Use of ventilation bag for the respiratory support during magnetic resonance imaging in Arnold-Chiari ventilated patients, a case report.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool for neuroimaging tissues such as the spinal cord. Unfortunately, the use of MRI may be limited in ventilated patients, who cannot maintain the supine position in spontaneous breathing for the whole duration of the exam (i.e.

Efficacy of botulinum toxin type-A and swallowing treatment for oropharyngeal dysphagia recovery in a patient with lateral medullary syndrome.

Background: Wallenberg's syndrome (WS) is known as posterior inferior cerebellar artery syndrome. Dysphagia has been reported from 51% to 94% of the patients, ranging from mild to severe.

Case Report: We reported a case of a patient (male; 52 years) with WS.

A prospective cohort study on patients treated with anticoagulants for cerebral vein thrombosis.

Objectives: Cerebral vein thrombosis (CVT) is a potentially fatal disorder for which treatment guidelines are scanty. To assess the short- and long-term benefit of anticoagulant therapy, we performed a prospective cohort study on CVT patients.

Methods: Forty-four consecutive CVT patients received conventional anticoagulation with heparin followed by warfarin for at least 3 months.

Pontocerebellar angle aspergillosis: clinical and radiological findings.

Introduction: Cerebral aspergillosis is a rare and severe condition mostly affecting immunocompromised patients. The lesions are usually intra-axial and supratentorial; several radiologic patterns have been reported.

Case Report: A 65-year-old patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia presented with fever, headache, and a pontocerebellar syndrome.

Increased rate of intracranial saccular aneurysms in acromegaly: an MR angiography study and review of the literature.

Background: The concurrence of intracranial aneurysms and acromegaly has been reported and debated previously. Our study in a large number of patients aimed to verify whether acromegaly patients carry a higher risk of harboring intracranial saccular aneurysms and to evaluate the possible relationship using clinical, laboratory, and imaging techniques.

Materials And Methods: A total of 152 of 161 consecutive acromegaly patients (median age, 55.

Reduced right posterior hippocampal volume in women with recurrent familial pure depressive disorder.

Volumetric changes in mood-relevant distributed limbic/paralimbic structures have been reported in the recent literature on the course of mood disorders. Patients with unipolar and bipolar disorders have been found to have smaller hippocampal and anterior cingulate volumes. We examined hippocampal, amygdalar and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) volumes in female patients with recurrent familial pure depressive disorder (rFPDD).

Brain MRI diffusion-weighted imaging in patients with classical phenylketonuria.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to grade magnetic resonance white matter abnormalities (WMAs) of classical phenylketonuria (cPKU) patients treated from birth and to compare sensitivity and specificity of T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted images (DWI).

Methods: Twenty early-treated cPKU patients still on a low-phenylalanine diet (12 males; mean age 21.2 years) and 26 normal subjects (ten males; mean age 25.

Presurgical (99m)Tc-sestamibi brain SPET/CT versus SPET: a comparison with MRI and histological data in 33 patients with brain tumours.

Purpose: A morphofunctional approach to the management of brain tumours has been claimed to increase diagnostic accuracy. Among the proposed single-photon emission tomography (SPET) tracers, (99m)Tc-sestamibi is able to distinguish recurrent tumour from radio-necrosis and to identify early response or resistance to chemotherapy. Major drawbacks of sestamibi, that is, poor morphological resolution and the sites of physiological uptake, could be overcome by dual-modality, integrated systems.

Hippocampal remodelling after MDMA neurotoxicity: a single case study.

Acute ingestion of MDMA (ecstasy) causes a transient marked increase in serotonin and dopamine at central synapses. Recent studies demonstrated that MDMA induces damage of serotonergic nerve terminals and alters hippocampal processing. Pronounced cognitive deficits in MDMA users affect learning and memory abilities.

Vertebral and spinal cavernous angiomas associated with familial cerebral cavernous malformation.

Background: Cerebral cavernous malformations are vascular malformations that affect the CNS and have been associated with cutaneous, retinal, and hepatic lesions. Until now, vertebral hemangiomas associated with CCM have been described only in one case. The coexistence of intracranial and spinal cavernous angiomas in familial CCM is extremely rare.

Confirmatory tests in the diagnosis of brain death: comparison between SPECT and contrast angiography.

Objective: Cerebral blood flow tests have increasingly been advocated for the confirmation of brain death (BD). Four-vessel angiography has been considered the most reliable investigation in the diagnosis of BD for >30 yrs, but it is invasive. (99m)Tc-HMPAO SPECT provides noninvasive, multiplanar imaging of brain tissue perfusion.

Spinal cord and cauda equina MRI findings in metachromatic leukodystrophy: case report.

Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is an autosomal recessive disease with well-documented intracranial findings on neuroimaging both by computed tomography (CT) and MRI. We describe the first case of late infantile MLD with spinal involvement revealed by MRI as marked contrast enhancement of nerve roots at the level of the cauda equina.