abstract：:At the present time corpus callosotomy is a valuable option in the management of some patients with drug-resistant epilepsy who are not candidates for resective procedures. The records of six patients who underwent callosotomy at 'Hospital Virgen de las Nieves' (Granada, Spain) in the past four years were retrospectiv...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Mínguez-Castellanos A,Sánchez-Alvarez JC,Altuzarra A,Serrano-Castro PJ,Hernández-Ramos FJ,Gómez-Camello A,García-Gómez T

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of stroke is effective when given straight away at the onset of symptoms. Our objective was to find what the present latent periods in the medical attention of stroke patients are. A study was made in 18 hospital neurology units. The time elapsed between onset of the stroke and being attended by a doctor in ...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Castillo J,Dávalos A,Martínez-Vila E

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 25-year-old woman with gradual loss of visual acuteness, during puerperium and blindness in fifteen days. Two months latter she remain steady. Visual evoked potentials using monocular checkerboard pattern-reversal, were abnormal. Clinical suspicion of voluntary alteration of VEP was considered. A second VE...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Manresa MJ,Bonaventura I,Martínez I,Gómez L,Aguilar M

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to compare a group of over 70 year-old patients suffering from spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage with a similarly affected group under 70 years of age. With this in mind we carried out a prospective study of all patients admitted to the Neurology Service at the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospit...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Moltó JM,Moreno A,Martínez-García F,Morales A,Fernández-Barreiro A

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restoration of blood flow is necessary when treating brain ischemia. However, except in very early cases, this is insufficient to prevent the cascade of mediators of cell damage unleashed by ischemia which, on the other hand, is boosted by the deleterious effects of reperfusion. We therefore consider adequate treatmen...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Alonso de Leciñana M,Díez-Tejedor E,Carceller F,Vega A,Roda JM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE AND SETTING:To describe the prevalence and risk factors for carotid stenosis in TIA/stroke patients with non valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) and to compare clinical and CT characteristics of TIA/stroke in AF patients with and without carotid stenosis. SUBJECTS:50 TIA/stroke patients with AF who had ultrasoun...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Ruivo A,Lopes M,Melo TP,Salgado AV,Oliveira V,Canhão P,Pinto AN,Crespo M,Ferro JM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of unilateral ptosis and contralateral palpebral retraction named as "palpebral plus-minus syndrome" by Gaynard et al is an infrequent finding. Most cases described are of peripheral origin and secondary to muscle pathology or neuromuscular union. Cases secondary to central lesions are exceptional. We ...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Moreno-Rojas AJ,Casado JL,Gil-Néciga E,Jarrín S,Serrano V,Madrid A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient developed enlarged Gerstmann syndrome after left thalamic haematoma. Single photon emission computerised tomography (SPECT) showed left parietal-temporal cortical hypocapture. These findings would lead us to believe that the clinical picture of our patient was due to a thalamic-cortical diaschitic phenomenon...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Casado JL,Jarrín S,Madrid A,Gil-Peralta A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was recently suggested that lacunar strokes presenting with headache may be due to large intracranial artery disease. From the stroke database of the Neurology department, Hospital Sta Maria, we retrieved all lacunar strokes who had investigations of the intracranial circulation. Forty seven of the 208 lacunar stro...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Ferro JM,Salgado AV,Oliveira V

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish the role of the age on quality of life of a group of normotensive patients, older than 65 years with vertebrobasilar ischemia, treated with nicardipine. To evaluate the influence of the Nicardipine side effects on the quality of life of these patients within general practice prescription limits....

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Galiano L

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the association of a distrophinopathy with a case of facioscupulohumeral dystrophy in two individuals belonging to the same family. The discrepancy in the seric creatinphosphokinase (CPK) of the two patients together with certain clinical data suggests the possibility that it is a question of two different ...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Serrano PJ,García Pérez A,Vilches RM,Mínguez A,Hernández Ramos FJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traffic accidents (TA) are, after heart disease, cancer and stroke, the fourth death cause among the general population. Although the number of AT caused by diseases-excluding alcoholism- seems to be reduced, interaction between organic pathology and functional ability increases the importance of this problem. This pa...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Mola S

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moya-Moya disease is an obstruction of the internal carotids and of the afferent and efferent channels of Willis's polygon, which causes a collateral circulation, responsible for the typical angiographic image of a "puff of smoke" (Moya-Moya, in Japanese). Its etiology is unknown, and it might be congenital or acquire...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Gorrotxategi P,Reguilón MJ,Gaztañaga R,Hernández Abenza J,Albisu Y

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although infrequent, one of the etiological causes of aseptic meningoencephalitis is drug-induced. In our patient, two cases of meningocephalitis took place over a period of six years, together with a meningismus following consumption of trimetroprim-sulphametoxazol (cotrimoxazol). Features of the cases were mental co...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Carrillo F,Cubero A,Hernández Gallego J,Jiménez Santana P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the degree of neurological knowledge in a general practitioner (GP), and given the lack of a useful instrument with which to do so, we propose the drawing up of a neurological knowledge test which would give adequate psychometric guarantees. By using a broad-based sample of professionals working i...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Casabella B,Pérez Sánchez J,Peres Serra J,Prat J,Aguilar M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of univocal diagnostic biological markers which are easily reproducible, highly specific and sensitive has propitiated the apparition of a conjunct of neuropsychological instruments for the detection and evaluation of dementias. The main markers are reviewed in this paper, the third of three papers dedicated ...

journal_title：Revista de neurologia

authors： Espert R,Bertolín JM,Navarro JF,González A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00