A novel antineuronal antibody in a motor neuron syndrome associated with breast cancer.

A 72-year-old woman developed a lower motor neuron syndrome (MNS) 4 months before the appearance of breast cancer. Monoparesis progressed to quadriparesis despite high-dose IV immunoglobulins, plasma exchange, and azathioprine, and high-dose IV methylprednisolone. The patient improved only after the removal of the tumor.

Marchiafava-Bignami disease: computed tomographic scan, 99mTc HMPAO-SPECT, and FLAIR MRI findings in a patient with subcortical aphasia, alexia, bilateral agraphia, and left-handed deficit of constructional ability.

Objectives: To report and discuss the neuropsychological deficits and neuroimaging findings in a patient with probable Marchiafava-Bignami disease.

Design And Method: A right-handed woman with chronic alcoholism demonstrated mutism, impaired comprehension of spoken language, alexia, and right-handed agraphia. The syndrome of interhemispheric disconnection was manifested by left-handed deficit of constructional ability and agraphia.

Transient global amnesia and transient ischemic attack: a community-based case-control study.

Objectives: Few case-control studies of first-ever transient global amnesia (TGA), transient ischemic attack (TIA) and normal controls have been performed to date. We aimed to assess the prevalence of cerebrovascular risk factors in a well defined population of TGA patients.

Material And Methods: We undertook a retrospective and prospective community-based case-control study of 170 first-ever TGA, 170 first-ever TIA and 170 normal controls.

Recurrent external ophthalmoparesis during hormonal therapy after thyroid ablation. Case report.

We here report the case of a patient who had undergone total thyroid ablation for Graves' disease. After the beginning of oral therapy with 1-thyroxine, she developed a left external ophthalmoparesis that remitted with the discontinuation of the drug and recurred whenever the replacement therapy (1-thyroxine or tri-iodothyronine) was reintroduced.

Incidence of transient global amnesia in the Belluno province, Italy: 1985 through 1995. Results of a community-based study.

Introduction: We sought to determine the incidence rate of all the new cases of first-ever-in-a-lifetime transient global amnesia in the Belluno province, Italy. Only two prospective epidemiological studies on TGA incidence have been performed to date, non in Italy. Our study aimed to provide reliable and comparable information on TGA incidence.