Clinical value of vestibular-evoked myogenic potential tests in patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study of muscle metabolism by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been poorly implemented in multiple sclerosis (MS). Aims of the study were to compare resting muscle oxygen consumption (rmVO2) at gastrocnemius in MS patients and in age-matched healthy controls (HC) measured using NIRS, and to evaluate...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Malagoni AM,Felisatti M,Lamberti N,Basaglia N,Manfredini R,Salvi F,Zamboni P,Manfredini F

更新日期：2013-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) questionnaire is widely used to determine the degree of migraine-related disability of subjects. So far, and to the best of our knowledge, no Spanish version of this tool has been validated. The questionnaire comprises seven items, with the first five constituting t...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Rodríguez-Almagro D,Achalandabaso A,Rus A,Obrero-Gaitán E,Zagalaz-Anula N,Lomas-Vega R

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder that affects the motoneurons of the spinal anterior horn, resulting in hypotonia and muscle weakness. The disease is caused by deletion or mutation in the telomeric copy of SMN gene (SMN1) and clinical severity is in part determined by the copy...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Darbar IA,Plaggert PG,Resende MB,Zanoteli E,Reed UC

更新日期：2011-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is an ubiquitous pathogen capable of modulating the host immune system. Immune dysfunction is common during CMV infection and includes autoimmune phenomena. Here we focus on a case of primary CMV infection associated with encephalopathy in a patient with a rudimentary spleen. We d...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Xu X,Bergman P,Willows T,Tammik C,Sund M,Hökfelt T,Söderberg-Naucler C,Varani S

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The partial form of the complex regional pain syndrome of the hand type 1 (CRPS 1), involving only 1 to 3 fingers, is a rare condition first described in 1972. The aim of the study is to define more precisely the diagnosis workup and the prognosis of this clinical entity. METHODS:Retrospective study of CRPS...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Konzelmann M,Deriaz O,Luthi F

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The X-linked form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1 (CMTX1) is an inherited peripheral neuropathy that arises in patients with mutations in the gap-junction beta-1 gene (GJB1). CASE PRESENTATION:Three young male patients from Southern China with pes cavus experienced multiple episodes of transient centr...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Liang Y,Liu J,Cheng D,Wu Y,Mo L,Huang W

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous epidemiologic studies have examined the association of smoking with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) incidence, but their results have been inconsistent. Moreover, limited information exists on the association between smoking and survival in ALS patients. We evaluated the association of smoking w...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Alonso A,Logroscino G,Jick SS,Hernán MA

更新日期：2010-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The medical imaging to differentiate World Health Organization (WHO) grade II (ODG2) from III (ODG3) oligodendrogliomas still remains a challenge. We investigated whether combination of machine leaning with radiomics from conventional T1 contrast-enhanced (T1 CE) and fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAI...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Zhao SS,Feng XL,Hu YC,Han Y,Tian Q,Sun YZ,Zhang J,Ge XW,Cheng SC,Li XL,Mao L,Shen SN,Yan LF,Cui GB,Wang W

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Periodic alternating ping-pong gaze (PPG) is a rare disease with few reports. To our knowledge, there was no report on anti GQ1b antibody syndrome accompanied by PPG. This paper reported a case of anti GQ1b antibody syndrome with Bickerstaff's Encephalitis (BBE) overlapping classic Guillain-Barre Syndrome (G...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Han J,Xie Y,Yan H,Cao Y,HongmeiWang,Cao D

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Road traffic accidents are known to be the main cause of traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI is also a leading cause of death and disability. This study, by means of the idiographic approach (single-case experimental designs using multiple-baseline designs), has examined whether methylphenidate (MPH - trade na...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Al-Adawi S,Al-Naamani A,Jaju S,Al-Farsi YM,Dorvlo ASS,Al-Maashani A,Al-Adawi SSH,Moustafa AA,Al-Sibani N,Essa MM,Burke DT,Qoronfleh MW

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A few reliable national data concerning the etiology of non-traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) in sub-Sahara Africa exists, mainly because of the limitations of diagnostic imaging. These are both expensive and mostly unavailable in several resource-limited settings. Only a few studies have employed the magne...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Musubire AK,Meya DB,Katabira ET,Meyer ACL,Bohjanen PR,Boulware DR,Minja F

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A frequent disorder after stroke is neglect, resulting in a failure to report or respond to contralesional stimuli. Rehabilitation of neglect is important, given the negative influence on motor recovery, independence in self-care, transfers, and locomotion. Effects of prism adaptation (PA) to alleviate negle...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Ten Brink AF,Visser-Meily JM,Nijboer TC

更新日期：2015-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute seizures are a common cause of paediatric admissions to hospitals in Africa, and malaria is an important cause of seizures in endemic areas. Malaria has declined in the past decade whilst neonatal admissions have increased, both which may affect the incidence and phenotypes of acute seizures in African...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Serem GK,Newton CR,Kariuki SM

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy (DPHL) is a demyelinating syndrome characterized by neurological relapse after an initial recovery from hypoxic brain injury. We describe a patient with impaired consciousness following DPHL, concurrent with injury of the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) s...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Jang SH,Kwon HG

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After discharge from hospital following a stroke, prescriptions of community-based rehabilitation are often downgraded to "maintenance" rehabilitation or discontinued. This classic therapeutic behavior stems from persistent confusion between lesion-induced plasticity, which lasts for the first 6 months essen...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Gracies JM,Pradines M,Ghédira M,Loche CM,Mardale V,Hennegrave C,Gault-Colas C,Audureau E,Hutin E,Baude M,Bayle N,Neurorestore Study Group.

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spastic paraplegia, optic atrophy and neuropathy (Spoan syndrome) is an autosomal recessive disease with approximately 70 cases recorded in Brazil and Egypt. METHODS:This is a prospective longitudinal study performed with 47 patients affected with Spoan syndrome of seven communities of Rio Grande do Norte (...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Galvão CRC,Cavalcante PMA,Olinda R,Graciani Z,Zatz M,Kok F,Santos S,Lancman S

更新日期：2019-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurocysticercosis (NC) is one of the most frequent parasitic diseases of the central nervous system. Cysticidal drugs, albendazole and praziquantel, are generally effective when parasites localize in the parenchyma. In contrast, parasites lodged in the subarachnoid basal cisterns are less responsive to trea...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Cárdenas G,Carrillo-Mezo R,Jung H,Sciutto E,Hernandez JL,Fleury A

更新日期：2010-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Leakage of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a common pathological feature in multiple sclerosis (MS). Following a breach of the BBB, albumin, the most abundant protein in plasma, gains access to CNS tissue where it is exposed to an inflammatory milieu and tissue damage, e.g., demyelination. Once in the CNS, albumin ca...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： LeVine SM

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a rare and sporadic congenital neurocutaneous disorder, that is characterized by facial venous capillary malformation (port-wine birthmark), leptomeningeal venous malformation (angiomatosis), glaucoma, and neurologic problems. SWS can comorbid with other disorders in some patie...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Deng L,Wang D,Ruan N,Fu P

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stroke and its risk factors epidemiological survey can help identify individuals at higher risk and therefore promote stroke prevention strategies. The aim of this study was to estimate the current prevalence of stroke and high risk stroke population, and evaluate stroke associated risk factors in southweste...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Yi X,Luo H,Zhou J,Yu M,Chen X,Tan L,Wei W,Li J

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory reactions occurring in the brain after ischemia may contribute to secondary damage. In the present study, effects of minocycline, an anti-inflammatory agent, alone or in combination with mild hypothermia on focal embolic cerebral ischemia have been examined. METHODS:Focal ischemic injury was in...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Wang CX,Yang T,Noor R,Shuaib A

更新日期：2002-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to determine the risk of thromboembolic events in patients with junctional bradycardia(JB). METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed electrocardiograms(ECGs) for 380,682 patients. Those with JB on an ECG at least twice over a ≥3-month interval were included for analysis. We additionally included...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Kim GS,Uhm JS,Kim TH,Lee H,Park J,Park JK,Joung B,Pak HN,Lee MH

更新日期：2016-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Silent brain infarcts are detected by neuroimaging in up to 20% of asymptomatic patients based on population studies. They are five times more frequent than stroke in general population, and increase significantly both with advancing age and hypertension. Moreover, they are independently associated with the ...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Riba-Llena I,Jarca CI,Mundet X,Tovar JL,Orfila F,López-Rueda A,Nafría C,Fernández JL,Castañé X,Domingo M,Alvarez-Sabín J,Fernández-Cortiñas I,Maisterra O,Montaner J,Delgado P

更新日期：2013-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to evaluate the impact of cilostazol on endothelial function, we compared the changes of flow-mediated dilation (FMD) between aspirin and cilostazol groups in patients with acute cerebral ischemia. METHODS:Patients presenting with acute cerebral ischemic events were randomly assigned into aspirin (...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Lee SJ,Lee JS,Choi MH,Lee SE,Shin DH,Hong JM

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Presently, for patients presenting with suspected Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) who undergo temporary drainage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) there is no defined model to differentiate chance improvement form clinical significance change at the individual patient level. To address this lack of informatio...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Davis A,Yasar S,Emerman I,Gulyani S,Khingelova K,Rao A,Manthripragada L,Luciano M,Moghekar A

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gait ability and cognitive function are interrelated during both normal walking (NW) and dual-task walking (DTW), and gait ability is thus adversely affected by cognitive impairment in both situations. However, this association is insufficiently understood in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Here...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Doi T,Shimada H,Makizako H,Tsutsumimoto K,Uemura K,Anan Y,Suzuki T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The benefit of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) for acute ischemic stroke is time dependent. Despite great effort, the median door-to-needle time (DNT) was 60 min at the United States stroke centers. We investigated the effect of a simple quality improvement initiative on DNT for IVT. METHODS:This is a single...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Tran D,Zhu Z,Shafie M,Abcede H,Stradling D,Yu W

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of emerging studies have evaluated clot composition in acute ischemic stroke. Studies of clot composition of embolic strokes of undetermined strokes are lacking. OBJECTIVES:We sought to analyze the RBC to platelet ratios in clots and correlated our findings with stroke etiology. METHODS:This was a...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Nouh A,Mehta T,Hussain M,Song X,Ollenschleger M

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although free radicals have been reported to play a role in the expansion of ischemic brain lesions, the effect of free radical scavengers is still under debate. In this study, the temporal profile of ischemic stroke lesion sizes was assessed for more than one year to evaluate the effect of edaravone which m...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Nakase T,Yoshioka S,Suzuki A

更新日期：2011-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Balanced Steady State Free Precession (b-SSFP) sequences and the newly developed Fast-Spin-Echo (FSE)-sequences enable an optimized visualization of neurovascular compression (NVC) in patients with trigeminal neuralgia (TN). Arterial conflicts are mostly associated with a favorable outcome of microvascular d...

journal_title：BMC neurology

authors： Müller S,Khadhraoui E,Khanafer A,Psychogios M,Rohde V,Tanrikulu L

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00