Clinical and Laboratory Features in Anti-NF155 Autoimmune Nodopathy.

Background And Objectives: To study the clinical and laboratory features of antineurofascin-155 (NF155)-positive autoimmune nodopathy (AN).

Methods: Patients with anti-NF155 antibodies detected on routine immunologic testing were included. Clinical characteristics, treatment response, and functional scales (modified Rankin Scale [mRS] and Inflammatory Rasch-built Overall Disability Scale [I-RODS]) were retrospectively collected at baseline and at the follow-up.

Stroke treatment outcomes in hospitals with and without Stroke Units.

Introduction: Organisational capacity in terms of resources and care circuits to shorten response times in new stroke cases is key to obtaining positive outcomes. This study compares therapeutic approaches and treatment outcomes between traditional care centres (with stroke teams and no stroke unit) and centres with stroke units.

Methods: We conducted a prospective, quasi-experimental study (without randomisation of the units analysed) to draw comparisons between 2 centres with stroke units and 4 centres providing traditional care through the neurology department, analysing a selection of agreed indicators for monitoring quality of stroke care.

[Stroke-psychosis. Description of two cases].

Introduction: The presence of neuropsychiatry symptoms (hallucinations, delusions and agitation) as stroke-related guideline symptoms, thus forming an acute psychosis of organic cause, are extremely uncommon and often correlate with strategic infarcts (caudate nucleus, striatum and thalamus).

Clinical Case: We report two cases of stroke-psychosis. Case 1.

Suprainguinal retroperitoneal approach for the successful surgical treatment of meralgia paresthetica.

Object: Neurosurgical textbooks describe an infrainguinal approach as the standard or preferred option for the surgical treatment of meralgia paresthetica (MP), the most frequent entrapment neuropathy of the lower limb. However, inhomogeneous results led the authors to adopt a suprainguinal, retroperitoneal approach for decompression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. In this paper the authors' aim was to study the outcome of patients harboring MP treated via this different surgical approach.

Delayed presentation of pulmonary polymethylmethacrylate emboli after percutaneous vertebroplasty.

Study Design: Literature review concerning pulmonary embolism of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) material following percutaneous vertebroplasty and a report on 2 new cases.

Objective: To inform clinicians about delayed clinical manifestation of pulmonary embolism of polymethylmethacrylate material after percutaneous vertebroplasty, pathophysiology, precautions, and therapeutic management of this complication.

Summary Of Background Data: Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a minimal invasive intervention used to treat vertebral fractures, which yields good therapeutic results and rarely produces complications.