Post-operative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome: time to move beyond structural MRI
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
CKD classification: time to move beyond KDOQI.
The number of patients with ESRD is increasing worldwide. Despite recent advances in our understanding of the uremic state and improvements in the science and technology of renal replacement therapy, the morbidity and mortality of these patients is unacceptably high: More than 20% per year. Moreover, the health care cost of treating ESRD exceeds $17 billion annually in the United States alone.1...
متن کاملThe syndrome of 'cerebellar' mutism and subsequent dysarthria.
"Cerebellar" mutism refers to a specific childhood disorder in which a complete but transient loss of speech, followed by dysarthria, occurs after removal of a cerebellar tumor. We present a consecutive series of 15 children with this disorder, which we prefer to designate "mutism and subsequent dysarthria." The conditions in which it develops suggest also an extracerebellar component of cerebe...
متن کاملPost-operative central anticholinergic syndrome.
Central anticholinergic syndrome is defined as an abDiagnosis rests on clinical features, exclusion of other conditions, and a positive response to a solute or relative reduction in cholinergic activity in centrally acting cholinesterase inhibitor, usually the central nervous system [1]. In anaesthetic practice physostigmine [1]. the syndrome was originally described in connection The incidence...
متن کاملHospital ethics committees: time to move beyond the obvious.
Hospital ethics committees (HECs) have come into vogue over the past quarter of a century, but subsequent to Joint Commission international Accreditation’s mandate in 1992, they have become an essential part of all major hospitals in North America. These committees work on different models to address the clinical ethics needs of hospitals. Some hospitals have a fulltime clinical ethicist, while...
متن کاملPrecision prevention: time to move beyond universal interventions.
Nearly two decades ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in the USA recognised that many adverse health outcomes result from behavioural tendencies that place individuals at risk. Programmes designed to change these behaviours could have long-term salutary effects. They further noted the heterogeneity within and across populations and over time in the nature and severity of unhealthy behaviours....
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Child's Nervous System
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0256-7040,1433-0350
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-018-3867-x