A detailed description of the types of Gaucher’s is beyond the scope of this paper. Classicall3~ three types are described. Type 2, acute neurologic, is usually fatal in infancy with an average age at death of 18 months.2 Type 3, chronic neurologic, usually presents during childhood with diffuse progressive neurologic symptoms. There is a distinct subgroup whose sole neurological defect is a la...

We describe two patients who displayed unusual neurologic manifestations associated with reactivation of latent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. The patients included a 34-year-old woman who suffered from meningoencephalitis presenting with symptoms identical to those of transient global amnesia, and a 57-year-old man with jumbling phenomenon and gait ataxia. The protean neurologic manifesta...

OBJECTIVES To determine long-term clinical outcome in children with confirmed Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) and to evaluate persistent subjective symptoms compared with a control group. METHODS After a median of 5 years, 84 children with confirmed LNB underwent a neurologic re-examination, including a questionnaire. Medical records were analyzed, and a control group (n = 84) was included. RES...

BACKGROUND We wanted to investigate the results of surgical treatment and analyze the factors that have an influence on the neurologic symptoms and prognosis of spinal intradural extramedullary (IDEM) tumors. METHODS The spinal IDEM tumor patients (11 cases) who had been treated by surgical excision and who were followed up more than 1 year were retrospectively analyzed. Pain was evaluated by...

OBJECTIVES Psychogenic gait is common in patients with medically unexplained neurological symptoms and provides significant challenges to healthcare providers. Clinicians may arrive at a correct diagnosis earlier if distinctive positive signs are identified and acknowledged. This study aims to offer a tool for identifying patterns of psychogenic gait based on positive signs in clinical settings...

• Neurologic complications can follow primary EBV infection, although these are rare. should be considered as a precipitant of unexplained mononeuritis multiplex. serology requires repeating and careful interpretation to demonstrate evolution antibody responses confirm the diagnosis. A 20 year old lady presented acute medical unit with new neurological deficits. She described gastrointestinal s...

Introduction: Although frequently observed in magnetic resonance images, symptomatic thoracic disc herniations are rare. Surgical treatment is indicated when patients suffer from functional symptoms with no response to medical treatment, neurologic appear or worsen the event of myelopathy. Posterolateral approaches commonly accepted as for lateral and mediolateral non-calcified medial herniatio...

OBJECTIVES To find out the effect of early neurological consultation using a real time video link on the care of patients with neurological symptoms admitted to hospitals without neurologists on site. METHODS A cohort study was performed in two small rural hospitals: Tyrone County Hospital (TCH), Omagh, and Erne Hospital, Enniskillen. All patients over 12 years of age who had been admitted be...

INTRODUCTION Although mefloquine use is known to be associated with a risk of severe neuropsychiatric adverse reactions that are often preceded by prodromal symptoms, specific combinations of neurologic or psychiatric reactions associated with mefloquine use are not well described in the literature. This study sought to identify a distinct neuropsychiatric syndrome class associated with mefloqu...

Down syndrome, the most common chromosomal abnormality, may be associated with various neurologic complications such as moyamoya syndrome, cervical spinal cord compression due to atlantoaxial subluxation, and basal ganglia damage, as well as epileptic seizures and stroke. Many cases of Down syndrome accompanied by isolated neurologic manifestations have been reported in children; however, Down ...