Alterations in myelin formation in fetal brains of twins.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pediatric patients with epilepsy are at risk for low vitamin D levels, increasing the risk for bone fractures, yet standardized bone health screening is not part of routine care. METHODS:We surveyed pediatric neurologists (n = 68) at our center regarding screening practices, using an 11-item survey; constru...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Patel AA,An S,Schomer M,Julich K,Elitt C,Heath J,Putman MS,Loddenkemper T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guillain-Barré syndrome is the most common cause of acute flaccid paresis in childhood. Few validated large-scale population-based data are available concerning pediatric Guillain-Barré syndrome, including incidence, risk factors, and initial clinical characteristics. METHODS:In the Danish National Patient ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Levison LS,Thomsen RW,Markvardsen LK,Christensen DH,Sindrup SH,Andersen H

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral cavernous malformations are the second most common vascular malformations in the central nervous system, and over one-third are found in children. Lesions may be solitary or multiple, be discovered incidentally, be sporadic, or be secondary to familial cavernomatosis or radiation therapy. Children may present...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Paddock M,Lanham S,Gill K,Sinha S,Connolly DJA

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distinguishing patients with psychogenic nonsyncopal collapse (PNSC), a conversion disorder that resembles syncope, can pose a difficult clinical challenge. Using the open-ended question "what does it feel like to faint?," the present study aimed to characterize how patients with PNSC perceive and communicat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Heyer GL

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata is a rare genetic disorder of peroxisomal metabolism that is characterized clinically by shortening of the proximal limbs, cataracts, a characteristic facial appearance, failure to thrive, and psychomotor retardation. This report describes a newborn with a severe phenotype whose ne...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Goh S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Corpus callosotomy and vagus nerve stimulation are common palliative options for people with drug-resistant epilepsy when resective epilepsy surgery is not feasible. Because most of the published corpus callosotomy experience comes from a period before vagus nerve stimulation was approved and widely used, there...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Arya R,Greiner HM,Horn PS,Turner M,Holland KD,Mangano FT

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peroxisomal disorders are classified in two major groups: (1) peroxisome biogenesis disorders and (2) single peroxisomal enzyme/transporter deficiencies. D-bifunctional protein deficiency (OMIM #261515) is included in this last group of rare diseases and leads to an impaired peroxisomal beta-oxidation. D-bif...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nascimento J,Mota C,Lacerda L,Pacheco S,Chorão R,Martins E,Garrido C

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the outcomes of 28 children who had severe head injuries between 13-18 years of age. All were unconscious at least 24 hours and have been followed at least 2 years after injury. At present, their ages range from 18 to 27 years. Their educational achievements, social activities, marital status, fu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kriel RL,Krach LE,Bergland MM,Panser LA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinically mild encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) is the second commonest cause of encephalopathy. Several pathogens have been detected in patients with MERS type 2, such as influenza A and B, but little is known about the proportion of cases of MERS type 2 with this pathogenesis. Human...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sano F,Fukao T,Tamaru K,Kanemura H,Inukai T,Aihara M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the mechanisms of central nervous system involvement in children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura, levels of lupus anticoagulant, anticardiolipin antibodies, and anti-β2 glycoprotein I antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid were determined in 46 cases of Henoch-Schönlein purpura with central nervous syste...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Liu A,Zhang H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) are heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders. A better understanding of genotype-phenotype-histology correlation is expected to improve patient care and enhance understanding for phenotypic variability. This meta-analysis studies the correlation of NCL genotypes with cli...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Aungaroon G,Hallinan B,Jain P,Horn PS,Spaeth C,Arya R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eye movements were assessed in 22 patients with varying degrees of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency. Ocular motility was clinically normal in seven patients with moderate enzyme deficiency but grossly abnormal in 15 patients with severe enzyme deficiency. In patients with severe deficiency, fi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jinnah HA,Lewis RF,Visser JE,Eddey GE,Barabas G,Harris JC

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Records were reviewed of 17 patients, ages 4 months to 18 years, who had been diagnosed as having brain abscesses between 1975-1984. Serial computed tomography was used to guide treatment; consequently, 8 patients were managed medically and 9 received surgical intervention. All medically treated patients were free of ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ferriero DM,Derechin M,Edwards MS,Berg BO

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons must respond to a bewildering array of external and internal stimuli and must distinguish among them to generate an appropriate response or change in metabolic or electrical activity. Furthermore, the response of a cell to a given stimulus must depend on what else is happening inside and outside the cell at th...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Schor NF

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old boy with the typical clinical features of infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy was examined with magnetic resonance imaging. The findings suggested increased metal deposition in the globus pallidus. Magnetic resonance imaging findings of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome and infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy are simil...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ito M,Okuno T,Asato R,Mutoh K,Nakano S,Kataoka K,Fujii T,Mikawa H,Saida K

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial oxidation of a variety of substrates produces the bulk of energy requirements for most cell types. Impairment of oxidative metabolism may result in a broad spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms. A disorder of oxidative metabolism should be suspected when an unexplained association of signs and symptoms...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Breningstall GN

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The historic and current status of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome diagnosis, classification, and therapies are discussed. A number of symptomatic therapies are available and should be used optimally for each patient. Although one gene locus has been identified, many patients do not manifest linkage to the NBIA1 locus (ne...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Swaiman KF

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 13-year-old female with refractory frontal lobe epilepsy in whom diffusion tensor imaging was useful for exploring subtle cortical malformation. She had frequent simple partial seizures characterized by clonic movement of the right upper extremity. Conventional magnetic resonance imaging was not conclusive...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Okumura A,Fukatsu H,Kato K,Ikuta T,Watanabe K

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent sonographic studies have demonstrated enlarged choroid plexuses to be an abnormality associated with myelomeningocele. We report a patient with hydrocephalus and myelomeningocele who had huge bilateral enlargement of the choroid plexuses which were large enough to occlude the foramen of Monro of the shunted and...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chadduck WM,Glasier CM

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated by immunohistochemistry the distribution of protective protein in human tissues. Immunoreactivity was observed in the cytoplasm, revealing a granular pattern and cell type specificity. The most intense staining was observed in the large neurons of brain, distal and collecting tubular cells of ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sohma O,Mizuguchi M,Takashima S,Satake A,Itoh K,Sakuraba H,Suzuki Y,Oyanagi K

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hashimoto encephalopathy is a rare, clinically heterogenous condition. Its treatment is based on corticosteroids. A previously normal 12-year-old boy was admitted to our pediatric emergency department with status epilepticus. He experienced a recurrence of status epilepticus after pentobarbital withdrawal, and require...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bektas Ö,Yılmaz A,Kendirli T,Sıklar Z,Deda G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hashimoto's encephalopathy is an underdiagnosed, steroid-responsive, progressive or relapsing encephalopathy associated with high titers of serum antithyroid antibodies. Although Hashimoto's encephalopathy is well documented in adults, it is rarely observed or studied in children and adolescents. We describe the clini...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Erol I,Saygi S,Alehan F

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen children, 8 months of age or older, from a neonatal follow-up program underwent magnetic resonance imaging and neurologic, cognitive, and language evaluations. Magnetic resonance imaging findings in all children included increased white matter signal on T2-weighted images and ventricular enlargement adjacent t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Feldman HM,Scher MS,Kemp SS

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We describe the trends in antiepileptic drug (AED) use in children and adolescents with epilepsy in the United States. METHODS:We undertook a cross-sectional study based on Medicaid Analytic eXtract data set from 26 US states. Children and adolescents aged three to 18 years with at least one year continuous ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Liu X,Carney PR,Bussing R,Segal R,Cottler LB,Winterstein AG

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome were studied over a 26-year period. The nevus flammeus was unilateral in 27 patients (twice as often on left side) and bilateral in 13 patients. Only 3 of these 13 patients had bilateral cerebral lesions. Seizures, most of which were focal, were present in 32 patients (80%). T...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pascual-Castroviejo I,Díaz-Gonzalez C,García-Melian RM,Gonzalez-Casado I,Muñoz-Hiraldo E

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to predict long-term neurologic and neuropsychologic outcomes in 22 children, ages 1 week to 14 years at the time of traumatic brain injury, was investigated using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy acquired post injury and compared with standardized neurologic, intellectual, and neuropsychologic testi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Brenner T,Freier MC,Holshouser BA,Burley T,Ashwal S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 25% of sufferers of retinal migraine are thought to have a positive family history. Retinal migraines can cause both transient, and rarely permanent, unilateral monocular visual loss. This report of familial retinal migraines furthers our understanding of this particular migraine subtype. Two families wi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lewinshtein D,Shevell MI,Rothner AD

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychogenic seizures or psychogenic nonepileptic seizures occur in various mental disorders. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms can also imitate epileptic partial seizures, but detailed observations of this phenomenon are rare in the literature. A girl of 13 years was referred to the Department of Child Psychiatry because ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wolańczyk T,Bryńska A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An optimal botulinum toxin dose may be related to the volume of the targeted muscle. We investigated the suitability of using ultrasound and anthropometry to estimate gastrocnemius and soleus muscle volume. Gastrocnemius and soleus muscle thickness was measured in 11 cadaveric human legs, using ultrasound. Lower leg l...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bandholm T,Sonne-Holm S,Thomsen C,Bencke J,Pedersen SA,Jensen BR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old girl who had Duane retraction syndrome associated with Chiari I malformation is reported. Neuro-ophthalmologic examination revealed severe limitation of abduction of the left eye, as well as narrowing of the palpebral fissure and retraction of the globe on adduction. Electro-oculography of the affected e...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yamanouchi H,Iwasaki Y,Sugai K,Mukuno K

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00