwell B,Bar-Or A,Simon DK,Canadian Pediatric Demyelinating Disease Network.

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the prevalence and prognostic significance of major driver molecular alterations in adult midline diffuse gliomas (MLG). METHODS:Adults with histologically proven MLG diagnosed between 1996 and 2017 were identified from our tumor bank, systematically reviewed, and reclassified according to WH...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Picca A,Berzero G,Bielle F,Touat M,Savatovsky J,Polivka M,Trisolini E,Meunier S,Schmitt Y,Idbaih A,Hoang-Xuan K,Delattre JY,Mokhtari K,Di Stefano AL,Sanson M

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the determinants of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) phenotypes in a population-based cohort. METHODS:The study population included 2,839 patients with ALS diagnosed in Piemonte, Italy (1995-2015). Patients were classified according to motor (classic, bulbar, flail arm, flail leg, predominantly ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chiò A,Moglia C,Canosa A,Manera U,D'Ovidio F,Vasta R,Grassano M,Brunetti M,Barberis M,Corrado L,D'Alfonso S,Iazzolino B,Peotta L,Sarnelli MF,Solara V,Zucchetti JP,De Marchi F,Mazzini L,Mora G,Calvo A

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two women with myasthenia gravis became apneic immediately after IV injection of iodinated contrast material for CT. Aggravation of myasthenia continued for days after this initial reaction. ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Chagnac Y,Hadani M,Goldhammer Y

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with unique homonymous hemianopias from occipital lobe infarctions. One patient had vertical meridian sparing, and the other displayed horizontal meridian sparing. MRI correlation with the visual field defects confirmed that the vertical hemianopic meridian was represented along the border of th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gray LG,Galetta SL,Schatz NJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in Olmsted County, MN, using in-person evaluations and published criteria. METHODS:We evaluated an age- and sex-stratified random sample of Olmsted County residents who were 70-89 years old on October 1, 2004, using the Clinical Dementia Ratin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Petersen RC,Roberts RO,Knopman DS,Geda YE,Cha RH,Pankratz VS,Boeve BF,Tangalos EG,Ivnik RJ,Rocca WA

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States was evaluated using national multiple cause-of-death data and medical information obtained from state health departments. Twelve CJD deaths were identified for 1981 through 2002, and the average annual age-...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Maddox RA,Holman RC,Belay ED,Cheek JE,Yorita KL,Schonberger LB

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brodmann brain maps, assembled in 1909, are still in use, but understanding of their animal-human homology is uncertain. Furthermore, in 1909, Brodmann did not identify human area 12 (BA12), a location now important to understanding of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). METHODS:We re-examined Brodman...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kawamura M,Miller MW,Ichikawa H,Ishihara K,Sugimoto A

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00