[Cerebral venous thrombosis: long-term functional and cognitive outcome in 16 patients].

Introduction: Although the prognosis of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is better than previously reported, long-term behavioral and cognitive sequelae have not been systematically investigated.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term functional and cognitive outcome in CVT patients.

Methods: We included all patients admitted to the Neurology department of the Amiens university hospital between January 1997 and December 2002 with the diagnosis of CVT.

[Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor treatment for Alzheimer's disease: the experience in Picardy].

Introduction: Despite numerous advances in the management of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), the proportion of patients treated according to current recommendations remains unknown.

Methods: In order to examine this point, we performed a study assessing the proportion of AD patients receiving one acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. This study was performed in Picardy (1.

Somatosensory evoked potentials for the diagnosis of proximal sensory median neuropathy with preserved distal sensory action potential.

A 33 year-old-man with paresthesia in first three fingers of the right hand after minor trauma of the arm was examined electrophysiologically. The proximal sensory median neuropathy was isolated which it is unusual in traumatic lesion. Motor and distal sensory conduction studies were normal but sensory evoked potentials (SEPs) were abnormal by right median nerve stimulation at the wrist level with decrease in amplitude of peripheral potential at the Erb's point, the cervical and contralateral parietal levels.