Reproducibility of gait kinematics and kinetics in chronic stroke patients.

Background: The search for reliable techniques to assess gait in stroke patients is crucial for the design and follow-up of rehabilitation programs.

Objective: To assess the reproducibility of kinematic and kinetic gait parameters in chronic stroke patients using a three-dimensional gait analysis system.

Methods: Ten chronic stroke patients were assessed while walking along a 20 m walkway at their natural speed, using a gait analysis system of six infrared cameras and two force plates.

Peripheral neuropathy electrophysiological screening in inflammatory bowel disease.

Aim: Peripheral neuropathy is often described in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of this study was to assess the need for neurophysiological testing in IBD patients without neurological symptoms or signs to detect early subclinical neuropathy and its possible correlations with clinical and demographic characteristics.

Materials And Methods: Ninety-seven consecutive IBD patients were screened for neurological symptoms and clinical signs, and those without symptoms or signs were included.

Sensitivity and specificity of a new indicator test (Neuropad) for the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy in type 2 diabetes patients: a comparison with clinical examination and nerve conduction study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of a new indicator test (Neuropad) for the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy in type 2 diabetes patients as compared with clinical examination and nerve conduction study (NCS).

Patients And Methods: This study included 120 type 2 diabetes patients (58 men) with a mean age of 67.3 +/- 5.

Acute paraplegia after the initiation of anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha therapy for Crohn's disease.

Therapies aimed at inhibiting tumour necrosis factor are currently successfully administered to an increasing number of patients with autoimmune diseases. Infliximab has been approved to induce and maintain remission in Crohn's disease and fistulizing Crohn's disease. We report a case of acute-onset flaccid paraplegia after the initiation of anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy (infliximab) for Crohn's disease.

The Greek version of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-31).

This study is presenting the translation and cultural adaptation into Greek of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-31). We adapted the QOLIE-31 to Greek through a procedure of translation-back-translation. Sixty-three patients were interviewed and completed the QOLIE-31 and the GHQ questionnaires.

Non linear analysis of magnetoencephalographic signals as a tool for assessing malignant lesions of the brain: first results.

Background And Purpose: Non linear signal analysis is a powerful technique that reveals qualitative and quantitative differentiations between different dynamical systems (biological or otherwise). Presented here are the first results of a work in progress to investigate the Magnetoencephalograms (MEG) from patients with malignant CNS lesions and from healthy volunteers.

Methods: We present MEG recordings of 10 patients diagnosed with malignant CNS lesions and the corresponding ones from 10 healthy volunteers.

Maximal voluntary ventilation in myasthenia gravis.

Assessment of respiratory muscle weakness is important at all stages of myasthenia gravis. The maximal voluntary ventilation (MVV) is an objective dynamic method for measuring the working capacity of respiratory muscles. The clinical value of this method was studied in 24 newly diagnosed patients with myasthenia gravis, classified according to Osserman criteria (grades I, IIa, and IIb).

Epidemiological data of multiple sclerosis in the province of Evros, Greece.

The frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Greece is still debated. Our previous epidemiological field survey with a cross-check study of MS on March 31, 1984, in the province of Evros in north-eastern Greece showed a prevalence rate of 10.1/100,000.