The porphyrias are diseases characterised by accumulation of porphyrins and porphyrin precursors owing to enzymatic deficiencies of the haem synthetic pathway. In the acute hepatic porphyrias accumulation of porphyrin precursors, in particular delta-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA), cause dysfunction of the central, peripheral and autonomic nervous systems. This leads to the characteristic clinical f...

UNLABELLED Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of gluten in genetically susceptible individuals and neurologic manifestations may be one of the presentations form. The aim of this study was to report the incidence of neurologic manifestations in children with CD. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 2000-2010, 48 children aged 2-18 years diagnosed with CD ...

Eighty-one cases of neurologic disease, including encephalitis, meningitis, stroke, and peripheral neuropathy, that were associated with parvovirus B19 infection were reviewed. Most patients were children, and two-thirds had central nervous system manifestations. One-third had altered immunity. Viral symptoms (odds ratio [OR], 5.7; P= .002), rash (OR, 11.5; P< .001), and peripheral nervous syst...

Historically, diphtheria was a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the prevaccine era. However, in recent times there has been a resurgence of diphtheria, especially in the newly independent states of the former USSR. Diphtheritic polyneuropathy can be a serious complication in patients who have a severe infection. In patients with pertussis, seizures and encephalopathy can occur as a com...

Brain metastases are the most common cause of malignant brain tumors in adults. Lung and breast cancers are the most common tumors that metastasize to brain, with melanoma, renal, and colorectal cancers accounting for the majority of the remaining metastases [1]. Among human cancers, melanoma has the highest propensity to metastasize to the brain [2]. The relative anatomical distribution of met...

The advent of enzyme replacement therapy for AndersonFabry disease (AFD) adds impetus for the early detection of patients with this inherited multiorgan lipid storage disease. The resultant accumulation of neutral glycosphingolipids, especially globotriaosylceramide (Gb3), in various cell types promotes development of disease-related complications associated with renal, cardiovascular, and cere...

Children with rheumatic disorders may have a wide variety of clinical features ranging from fever or a simple arthritis to complex multisystem autoimmune diseases. Information about the prevalence of neurological manifestations in children with rheumatologic disorders is limited. This review describes the neurologic complications of childhood Rheumatic disease either solely or combined with sym...

CONTEXT HIV-1 is a neurotropic virus. In a resource-limited country such as India, large populations of affected patients now have access to adequate chemoprophylaxis for opportunistic infections (OIs), allowing them to live longer. Unfortunately the poor availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has allowed viral replication to proceed unchecked. This has resulted in an incr...