Multiple Sclerosis Nursing to Improve Care and Education (MSNICE): an observational study.

Objective: To explore differences in patient reported outcomes, health care resources and expenditures in persons with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) with or without access to an MS-nurse.

Methodology: An observational, multicenter and cross-sectional study was conducted. Seven centers with, and twelve centers without an MS-nurse participated.

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo of the horizontal canal.

Objectives: To review the clinical features, electronystagmography findings, the possible mechanism, and a possible therapeutic approach to benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).

Methods: Sixty-three cases of BPPV of the horizontal canal type have been reviewed. It is characterised by horizontal nystagmus and an intense vertigo, provoked by rotation of the head in a supine patient.

Candida parapsilosis vertebral osteomyelitis.

A case of culture verified Candida parapsilosis lumbar spondylodiscitis, with infectious involvement of an aortic prosthetic graft, presented with a lumbar radicular pain syndrome. Only 33 Candida infections of the spine are described in the literature. Candida parapsilosis was cultured in three cases.

Comparison of cerebral haemodynamic and oxygen metabolic changes due to cavernous angiomas and arteriovenous malformations of the brain. A positron emission tomography study.

The cerebral haemodynamic and metabolic changes due to cavernous angiomas in three patients and to arteriovenous malformations in four patients were compared by positron emission tomography, using the steady state technique with 15O. In the brains with a cavernous angioma no important changes in blood flow were observed. Only a decreased oxygen consumption was present in the cortex supplied by the arterial branches of the angioma, most probably related to neuronal deafferentation.