Economic consequences of multiple sclerosis for Canadians.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The role of the natural anticoagulants, antithrombin III (AT III), protein C (PC), and protein S (PS), in patients with mild to moderate ischemic stroke remains uncertain. We aimed to find out whether their levels in peripheral blood correlated with the severity of neurological deficit or can pre...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Haapaniemi E,Tatlisumak T,Soinne L,Syrjälä M,Kaste M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our purpose was to identify the incidence and significance of markers of systemic connective tissue abnormalities (CTA) in patients with saccular intracranial aneurysms (SIA). MATERIALS AND METHODS:This prospective case-control study included 199 consecutive patients with SIA (103 women and 96 men, mean age...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Lebedeva ER,Sakovich VP

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptic seizures are refractory to treatment in approximately one-third of patients despite the recent introduction of many newer antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Development of novel AEDs therefore remains a high priority. Perampanel is a first-in-class non-competitive selective AMPA receptor antagonist with a unique me...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tsai JJ,Wu T,Leung H,Desudchit T,Tiamkao S,Lim KS,Dash A

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible association of 7 HLA specificities in the HLA-A locus and 16 specificities in the HLA-B locus with susceptibility to Parkinsonian syndrome was investigated in a total of 36 patients with paralysis agitans (PA), as well as in 11 patients with other Parkinsonian syndromes, and 176 controls in Japan. There w...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Takagi S,Shinohara Y,Tsuji K

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) injections in the salivary glands and radiotherapy (RT) on these glands are commonly used to alleviate severe drooling in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This study compares BoNT type A with RT based on patient-rated evaluations. MATERIALS & METHODS:A prospecti...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Weikamp JG,Schinagl DA,Verstappen CC,Schelhaas HJ,de Swart BJ,Kalf JG

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:63 patients with alcoholic-nutritional peripheral neuropathy were given neurologic, electrophysiologic and nutritional examinations. 24 of these patients were reexamined later in the course of their disease, after from 2 to 72 months (mean 33). Alcoholic-nutritional neuropathy appeared and worsened after bouts of heav...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hawley RJ,Kurtzke JF,Armbrustmacher VW,Saini N,Manz H

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of urinary taurine and 17-hydroxycorticosteroids were estimated in 19 cases of epilepsy. These levels were then compared with those of normal healthy subjects. The urinary taurine levels were significantly higher in epilepsy and have diagnostic as well as prognostic significance. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Rao A,Baliga L,Raja A,Rao SN

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new components of the human SEP upon stimulation of the contralateral median nerve at the wrist have been identified. Such components have been called N16 and N17, according to their polarity and latency. N16 and N17, as well as the N14-P15 complex, are generated by separate subcortical dipoles. Particularly, they...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Abbruzzese M,Favale E,Leandri M,Ratto S

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total lymphoid irradiation (TLI) has been reported to delay deterioration in patients with progressive multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders. METHODS--In an open trial, the effect of TLI combined with a one year course of low dose prednisone was compared to the effect of sham TLI and TLI only in a prior do...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Cook SD,Devereux C,Troiano R,Bansil S,Zito G,Sheffet A,Jotkowitz A,Rohowsky-Kochan C,Dowling PC

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:While chewing and grinding movements have been observed in amphetamine addicts, recognition and management of this problem have rarely been highlighted. Botulinum toxin (BTX) has previously been demonstrated to be effective for bruxism associated with movement disorders, such as cranial-cervical dystonia. However, the...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： See SJ,Tan EK

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ultrasonographic assessment of carotid artery plaque morphology is widely used to identify patients at high risk for stroke. However, the reliability of plaque analysis in high-grade stenosis is uncertain. We determined the interrater reliability of sonographic plaque morphology analysis in patients with seve...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hartmann A,Mohr JP,Thompson JL,Ramos O,Mast H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A representative sample of 117 patients with definite multiple sclerosis (MS) was interviewed on pain syndromes. Chronic syndromes lasting more than one month included dysaestesthesia, low back pain, spasms, tonic seizures, tightening and painful sensations in the extremities. Acute syndromes included neuralgia, L'Her...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Stenager E,Knudsen L,Jensen K

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with autoimmune disorders (AIDs) in individual patients, and limited data suggest a possible familial association of MS and AIDs; however, no systematic study has been conducted on the occurrence of AIDs in the families of MS patients. Using a standardized interview focused on AID...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Heinzlef O,Alamowitch S,Sazdovitch V,Chillet P,Joutel A,Tournier-Lasserve E,Roullet E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been accumulation of the nutritional muscular dystrophy of the cattle in a certain western district of Finland where the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) is also highest. This animal disease is due to lack of selenium (Se) and vitamin E. The Se content of whole blood was low (52.6 +/- 11.3 ng/ml) in MS ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Wikström J,Westermarck T,Palo J

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once believed to be extremely uncommon, due to magnetic resonance imaging cavernous hemangiomas of the spinal cord are detected with increasing frequency. Management of both symptomatic and asymptomatic intramedullary cavernous hamangiomas is therefore of growing importance. However, experience with treatment and foll...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kondziella D,Brodersen P,Laursen H,Hansen K

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) contributes to dementia and disability in the elderly, and may negatively affect stroke outcomes. We aimed to evaluate to what extent single features and global burden of SVD detected with magnetic resonance (MR) are associated with worse outcomes in patients with ischae...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Arba F,Inzitari D,Ali M,Warach SJ,Luby M,Lees KR,STIR\/VISTA Imaging Collaboration.

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of Rhesus anti-D immunoglobulin (anti-D) in patients with an autoimmune demyelinating neuropathy. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Three patients with an autoimmune mediated neuropathy received 1000 IU anti-D weekly for 2 months. RESULTS:Two patients worsened gradually during the treatment and...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： de Jager AE,Hazenberg CA,van der Hoeven JH

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:Adenylate kinase (AK) was determined in a lumbo-cisternal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) gradient and in CSF from patients with mental deterioration. AK activity was unchanged in the gradient and different from albumin and albumin ratio (alb CSF/albumin serum), a blood-brain barrier marker in the same gradient. No differen...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ahlberg J,Blomstrand C,Ronquist G,Wikkelsö C

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow and cerebral oxygen uptake were studied during severe arterial hypoxia in anesthetized dogs. It was shown that the hypoxic vasodilatation in the brain reaches a limit at an arterial oxygen saturation at about 25% and that this vasodilatation is less than that which may be induced by hypercapnia. A ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ekström-Jodal B,Elfverson J,von Essen C

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The coincidence of coagulatopathy and chronic subdural haematoma (CSH) requires correction of coagulation to facilitate surgery. We investigated the correlation between coagulopathy and outcome in CSH patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:We analysed past medical history, surgical treatment and coagulation paramete...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： König SA,Schick U,Döhnert J,Goldammer A,Vitzthum HE

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with pseudotumor cerebri were studied. The diagnosis was based on bilateral papilledema and absence of intracranial masses and hydrocephalus. Based on the radiological findings, three groups of patients emerged: (A) Five patients with an empty sella. Four had an enlarged sella; (B) Two patients with a pit...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bjerre P,Lindholm J,Gyldensted C

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:White blood cells might have a pathogenetic role in ischemic vascular conditions. Several studies have suggested that increased adhesiveness of these cells could contribute to such a damage. The present study was undertaken in order to examine the adhesive properties of leukocytes in the peripheral blood of p...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Meiner Z,Arber N,Liberman E,Leibovitz E,Seltzer D,Berliner S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

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：:In a previous study we found that nine of 47 siblings to multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with a normal neurological examination carry an intrathecal oligoclonal immunopathy with limited specificity, a condition we termed MS immunopathic trait. The purpose of this study is to further characterize the MS immunopathic t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Haghighi S,Andersen O,Odén A,Rosengren L

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions have been noted in small quantities in a handful of atypical cases of myotonic dystrophy and there are clinical and pathological parallels between this autosomal dominant disease and certain mitochondrial myopathies where such deletions are well recognised. We studied 20 individuals...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Thyagarajan D,Byrne E,Noer S,Lertrit P,Utthanophol P,Kapsa R,Marzuki S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To measure clinical and immunological parameters in a patient with myasthenia gravis (MG) treated with antibodies against CD25 (basiliximab, Simulect). Patient and methods - Injections of basiliximab were given repeatedly together with cyclosporin A and corticosteroids for 9 months to a patient with severe M...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kakoulidou M,Pirskanen-Matell R,Lefvert AK

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The LRRK2-G2019S mutation is the most common cause of Parkinson's disease (PD) in North Africa. G2019S-PD has been described as similar to idiopathic with minor clinical differences. The aim of this study was to determine the G2019S-related phenotype and to investigate gender and gene dosage effects on clini...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ben Romdhan S,Farhat N,Nasri A,Lesage S,Hdiji O,Ben Djebara M,Landoulsi Z,Stevanin G,Brice A,Damak M,Gouider R,Mhiri C

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hospital admission in otherwise healthy patients following a first unprovoked seizure is controversial. We aimed to evaluate the influence of admission in a neurology department on the identification of risk factors for seizure recurrence in patients with a first unprovoked seizure. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Goldberg I,Neufeld MY,Auriel E,Gandelman-Marton R

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00