abstract：:A Chinese family with at least 3 members having the typical clinical picture of type I familial amyloid polyneuropathy is presented. The pathological features, including the immunohistochemical typing of the amyloid deposits, are described and the literature is briefly reviewed. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Chang CM,Yu YL,Wong M,Ng TH,Woo E,Huang CY

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychometric tests, visual reaction time tests and electroencephalograms were performed in 26 cirrhotic patients without overt portal-systemic encephalopathy and in 26 healthy individuals. Cirrhotics performed poorly, compared with controls, on intelligence, learning and memory, perceptual motor and spatial tests. Non...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Puca FM,Antonaci F,Panella C,Guglielmi FW,Barone M,Francavilla A,Cerutti R

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients who developed rhabdomyolysis secondary to generalized seizures are presented. Minor traumas of skeletal muscles due to seizures may be associated with myoglobinuria and the development of acute renal failure. The diagnosis rhabdomyolysis may easily be confirmed by following serum creatine kinase. Myoglobi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Os I,Lyngdal PT

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large Japanese family with probable Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is described. Detailed neurological examination in 12 patients from 3 generations revealed variable combinations of cerebellar ataxia, ocular paresis, difficulty in eye-lid opening, bulging eyes, facial "myokymia", facial dystonia, pyramidal signs, ext...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Takiyama Y,Ikemoto S,Tanaka Y,Mizuno Y,Yoshida M,Yasuda N

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four male patients, all homosexual except one, with asymptomatic HIV-infection were studied. The patients had no signs of opportunistic CNS-infections but 6 had been treated for syphilis. The patients were tested with auditory brainstem response (ABR) audiometry and with oculomotor tests (saccades and smooth pu...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Rosenhall U,Håkansson C,Löwhagen GB,Hanner P,Jonsson-Ehk B

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomographic features of 7 cases of the late infantile form of MLD confirmed by sural nerve biopsy are presented. Diffuse symmetrical white matter, low attenuation of the cerebral parenchyma was the common feature. Hypodensity of the temporal lobes and the cerebellar hemispheres are 2 features which have not b...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jayakumar PN,Aroor SR,Jha RK,Arya BY

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family cases of recurrent cranial nerve palsies are seldom reported. This paper presents a family with recurrent facial and ocular nerve palsies in 2 brothers. Their father and his sister had Bell's palsies. Examinations provided no explanation. Six previous reports of families with recurrent cranial nerve palsies are...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sørensen TT

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:16 boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) were treated with sodium selenite and vitamin E for one year. One group of patients (10 boys) was examined using a battery of tests to assess muscular strength and function and cardiopulmonary function, and by CT scanning of 2 muscle groups over the 4 years prior to treat...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bäckman E,Nylander E,Johansson I,Henriksson KG,Tagesson C

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the most important inhibitory transmitter, quantitatively, in the CNS. Evidence exists that decreased GABAergic neurotransmission may play a role in some forms of epilepsy. Consequently, manipulating the GABA system may be a therapeutic possibility in the treatment of this disease. In...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Gram L

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients at Stage II of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) were treated with semipurified alpha-interferon (IFN) using different combinations of intrathecal and intravenous routes: 1 x 10(6) IU of alpha-IFN were given every other day up to a total of 15 x 10(6) IU. Transient improvement of neurological s...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Maimone D,Grimaldi LM,Incorpora G,Biondi R,Sofia V,Mancuso GR,Siciliano L,Ruscica M,Pavone L

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven patients with presenile Alzheimer type dementia (ATD) were treated with N-terminal ACTH fragments for 14 days. No change in cognitive functions was observed during the treatment. A significant increase in CSF beta-endorphin (beta-EP) levels was found, while ACTH and beta-lipoprotein remain unaffected. The possi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nappi G,Facchinetti F,Martignoni E,Petraglia F,Sinforiani E,Bono G,Genazzani AR

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical indications for temporal artery biopsy were explored using clinical decision analysis. The analysis indicated that biopsy is most useful in patients with a high likelihood of steroid side effects. It is nearly always useful when the pre-biopsy likelihood of temporal arteritis is low, but loses its value w...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nadeau SE

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) is clinical and verifiable at post mortem. Neuropathological examination of 518 consecutive patients with clinically definite MS revealed a correct diagnosis in 485 cases (94%). Clinical diagnosis had been established by a neurologist in all cases. Erroneous diagnosis included ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Engell T

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphomannosyl receptor system is responsible for both the receptor-mediated endocytosis and the intracellular transport of lysosomal enzymes. In the present study this receptor system was examined in affected muscles of patients with various neuromuscular diseases. The total activity of beta-N-acetyl-glucosamini...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Salminen A,Marjomäki V,Tolonen U,Myllylä VV

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preventive and suppressive effects of methylprednisolone (MP) were investigated in 22 rabbits immunized with peripheral nerve myelin. Cellular reactivity to bovine P2 protein (P2) and anti-P2 antibody were also examined serially in these animals, using the lymphocyte proliferation test or enzyme-linked immunosorbe...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ohno R,Hamaguchi K,Nomura K,Sowa K,Tanaka H,Negishi T,Yamashita T

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of necrotizing brain stem encephalitis due to listeria monocytogenes is described in a 48-year-old man who had brain stem encephalitis of complicated course and with selective destruction of the vasomotoric and respiratory centers. He developed that very rare Ondine's curse syndrome, being only able to breathe ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen TH,Hansen PB,Brodersen P

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty solvent-exposed workers, most of them painters, had been diagnosed as cases of toxic encephalopathy in 1978/79. Two years later they were re-examined with an extensive battery of neuropsychological tests. Their performance was unchanged on retesting. We have now compared their test results with those of non-exp...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Gade A,Mortensen EL,Bruhn P

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demented patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) (n = 67), multi-infarct dementia (MID) (n = 77) and probable vascular dementia (PVD) (n = 45) were studied with electroencephalography (EEG). All patients underwent a routine EEG examination and quantitative EEG was recorded from 14 patients with AD, 20 with MID, and 12 ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Erkinjuntti T,Larsen T,Sulkava R,Ketonen L,Laaksonen R,Palo J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients are presented who developed conduction aphasia after a small infarction almost exclusively confined to the arcuate fasciculus. All of them were diagnosed as conduction aphasia within a week after the stroke and showed a rapid amelioration. On the basis of the 3 patients and conduction aphasics in the li...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tanabe H,Sawada T,Inoue N,Ogawa M,Kuriyama Y,Shiraishi J

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal tests were performed in 117 healthy subjects on the face, wrist and leg; 32 were tested on the legs with different rates of cooling and warming. Additionally 2 groups of diabetics (37 patients) were tested. Thermotesting was most sensitive on the legs using a rate of temperature change of 2.5-2.8 oC/s. Warm an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Claus D,Hilz MJ,Hummer I,Neundörfer B

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the association of spinal cord tumor and high-pressure hydrocephalus is well known, only 5 cases of spinal cord tumor associated with normotensive hydrocephalus have been reported. Two further cases are described here, discussing the possible pathophysiological mechanism. It is suggested that these patients go t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Yarnitsky D,Honigman S,Hemli JA,Bental E

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paralytic poliomyelitis presenting with quadriparesis, transient encephalitis and bulbar symptoms in 2 patients in close contact with recently vaccinated children with trivalent live oral polio vaccine is described. Symmetrical lower motor neuron involvement of deltoid muscles with electromyographic confirmation was f...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Arlazoroff A,Bleicher Z,Klein C,Vure E,Lahat E,Gross B,Handsher R

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether there are predictors for initial severity of ideomotor apraxia (IMA) in focal left-hemisphere vascular patients. One hundred and twenty-nine subjects were examined between 15 and 30 days post-onset. Twenty-five patients with bilateral lesions were also studied in order to delineate the ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Basso A,Capitani E,Della Sala S,Laiacona M,Spinnler H

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared orosomucoid levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in patients with aseptic meningitis, multiple sclerosis, ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, CNS-affecting leukemia/lymphoma, and CNS-tumor with the levels in a reference group not having neurologic diseases. Because of possible blood brain barrier damage, we co...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Vrethem M,Ohman S,von Schenck H,Forsberg P,Olsson JE

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a thorough surveillance of viral infections of the central nervous system an outbreak of aseptic meningitis was discovered in the western part of Finland in late 1985. The 21 diseased young adults were carefully studied by different virological methods. A presumed viral etiology, in all cases of enteroviral ori...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kinnunen E,Hovi T,Stenvik M,Hellström O,Porras J,Kleemola M,Kantanen ML

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis (PEM) and small cell lung cancer had a clinical presentation of acute polyneuritis. The patient had an antibody (anti-Hu) restricted to nuclei of neurons identical to that reported in patients with subacute sensory neuronopathy and lung cancer. This finding further suppo...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Graus F,Elkon KB,Lloberes P,Ribalta T,Torres A,Ussetti P,Valls J,Obach J,Agusti-Vidal A

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrathecal IgG synthesis and CSF oligoclonal bands were reexamined after 18-24 months in 66 patients with multiple sclerosis; 40 of them received azathioprine (AZA) 2.5 mg/Kg/die; all received a course of dexamethasone (DEXA) during clinical relapses. The IgG Index was significantly reduced in the group treated with ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Caputo D,Zaffaroni M,Ghezzi A,Cazzullo CL

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several forms of treatment of lower urinary tract functional disorders have been attempted in children with myelomeningocele (MMC). Intravesical electrical stimulation was attempted in 10 patients. Urinary control was achieved in one and in the remaining 9 either the bladder was resistant to stimulation or the childre...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Petersen T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old patient suffering from mental deterioration was referred for CT study following her first epileptic fit. The study disclosed generalized atrophy and diffuse symmetric white matter hypodensities. Similar findings were found in her 13-year-old retarded sister. The diagnosis of metachromatic leukodystrophy ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Reider-Grosswasser I,Bornstein N

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum immunoglobulin and HLA investigations were carried out in 21 probands with primary generalized corticoreticular epilepsy (PGCE) and in 26 of their first degree relatives. The mean serum levels of IgG, IgA and IgM in the epileptic probands were not significantly different from controls. In the relatives, however,...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Eeg-Olofsson O,Janjua NA,Andermann E,Guttmann RD,Osterland K

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microtechnique was established for the study of the limited numbers of cells available in CSF. The method allowed for the determination of the number of immunoglobulin-secreting cells (IgSC) as well as the quantitation of immunoglobulin or specific antibody secreted into the culture medium. Dose-response curves and ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sandberg M,Levinson AI,Zweiman B,Lisak RP

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supernatants of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL), containing lymphokines, isolated from MS patients and healthy subjects were tested for demyelinating activity in organotypic culture of the rat cerebellum. PBL were isolated on Ficoll-paque gradient and cultures in RPMI 1640 medium for 72 h with or without phytohemag...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Selmaj K,Renkawek K,Alam R,Kida E,Maszewska M,Rozniecki J

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromyograms (EMGs) are usually considered artifacts during electroencephalographic (EEG) recording for determination of electrocerebral silence (ECS). Appearance of scalp motor unit activity, however, may reflect residual brainstem function and can introduce difficulty in establishing a secure diagnosis of brain d...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Wee AS

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine, MPTP, is a neurotoxic substance known to induce a parkinsonian syndrome in primates. The distribution of intravenously injected 11C-labelled MPTP (11C-MPTP) in the head of Rhesus monkeys was studied by means of positron emission tomography, PET. The influence of pretreatme...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hartvig P,Larsson BS,Lindberg BS,Oreland L,Gullberg P,Långström B,Rimland A,Lundqvist H,Malmborg P,Lindquist NG

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first case of benign IgAK monoclonal gammopathy associated with peripheral neuropathy is described. Dysautonomia is an unusual, yet prominent, manifestation of neuropathy in this patient. Electrodiagnostic testing and nerve biopsy were compatible with demyelination and axonal loss. Myelin sheath, perineural, and e...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bailey RO,Ritaccio AL,Bishop MB,Wu AY

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 30 ischemic stroke patients, divided into 2 groups depending on the side of their hemispheric cerebral lesion, the authors evaluated the levels of CSF homovanillic acid (HVA) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA). The changes of these metabolites in CSF samples collected 3, 14 and 25 days after stroke have been c...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ferrarese C,Bassi S,Frattola L,Locatelli P,Piolti R,Trabucchi M

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A purified citric acid soluble extract from human skeletal muscle (AEMA) and a phosphate-buffered saline extract from rabbit muscle acetone powder (EMA) were used to coat polystyrene beads in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). From 54 patients with myasthenia gravis, positive results were observed in 14. Fi...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Viana VS,Bueno C,Marchiori PE,Oliveira RM,Assis JL,Scaff M,Cossermelli W

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients are described with muscular dystrophy and contractures. Although this disorder bears similarities to Emery-Dreifuss disease and variants previously described, absence of cardiomyopathy is a distinguishing feature. Electrodiagnostic testing and muscle biopsy are consistent with a myopathy. An autosomal d...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Bailey RO,Dentinger MP,Toms ME,Hans MB

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit antiserum to a citric acid extract of human skeletal muscle (CA) stained epithelial thymoma cells as well as skeletal muscle. Thymomas from two myasthenia gravis (MG) patients showing no circulating anti-CA antibodies prior to thymectomy were also stained by the antiserum. Thus, in these patients as well, the t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Gilhus NE,Matre R,Aarli JA,Hofstad H,Thunold S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of cerebral infarction in patients with transient global amnesia (n = 43) was evaluated by CT scan and compared to that of patients with transient ischemic attacks (TIA) (n = 58) and with no neurological disease (n = 52). Significant differences were demonstrated between TGA and TIA patients in relation...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Matias-Guiu J,Colomer R,Segura A,Codina A

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00