Involuntary movements and AIDS: report of seven cases and review of the literature.

abstract：:The authors present a retrospective study of 50 patients with hepatic encephalopathy treated at the University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto since 1959 and discuss clinical, laboratory and anatomo-pathologic aspects. The diagnoses of the different types of liver disease as well as the factors that tr...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Resende LA,Speciali JG

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study has tested the validity and reliability of the Portuguese version of the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM), a diagnostic assessment instrument for delirium developed by Inouye et al. (1990). The sample was formed by 100 patients with 60 and more years of age, admitted at the emergency service of Santa Casa ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fabbri RM,Moreira MA,Garrido R,Almeida OP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was analysed in 170 AIDS patients. All of them showed HIV positive serological tests. All of them showed neurologic syndromes related to AIDS. The time period of the investigation was July 1984-April 1989. In 8 cases (4.7%) CSF composition was normal. Lymphoma cells were observed in three cas...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA,Machado LR,Spina-França A

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to determine if the University of Pennsylvania's Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) is an accurate diagnostic tool for olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD). METHOD:We included 138 non-demented PD subjects and 175 control subjects matched by gender. Smell identification wa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rodríguez-Violante M,Gonzalez-Latapi P,Camacho-Ordoñez A,Martínez-Ramírez D,Morales-Briceño H,Cervantes-Arriaga A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review the literature about the cronic nervous form of Chagas' disease, directing their attention toward peripheral neurological aspects. Specifically, they analyse the results obtained from a "bind" research realized in a small community in the countryside of the state of Bahia, Brazil, where a high frequ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fortes-Rêgo J,Macedo VO,Prata A

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe developmental characteristics, morphological aspects and incidence of temporal sharp transients (TST) in normal preterm and term newborns at matched conceptional ages (CA). METHOD:Neonatal EEGs from two groups of normal newborns were evaluated in order to identify and characterize TST. Group I (n...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Nunes ML,Gameleira FT,Oliveira AJ,da Costa JC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We preliminarily investigated the relevance of performing digital subtraction angiography (DSA) in addition to magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in definition of ischemic stroke etiology in young patients. METHOD:DSAs and MRAs from 17 young patients with nonlacunar ischemic stroke were blindly analyzed and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Conforto AB,Fregni F,Puglia P Jr,Leite Cda C,Yamamoto FI,Coracini KF,Scaff M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Febrile seizures (FS) affect almost 2-5% of children and factors related to an increase susceptibility of children to FS may involve an imbalance of inflammatory cytokines and genetic factors. FS had low morbidity, but may be associated with the occurrence of late chronic epilepsy. Here we describe factors related to ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Terra VC,Machado HR,Sakamoto AC,Arida RM,Scorza FA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was performed on 34 patients with photosensitivity detected on the electroencephalogram. This group was compared to an aleatory sample, with 218 patients. The objectives were to evaluate the photosensitivity and: type of epilepsy, age of onset of seizures, sex ratio, frequency of seizures, and fa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Albuquerque M,do Nascimento CL,de Campos CJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence is higher in Caucasian (CA) populations, narrowing the analysis of the impact of Afro-descendant (AD) populations in disease outcomes. Even so, recent studies observed that AD patients have a more severe course. The main objective of this study is to confirm and discuss, through a sy...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Aurenção JC,Vasconcelos CC,Thuler LC,Alvarenga RM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the cytologic aspects of 137 tumors operated by neurosurgeons, including 12 astrocytomas, 4 anaplastic astrocytomas, 26 glioblastomas, 7 oligodendrogliomas, 5 medulloblastomas, 8 schwannomas, 17 meningiomas, 13 pituitary adenomas, 20 metastatic tumors and 18 assorted tumors and nonneoplastic lesions. We hav...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Campos Ide S,Chimelli L

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the reasons for referral to electrodiagnostic evaluation, 490 patients referred for electrodiagnostic evaluation to two laboratories (UNIFESP and UNEF) answered the following question: "What was the reason that brought you to look for a physician and that led him to ask this examination?" Paresthesia and/or p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Campos CC,Manzano GM,Castelo Filho A,Nóbrega JA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Methods:Thirty cases, previously treated according to the new algorithm, were presented to four spine surgeons who were questioned about their personal suggestion for treatment, and the treatment suggested according to the application of the algorithm. After four weeks, the same questions were asked again to evaluate r...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Joaquim AF,Brock RS,Guirado VM,Sandon LH,Silva OT,Taricco MA,Teixeira MJ,Figueiredo EG

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between the use of statins and neuromuscular disease is currently being intensely discussed. We relate a 63 years old man with possible case of statin-induced neuropathy in a patient with dislipidemia in use of simvastatina at high doses. The electrophysiologic studies disclosed findings compatible wit...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Scola RH,Trentin AP,Germiniani FM,Piovesan EJ,Werneck LC

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a rare case of increased intracranial hypertension consequent to a spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme in a young patient. They analyse the physiopathology of intracranial hypertension in spinal tumors and the rarity of such kind of tumor in this location, and its clinico-pathological aspects....

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Castro-Costa CM,de Araújo RW,de Arruda MA,de Araújo PM,de Figueiredo EG

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the long-term efficacy of percutaneous vertebroplasty for the treatment of pain resulting from osteoporotic vertebral fractures. METHOD:26 percutaneous vertebroplasty procedures were performed for osteoporotic vertebral fractures in 15 patients during the period between July 2001 and May 2004. Befo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Astacio GS,Marchiori E,Gasparetto EL,Azevedo F

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic aspects of convulsive and non convulsive status epilepticus observed in fourteen patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome were studied. A temporal relationship between the status epilepticus onset and the beginning of treatment with chlonazepam and diphenylhydantoin was observed; these drugs withdrawal was fo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Speciali JG,Lison MP

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review papers and researches about skull growth in newborns and infants: they analysed and correlated anthropometric data with maternal biological and social factors. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rosado ML,Barbieri MA,Bettiol H,Gomes UA,Moura-Ribeiro MV

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of a benign multiple sclerosis (BMS) form is a controversial subject. Recent studies of these patients reveal different levels of cognitive impairment, despite the apparent preservation of motor function. The objective of this study was to review and analyze a number of publications that discuss the gene...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ton AMM,Vasconcelos CCF,Alvarenga RMP

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the white matter of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) with diffusion tensor magnetic resonance (MR) imaging (DTI). METHOD:Forty patients with clinical-laboratorial diagnosis of relapsing-remitting MS and 40 age- and sex-matched controls, who underwent conventional and functional (DTI) MR imaging...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Andrade RE,Gasparetto EL,Cruz LC Jr,Ferreira FB,Domingues RC,Marchiori E,Domingues RC

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the apnea hypothesis turned to be an explanation for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) many authors tried to find if near-miss or apparent life-threatening events (ALTE) could be markers of SIDS. It was suggested that phasic REM activity is associated with increased respiratory neuron activity and prevents prol...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Nunes ML,Da Costa JC,Taufer L

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The role of smoking as risk factor for stroke is controversial. An ecological design study was performed to test the association between stroke mortality and smoking in Brazil. Lung cancer mortality was used as a surrogate for smoking habit. METHODS:The mortality rate for stroke (ICD-9:430-438) and lung cancer (IC...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lotufo PA,Benseñor IJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a case of a 26 year old patient with seizures since the age of 13, who was sent to our service for differential diagnosis between epilepsy and psychogenic pesudoepileptic seizures. Both diagnoses were confirmed and she was operated for the resection of an occipital cystic tumour, that was considered respo...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Marchetti RL,Kurcgant D

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Literature on the anatomy of the human vertebral column characterizes the shape of the lumbar vertebral canal as triangular. The purpose of the present study was to determine the precise shape of the lumbar vertebral canal. Ten lumbar vertebral columns of adult male cadavers were dissected. Two transverse sections wer...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Zarzur E

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 36 years-old man that had been at the Amazon forest four years before. Six months before the admission he had developed a progressive quadriparesis, gait ataxia, dysphagia, dysarthria, difficulty in breathing and hiccup. The gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted MRI showed a lesion into the right parietoccipi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Leal Filho MB,Borges G,da Silva RG Jr,de Almeida Xavier Aguiar A,de Almeida BR,da Cunha E Silva Vieira MA,Pinheiro LM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering the genetical peculiarity of Charcot-Marie-Tooth's muscular atrophy, a family with three affected brothers was investigated, in which beginning date was discovered to be progressively antedated. Afterwards, this possible variant of anticipation is discussed, because such condition is quite ununsual, not on...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gonçalves A,da Salva JB

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors emphasize the importance of computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis of neurocysticercosis. Before CT, neurocysticercosis was considered rare in the Northeast Brazil. They reviewed fifteen cases diagnosed as neurocysticercosis by CT at the Institute of Radiology, in Natal. A case of neurocysticercosis dia...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Galhardo I,Coutinho MO,De Albuquerque ES,Medeiros Lde O,Dantas JO

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to identify the most common vestibular syndromes in a dizziness unit, and to observe their clinical aspects and response to treatment. Five hundred and fifteen patients were studied retrospectively in two institutions. Aspects of anamnesis, physical examination and the response to treatment...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Kanashiro AM,Pereira CB,Melo AC,Scaff M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty AIDS patients were studied. All patients had anti-HIV antibodies (ELISA) present and met OPAS/Caracas punctuation criteria for AIDS cases in adults. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis included pressure, cytology (number of cytomorphological aspects), total protein and electrophoresis, glucose and chloride concen...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Hinrichsen SL,Ataíde Junior L,Travassos F,Travassos P,Alburquerque E,Moura L,Arraes LC,Rocha LV,Amorim MR,Luz LM,Braga A

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelin sheaths that surround axons in the CNS are made and maintained by oligodendrocytes. These glial cells can form variable numbers of myelin segments (internodules): from 1 to 200 so that when one oligodendrocyte is destroyed with preservation of the axon, many internodules can be lost, constituting a demyelin...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Graça DL

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00