Levetiracetam in refractory pediatric epilepsy.

abstract：:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is a monophasic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system involving the white matter, and to a lesser extent, the gray matter. Bilateral thalamic lesions have been reported in 12% of pediatric patients with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. In most cases,...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Dardiotis E,Kountra P,Kapsalaki E,Protogerou G,Markopoulou K

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement disorders, a common problem in children with neurologic impairment, are receiving increasing clinical attention. The differences in movement disorders between adults and children are striking; presentation is frequently insidious and may be characterized by mild hypotonia. The clinical manifestations of extra...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Edgar TS

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual electrophysiological techniques represent excellent means for assessing retinal, optic pathways and visual cortex function. Electroretinograms, visual evoked potentials, and clinical records of 17 patients with mucopolysaccharidosis registered in the neurophysiological database of our institution were reviewed ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Suppiej A,Rampazzo A,Cappellari A,Traverso A,Tormene AP,Pinello L,Scarpa M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diamond-Blackfan anemia is a congenital hypoproliferative anemia known to be associated with diverse physical anomalies affecting the thumb, craniofacial bones, urogenital system, and heart; prematurity; and fetal demise. We report the case of a 16-month-old boy with Diamond-Blackfan anemia noted to have decreased use...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Butrum MW,Williams LS,Golomb MR

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study was planned to study the blood ammonia levels in epileptic children on 2 dose ranges of valproic acid monotherapy. A total of 60 epileptic children aged 3 months to 12 years, that were on valproic acid monotherapy for at least 3 months, were enrolled and divided into 2 groups, a low-dose gro...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Sharma S,Gulati S,Kabra M,Kalra V,Vasisht S,Gupta YK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertensive encephalopathy is an uncommon but recognized complication of malignant hypertension in children. We reviewed the clinical course, laboratory studies, and outcomes of 12 patients with hypertensive encephalopathy seen at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics between 1979 and 1994. The most common pre...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Wright RR,Mathews KD

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present 12 cases of males with myalgia and cramps and a normal muscle strength examination. All the patients had muscle dystrophin values consistent with Becker muscular dystrophy. Five of the patients had a normal electromyogram, and five had normal light microscopic muscle biopsy results. Of particular note, four...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Samaha FJ,Quinlan JG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who has been declared brain dead is considered to be both legally and clinically dead. However, we report 2 pediatric cases in which the patients demonstrated clinical signs of brain stem function that are not recognized or tested in current Canadian or US guidelines. ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Hansen G,Joffe AR

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The failure to diagnose an ependymoma at an appropriately early age led to an incomplete excision and a tumor burden too great for radiotherapy to control. The development of normative curves for brain weight correlated with head circumference allowed for the estimates of the extremes of possible growth rates of the t...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Alvord EC Jr

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the impact of migraine headaches on health-related quality of life among Canadian adolescents. The Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) collects information related to health status, health care utilization, and health determinants for the Canadian population. Analysis w...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Brna P,Gordon K,Dooley J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister presented with psychomotor retardation during the 1st year of life. This was followed by spasticity, seizures, and in the older patient, progressive loss of faculties and death. Computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging scans demonstrated progressive cerebral atro...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： de León GA,Crawford SE,Stack C,Darling CF,Johnson GS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this article is to review primary and secondary causes of carnitine deficiency, emphasizing recent advances in our knowledge of fatty acid oxidation. It is now understood that the cellular metabolism of fatty acids requires the cytosolic carnitine cycle and the mitochondrial beta-oxidation cycle. Carn...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Pons R,De Vivo DC

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively analyzed the medical documentation of 194 children infected with Epstein-Barr virus. The diagnosis was based on clinical symptoms and the presence of the viral capsid antigen IgM antibody. Patients with severe neurologic complications also underwent neurologic examination, magnetic resonance imaging...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Mazur-Melewska K,Breńska I,Jończyk-Potoczna K,Kemnitz P,Pieczonka-Ruszkowska I,Mania A,Służewski W,Figlerowicz M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postinfectious encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis have clinical, immunologic, and neuroradiographic similarities. We studied HLA determinants in six white children consecutively diagnosed with postinfectious encephalomyelitis. Each of the children had HLA determinants which have been associated with multiple scl...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Woody RC,Steele RW,Charlton RK,Smith V

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between the Expanded Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale (HFMSE) and genotype and motor and respiratory outcomes were examined in patients with spinal muscular atrophy types II and III (n = 70). The correlation between the HFMSE and Gross Motor Function Measure was r = 0.98. Correlations between HFMSE...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Glanzman AM,O'Hagen JM,McDermott MP,Martens WB,Flickinger J,Riley S,Quigley J,Montes J,Dunaway S,Deng L,Chung WK,Tawil R,Darras BT,De Vivo DC,Kaufmann P,Finkel RS,Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research Network for Spin

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and tolerability of adjunctive eslicarbazepine acetate (ESL) in pediatric patients (aged 4-17 years) with refractory focal seizures. METHODS:Pooled safety data from patients aged 4-17 years in Study 208 (NCT01527513) and Study 305 (NCT00988156) were analyzed. Both were randomized, doub...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Mintz M,Pina-Garza JE,Wolf SM,McGoldrick PE,Józwiak S,Grinnell T,Cantu D,Costa R,Moreira J,Li Y,Blum D

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To document the impact of Tourette syndrome on the health care needs of children and access to health care among youth with Tourette syndrome, parent-reported data from the 2007-2008 National Survey of Children's Health were analyzed. Children with Tourette syndrome had more co-occurring mental disorders than children...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Bitsko RH,Danielson M,King M,Visser SN,Scahill L,Perou R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we have summarized our 9-year experience of over 100 proven cases of lysosomal storage disease using electron microscopic evaluation of skin biopsies as a screening tool. The skin biopsy was very specific in establishing the diagnosis in only two disorders, namely neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis and muc...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Prasad A,Kaye EM,Alroy J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate etiology and prognostic significance of pontine tegmentum lesions accompanying a cluster of acute flaccid myelitis. METHOD:We retrospectively examined patients from 6 centers in Turkey who manifested encephalitis or myelitis associated with dorsal pontine lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Bastemur M,Gocmen R,Parlak S,Yuksel D,Arslan EA,Okten AY,Iscan A,Ekici B,Anlar B

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young children with sickle cell disease are at risk of brain damage, including stroke. We tested the hypothesis that such patients are also at risk of cognitive impairment. We characterized the cognitive ability of kindergarten children to minimize the effect of disease-related school absence. The Memphis City Schools...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Steen RG,Hu XJ,Elliott VE,Miles MA,Jones S,Wang WC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute cerebellitis is a rare condition often considered within the group of acute postinfectious cerebellar ataxia despite its distinctive clinical and imaging features. We retrieved clinical, laboratory, and follow-up data of 15 children diagnosed with acute cerebellitis in our department between 2011 and 2019. There...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Yildirim M,Gocmen R,Konuskan B,Parlak S,Yalnizoglu D,Anlar B

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pontine tegmental cap dysplasia is a rare hindbrain malformation syndrome with a hypoplastic pons, a tissue protrusion into the fourth ventricle, and cranial nerve dysfunction. We here report clinical, imaging, and genetic findings of the first extremely low-birth-weight preterm infant with pontine tegmental cap dyspl...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Picker-Minh S,Hartenstein S,Proquitté H,Fröhler S,Raile V,Kraemer N,Apeshiotis S,Leipoldt M,Kalache KD,Morris-Rosendahl D,Boltshauser E,Chen W,Kaindl AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis complex is a multisystem, chronic genetic condition characterized by systemic growth of benign tumors and often accompanied by epilepsy, autism spectrum disorders, and intellectual disability. Nonetheless, the neurodevelopmental phenotype of these patients is not often detailed. The authors describe...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Gipson TT,Poretti A,Thomas EA,Jenkins KT,Desai S,Johnston MV

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute flaccid myelitis has emerged as the leading cause of acute flaccid paralysis in children. Acute flaccid myelitis leads to significant physical disability; hence, objective outcome measures to study disease severity and progression are desirable. In addition, nerve transfer to improve motor function in ...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Patel R,Gombolay GY,Peljovich AE,Conklin J,Blackwell LS,Howarth R,Wolf DS,Upadhyayula SR,Verma S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the results of a study on the relationship between cord blood levels of erythropoietin and periventricular leukomalacia. Cord blood was obtained from 19 infants with gestational age between 27 and 32 weeks. Cystic periventricular leukomalacia was seen in 4 of them. Erythropoietin levels were not d...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Okumura A,Kidokoro H,Kato T,Kubota T,Hayakawa F,Kuno K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the brain autopsy of a boy who at age 4(1/2) years experienced an episode of fulminant Haemophilus influenzae type b bacterial meningitis, resulting in massive brain destruction and the clinical signs of brain death. However, medical intervention maintained him for an additional two decades. Subs...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Repertinger S,Fitzgibbons WP,Omojola MF,Brumback RA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is described as the most common neurobehavioral condition of childhood. We raise the concern that ADHD is not a disease per se but rather a group of symptoms representing a final common behavioral pathway for a gamut of emotional, psychological, and/or learning problems....

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Furman L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increased necessity to focus research on school-aged athletes with sports-related concussion (SRC). This study assessed differences in symptom reporting and neurocognitive performance in youth athletes who sustained a sports-related concussion. A total of 1345 concussed and 3529 nonconcussed athletes (ages 8-...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Murdaugh DL,Ono KE,Morris SO,Burns TG

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric headache patients often experience significant sleep disturbance, which may be a risk factor for poor physical, academic, and emotional functioning, including increased anxiety/fear. The current retrospective cohort study of a clinical sample of youth with persistent headache aimed to examine the impact of s...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Clementi MA,Chang YH,Gambhir R,Lebel A,Logan DE

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the locations and characterize the types of brain abnormalities noted on brain magnetic resonance imaging in patients with probable and definite neurofibromatosis type 1. Patients with definite neurofibromatosis type 1 (n = 17) were studied when clinically indicated, and pati...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： DiMario FJ Jr,Ramsby G,Greenstein R,Langshur S,Dunham B

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00