abstract：:Twenty-three consecutive patients with hemifacial spasm were studied. Magnetic resonance imaging angiography of the brain was performed in 20 patients and 15 controls. The angiograms were evaluated by two independent observers and blinded for side-location of the spasm. Contact between an artery from the vertebrobasil...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jespersen JH,Dupont E,Gelineck J,Lundorf E

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors at presentation which influenced the course of the disease and response to treatment were assessed in 125 de novo patients with Parkinson's disease. Ninety-eight patients were available for re-assessment at 5 years. Older patients presented earlier after the onset of symptoms, deteriorated more rapidly, and we...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hely MA,Morris JG,Reid WG,O'Sullivan DJ,Williamson PM,Broe GA,Adena MA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the clinical details of 20 elderly patients with idiopathic small fiber neuropathy. This neuropathy is ubiquitous in practice but has not been well characterized. The clinical syndrome is relatively stereotyped and appears to be a frequent cause of burning feet in the elderly. The main features were burnin...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Gorson KC,Ropper AH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In patients with cervical root syndromes, the relation between clinical findings and EMG results, the value of the registration of the H-reflex latency of the flexor carpi radial muscle (HFCR) and the rate of recovery of EMG abnormalities following surgery are unclear. METHODS:In 68 patients with cervical...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： van den Bent MJ,Oosting J,Laman DM,van Duijn H

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study levels of neuron-specific enolase (NSE), S-100 protein (S-100) and myelin basic protein (MBP) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of children and adults with distinct neurological disorders were examined. A previous study from our department demonstrated age related reference values for these brain-specific pro...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Lamers KJ,van Engelen BG,Gabreëls FJ,Hommes OR,Borm GF,Wevers RA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic mutation underlying Huntington's disease (HD) has been identified as an expansion and instability of a specific CAG repeat sequence in a gene on chromosome 4. A simple polymerase chain reaction assay has been used for the assessment of the (CAG)n expansion in a 72-year-old woman with typical HD symptoms, b...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bozza A,Malagù S,Calzolari E,Novelletto A,Pavoni M,del Senno L

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transitional progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) is quite an unusual form of presentation and course of the disease. A case with this progressive form is presented and brain MRI and MTI findings are discussed in relation to the possible insight they may provide for understanding the mechanisms that determine progressi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Filippi M,Campi A,Martinelli V,Pereira C,Scotti G,Comi G

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of parkinsonism in the Province of Rome using antiparkinsonian prescription histories from 1986 to 1991. METHODS:A subject was defined as a case of parkinsonism if he/she had received "specific" and "consistent" antiparkinsonian therapy in the stud...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Menniti-Ippolito F,Spila-Alegiani S,Vanacore N,Bonifati V,Diana G,Meco G,Raschetti R

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to test the improved sensitivity of P3 abnormality in the detection of dementia using a variety of auditory stimuli. Improved detection was obtained using auditory stimuli that differed in their cognitive attributes and by using several P3 measures. These measures included P3 latencies an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Attias J,Huberman M,Cott E,Pratt H

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Most studies revealing intellectual deficits in myotonic dystrophy (MyD) involved heterogeneous groups of patients with respect to intelligence and onset of disease. The present study was undertaken to investigate whether patients with early adult and adult MyD show subtle cognitive deficits despite a norm...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Van Spaendonck KP,Ter Bruggen JP,Weyn Banningh EW,Maassen BA,Van de Biezenbos JB,Gabreëls FJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a multiple sclerosis (MS)-like disorder in a male patient with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) harbouring the mitochondrial DNA 11778 base pair mutation. Given the population frequencies of MS and LHON, coincidental occurrence is unlikely. Hypothetically the mitochondrial mutation unde...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Olsen NK,Hansen AW,Nørby S,Edal AL,Jørgensen JR,Rosenberg T

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports on the incidence of alcoholic polyneuropathies are variable depending on diagnostic tools. In this study, 50 chronic alcoholics with positive MALT (Munich Alcoholism Test) and greater than seven years history of excessive alcohol abuse were examined neurologically. Tibial and peroneal motor and sural nerve con...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hilz MJ,Zimmermann P,Claus D,Neundörfer B

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective electrophysiological study of phrenic nerve was performed in 59 subjects undergoing open-heart surgery. The nerve was stimulated percutaneously at the neck and the diaphragmatic response was recorded with surface electrodes placed over the 8th intercostal space. The latency, amplitude, duration and area ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Chroni E,Patel RL,Taub N,Venn GE,Howard RS,Panayiotopoulos CP

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the medical records and CT scans of 138 patients hospitalized for spontaneous supratentorial hemorrhage and conservatively treated. Seventeen clinico-anamnestic variables and five CT desumed findings were collected. Using univariate analysis we found eight significant predictors of 30-day mortality: intrav...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Masè G,Zorzon M,Biasutti E,Tasca G,Vitrani B,Cazzato G

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid concentrations in plasma of patients with Huntington's disease (HD) were determined in 16 patients and 21 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Alanine and isoleucine were significantly decreased in HD plasma whereas arginine, histidine, leucine, lysine, ornithine, proline, serine, threonine, tyrosine, and...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Reilmann R,Rolf LH,Lange HW

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The death rate from Parkinson's disease (PD) were analyzed using Japanese vital statistics for 1950-1992. The age-adjusted PD death rate increased statistically significantly with the years between 1950 and 1992 for both sexes. However, decline in the PD death rate were observed among the population under 65 years old...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Imaizumi Y,Kaneko R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the incidence and explore the quality of registered diagnosis for Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in a population-based retrospective study in South-West Stockholm (SWS), Sweden, during the period 1973-1991. We used data on registered hospital discharges and open-care visits, and from medical records. Medica...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jiang GX,de Pedro-Cuesta J,Fredrikson S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levodopa (LD) sales from wholesalers to pharmacies during the periods, 1977-1989 in Denmark, 1981-1989 in Greenland, and April 1988-May 1989 in Danish counties and the Faroe Islands, were evaluated using a reported method and a procedure expressly developed for assessment of random variation comparative levodopa use (...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： de Pedro-Cuesta J,Wermuth L,Abraira V,Stawiarz L

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total lymphoid irradiation (TLI) has been reported to delay deterioration in patients with progressive multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders. METHODS--In an open trial, the effect of TLI combined with a one year course of low dose prednisone was compared to the effect of sham TLI and TLI only in a prior do...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Cook SD,Devereux C,Troiano R,Bansil S,Zito G,Sheffet A,Jotkowitz A,Rohowsky-Kochan C,Dowling PC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using organotypic cultures of ICR mouse cerebellum, we studied the effects of TNF-alpha on myelin formation, and its demyelinating effects. Mature, myelinated cultures were resistant to TNF-alpha, even at the highest concentration examined, 1 x 10(4) U/ml. However, when cultures were grown in medium containing TNF-alp...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tsukamoto T,Ishikawa M,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Risk factors for aseptic intracranial venous occlusive disease are varied but only few epidemiologic studies were performed to verify the relative importance of particular factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A 2-year hospital-based prospective study was conducted in two hospitals to identify the clinical charac...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Najim al-Din AS,Mubaidin A,Wriekat AL,Alqam M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We planned a descriptive study on the incidence of intracranial gliomas spanning a 16-year period (1976-1991) in the Local Health Service 31 of Ferrara, Northern Italy. MATERIAL AND METHODS:We used a complete enumeration approach by reviewing all the possible sources of case collection available in the st...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tola MR,Casetta I,Granieri E,Pinna L,Veronesi V,Tamarozzi R,Trapella G,Monetti VC,Paolino E,Govoni V

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke although rare in children, is an important cause of morbidity in the paediatric age group. Over a period of 8 years, 43 children (17 boys and 26 girls) in the age groups of 1-16 years (mean 8.02 yrs) presented with stroke which constituted 10% of all strokes in the young and 0.7% of all paediatric admissions. T...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nagaraja D,Verma A,Taly AB,Kumar MV,Jayakumar PN

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), 8 patients with various brain diseases with an element of hydrocephalus, and 7 patients with miscellaneous dementia disorders were investigated with quantitative radionuclide cisternography (RC) using single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT). ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Larsson A,Arlig A,Bergh AC,Bilting M,Jacobsson L,Stephensen H,Wikkelsö C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a report of 34 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) observed in Bangalore (South India), an endemic area for Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) infection. Virological and immunological findings suggested an antecedent and recent JEV infection in 21/34 patients. Nineteen patients among them showed high l...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ravi V,Taly AB,Shankar SK,Shenoy PK,Desai A,Nagaraja D,Gourie-Devi M,Chandramuki A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with coincidence of a restless leg syndrome (RLS) in the mother and a Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) in the son who also shows increased vulnerability to neuroleptic induced akathisia (NIA) is presented. Since these diseases show parallels from a genetic, pathogenetic and clinical point of view, the fam...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Müller N,Voderholzer U,Kurtz G,Straube A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotropin was found to reduce brain oedema in an experimental model of brain infarction in the guinea-pig. A randomized double-blind controlled trial with Neurotropin was performed in 220 patients admitted within 24 h after an acute ischemic stroke. 35 of the neurotropin and 41 of the placebo-randomized patients had...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： De Reuck J,Decoo D,Vanderdonckt P,Dallenga A,Ceusters W,Kalala JP,De Meulemeester K,Abdullah J,Santens P,Huybrechts J

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF cytology, immunocytochemistry and biochemical tumor markers were compared in 12 patients with a meningeal carcinomatosis regarding diagnostic significance and therapy control; 50 samples were investigated. Cytology was tumor-positive in 39 samples and immunocytochemistry in 45 samples. Intrathecally produced tumor...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Oschmann P,Kaps M,Völker J,Dorndorf W

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this paper is to evaluate the accuracy of conventional diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease and give an overview of alternative causes to parkinsonian syndromes. We also propose a new approach to the clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, which may improve the diagnostic accuracy. The avail...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Larsen JP,Dupont E,Tandberg E

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of follow-up of 76 children with progressive ataxia first reported in 1988 are described with special reference to type of potential underlying metabolic diseases. In 70% of cases the clinical follow-up did not lead to reconsideration of diagnoses. Six of 23 biochemically and morphologically re-examined ch...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ylitalo V,Hagberg BA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD) are the two most common causes of dementia. As yet, no definitive biological antemortem marker has been established for differential diagnosis of AD or VD. In this study, proteins of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from AD, VD and control patients were analyzed by two-dime...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Mattila KM,Pirttilä T,Blennow K,Wallin A,Viitanen M,Frey H

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar atrophy (CA) is a frequent finding in patients with chronic epilepsy. To find out whether the existence of CA has an influence on the tolerance of high-dose monotherapy with carbamazepine, we compared the lowest individual toxic serum levels in patients with complex focal seizures, with CA (n = 27) and with...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Specht U,Rohde M,May T,Schmidt RC,Meencke HJ,Wolf P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EEG data obtained from 27 patients with presenile Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 28 patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) were compared with data from 30 age- and sex-matched controls. Both patient groups exhibited more pronounced delta and theta activity and less prominent alpha and beta activity t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Miyauchi T,Hagimoto H,Ishii M,Endo S,Tanaka K,Kajiwara S,Endo K,Kajiwara A,Kosaka K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By a rapid PCR-based method to assess the 8344 mtDNA mutation associated with MERRF disease, we have studied DNA from blood samples of 10 individuals belonging to a family spanning four generations in which one patient showed the complete MERRF phenotype, three other members were less severely affected, while the rema...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Piccolo G,Focher F,Verri A,Spadari S,Banfi P,Gerosa E,Mazzarello P

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soleus H-reflexes during tonic contractions and isometric ramp contractions of the ankle extensors in spastic and healthy subjects were measured. During the tonic contractions, the H-reflex increased with the contraction level. The increase was highest in the patients (p < 0.001). The facilitation of the H-reflex duri...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Toft E,Sinkjaer T

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the types of syndrome, location, size and presumed causes of 72 patients with acute capsular lacunar infarction. Clinical syndromes were classified into pure motor hemiparesis (PM), sensorimotor stroke (SM) and ataxic hemiparesis (AH). Lesion sizes of AH were significantly smaller than those of PM (p <...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tei H,Uchiyama S,Maruyama S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of post-lumbar puncture headache (PLPH) was registered prospectively in 395 consecutive demented patients at a dementia diagnostic unit. The incidence of PLPH was low, occurring in only 8 patients (2.0%), the severity was mild, and the duration was less than 2 days in all cases but one. The reasons for t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Blennow K,Wallin A,Häger O

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out a prospective study to determine the frequency and evolution of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in patients with hyperthyroidism. An initial survey revealed CTS in 5% of these patients when hyperthyroidism was diagnosed. During the clinical and neurophysiologic follow-up for a two-year period, four more pa...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Roquer J,Cano JF

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychiatric symptoms such as delusions and misidentifications have been reported in dementia ranging from 10% to 73% in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and up to 40% in multi-infarct dementia (MID) patients. The aim of this study was to investigate in 61 AD and 31 MID patients both the frequency and the content...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Binetti G,Bianchetti A,Padovani A,Lenzi G,De Leo D,Trabucchi M

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper was to evaluate the outcome and the factors predictive for a good prognosis of resective surgery for intractable partial epilepsy guided by subdural electrode arrays (SEA's) and operative electrocorticography. Sixty-four patients, aged 8-52 years, were evaluated with chronic SEAs in order to reco...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jennum P,Dhuna A,Davies K,Fiol M,Maxwell R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00