Implanted Peroneal Nerve Stimulator Treatment for Drop Foot Caused by Central Nervous System Lesion: A Twelve-Month Follow-up of 21 Patients.

Objective: Drop foot is a common impairment following stroke or other causes of central pathology. We report data on patient self-perceived performance, satisfaction with performance, walking ability, and adverse effects after surgical implantation of the ActiGait® drop foot stimulator.

Design: Prospective case study with a 12-month follow-up.

Acute Ischemic Stroke in Late Pregnancy Treated with Intravenous Thrombolysis and Endovascular Therapy.

Pregnancy has usually been an exclusion criterion in clinical trials with thrombolysis and endovascular therapy in acute ischemic stroke. For that reason, these therapies are not recommended causing lack of evidence and vice versa. In this case report, we describe a pregnant woman in week 33 + 3 presenting with acute ischemic stroke, which was successfully treated with systemic thrombolysis and endovascular therapy, resulting in a good clinical outcome for both mother and child.

A case of isolated neck extensor myopathy responding favorably to immunotherapy.

We report on a case of a 79-year-old man with dropped head syndrome, where diagnostic tests, ruling out other differential diagnoses, confirmed the relatively rarely occurring condition known as isolated neck extensor myopathy. Biopsy of the neck extensor musculature was with classical pronounced fibrosis, without signs of myositis. The patient was treated with 3 cycles of corticosteroids with pronounced clinical improvement of his symptoms.

[On the inferior quality of renal sonograms in patients with lumbar meningomyelocele].

Aim: Many examiners complain about the inferior quality of renal sonograms in patients with lumbar, meningomyelocele (MMC), especially about the insufficient contrast. The study was carried out in order to scrutinize these reports and to test the hypothesis that this effect might be caused by the increased echogenicity of the abnormally innervated musculature in these patients.

Methods: In 17 "matched pairs" of patients with lumbar MMC and healthy controls the echogenicity and the contrast of the sonograms of the kidneys, the biceps muscle and the rectus femoris muscle were measured and compared.