Apgar score was devised with the aim to standardize the assessment of newborns. It has been used worldwide to evaluate infants' condition immediately after birth, to determine their need for resuscitation, and to evaluate the effectiveness of resuscitation. Apgar score was never intended for prediction of outcome beyond the immediate postnatal period; however, since low scores correlate with pr...

A 27-year-old man with a 2-year history of recurrent hospitalizations for various neurologic and cardiologic emergencies was admitted to our hospital presenting with left hemiparesis, which gradually progressed to quadriparesis, bilateral hemianopsia, intracranial hypertension syndrome, and seizures. A diagnosis of echinococcosis was made, based on the radiologic findings of multiple cerebral h...

Objective To illustrate a unique instance of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VIII (EDS VIII) with blood blister-like aneurysm of the middle cerebral artery. Design This is a single patient case report. Setting University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital. Participants A 42-year-old woman with diagnosis of EDS VIII presented with a sudden onset severe headache and altered mental status. She was diagnose...

Acute transverse myelitis is a rare neurologic condition that has an estimated incidence of up to 3 per 100,000 patient years (0.003%). Although rare, acute transverse myelitis can have devastating neurologic effects with up to two-thirds of patients having a moderate to severe degree of residual disability. The term acute transverse myelitis was previously reserved for idiopathic cases, but cu...

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a common condition involving multiple, organ-specific medical specialties, each with its own approach to diagnosis and treatment. Management requires knowledge of the interplay between pelvic organ function and neuro-functional anatomy, and of the neurologic and psychological aspects of CPP, but no current specialty fully encompasses this approach. Neuropelveology i...

Megaloblastic anemias are a subgroup of macrocytic anemias, in which distinctive morphologic abnormalities occur in red cell precursors in bone marrow, namely megaloblastic erythropoiesis. Of the many causes of megaloblastic anemia, the most common are disorders resulting from cobalamin or folate deficiency. The clinical symptoms are weakness, fatigue, shortness of breath and neurologic abnorma...

What is Wobbler Syndrome? Wobbler Syndrome is a neurologic disease of dogs that a!ects their spines in the neck region. It is a very important and common cause of neurologic disability in large-breed dogs. Are there other names for Wobbler Syndrome? Wobbler Syndrome or Wobblers is the most common name used, but the veterinary literature has used 14 di!erent names to describe this condition. "is...

Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation with Pontine Perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids (CLIPPERS) syndrome is a rare neurological disorder uncertain etiology, pathogenesis and clinical course. Pittock et al. in 2010 first described this chronic inflammatory neurologic condition, which preferably affects the brainstem. There an infiltration cells of affected regions typical dotted curvili...

Spinal cord cavernous angioma (SCAA) is a rare tumorous condition that can manifest various neurologic symptoms, and most lesions are needed to be removed surgically. However, since the SCAA positioned intramedullary, tumor resection could have modest risk for development of neuronal injury. Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring (IONM) has been widely accepted as an effective tool detectin...

The most common neurologic manifestations of polycythemia vera (PV) are cerebral infarction and transient ischemic attacks, while cerebral hemorrhage or intracranial dissection has been rarely associated with PV. Here we report the first case of a 59-year-old patient with intracranial supraclinoid internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection causing cerebral infarction and concomitant subarachnoid ...