Prevalence of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy: a door-to-door survey in a Sicilian municipality.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Stroke is associated with a higher risk of occult cancer. We studied the types of occult cancer most often associated with stroke. MATERIALS AND METHODS:All patients with incident stroke in Denmark 2003-2015 were identified through the Danish Stroke Registry (n = 85 893) and matched 1:10 on age and sex to t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tybjerg AJ,Babore AD,Olsen TS,Andersen KK

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether Parkinson's disease (PD) can be distinguished from multiple system atrophy (MSA) on the basis of the assessment of iodine-123 meta-iodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) radioactivity in heart and cardiovascular autonomic function. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Seventeen patients with MSA, 39 with PD, ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Oka H,Mochio S,Yoshioka M,Morita M,Onouchi K,Inoue K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has enabled ante mortem diagnosis of Hallervorden Spatz disease (HSD). Childhood-onset cases are the most common type and usually present with progressive dystonia and dementia. The duration of illness is 15 to 20 years, leading to death. Presentation in adulthood and infancy have also...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hickman SJ,Ward NS,Surtees RA,Stevens JM,Farmer SF

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the effects of different colour imaging modes on the contrast-medium-enhanced image of the intracranial cerebral arteries. METHODS:Twelve healthy volunteers were studied transcranially after administration of 10 ml BY963 successively with Power Doppler (p-TCCS) and with colour Doppler frequency ima...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kaps M,Schaffer P,Beller KD,Seidel G,Wurst W

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine content of 199 clinical muscle biopsies was determined and correlated to histometric data of 121 cases. Taurine concentration in muscles was markedly dependent on fiber type distribution, taurine being more abundant in the slow, oxidative type 1 fibers than in the type 2 fibers. Taurine concentration rose slig...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Airaksinen EM,Paljärvi L,Partanen J,Collan Y,Laakso R,Pentikäinen T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The cost-effectiveness of available pharmacological treatments for narcolepsy is largely unknown. Available pharmacological treatments are associated with tolerability, abuse, and adherence issues. Pitolisant is the first inverse agonist of the histamine H3 receptor to be prescribed for the treatment of narc...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bolin K,Niska PÅ,Pirhonen L,Wasling P,Landtblom AM

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports on the incidence of alcoholic polyneuropathies are variable depending on diagnostic tools. In this study, 50 chronic alcoholics with positive MALT (Munich Alcoholism Test) and greater than seven years history of excessive alcohol abuse were examined neurologically. Tibial and peroneal motor and sural nerve con...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hilz MJ,Zimmermann P,Claus D,Neundörfer B

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal tests were performed in 117 healthy subjects on the face, wrist and leg; 32 were tested on the legs with different rates of cooling and warming. Additionally 2 groups of diabetics (37 patients) were tested. Thermotesting was most sensitive on the legs using a rate of temperature change of 2.5-2.8 oC/s. Warm an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Claus D,Hilz MJ,Hummer I,Neundörfer B

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset muscular dystrophy. It is associated with motor symptoms but patients also display non-motor symptoms such as particular personality traits. Studies have reported mixed results about personality characteristics which may be attributable to small ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bertrand JA,Jean S,Laberge L,Gagnon C,Mathieu J,Gagnon JF,Richer L

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bladder dysfunction with increased voiding frequency and incontinence is a common problem in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). In the present study, the effect of the synthetic vasopressin analogue, desmopressin, was evaluated on the voiding frequency in 26 patients with MS suffering from socially handicapping vo...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Fredrikson S

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The present study focused on human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DQB1, DQA1 and DRB1 allelic variation according to ethnicity and analyzed whether susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS) depends on population characteristics. METHODS:Eighty-eight healthy African-Brazilians and 92 healthy white Brazilians living ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Alves-Leon SV,Papais-Alvarenga R,Magalhães M,Alvarenga M,Thuler LC,Fernández y Fernandez O

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Soluble APO-1 (sAPO-1) may prevent apoptosis of lymphocytes induced by activation of the APO-1/Fas receptor. OBJECTIVES:To determine sAPO-1 levels in the serum of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and controls in order to investigate if abnormal lymphocyte apoptosis occurs in this disease. METHODS:Serum sam...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bansil S,Holtz CR,Cook SD,Rohowsky-Kochan C

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although patients >80 years were excluded in RCTs for tPA treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS), many centers treat old patients. We wanted to examine whether age ≥80 years is an independent predictor of outcome after tPA. MATERIALS:We included 77 consecutive patients ≥80 years and 83 patients <80 years t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Henriksen EH,Ljøstad U,Tveiten A,Naess H,Thomassen L,Mygland A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The basal ganglia are thought to be involved in the primary dystonias, largely because of the repeated demonstration of neuropathological changes in these nuclei in the secondary dystonias. A hyperactivity of a network involving basal ganglia has been suggested in experimental animal dystonia. To test this h...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Galardi G,Perani D,Grassi F,Bressi S,Amadio S,Antoni M,Comi GC,Canal N,Fazio F

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of probable multiple sclerosis (MS) in Caltanissetta city, Sicily, is at least 51 per 100,000. If possible multiple sclerosis patients are included, it is 54 per 100,000. This value is similar to that found in other cities in Sicily: Enna, Monreale and Agrigento. The high prevalence of multiple sclerosi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Savettieri G,Elian M,Giordano D,Grimaldi G,Ventura A,Dean G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variants in the EIF4G1 gene have been recently identified to be responsible for autosomal dominant PD (PARK18), but its role in the PD-related neurodegeneration is unclear. Several EIF4G1 mutation/variants were found to be associated with PD, and functional studies have suggested that these variants may impair the abi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Deng H,Wu Y,Jankovic J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Differential diagnosis between vascular parkinsonism (VP) and Parkinson's Disease (PD) is often difficult, due to the overlap in clinical presentation and the lack of specificity at neuroimaging. Aim of the study was to identify a possible reliable marker at SPECT imaging useful to distinguish the two condit...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Contrafatto D,Mostile G,Nicoletti A,Dibilio V,Raciti L,Lanzafame S,Luca A,Distefano A,Zappia M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the prevalence of antibodies of IgA class against tissue transglutaminase (tTG), endomysium (EMA) and gliadin (AGA) in patients with chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP) and to characterize the patients clinically and neurophysiologically. METHODS:Of 182 patients, 126 patients agreed to ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Vrethem M,Lindh J,Tondel M,Persson B,Dahle C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Analysis of the CTG-repeat number and three biallelic markers, Alu(+/-), HinfI(+/-), and TaqI(+/-), in the DMPK gene in healthy and myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) Serbian individuals. Also, the consideration of haplotypes in the light of the proposed models of CTG-repeat evolution and origin of the DM1 muta...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Krndija D,Savić D,Mladenović J,Rakocević-Stojanović V,Apostolski S,Todorović S,Romac S

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty solvent-exposed workers, most of them painters, had been diagnosed as cases of toxic encephalopathy in 1978/79. Two years later they were re-examined with an extensive battery of neuropsychological tests. Their performance was unchanged on retesting. We have now compared their test results with those of non-exp...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Gade A,Mortensen EL,Bruhn P

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the expression of chemokine-like factor (CKLF) in biopsied muscle fibers in inflammatory myopathies, non-inflammatory myopathies and neurologically diseased controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We studied the expression of CKLF in 15 polymyositis (PM), five dermatomyositis (DM), 15 non-inflammatory ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Chowdhury MH,Nagai A,Terashima M,Sheikh A,Murakawa Y,Kobayashi S,Yamaguchi S

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical measurement of intracranial pressure (ICP) is often performed to aid diagnosis of hydrocephalus. This review discusses analysis of ICP and its components' for the investigation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics. The role of pulse, slow and respiratory waveforms of ICP in diagnosis, prognostication and man...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kasprowicz M,Lalou DA,Czosnyka M,Garnett M,Czosnyka Z

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) has considerable impact on patients and society. However, long-term studies on PSCI are scarce and may be influenced by assessment methods and selection bias. We aimed to (i) assess the prevalence of long-term PSCI; (ii) compare two common cognitive assessment instrume...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Delavaran H,Jönsson AC,Lövkvist H,Iwarsson S,Elmståhl S,Norrving B,Lindgren A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated executive function in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, and focused on executive dysfunction in PD with hallucinations, but without dementia. METHODS:PD patients were classified by cognitive or neuropsychotic status as PD group, PD with vivid dreaming group, PD with hallucinations group and ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Imamura K,Wada-Isoe K,Kitayama M,Nakashima K

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional blood flow in the spinal cord was measured in rabbits, cats and monkeys with radioactively labelled microspheres. The reproducibility of the method was tested in rabbits by 3 consecutive determinations with differently labelled microspheres within the different cord regions, and was found to be good. In all 3...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nyström B,Stjernschantz J,Smedegård G

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The common prion protein gene (PRNP) codon 129 polymorphism modifies the susceptibility to and the phenotype of prion diseases. However, no truly representative normal population-based data, or data stratified according to age or gender are available on the distribution of this polymorphism. MATERIAL AND ME...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nurmi MH,Bishop M,Strain L,Brett F,McGuigan C,Hutchison M,Farrell M,Tilvis R,Erkkilä S,Simell O,Knight R,Haltia M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological survey of multiple sclerosis was carried out in the western part of Poland. The estimated prevalence rate on December 31, 1981 was compared with that established on the same territory on January 1, 1965. The disease was less frequent in 1981. The prevalence rate for definite cases was only 42.87 ver...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Wender M,Pruchnik-Grabowska D,Hertmanowska H,Kowal P,Zielińska M,Namysł I,Marcinkowski J

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a symptom frequently presented in sleep clinics. Only a paucity of data has addressed clinical courses of sleep disorders with EDS. Therefore, we sought to compare clinical outcomes of patients presenting EDS. METHODS:A retrospective observational study was performed in...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kim T,Lee JH,Lee CS,Yoon IY

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between depression, physical disability, cognitive deficit and brain abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with early MS. Eighteen relapsing-remitting MS patients were evaluated: depression was diagnosed according to DSM-III R and measured by the MMPI de...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Millefiorini E,Padovani A,Pozzilli C,Loriedo C,Bastianello S,Buttinelli C,Di Piero V,Fieschi C

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the mortality rate in Parkinson's disease (PD) with a control group without PD, and to assess the relationship between mortality and features of PD. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Ninety PD patients and 50 controls, mortality ascertained at 11 years follow-up. RESULTS:The hazard ratio (HR) for mortality in...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hughes TA,Ross HF,Mindham RH,Spokes EG

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00