[Implementation of intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring in children and adults in secondary and tertiary health care facilities].

Introduction: Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) is a procedure that uses neurophysiological techniques in order to evaluate the motor and sensitive systems during surgeries that endanger the nervous system.

Method: The approach, scope, target population, and clinical questions to be answered were defined. A systematic search of the evidence was conducted step by step; during the first stage, clinical practice guidelines were collected, during the second stage systematic reviews were obtained, and during the third stage, clinical trials and observational studies were procured.

Bilateral Forearm Transplantation in Mexico: 2-Year Outcomes.

Background: Patients with proximal forearm and arm transplantation have obtained and/or maintained function of the elbow joint and full active range of motion of the extrinsic muscles of the hand, but with diminished protective sensibility and a lack of good function of the intrinsic muscles. These patients have improved function, as measured by the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand questionnaire.

Methods: We report the case of a 52-year-old man who suffered a high-voltage electrical burn requiring amputation of his upper limbs.

Mutation analyses of genes on 6p12-p11 in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a distinct form of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). One of the candidate regions for human JME has been mapped on chromosome band 6p11-p12 by linkage analyses and is termed EJM1 (MIM 254770). Recently, we reported the reduction of the EJM1 region to 3.

[The value of quantitative electroencephalogram analysis in the study of dementias].

Introduction: The question as to whether an electroencephalogram (EEG) needs to be carried out as a preliminary study in patients with dementia is currently the subject of some controversy.

Aims: Our aim was to determine the value of conventional and quantitative analysis of EEG recordings in the treatment of dementia.

Patients And Methods: The EEG recordings of patients diagnosed with a syndrome of dementia were analysed both visually and quantitatively (comparing them with patients with major depressive disorder).

Mutations in EFHC1 cause juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is the most frequent cause of hereditary grand mal seizures. We previously mapped and narrowed a region associated with JME on chromosome 6p12-p11 (EJM1). Here, we describe a new gene in this region, EFHC1, which encodes a protein with an EF-hand motif.