INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Invasive home mechanical ventilation is used for patients with chronic respiratory insufficiency. This elaborate and technology-dependent ventilation is carried out via an artificial airway (tracheal cannula) to the trachea. Exact numbers about the incidence of home mechanical ventilation are not available. Patients with neuromuscular diseases represent a large porti...

BACKGROUND Benzydamine, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) in use for more than four decades, has been reported to cause photosensitivity. OBJECTIVES To study the results of photopatch testing to benzydamine and the clinical features of the dermatitis during a 3-year period (2006-2008). PATIENTS AND METHODS During this period, 74 patients with photodermatoses were photopatch tes...

Corticokinematic coherence (CKC) reflects coupling between magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals and hand kinematics, mainly occurring at hand movement frequency (F0) and its first harmonic (F1). Since CKC can be obtained for both active and passive movements, it has been suggested to mainly reflect proprioceptive feedback to the primary sensorimotor (SM1) cortex. However, the directionality of...

Acta Neurologica Taiwanica Vol 19 No 1 March 2010 Stroke is the single most important cause of seizures and status epilepticus in the elderly population. In this issue, Chiang et al. investigated the risk factors for seizures after first-ever ischemic stroke. This is a hospital-based prospective study on 143 patients. Prognostic variables were analyzed based on Cox’s proportional hazards model ...