abstract：:Report of an unusual case of myopathy in an HIV infected patient, responsive only to the immunosuppressor drug methotrexate. The patient was a 39 year old homosexual male with no past history of HIV-related manifestations. One month prior to admission he noticed that his left thigh was swollen and painful. Two weeks l...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rodrigues KM,Puccioni-Sohler M,Castineiras TM,Pereira MT,Papi JA,Schechter M,Avila C,Duarte F,Novis SA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to introduce compliance concept and to classify technicals, biologicas, socials and mixed factors that may influence compliance. The importance of conscious attitudes in a good patient compliance is emphasized. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Alonso NB,Da Silva DF,de Campos CJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Description of main abnormal findings in eight patients with a suspected diagnosis of multiple sclerosis who underwent multimodality evoked potentials studies at HDAL-SARAH--Hospital for Diseases of the Locomotor System, in Brasilia--, during three years (1987-1989). Four of those patients have also been studied with ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Brasil-Neto JP

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and laboratory findings among 34 children (age range from 15 months to 13 years) with neurocysticercosis were reviewed. The main symptoms were: intracranial hypertension, 21 cases (62%); epilepsy, 20 cases (59%); hemiplegia, 4 cases (12%). Computed tomography (CT) in 33 children showed typical brain active cy...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bruck I,Antoniuk SA,Wittig E,Accorsi A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HTLV-1 antibodies were investigated in serum and in CSF of 150 patients with neurologic disorders mainly myelopathies. The patients were considered into three groups according to the possible relationship of their disease to the presence of HTLV-1 antibodies: no relationship risk (control group), occasional risk group...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Spina-França A,Livramento JA,Machado LR,Gomes HR,Vianna LS,Castro LH,Nóbrega JP,Bacheschi LA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement disorders, mostly dystonia, sometimes occur in heterozygotes for Wilson's disease (WD). A patient with metabolic abnormalities suggestive of heterozygote for WD and dystonia is reported. His niece showed the typical neurological and metabolic abnormalities of WD. This rare coincidence and the etiopathogenic m...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barbosa ER,Kostow UP,Hirsch R,Cançado ER,Scaff M,Canelas HM

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy was surveyed in the largest psychiatric hospital in the Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. This establishment was designed for one thousand long-term beds but at the time of the survey there were 1126 inpatients. Diagnosis ranged from anxiety neurosis to schizophrenia although patients with epilepsy, with...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Trevisol-Bittencourt PC,Becker N,Pozzi CM,Sander JW

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports on photosensitive epilepsy are uncommon. The authors review the literature, and special attention is given to television epilepsy. Two cases are reported and discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Lauda EE,de Albuquerque M,do Nascimento CL,de Campos CJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurological involvement in Manson's Schistosomiasis is rarely reported in the literature. The authors describe a case of a 23 years old patient born in São Francisco-MG. She presented with headache, vomiting, fever and stupor. The neurological examination showed stiffness of the neck, paresis with bilateral muscu...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ferreira MS,Costa-Cruz JM,Gomes MA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was performed on 34 patients with photosensitivity detected on the electroencephalogram. This group was compared to an aleatory sample, with 218 patients. The objectives were to evaluate the photosensitivity and: type of epilepsy, age of onset of seizures, sex ratio, frequency of seizures, and fa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Albuquerque M,do Nascimento CL,de Campos CJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45 years-old woman presented with loss of initiative and memory, motivated cry and behaviour disturbance with childish traits, quickly progressive along 6 months until total apathy. An EEG showed periodic activity with bilateral triphasic waves against a flattened background activity suggesting Creutzfeldt-Jacob dis...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bertolucci PH,Malheiros SF

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a male child with Russel's syndrome due to a pilocytic astrocytoma located in the diencephalic region is presented. The diagnosis was made in the 16th month of age, but symptoms began in the 4th months of life, when he started losing weight. By the time he was admitted weight was 6150g and he was 74cm tall...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Da Motta LA,Garcia Filho OV,Horta MP,Lima BO,Pratesi R,Farage Filho M

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia become manifest by homolateral paralysis of ocular adduction and contralateral nystagmus. Principal causes are multiple sclerosis and vertebro-basilar insufficiency. We report a case in which this signal appeared as the first clinical manifestation of bacterial endocarditis and ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck AL,Gonçalves AJ,Bezerra JM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review papers and researches about skull growth in newborns and infants: they analysed and correlated anthropometric data with maternal biological and social factors. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Rosado ML,Barbieri MA,Bettiol H,Gomes UA,Moura-Ribeiro MV

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the clinical records of 280 patients admitted to our Hospital between 1985 and 1988, with a positive Elisa test for HIV-related antibodies: 15.71% (44) of these patients exhibited clinical abnormalities related to disease of the CNS. In 6 (13.6%) patients the neurological complication was the first manifest...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Puccioni M,Favoreto AC,André C,Peixoto CA,Novis SA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients, a 40-year-old woman and a 75-year-old man, were investigated due to a chronic polyneuritis. Amiodarone was used by them to treat refractory cardiac arrhythmia since 4 and 6 years before, respectively. The EMG study showed an axonal neuropathy. The light and electron-microscopical study of sural nerve dis...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Maciel Júnior JA,Queiroz L

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 24 years-old woman with weakness since the teens and progressive loss of muscle strength is reported. The muscle biopsy showed increased number of mitochondria. In two occasions the respiratory chain enzymes showed important reduction of the succinate-cytochrome-C-reductase, suggesting a possible defect ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Werneck LC,DiMauro S

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An electrophysiological investigation of the state of the neuromuscular transmission (nmt) was carried out in 58 patients with the diagnosis of chronic Chagas' disease. On repetitive supramaximal nerve stimulation it was found that some patients did not show abnormalities, others had decremental muscle responses, othe...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Erro MG,Genovese O,Correale J,Sica RE

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was analysed in 170 AIDS patients. All of them showed HIV positive serological tests. All of them showed neurologic syndromes related to AIDS. The time period of the investigation was July 1984-April 1989. In 8 cases (4.7%) CSF composition was normal. Lymphoma cells were observed in three cas...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA,Machado LR,Spina-França A

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To the best of our knowledge this is the seventh case report of monozygotic twins both affected by myasthenia gravis (MG). The monozygotism was proven by sex identity, blood group and HLA determinations ('O' Rh+, A2, A19.2, B40, CW3). One paternal aunt was also affected and the three cases have high titles of anti-ace...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Dias-Tosta E,Aguiar MF,Barbosa H,Vilela SS

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurological manifestations of eight patients with osseous fibrous dysplasia of skull were retrospectively studied. In this series, the frontal bone was involved in 75% of the patients, the sphenoid or temporal bones in 37.5%, and the parietal in 25%. It was observed that cranial deformities occurred in all but on...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Freitas PE,Ribeiro TR,Coutinho MF,Anicet A

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sebum secretion was measured on the forehead of 47 patients with Parkinson's disease before and after treatment with anticholinergic (biperiden), levodopa + AAID and bromocriptine, by the osmic acid technique. Another 100 patients under biperiden, levodopa + AAID or association of both, for at least one year, were als...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Villares JC

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of chronic bulbar muscular dysfunction in a thyrotoxic man, with complete remission of the symptoms after the use of propranolol, with and without concomitant use of propylthiouracil. Some aspects of this unique complication of hyperthyroidism are discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Cardoso Bde A,Schulz I,Preger A,Arruda WO

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Augmenting/reducing (A/R) of visual evoked potentials (VEP) has been repeatedly observed in central derivations, with some subjects increasing, and others decreasing, VEP amplitude with increasing intensity of stimulation. Central derivations also exhibit hemispheric lateralization regarding A/R. This paper explores c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Etcheberrigaray R,Lolas F,Camposano S,Elgueta D

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelin sheaths that surround axons in the CNS are made and maintained by oligodendrocytes. These glial cells can form variable numbers of myelin segments (internodules): from 1 to 200 so that when one oligodendrocyte is destroyed with preservation of the axon, many internodules can be lost, constituting a demyelin...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Graça DL

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population of 2307 children, 69 (2.99%) showed in the EEG high-voltage evoked potentials (evoked spikes) elicited by tapping on the feet or hands. Febrile convulsions were mentioned in 226 cases, and 13 of them showed the evoked spikes in the EEG and were otherwise neurologically and psychologically normal. Assoc...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fonseca LC,Tedrus GM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear and dark satellite cell classes were identified by electron microscopy in the lumbar sensory ganglia of domestic fowl in 8 pre and 4 post-hatching stages of development. Some cytologic differences found between the two classes relating to the rough-endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, Golgi apparatus and junctional...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Carvalho CA,da Silva CF

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty one cases of schistosomal meningomyeloradiculopathy due to Schistosoma mansoni are reported. This result was attained after a 4- year research period based on a "Clinical and Laboratory Investigation Protocol" applied on 212 patients in Itabuna, a city of Southeast region of Bahia state in the Northeast of Braz...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Peregrino AJ,de Oliveira SP,Porto CA,Santos LA,de Menezes EE,Silva AP,Brito AL,Pinheiro SP,Pinheiro S,Dias AB

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the cellular component of the inflammatory chronic response, 357 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 40 patients with neurocysticercosis (NC) were studied. All patients were treated with usual doses of praziquantel (50 mg/kg/day during 21 days) associated with dexamethasone (12 mg/day). NC diag...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Machado LR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report disorganization of background activity in the EEG of 49 patients with chronic renal failure. An electroencephalographic and biochemical study was performed in 20 patients before and after dialysis sessions. We did the same study before and after peritoneal dialysis in 14 patients. We analysed the EEG compare...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Resende LA,Speciali JG

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study is based on 371 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples and 324 serum samples from 40 patients with neurocysticercosis (NC) submitted to treatment with praziquantel. The aim of the study is a critical evaluation on humoral immunity in CSF NC syndrome. The analysis of NC patients at diagnosis and in the follow-up p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four aspects of advances in inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) are analysed: 1) concerning the general comprehension of the pathogenesis, genic localization and genetic heterogeneity; 2) clinical aspects, with description of new variants of known IEM or new IEM; 3) laboratory diagnostic tests presently used in our coun...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Diament AJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-three patients with dermatopolymyositis were evaluated from the clinical, laboratory and therapeutical aspects during a period of 15 years: 39 are women and 24 men. The mean age was 36.8 +/- 15.6 years. No correlation was observed between clinical and isolated therapeutics employed; when corticosteroids and cyto...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Marchiori PE,Hirata MT,Scaff M,de Oliveira RM,Cossermelli W,Levy JA,de Assis JL

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a 29-year-old male with a huge sacrococcygeal teratoma completely removed by surgery, and associated with a sacral agenesis is reported. Roentgenograms revealed fusion of the T12, L1, L2, and L3 vertebral bodies, absence of the left 12th rib, partial agenesis of sacrococcygeal elements and a lumbar scoliosis...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Borges AC,Festugato RR,de Cerqueira JC,de Souza MR

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old female with neurofibromatosis and intracranial vascular lesions of the Moya-Moya type is reported. Clinical and angiographic aspects of both syndromes are discussed with respect to earlier reports of this rare association, with the conclusion that it produces slow intellectual and motor deterioration in ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gracia CM,Bittencourt PC,Mazer S,Bittencourt PR

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of partial Klüver-Bucy syndrome developed after probable herpes simplex meningoencephalitis are reported. Clinical, pathological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of herpes simplex encephalitis and Klüver-Bucy syndrome are discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Montanha EV,Coral LC

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report 6 cases of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examinations in which malignant cells were found. In 5 cases the finding was incidental: medulloblastoma (case 1); malignant melanoma (case 2); adenocarcinoma (case 3); meningitis carcinomatosa (case 4) and neuroleukaemia (case 5). In only one case neuroleukaemia...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： De Moraes-Rêgo SF,De Moraes-Rêgo KG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk/benefit ratio of acute anticoagulation in ischaemic cerebro-vascular disease is not clearly established. A simple and safe intermittent intravenous heparin regimen (20000 IU daily) was used prospectively in 50 patients of 57 +/- 14 (m +/- sd) years of age whose blood pressures ranged from normal to severe hyp...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Bittencourt PR,Padilha S,Mazer S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of myotonic dystrophy with excessive daytime somnolence are described. All-night polysomnographic studies were performed revealing high number of central sleep apnea which triggered micro-arousals and awakenings leading to decrease of sleep efficiency as well as of stage 3, 4 and REM. Obstructive and mixed a...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reimão R,Lemmi H,Bertorini T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of acute subdural haematoma evacuated in the presence of a coagulopathy. Some elements necessary for the understanding of the etiopathogenesis of the disease are discussed. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Cavalcanti CE,Jansen E

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00