Glucose levels and outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the genetic cause of a familial form of late-onset action myoclonus in 2 unrelated patients. Both probands had 2 siblings displaying a similar disorder. Extensive laboratory examinations, including biochemical assessment for urine sialic acid in the 2 probands, were negative. METHODS:Exome sequen...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Canafoglia L,Robbiano A,Pareyson D,Panzica F,Nanetti L,Giovagnoli AR,Venerando A,Gellera C,Franceschetti S,Zara F

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin types A, B, and E cause most cases of the paralytic disease botulism. Little is known about the epidemiology, clinical features, or microbiology of botulism type F. METHODS:Cases of adult type F botulism were identified by review of data collected by CDC's National Botulism ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Gupta A,Sumner CJ,Castor M,Maslanka S,Sobel J

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the relationship between mesial temporal seizure focus and serum prolactin (PRL) in patients before and after they underwent anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) for medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). These patients had a confirmed unilateral epileptogenic focus in mesial temporal structures...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lin YY,Su MS,Yiu CH,Shih YH,Yen DJ,Kwan SY,Wu ZA,Chan SH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with meningeal gliomatosis who had signs of meningitis, hypoglycorrhachia, and an intracranial mass. Despite suspicion of a primary intracranial neoplasm, repeated CSF cytologies were not diagnostic and led to a brain biopsy for diagnosis. Immunoperoxidase staining for glial fibrillary acidic prote...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Wechsler LR,Gross RA,Miller DC

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the utility of "clinic room" case presentation in the ambulatory care setting. BACKGROUND:Neurology is increasingly an outpatient specialty. The transition from ward to clinic presents challenges for student and resident education. Interaction between attending physician and trainee is limited by...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smith AG,Bromberg MB,Singleton JR,Forshew DA

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given that vagal afferents project to brainstem regions that promote alertness, the authors tested the hypothesis that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) would improve daytime sleepiness in patients with epilepsy. METHODS:Sixteen subjects with medically refractory seizures underwent polysomnography and multiple ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Malow BA,Edwards J,Marzec M,Sagher O,Ross D,Fromes G

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report three patients with acute, chronic, and recurrent neuropathy associated with varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection but without zoster rash. CSF of all three patients contained VZV immunoglobulin G antibody, but not herpes simplex virus. In two patients, serum/CSF ratios of VZV immunoglobulin G were...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fox RJ,Galetta SL,Mahalingam R,Wellish M,Forghani B,Gilden DH

更新日期：2001-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To delineate the features of regional cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (CMRglc) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). METHODS:We compared absolute CMRglc in 12 patients with a clinical diagnosis of DLB, 12 patients with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 12 normal volunteers (NC), using 18...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ishii K,Imamura T,Sasaki M,Yamaji S,Sakamoto S,Kitagaki H,Hashimoto M,Hirono N,Shimomura T,Mori E

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In addition to the main multiple sclerosis (MS) major histocompatibility complex (MHC) risk allele (HLA DRB1*1501), investigations of the MHC have implicated several class I MHC loci (HLA A, HLA B, and HLA C) as potential independent MS susceptibility loci. Here, we evaluate the role of 3 putative protective ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Healy BC,Liguori M,Tran D,Chitnis T,Glanz B,Wolfish C,Gauthier S,Buckle G,Houtchens M,Stazzone L,Khoury S,Hartzmann R,Fernandez-Vina M,Hafler DA,Weiner HL,Guttmann CR,De Jager PL

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the associations between amyloid-PET, tau-PET, and atrophy with the behavioral/dysexecutive presentation of Alzheimer disease (AD), how these differ from amnestic AD, and how they correlate to clinical symptoms. METHODS:We assessed 15 patients with behavioral/dysexecutive AD recruited from a ter...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Therriault J,Pascoal TA,Savard M,Benedet AL,Chamoun M,Tissot C,Lussier F,Kang MS,Thomas E,Terada T,Rej S,Massarweh G,Nasreddine Z,Vitali P,Soucy JP,Saha-Chaudhuri P,Gauthier S,Rosa-Neto P

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:While intracranial tuberculomas have become uncommon in industrial nations, 12 patients with signs and symptoms of an intracranial mass lesion were recently found to have tuberculomas. Clinical findings suggestive of tuberculosis were frequently subtle or absent. Five patients did not have extracranial tuberculosis. T...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mayers MM,Kaufman DM,Miller MH

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether 24 weeks of high-intensity progressive aerobic exercise (PAE) affects brain MRI measures in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:We conducted a randomized, controlled, phase 2 trial (with a crossover follow-up) including an exercise group (supervised PAE followed by self-guided p...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Langeskov-Christensen M,Grøndahl Hvid L,Nygaard MKE,Ringgaard S,Jensen HB,Nielsen HH,Petersen T,Stenager E,Eskildsen SF,Dalgas U

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1982 and 1989, 197 patients with Parkinson's disease were treated with selegiline and levodopa for at least 0.3 years. Two groups of patients were included: a group of 65 patients (stage 2 or 3 on the Hoehn and Yahr Scale) who recently had been started on levodopa and were not experiencing response fluctuation...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lieberman A

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe risk and risk factors of epilepsy after hospitalization for brain infection in adults in Sweden. METHODS:This was a matched retrospective cohort study based on the comprehensive National Patient and Cause of Death Registers. All individuals age >18 without prior epilepsy who received inpatient ca...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zelano J,Westman G

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the attributes of quantitative strength testing using hand-held dynamometry (HHD) as an efficacy measure in 2 large phase 3 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) trials. METHODS:In the phase 3 trials of ceftriaxone and dexpramipexole, 513 and 943 patients, respectively, were enrolled in double-blind, ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Shefner JM,Liu D,Leitner ML,Schoenfeld D,Johns DR,Ferguson T,Cudkowicz M

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25-year-old man with a long history of temporal lobe epilepsy developed right occipital lobe seizures and a progressive right homonymous hemianopia. MRI showed diffuse enhancement of the left temporoparieto-occipital white matter and cortical thickening of the left medial temporal lobe. The resected temporal lobe re...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Thom M,Moran NF,Plant GT,Stevens JM,Scaravilli F

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a prospective clinical and electrophysiologic study of common peroneal (CP) neuropathy to evaluate the extent of involvement of the muscles and cutaneous areas supplied by this nerve. In 22 patients, seven had more weakness clinically in muscles innervated by the deep peroneal nerve than in those innervat...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Sourkes M,Stewart JD

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and respiratory failure (RF) are complications of acid maltase deficiency (AMD), a rare hereditary myopathy. OBJECTIVE:To define the relationship between lung and respiratory muscle function, to establish incidence and patterns of SDB, and to determine daytime predictors of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mellies U,Ragette R,Schwake C,Baethmann M,Voit T,Teschler H

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was studied among Libyan-born Israelis, in whom the disease appears with unusual frequency. Interviews with relatives of deceased victims revealed statistically significant clustering within families. The results suggest either a common source of exposure or a genetic influence on susceptibil...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Neugut RH,Neugut AI,Kahana E,Stein Z,Alter M

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed that patients with amnesia after cardiac arrest had preserved recognition memory despite profound loss of recall memory. In the present study, rate of forgetting was measured in six amnesic subjects for both recall and recognition memory of verbal material. The data show that recall decayed significantly f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Volpe BT,Holtzman JD,Hirst W

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Glucocerebrosidase (GBA) gene mutations represent a strong risk factor for Parkinson disease (PD). PD penetrance in GBA mutation carriers, which represents a key issue for genetic counseling, especially for relatives of patients with Gaucher disease (GD), is unknown. Our objective was to estimate PD penetranc...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Anheim M,Elbaz A,Lesage S,Durr A,Condroyer C,Viallet F,Pollak P,Bonaïti B,Bonaïti-Pellié C,Brice A,French Parkinson Disease Genetic Group.

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of intracranial arterial stenosis on the progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS:A total of 423 participants with MCI were included and evaluated with clinical and neuropsychological examinations annually for 4 years. The incidence of dementia ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zhu J,Wang Y,Li J,Deng J,Zhou H

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) is a relatively common disabling disorder of unknown pathophysiology. From a cohort of 52 patients, carefully selected to fulfill the recently formulated diagnostic criteria for RSD, venous blood samples were taken for typing of class I and II major histocompatibility antigens. The f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kemler MA,van de Vusse AC,van den Berg-Loonen EM,Barendse GA,van Kleef M,Weber WE

更新日期：1999-10-12 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：:Single motor unit firing rates were measured from the first dorsal interosseous muscle (FDI) of normal subjects and patients with partial denervation of that muscle. Motor unit discharges were recorded at various levels of voluntary, stationary, isometric contraction of the FDI. The mean increase in firing rate associ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Miller RG,Sherratt M

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF hypocretin-1 levels at 6 PM did not significantly differ between patients with restless legs syndrome (RLS) and control subjects as measured by direct radioimmunoassay and after acid extraction. The authors did not observe significant differences between early onset and late onset RLS. Hypocretin-1 levels did not ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Stiasny-Kolster K,Mignot E,Ling L,Möller JC,Cassel W,Oertel WH

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seven loci for autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (ADHSP) have been mapped. To date, two families of SPG12 (chromosome 19q13) have been analyzed; however, there is not enough clinical information on SPG12 to establish locus-phenotype correlations. METHODS:The authors studied 60 individuals fro...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Orlacchio A,Kawarai T,Rogaeva E,Song YQ,Paterson AD,Bernardi G,St George-Hyslop PH

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) and "off" period gait freezing (OGF) in patients with fluctuating Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS:TDT values were measured at the dorsum of the toes in 11 control subjects and 22 patients with PD with a wearing-off phenomenon (16...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Lee MS,Kim HS,Lyoo CH

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Immitation synkinesia is usually associated with thalamic or parietal lesions. Analysis of three cases shows that the lesions may affect the posterior columns of the spinal cord or even the peripheral nervous system. In our cases, two facts stand out, a large measure of integrity of motor activity and predominant dist...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cambier J,Dehen H

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the duration and amplitude of saccades in three normal subjects, eight patients with myasthenia gravis, and eight patients with nonmyasthenic ocular palsies. Saccades were examined at the start of a repetitive saccade task, after 3 minutes of activity, and 1 minute after administration of edrophonium. The ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Barton JJ,Jama A,Sharpe JA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00