Myasthenia gravis with features of the myasthenic syndrome. An investigation with electrophysiologic methods including single-fiber electromyography.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Optimal treatment remains uncertain for patients with cognitive impairment that persists or returns after standard IV antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease. METHODS:Patients had well-documented Lyme disease, with at least 3 weeks of prior IV antibiotics, current positive IgG Western blot, and objective memory...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Fallon BA,Keilp JG,Corbera KM,Petkova E,Britton CB,Dwyer E,Slavov I,Cheng J,Dobkin J,Nelson DR,Sackeim HA

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The progressive myoclonus epilepsies (PMEs) are a devastating group of rare disorders(1) that manifest with increasing action myoclonus, which is also present at rest but activates with stimuli such as noise, light, or touch. Ultimately, patients become wheelchair-bound and experience early death. Neurologic signs tha...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Knupp K,Wirrell E

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary deficiency of merosin is the cause of the classic form of congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) accompanied by brain white matter abnormalities. We report a female infant with dystrophinopathy who was deficient in merosin in skeletal muscle. The patient had a phenotype of typical CMD and white matter abnormaliti...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Tachi N,Ohya K,Chiba S,Matsuo M,Patria SY,Matsumura K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Kentucky provides neurologic services to rural children by a traveling clinic. In 1978, 438 children (including 231 new patients) made 646 clinic visits. The primary diagnoses were appropriate for a neurology clinic; epilepsy was the most common (74 of 231) among new patients. A community survey of s...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Baumann RJ,Leonidakis MG

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the occurrence of neurologic complications in 23 patients who underwent gastric restriction surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity. Complications occurred 3 to 20 months after surgery. All the patients had had protracted vomiting for the first 3 months after the operation. The following syndromes were f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Abarbanel JM,Berginer VM,Osimani A,Solomon H,Charuzi I

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether cognitive function is related to incidence of stroke. METHODS:A population-based cohort of 1551 subjects with no clinical history or signs of stroke, age 75 years and over at baseline, were followed up for 3 years. Individuals with a first-ever stroke event that was recorded in the Sto...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Zhu L,Fratiglioni L,Guo Z,Winblad B,Viitanen M

更新日期：2000-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Subarachnoid neurolysis using ethanol to destroy selectively the posterior roots of the spinal cord is a method for providing pain relief in patients with advanced cancer. Weakness of the extremities is a complication of the procedure that has been attributed to spread of the neurolytic agent to the anterior roots. Th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： McGarvey ML,Ferrante FM,Patel RS,Maljian JA,Stecker M

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now increasing use of dopamine agonists as effective early monotherapy in the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). Dopamine agonists can induce an antiparkinsonian effect through actions on either D(1)-like or D(2)-like dopamine receptors, and the multiple receptor subtypes present in the brain may provide ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jenner P

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for rupture of unruptured cerebral aneurysms (UCAs) in elderly Japanese patients aged 70 years or older. METHODS:The participants included all patients 70 years of age or older in 3 prospective studies in Japan (the Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysm Study of Jap...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hishikawa T,Date I,Tokunaga K,Tominari S,Nozaki K,Shiokawa Y,Houkin K,Murayama Y,Ishibashi T,Takao H,Kimura T,Nakayama T,Morita A,For UCAS Japan and UCAS II Investigators.

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, electrodiagnostic, and pathologic studies indicate that the Guillain-Barre syndromes (GBSs) include both primary demyelinating and primary axonal forms. The axonal forms are usually thought to have a poorer prognosis, with less chance for rapid or complete recovery. In northern China, epidemics of one axonal...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ho TW,Li CY,Cornblath DR,Gao CY,Asbury AK,Griffin JW,McKhann GM

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the influence of APOE and human leukocyte antigen-DRB1-DQB1 polymorphisms on the course of multiple sclerosis in 871 patients, 773 with relapsing and 98 with primary progressive disease, and 348 control subjects. The risk of the primary progressive course was increased (odds ratio = 6.81, p = 0.00...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Cocco E,Sotgiu A,Costa G,Murru MR,Mancosu C,Murru R,Lai M,Contu P,Marrosu MG

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Men and women with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) had more brain atrophy and ventricular dilatation, measured by quantitative CT, than did respective age- and sex-matched healthy controls (p less than 0.05). The male DAT patients with mild dementia had a larger mean third ventricle volume, whereas male patients ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Creasey H,Schwartz M,Frederickson H,Haxby JV,Rapoport SI

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hospital readmission is an important quality improvement measure that has not been well-studied in pediatric neurology. We examined predictors of 7-day and 30-day readmissions for pediatric patients hospitalized with a neurologic diagnosis. METHODS:This was a retrospective study of hospital readmission rates...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Hong A,Shah Y,Singh K,Karkare S,Kothare S

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether brain function is altered in cognitively normal individuals at high risk for AD several years before the typical age at onset for this illness. BACKGROUND:Neuropathologic alterations in AD precede cognitive impairment by several years. It is unknown whether functional alterations in neur...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Smith CD,Andersen AH,Kryscio RJ,Schmitt FA,Kindy MS,Blonder LX,Avison MJ

更新日期：1999-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a Japanese Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) patient with occasional myalgia and cramps during normal activity that developed at the age of 28 months. His family history was negative for neuromuscular diseases. Muscle biopsy analyses, including dystrophin immunostaining, disclosed no clinically relevant findin...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ishigaki C,Patria SY,Nishio H,Yabe M,Matsuo M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine the range and extent of neurologic complications due to pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 infection (pH1N1'09) in children hospitalized with influenza. METHODS:Active hospital-based surveillance in 6 Australian tertiary pediatric referral centers between June 1 and September 30, 2009, f...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Khandaker G,Zurynski Y,Buttery J,Marshall H,Richmond PC,Dale RC,Royle J,Gold M,Snelling T,Whitehead B,Jones C,Heron L,McCaskill M,Macartney K,Elliott EJ,Booy R

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the outcome (developmental, neurologic, and seizure) and prognostic factors of 57 cases of infantile spasms (17 cryptogenic, 40 symptomatic). The mean developmental score of the cryptogenic group (71.2 +/- 24.2) was significantly higher than that of the symptomatic group (48.4 +/- 24.5), as assessed by the...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Koo B,Hwang PA,Logan WJ

更新日期：1993-11-01 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：:We studied the scalp distribution of auditory event-related potentials (P300), using simultaneously a cephalic (linked ears) and a noncephalic (balanced sternovertebra) reference. The recordings with noncephalic reference showed that infrequent, attended auditory stimuli evoke a negative bitemporal component (N300) as...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Neshige R,Lüders H

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the relationship between markers of vitamin B(12) status and brain volume loss per year over a 5-year period in an elderly population. METHODS:A prospective study of 107 community-dwelling volunteers aged 61 to 87 years without cognitive impairment at enrollment. Volunteers were assessed year...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Vogiatzoglou A,Refsum H,Johnston C,Smith SM,Bradley KM,de Jager C,Budge MM,Smith AD

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the possible relation between the extent of involvement of catecholaminergic neurons and the presence of alveolar hypoventilation in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MyD). BACKGROUND:Respiratory insufficiency has been reported frequently in MyD patients. Recent data support the hypothesis that th...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Ono S,Takahashi K,Jinnai K,Kanda F,Fukuoka Y,Kurisaki H,Mitake S,Inagaki T,Yamano T,Shimizu N,Nagao K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the etiology of aseptic meningitis and encephalitis in an adult population using modern microbiologic methods. METHODS:Consecutive patients (ages > or =16) with aseptic meningitis or encephalitis treated in Turku University Hospital, Finland, during 1999 to 2003 were included in the study. Mic...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kupila L,Vuorinen T,Vainionpää R,Hukkanen V,Marttila RJ,Kotilainen P

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the results of a prospective trial of nonoperative management of the cubital tunnel syndrome in 128 patients. Forty-three of the patients had bilateral ulnar nerve compression. At study's end, information was available on 94% of patients and 164 managed extremities, at a mean of 58.6 months of follo...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Dellon AL,Hament W,Gittelshon A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the relationship between hippocampal, amygdalar, and entorhinal cortex atrophy and duration of epilepsy, presence of secondary generalized seizures, and prolonged childhood febrile convulsions in patients with pharmacologically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS:Volumetric MRI of ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Bernasconi N,Natsume J,Bernasconi A

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical and neuroimaging findings of a mother and daughter with seizure disorders and band heterotopias seen on magnetic resonance imaging studies. These clinicoradiologic findings simulate those for a diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis complex. Clinicians should be aware of this migrational anomaly and it...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： DiMario FJ Jr,Cobb RJ,Ramsby GR,Leicher C

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To learn to which portions of a line normal subjects would attend when watching this line actually moving or when perceiving movement even in the absence of actual movement, an illusory movement. METHODS:Twenty normal subjects watched a computer monitor on which either lines or dots moved to the right or lef...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Jeong Y,Lee BH,Ahn HJ,Park KC,Heilman KM,Na DL

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bapineuzumab, a humanized anti-amyloid-beta (Abeta) monoclonal antibody for the potential treatment of Alzheimer disease (AD), was evaluated in a multiple ascending dose, safety, and efficacy study in mild to moderate AD. METHODS:The study enrolled 234 patients, randomly assigned to IV bapineuzumab or place...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Salloway S,Sperling R,Gilman S,Fox NC,Blennow K,Raskind M,Sabbagh M,Honig LS,Doody R,van Dyck CH,Mulnard R,Barakos J,Gregg KM,Liu E,Lieberburg I,Schenk D,Black R,Grundman M,Bapineuzumab 201 Clinical Trial Investigator

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors affecting osmotic fragility were studied in red blood cells of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The mean osmotic fragility (MOF), operationally defined as the NaCl concentration for 50% hemolysis, was found to be higher by 3.63 +/- 0.51 mM in Duchenne cells than in normal cells having an MOF of 60.1 ...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Kim HD,Luthra MG,Watts RP,Stern LZ

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the influence of birthdays on the onset and course of vascular events such as stroke, TIA, and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS:This population-based study included all emergency department (ED) admissions due to ischemic stroke, TIA, or AMI from April 2002 to March 2004 in Ontario, Cana...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Saposnik G,Baibergenova A,Dang J,Hachinski V

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to identify intracranial EEG patterns characteristic of epileptogenic tubers and to understand the contribution of perituberal cortex. METHODS:Twenty-three intracranial EEG monitoring studies were reviewed from 17 children aged 1.3-7.7 years with tuberous sclerosis complex and intractable multifoca...

journal_title：Neurology

authors： Mohamed AR,Bailey CA,Freeman JL,Maixner W,Jackson GD,Harvey AS

更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00