abstract：:Periodic limb movements of sleep are clinically underdiagnosed in children. Polysomnography is the most accurate diagnostic test. There is a paucity of information regarding polysomnography findings in children. We evaluated the prevalence and correlates of pediatric periodic limb movements detected by polysomnography...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bokkala S,Napalinga K,Pinninti N,Carvalho KS,Valencia I,Legido A,Kothare SV

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate ophthalmologic manifestations in children with definitive oxidative phosphorylation disorders, a retrospective review was conducted of clinical and laboratory records of all such pediatric patients (n = 103) diagnosed and treated at one center between 1983 and 2006. All were residents of Victoria, Austr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rose LV,Rose NT,Elder JE,Thorburn DR,Boneh A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloid cysts of the third ventricle are benign intracranial tumors that usually become symptomatic in adults, rather than in children. Rare hemorrhages in these cysts can cause acute obstructive hydrocephalus and sudden death. We report a novel pediatric case of hemorrhagic colloid cyst in a 9-year-old girl who prese...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Farooq MU,Bhatt A,Chang HT

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the need for antiepileptic drugs after successful epilepsy surgery in pediatric patients, we retrospectively reviewed patients who had epilepsy surgery and were seizure free or had rare nondisabling auras during the first 6 postoperative months. Association between drug discontinuation and seizure recurren...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lachhwani DK,Loddenkemper T,Holland KD,Kotagal P,Mascha E,Bingaman W,Wyllie E

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstetrical brachial plexus palsy, one of the most complex peripheral nerve injuries, presents as an injury during the neonatal period. The majority of the children recover with either no deficit or a minor functional deficit, but it is almost certain that some will not regain adequate limb function. These few cases m...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zafeiriou DI,Psychogiou K

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G(M2)-gangliosidosis is a neurodegenerative lysosomal disease with several clinical variants. We describe a 2-year-old black child with juvenile-onset disease, who presented with abnormal eye movements and cherry-red spots of the maculae. Mutation analysis of the HEXA gene revealed the patient to be a compound heteroz...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Paciorkowski AR,Sathe S,Zeng BJ,Torres P,Rosengren SS,Kolodny E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal development of the central nervous system depends on complex, dynamic mechanisms with multiple spatial and temporal components during gestation. Neurodevelopmental disorders may originate during fetal life from genetic as well as intrauterine and extrauterine factors that affect the fetal-maternal environment. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Connors SL,Levitt P,Matthews SG,Slotkin TA,Johnston MV,Kinney HC,Johnson WG,Dailey RM,Zimmerman AW

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 2-year-old patient who showed progressive widespread white-matter abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging 1 month after viral encephalitis, despite her good clinical recovery. These lesions on magnetic resonance imaging had not responded to therapies commonly used to treat secondary immune-mediated de...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Awaya T,Kato T,Shibata M,Yamanaka Y,Nakahata T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of vagal nerve stimulation on sleep-related breathing have not been well-described in children. Vagal nerve stimulation was reported to cause decreases in airflow during sleep, although most studies reported this condition to be clinically insignificant. We present a retrospective case series of nine child...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hsieh T,Chen M,McAfee A,Kifle Y

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonidine is used as second-line medication for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. Product information concerning clonidine reported seizures only after overdosage of clonidine, and the prescription of clonidine has not been contraindicated in patients with known epilepsy. The prese...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Feron FJ,Hendriksen JG,Nicolai J,Vles JS

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal latency between an encephalopathic event and the onset of infantile spasms cannot be determined in the majority of symptomatic cases (e.g. genetic conditions, cerebral malformations). However, we can measure this interval when a previously normal infant sustains brain injury followed by infantile spasms. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Guggenheim MA,Frost JD Jr,Hrachovy RA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired chronic hepatocerebral degeneration is a central nervous system disorder secondary to several conditions related to hepatic dysfunction. Clinical features of acquired chronic hepatocerebral degeneration include a hyperkinetic extrapyramidal syndrome, neuropsychiatric symptoms, or both. We present for the firs...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Papapetropoulos S,Tzakis A,Sengun C,Reddy C,Boukas K,Zitser J,Singer C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tourette syndrome is a neurologic disorder characterized by both motor and vocal tics. Recently, two variants, including a single-base deletion resulting in a truncated protein and a 3'-untranslated-region variant altering a binding site for micro-RNA in the Slit and Trk-like 1 gene, were found to be a genetic cause o...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chou IC,Wan L,Liu SC,Tsai CH,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously healthy 7-month-old child was treated with homeopathic preparations of thuja, a potentially convulsant compound, for the purpose of providing a calming effect around times of immunizations. The child developed eight generalized tonic-clonic seizures with no other obvious cause, in the context of normal el...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Stafstrom CE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocturnal frontal-lobe epilepsy is characterized by paroxysmal arousals, motor seizures with dystonic or hyperkinetic features, and episodic nocturnal wanderings. Carbamazepine is effective for seizure control in some of these patients, but seizures may be refractory to multiple antiepileptic drugs. We report on eight...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Raju GP,Sarco DP,Poduri A,Riviello JJ,Bergin AM,Takeoka M

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：: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：:We report on the case of a 6-year-old boy with epilepsy involving febrile seizures and unprovoked generalized tonic clonic seizures. Genetic testing revealed a novel de novo mutation in the SCN1A gene (C>T 4786, R1596C). The epilepsy phenotype is within the spectrum of generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dlugos DJ,Ferraro TN,Buono RJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyneuritis cranialis is a rare disorder of multiple cranial nerve palsies without spinal cord involvement. The case reported is of a 10-year-old boy with multiple palsies involving cranial nerves III, IV, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI, and XII cranial nerves, unilaterally or bilaterally. After initial, unsuccessful treatmen...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pavone P,Incorpora G,Romantshika O,Ruggieri M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxcarbazepine, a carbamazepine analog, was approved for use as an antiepileptic agent in the United States in 2000. A search of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Adverse Event Reporting System identified nine cases of oxcarbazepine-associated angioedema in pediatric patients aged 16 years and younger. W...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Knudsen JF,Flowers CM,Kortepeter C,Awaad Y

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety term neonates with hyperbilirubinemia were studied with brainstem auditory evoked response to clarify the ototoxic effect of hyperbilirubinemia, and detect any differences in ototoxic effect between different levels of total serum bilirubin. The response threshold in these neonates was significantly elevated (P...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jiang ZD,Chen C,Liu TT,Wilkinson AR

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occipital lobe epilepsy in children can present as an idiopathic form (i.e., childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms) or as a symptomatic form. Forty-three children (18 boys, 25 girls) were divided into the idiopathic group or symptomatic group, according to the classification for epileptic seizures of the Interna...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Du JC,Chien YH,Weng WC,Shen YZ,Lee WT

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to define the dose of pirfenidone in children and adolescents with neurofibromatosis 1 and plexiform neurofibromas that is pharmacokinetically comparable to the active adult dose. Pirfenidone was administered orally on a continuous dosing schedule. The starting dose level was 250 mg/m2/dose. The second dose l...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Babovic-Vuksanovic D,Widemann BC,Dombi E,Gillespie A,Wolters PL,Toledo-Tamula MA,O'Neill BP,Fox E,MacDonald T,Beck H,Packer RJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male adolescent developed a sinovenous thrombosis 4 weeks following a Henoch-Schonlein purpura episode. A hypercoagulation evaluation revealed a positive lupus anticoagulant. This suggests an association between Henoch-Schonlein purpura and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and is the first report of sinovenous thr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Abend NS,Licht DJ,Spencer CH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the case of an 11-year-old girl with a prior history of epilepsy and multiple episodes of status epilepticus who presented with generalized convulsive status epilepticus and left hemiclonic seizures. Magnetic resonance imaging, including diffusion-weighted sequences and spectroscopy, and neuropat...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tsuchida TN,Barkovich AJ,Bollen AW,Hart AP,Ferriero DM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nestin is a cytoskeletal protein expressed by neural stem cells, and by immature neurons and glial cells. In an effort to explore the potential of the infant brain for repair and plasticity, we immunohistochemically studied nestin expression in the human cerebral cortex of control subjects and of patients with periven...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Okoshi Y,Mizuguchi M,Itoh M,Oka A,Takashima S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder that almost exclusively affects females. The clinical course as well as the electroencephalogram pattern are characteristic and have been correlated to the clinical stages of the disease. Sixty to 70 percent of the patients develop epilepsy. The aim of this retrospective ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Moser SJ,Weber P,Lütschg J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The third case of cyclic vomiting syndrome with a large mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid rearrangement is described. Multiple neuromuscular anomalies are present that meet the diagnostic criteria for Kearns-Sayre syndrome, as well as severe symmetrical growth retardation. A 3-kilobase mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Boles RG,Baldwin EE,Prezant TR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to further clarify ictal electroencephalographic findings of patients with benign partial epilepsy in infancy in order to better understand its neurophysiologic features. The study group consisted of 13 infants with definite benign partial epilepsy in infancy, in whom ictal electroencephalogra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Okumura A,Watanabe K,Negoro T,Hayakawa F,Kato T,Natsume J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents a patient with Devics neuromyelitis optica associated with primary Sjögrens syndrome. Her first attack was right-sided optic neuritis at age 10 years. Attacks involving both optic nerves and medulla spinalis were recorded during the ensuing years. The diagnosis of Sjögrens syndrome could not be ma...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Gökçay F,Celebisoy N,Gökçay A,Kabasakal Y,Oder G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the implementation of a population-based registry of children with cerebral palsy, caregiver satisfaction with the process by which diagnosis was originally communicated by a professional was assessed. Satisfaction with various aspects of the diagnosis process was assessed using a five-point Likert scale an...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dagenais L,Hall N,Majnemer A,Birnbaum R,Dumas F,Gosselin J,Koclas L,Shevell MI

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic T-cell lymphoma presenting with neurologic symptoms is infrequently reported in immunocompetent children. We investigated the presenting features in all 20 immunocompetent children diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma at our institution from 1992-2004. Four children presented with neurologic features. These finding...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bassuk AG,Mohile NA,Stack C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a female with eyelid fluttering with absence seizures, infrequent generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and mild mental retardation. Interictal and video-electroencephalography evaluations revealed normal activity while eyes were open but continuous generalized discharges with eyes closed (eyes clos...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Senbil N,Soyer O,Turanlý G,Gürer YK

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess neurologic complications of pertussis infection. A file review of all children (age 7-18 years) in our hospital with serology-positive pertussis infection admitted from 1995 to 2005 yielded six patients with neurologic symptoms in whom electroencephalographic studies were performed. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Eidlitz-Markus T,Zeharia A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptic activity, as a component of epileptic encephalopathies, can interfere with brain growth and development. Infantile spasms as a syndrome represent such epileptic activity during the period of spasms and hypsarrhythmia. The rate of head growth in infants with infantile spasms during the period of spasms has no...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Rener-Primec Z,Lozar-Krivec J,Krivec U,Neubauer D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the added utility of gadolinium administration in the magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of developmental delay in children less than 2 years of age. A computerized retrospective study identified all brain magnetic resonance imaging examinations using gadolinium performed at ou...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Foerster BR,Ksar J,Petrou M,Eldevik PO,Maly PV,Carlson MD,Sundgren PC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of family structure and the attitude of mothers on the development of breath-holding spells. The data of the Sociodemographic and Parental Attitude Research Instruments of 30 mothers of children with breath-holding spells and of 30 mothers of healthy children were co...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hüdaoglu O,Dirik E,Yiş U,Kurul S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanishing white matter disease is a chronically progressive leukodystrophy with periods of acute deterioration after head trauma and febrile illness. This report describes a child with genetically and clinically confirmed vanishing white matter disease exhibiting frequent episodes of right-sided hemiplegia, aphasia, a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ramaswamy V,Chan AK,Kolski HK

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug metabolism in children may differ from adults and adverse events may occur that are not predictable from the adult experience. Clinical trials of safety and efficacy are needed both for new treatments and those that may already be in use but have not been tested in infants and children. The role and responsibilit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hirtz DG,Gilbert PR,Terrill CM,Buckman SY

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leigh syndrome is an inherited, progressive neurodegenerative disorder of infancy and childhood. Mutations in the nuclear SURF-1 gene are specifically associated with cytochrome C oxidase-deficient Leigh syndrome. This report describes two patients with similar facial features. One of them was a 2(1/2)-year-old male, ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yüksel A,Seven M,Cetincelik U,Yeşil G,Köksal V

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00