Objective: To report a series of atypical presentations of Aicardi-Goutières syndrome.
Methods: Clinical, neuroimaging, and genetic data.
Results: We report a series of six unrelated patients (five males) with a subacute loss of developmental milestones, pyramidal signs, and regression of communication abilities, with onset at ages ranging from 7 to 20 months, reaching a nadir after 4 to 24 weeks.
Purpose Of Review: To review the literature on the clinical characteristics of the symptoms other than headache that occurs during a migraine attack in childhood and adolescence.
Recent Findings: Premonitory symptoms (42-67%) and postdrome phase (82%) are frequent. The most frequent auras were visual.
Objective: To compare gross motor development of preterm infants (PT) without cerebral palsy with healthy full-term (FT) infants, according to Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS); to compare the age of walking between PT and FT; and whether the age of walking in PT is affected by neonatal variables.
Methods: Prospective study compared monthly 101 PT and 52 FT, from the first visit, until all AIMS items had been observed.
Results: Mean scores were similarity in their progression, except from the eighth to tenth months.
Background: The criteria and timing for nerve surgery in infants with obstetric brachial plexopathy remain controversial. Our aim was to develop a new method for early prognostic assessment to assist this decision process.
Methods: Fifty-four patients with unilateral obstetric brachial plexopathy who were ten to sixty days old underwent bilateral motor-nerve-conduction studies of the axillary, musculocutaneous, proximal radial, distal radial, median, and ulnar nerves.
Purpose: The real utility of needle electromyography (EMG) for evaluation of infants with obstetric brachial plexopathy remains controversial. The objective of this paper is to evaluate how EMG correlates with clinical evaluation of these patients.
Methods: We performed EMG in 41 infants (42 arms) with severe obstetric brachial plexopathy who were from 3 to 12 months of age.
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod
November 2007
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate jaw movements and the masticatory muscle in patients who underwent craniotomy for treatment of cerebral aneurysm.
Study Design: Descriptive study.
Results: There were 71 patients evaluated between 4 and 6 months after craniotomy, by means of a systematized approach.
Objective: To evaluate the need of chronological age correction according to the degree of prematurity, when assessing gross motor development in preterm infants, during the first year of life.
Method: Cohort, observational and prospective study. Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) was used to evaluate 43 preterm infants with low risk for motor neurological sequelae, during the first year of corrected age.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr
March 2006
We did a case-control study to verify if the birthweight, forceps delivery or perinatal asphyxia have any significant effect on the prognosis of obstetrical brachial plexopathy. Group A was composed of 25 infants who completely recovered at the age of 6 months. Group B was composed of 21 infants who were still not able to remove a blindfold from the face with the affected limb in the sitting position at the age of 12 months.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBotulinum toxin type A was recently introduced for treatment of biceps-triceps muscle cocontraction, which compromises elbow function in children with obstetrical brachial plexopathy. This is our preliminary experience with this new approach. Eight children were treated with 2-3 U/kg of botulinum toxin injected in the triceps (4 patients) and biceps (4 patients) muscle, divided in 2 or 3 sites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThirty-two children (21 female and 11 male), between 7 and 14 years old, with chronic daily headache (CDH) were consecutively included in a prospective, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled crossover study. The patients were divided in group I (fluoxetine vs. placebo), with 17 patients and group II (placebo vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEarly prognostic assessment of obstetrical brachial plexopathies (OBP) would facilitate rational selection of infants for brachial plexus surgery. We performed bilateral motor nerve conduction studies (MNCS) of axillary, musculocutaneous, radial, median, and ulnar nerves in 33 babies (age 10-60 days) with OBP in order to compare the amplitude of compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs). All babies were followed up until 6 months of age and the outcome was classified according to muscle strength and arm function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the relationship among the quality, type, and trajectory of general movements in preterm infants and neonatal cranial ultrasonography findings and neurological outcome.
Method: Forty preterm newborn infants, with gestational ages under 35 weeks, had their general movements recorded through video-tape during the preterm, term (37th - 42nd postconceptional weeks of age) and post-term (49th - 56th postconceptional weeks of age) periods, and were prospectively followed up to one-year conceptional age.
Results: Our results showed that the quality of general movements, particularly in the post-term period (p = 0.
OBJECTIVE: To perform a bibliographic review about headache treatment in childhood and adolescence. SOURCES: Articles were searched through Medline database using the terms: migraine, or headache, childhood, or adolescence, and treatment, during the period between 1966 and 2001. Review articles and case reports were excluded.
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