The effect of continuous positive airway pressure therapy on early atherosclerosis in patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome.

Purpose: Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is the most common sleep-related breathing disorder. Longer term, repeated episodes of hypercapnia and hypoxemia during sleep are associated with inflammatory and atherosclerosis-related factors. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy on cerebral vasoreactivity and early atherosclerosis in patients with severe OSAHS.

Quantitative EEG in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a review of the literature.

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is characterized by the recurrent cessation (apnea) or reduction (hypopnea) of airflow due to the partial or complete upper airway collapse during sleep. Respiratory disturbances causing sleep fragmentation and repetitive nocturnal hypoxia are responsible for a variety of nocturnal and daytime complaints of sleep apnea patients, such as snoring, daytime sleepiness, fatigue, or impaired cognitive functions. Different techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and positron emission tomography, are used to evaluate the structural and functional changes in OSAS patients.

Predictors of Symptomatic Vasospasm After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Single Center Study of 457 Consecutive Cases.

Aim: We set forth to identify predictors of symptomatic vasospasm in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).

Material And Methods: We used multivariate logistic regression analysis of the prospective, hospital based, single center register of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Debrecen, Hungary. Evaluated patients' characteristics were: sex, age, Hunt-Hess grade on admission, location of aneurysm, thickness of blood clot on initial CT scan (Fisher grade), hypertension.

[Subarachnoid hemorrhage in Hungary: analysis based on the 2009 hospital reports].

Background And Purpose: We analyzed the statistical characteristics of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in Hungary in 2009.

Methods: Using data supplied by the hospitals about their inpatient services to the National Health Insurance Fund with ICD-10 code 160.

Results: 1403 SAH hospital cases were recorded in 1028 patients.

Cortical spreading edema in persistent visual migraine aura.

We present imaging evidence of the spreading of cortical edema with reversibly restricted water diffusion from the left occipital to the temporoparietal cortex in persistent visual migraine aura in a 58-year-old man. The right-sided visual field defect lasting for 15 days was associated with discoupling of glucose metabolism and blood flow and the decreased apparent diffusion coefficient also suggested cytotoxic edema. At 8 weeks no signs were present, and magnetic resonance imaging became normal; therefore, long-lasting restricted cortical water diffusion, even if coupled with hypometabolism and edema, can be reversible in persistent visual migraine aura.

[Dietary aspects of epilepsy].

The ketogenic diet has been used long for the treatment of epilepsy. The high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet creates ketosis. Although the exact mechanism of action is unknown the results are consistent.

Trends in the incidence of subarachnoid hemorrhage in Akita Prefecture, Japan.

Object: The incidence of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in Japan has been reported to be among the highest in the world. The aim of this study was to analyze the incidence of SAH and its trends in Akita Prefecture, Japan.

Methods: The incidence rate of SAH between January 1, 1989, and December 31, 1998, was investigated using the prospective Akita Stroke Register.

Projections of primary afferent fibers to last-order premotor interneurons in the lumbar spinal cord of rats.

It is well established that last-order premotor interneurons in the spinal cord have crucial importance in the integration of activities generated by the spinal motor apparatus, sensory information and volleys arising from higher motor centers, indicating that they play a substantial role in spinal motor functions. Despite extensive studies, synaptic input systems of these neurons have not been investigated in detail up to now with morphological approaches. On this basis, the present experiments were aimed at the visualization of possible contacts between primary afferents and last-order premotor interneurons in the lumbar spinal cord of rats using double label neural tracing methods in light microscopy.