abstract：:Using a novel trial design, we prospectively examined the effect of intravenous immunoglobulin in seven patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) in a double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study. We suggest that the commonly used manual muscle testing and Rankin scale are not...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Thompson N,Choudhary P,Hughes RA,Quinlivan RM

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined 199 consecutive patients who underwent 220 liver transplantations, to define the type, frequency and aetiology of posttransplant neurological complications and their prognostic value. We found neurological complications in 63 patients (32%), mostly involving the central nervous system. The most frequent co...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Guarino M,Stracciari A,Pazzaglia P,Sterzi R,Santilli I,Donato F,D'Alessandro R

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-four patients (mean age 66, SD 8 years) with either clinical evidence of a focal lacunar syndrome (n = 36) or with disorders of memory or gait (n = 8) in the presence of a lacunar infarct on CT were studied for cognitive functioning and for the presence of white matter lesions on MRI. MR images were assessed by ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： van Swieten JC,Staal S,Kappelle LJ,Derix MM,van Gijn J

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen patients with dural arteriovenous fistulas or intradural arteriovenous malformations underwent clinical and neurophysiological examination. Bladder disturbances, pain, sensory abnormalities and involvement of both upper and lower motor neurons were commonly observed. Abnormal findings were obtained both in el...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Linden D,Berlit P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of a dopamine agonist with a long duration of action has theoretical advantages in attempting to reduce the motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease. We report the results of a double-blind controlled study of adding cabergoline, an ergot derivative with potent long-lasting high affinity for the D2 receptor, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Steiger MJ,El-Debas T,Anderson T,Findley LJ,Marsden CD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two cases of unilateral spatial neglect associated with an isolated right frontal lobe lesion. Case 1 was a 59-year-old, right-handed man, who developed a left hemiplegia, disorientation, and frontal lobe neglect associated with a haemorrhagic contusion following a head injury. Case 2 was a 55-year-old, righ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Maeshima S,Terada T,Nakai K,Nishibayashi H,Ozaki F,Itakura T,Komai N

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A haplotype marker consisting of three biallelic restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) loci from the VH-2 variable gene family was examined in 124 families with sibling pairs concordant for multiple sclerosis, 178 unrelated patients and 159 unaffected controls to investigate the role of the immunoglobulin he...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Wood NW,Sawcer SJ,Kellar-Wood HF,Holmans P,Clayton D,Robertson N,Compston DA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After head injuries, particularly mild or moderate ones, a range of post-concussion symptoms (PCS) are often reported by patients. Such symptoms may significantly affect patients' psychosocial functioning. To date, no measure of the severity of PCS has been developed. This study presents the Rivermead Post Concussion ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： King NS,Crawford S,Wenden FJ,Moss NE,Wade DT

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eye movements were studied in 13 patients with Friedreich's ataxia and correlated with MRI findings to investigate whether oculomotor abnormalities can be traced to cerebellar disturbances in this disease. One of the most prominent eye signs was fixation instability (square-wave jerks, SWJ.). Besides SWJ the patients ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Spieker S,Schulz JB,Petersen D,Fetter M,Klockgether T,Dichgans J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman affected by chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia and muscle mitochondrial DNA deletion was studied by phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P-MRS) prior to and after 1 and 7 months of treatment with oral lipoic acid. Before treatment a decreased phosphocreatine (PCr) content was found in the oc...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Barbiroli B,Medori R,Tritschler HJ,Klopstock T,Seibel P,Reichmann H,Iotti S,Lodi R,Zaniol P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the observation of bilateral temporoparietal hypoperfusion in Alzheimer's disease (AD), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is advocated by some as a powerful diagnostic tool in the evaluation of demented patients. We studied whether routine brain SPECT in elderly, mildly demented outpatients i...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Van Gool WA,Walstra GJ,Teunisse S,Van der Zant FM,Weinstein HC,Van Royen EA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of left- and right-sided hemispheric brain infarction on variability in circadian blood pressure and cardiovascular measures were investigated in 35 patients to test for asymmetry of the sympathetic consequences of stroke. No significant differences regarding age, size of infarction or extent and frequency...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Sander D,Klingelhöfer J

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was performed to investigate seasonal variation in stroke incidence and to evaluate the hypothesis that cold might be a risk factor. Data were obtained from the central registry of the Hospital de S. João, Porto, Portugal, concerning 4048 patients consecutively admitted for cerebrovascular diseas...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Azevedo E,Ribeiro JA,Lopes F,Martins R,Barros H

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the familial occurrence and apparent autosomal dominant inheritance of Sneddon's syndrome with variable clinical expression. The proband, a 40-year-old woman, presented with livedo reticularis and progressive neurological deterioration following a stroke. The diagnosis was confirmed by cerebral angiogram and...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Lossos A,Ben-Hur T,Ben-Nariah Z,Enk C,Gomori M,Soffer D

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a 40-year-old male patient who had presented clinically as primary lateral sclerosis for the past 10 years and neuropathologically as diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD). Neuropathology demonstrated DLBD as an almost ubiquitous disorder of the neuronal cytoskeleton. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Hainfellner JA,Pilz P,Lassmann H,Ladurner G,Budka H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutrotrophins stimulate survival and differentiation of a range of target neurons. A wealth of evidence suggests that central cholinergic neurons depend on nerve growth factor (NGF) for trophic support. Grafts of NGF-producing cells rescue axotomized basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and reduce cholinergic cell...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ebendal T,Lönnerberg P,Pei G,Kylberg A,Kullander K,Persson H,Olson L

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the muscle strength and motor unit (MU) territory of five patients with postpolio syndrome (PPS), six stable patients with prior poliomyelitis, and five healthy volunteers. The MU territory was assessed by measuring amplitudes of motor unit potentials (MUPs) recorded by the macro EMG technique. The inv...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ivanyi B,Ongerboer de Visser BW,Nelemans PJ,de Visser M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional cerebral glucose metabolism (rCMRGlc) and dopamine D2 receptor binding were measured in a 31-year-old, severely affected, untreated patient with Wilson's disease of 3 years' duration using positron emission tomography and 18F-deoxyglucose and 18F-methylspiperone ([18F]MSP), respectively. There was a severe re...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Schlaug G,Hefter H,Nebeling B,Engelbrecht V,Weiss P,Stöcklin G,Seitz RJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent oligodendrocytes have a unique susceptibility among glia to the lytic effects of complement, due in part to a deficiency in CD59 (protectin), a key surface inhibitor of the complement membrane attack complex (MAC). The possibility that shedding of CD59 by human oligodendrocytes contributes to complement-mediate...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Roddy J,Clark I,Hazleman BL,Compston DA,Scolding NJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2 in cerebrospinal fluid of 17 patients with serologically diagnosed HSV encephalitis and meningitis or acute limbic encephalitis was determined by stringent hybridization of polymerase chain reaction--amplified DNAs. Ten of 17 patients were positive; six with ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Shoji H,Koga M,Kusuhara T,Kaji M,Ayabe M,Hino H,Hondo R

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged clinico-immunological observation of 85 patients with definite multiple sclerosis (MS) was performed in order to elucidate the connections between the clinical and immune state. A battery of immunological investigations was performed, including estimation of T-cell subpopulations in blood and cerebrospinal f...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Gusev EI,Demina TL,Boiko AN,Pinegin BV

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated 49 paired cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples of 35 patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) for laboratory evidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. The patients were grouped according to clinical criteria as probable CMV encephalitis/polyradiculomyelitis, CMV ret...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Weber T,Beck R,Stark E,Gerhards J,Korn K,Haas J,Lüer W,Jahn G

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) of the human brain is a recently developed technique which allows to assay noninvasively in vivo key molecules of brain metabolism. After a review of the origin of the signals detected by phosphorus and proton MRS of human brain, the impact of MRS on clinical neuro...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Vion-Dury J,Meyerhoff DJ,Cozzone PJ,Weiner MW

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface antigens on peripheral blood lymphocytes from myasthenia gravis patients were investigated. The expression of DR+ and CD8+/DR+ T lymphocytes was increased and the expression of CD4+ T cells reduced. Neither thymectomy, clinical condition nor anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody titre correlated with any of the...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Crosti F,Armanini M,Confalonieri P,Antozzi C,Mantegazza R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunohistochemical study using the mirror-image technique was performed in order to establish whether amyloid P component is involved in the mechanism of deposition of amyloid fibrils in senile plaques (SPs) in Alzheimer-type dementia (ATD). Ninety percent of beta/A4 protein-immunoreactive SPs were also stained by...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kimura M,Arai H,Takahashi T,Iwamoto N

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of primary autonomic failure (AF) with uncomplicated Parkinson's disease is presented with clinical and neurophysiological data. Special emphasis is placed on new methods of examining impairment of unmyelinated sympathetic and afferent C-fibres. Sympathetic vasoconstrictor responses in the skin induced by deep ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Baron R,Feldmann R,Lindner V

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrically elicited blink reflex was investigated in 25 patients with ischaemic lesions of the pons or the medulla oblongata. Only patients with a lesion on MRI appropriate to the clinical syndrome were included. Twenty patients had an infarction of the pons, bilateral in 5. Additional 5 patients had an infarcti...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Meincke U,Ferbert A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen patients with Wallenberg's lateral medullary syndrome (WLMS) were studied. Clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evidence demonstrated infarction in the dorsolateral medulla which produced loss of pain and temperature sensation on one side of the face ipsilateral to the lesion in seven patients. Howev...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Chia LG,Shen WC

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients are described, in whom MRI detected unilateral signal abnormalities in the region of the inferior olivary nuclei, suggesting an early stage of olivary hypertrophy. MRI was performed 4 and 7 weeks respectively after traumatic brain-stem injury. Palatal myoclonus was concomitantly observed in one patient, w...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Birbamer G,Buchberger W,Kampfl A,Aichner F

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old boy with galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT) deficiency presented with hypotonia, muscle hypotrophy, hepatomegaly, bilateral cataract and mild mental retardation. Two brothers showed a GALT activity consistent with a homozygotic condition and both parents were found to be heterozygotes for th...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Bresolin N,Comi GP,Fortunato F,Meola G,Gallanti A,Tajana A,Velicogna M,Gonano EF,Ninfali P,Pifferi S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Out of 72 patients treated for Borrelia burgdorferi meningopolyradiculoneuritis facial palsies occurred in 22 (12 unilateral, 10 bilateral). Eleven of the 32 pareses were initially complete. By the follow-up examination patients had recovered well with slight sequelae in 22% without cosmetically disfiguring pareses or...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Angerer M,Pfadenhauer K,Stöhr M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-year-old man suffered from acute Sydenham chorea appearing coincidently with beta-haemolytic streptococcal throat infection. Imaging techniques documented lesions of basal ganglia and substantia nigra. In the early course of the disease vascular lesions may be important pathogenetic mechanisms of this acquired m...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Heye N,Jergas M,Hötzinger H,Farahati J,Pöhlau D,Przuntek H

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two previously healthy women are described who in their late thirties suffered transient strokelike episodes, consisting of initial headache and vomiting, with various subsequent neurological signs that were only partially reversible. Investigations revealed elevated serum creatine kinase, lactic acidosis, hypertrigly...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Kremer HP,Keyser A,Wintzen AR,Scholte HR,van Hellenberg Hubar JG,Poorthuis BJ,Ruitenbeek W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of our understanding of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis are reviewed in the context of Charcot's contribution. The implications for treatment of the new knowledge gained from studies during life of pathology and pathogenesis (by MRI) and pathophysiology (by evoked potentials) are...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： McDonald WI

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The follow-up of neurophysiological tests (brain-stem auditory evoked potentials; blink reflex; sensory, motor and visual evoked potentials) and CT was investigated in 21 patients with late-onset cerebellar ataxia (CA) or multiple system atrophy. The study included an initial investigation and a follow-up examination ...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Wessel K,Huss GP,Brückmann H,Kömpf D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the effects of intravenous gamma-globulin (IVGG) in severe Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in a small open study. Seven patients were given IVGG (0.4 g/kg/day) for 5 consecutive days. At the start of treatment all had progressing limb weakness and none could stand unaided. Within 24 h all but one patient start...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Jackson MC,Godwin-Austen RB,Whiteley AM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of Hallervorden-Spatz disease (HSD) has usually been made post mortem, although the recent description of characteristic abnormalities in the globus pallidus has suggested the possibility of an in vivo diagnosis. We present the clinical histories, neurological features and MRI findings of 11 patients, di...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Angelini L,Nardocci N,Rumi V,Zorzi C,Strada L,Savoiardo M

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A consecutive series of 327 patients (188 males, 139 females; mean age 68.4, SEM 1.33) were hospitalized within 12 h of the onset of their first-ever hemispheric infarct. Three groups of patients were identified: diabetics (n = 70), non-diabetic hyperglycaemics (n = 93) and normoglycaemics (n = 164). Case-fatality rat...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Toni D,Sacchetti ML,Argentino C,Gentile M,Cavalletti C,Frontoni M,Fieschi C

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered cerebral vasoreactivity (CVR) has been implicated in migraine. To test this hypothesis, we studied CVR as measured by transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) in 11 migraineurs and 12 healthy controls of similar age. Mean flow velocities (MFV) in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) were recorded during a cognitive a...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Thie A,Carvajal-Lizano M,Schlichting U,Spitzer K,Kunze K

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of neopterin was measured in serum samples taken from individuals infected with HTLV-I: 5 from asymptomatic individuals, 1 from a patient with adult T-cell leukaemia and 30 from patients with tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP). In addition, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was available from 22 of the TSP p...

journal_title：Journal of neurology

authors： Ali A,Rudge P,Dalgleish AG

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00