Incidence and risk factors of distal adjacent disc degeneration in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients undergoing fusion surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: The objective of this meta-analysis was to determine the incidence of disc degeneration in patients with surgically treated adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and identify the associated risk factors.

Methods: PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, and Cochrane Collaboration Library databases were searched. The outcomes of interest were the incidence of disc degeneration, SRS-22, and radiological risk factors.

Weather and electrical demand and consumption data of a small Mexican community.

The development of novel technologies to mitigate the effects of climate change through Smart Grids requires energy related data. Unfortunately, this type of data is not always available in Mexico, especially from non-large urban areas and at the household level. Therefore, we present a dataset that contains electrical demand and consumption time series of 5 households within a small community in Mexico, at various resolutions, as well as weather data.

Hypotonia: Is It a Clear Term and an Objective Diagnosis? An Exploratory Systematic Review.

Background: Hypotonia is considered a determinant factor in multiple developmental disorders and is associated with various characteristics and morbidities. It is necessary to perform a systematic review to know which characteristics are described as associated with hypotonia in children and which methods are used for its diagnosis.

Methods: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were used to develop the systematic review protocol.

Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Analysis in Children With Migraine With and Without Aura Using Optical Coherence Tomography: A Case-Control Study.

Purpose: To evaluate retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in children with migraine, with and without aura, compared to healthy controls using optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Methods: In this cross-sectional case-control study, patients with a diagnosis of migraine with aura (MwA) or without aura (MwoA) were considered and healthy children were included as controls. Age, sex, duration of migraine, number of episodes per month, duration of episodes, and use of prophylactic treatment with magnesium were recorded.

Congenital Harlequin syndrome as an isolated phenomenon: A case report and review of the literature.

Unlabelled: Harlequin syndrome (HS) is a rare autonomic disorder due to a hemifacial cutaneous sympathetic denervation. It is characterized by unilateral diminished sweating and flushing of the face even though after heat or prolonged exercise. It is typically acquired.

[Coding in neuropediatrics based on the International Classification Diseases, 9th revision (ICD-9), 5th edition (2006)].

Aims: To analyze International Classification Diseases, 9th revision (ICD-9) coding and adapt it, on a consensus basis, to 'reasons for medical consultation', 'diagnoses' and 'procedures' in child neurology.

Materials And Methods: The most frequent reasons for medical consultation, diagnoses and procedures in neuropediatrics were selected and assigned the most appropriate ICD-9, Clinical Modification (5th ed.) (ICD-9-CM) codes in accordance with this system's coding rules.

[Non specific leukodystrophy. A new case of vacuolizing leukoencephalopathy with megalencephaly].

Introduction: Amongst the conditions affecting the white matter, the disorders of myelinization, including the leukodystrophies, are important in the field of paediatric neurology. Although classically they have been classified according to whether the metabolic defect was known or not, at the present time great advances in neuroimaging have clarified many genetic disorders involving the white matter and new classifications have been devised. The group of unknown aetiology includes the so called non specific leukodystrophies, characterized by their onset in infancy with a usually more moderate clinical course, and neuro imaging (computerized tomography CT magnetic resonance MR ) with alteration of the signal from the white matter which is symmetrical, bilateral and diffuse.

[Cerebral hemorrhage in full term newborns].

Introduction: Cerebral hemorrhages in full-term newborn babies are an important factor in neonatal morbidity and mortality and very frequent in premature babies. In full-term newborn the frequency is reduced to 1-2% and the aetiopathogenesis is basically related to birth trauma.

Objective: To identify the clinical forms of cerebral hemorrhages in full-term newborn before taking prophyllactic and/or therapeutic measures if possible.

[Epileptic signs in alterations of neuronal migration].

Introduction: A wide range of conditions are due to alterations in neurone migration (ANM). Mental retardation, motor disorders and epilepsy are seen in all these disorders. Anomalies included with the ANM are those produced at the time of neuronal migration in the phase prior to neurone proliferation and during the time following cortical organization.

[The phenomenon of genomic "imprinting" and its implications in clinical neuropediatrics].

Objective: We comment on the most important advances related to the phenomenon of genomic 'imprinting' in clinical paediatric neurology.

Development: Initially, we review the biological findings related to this subject and establish various concepts. Later, we attempt to clarify the different mechanisms of expression of the phenomenon 'imprinting' and its application in clinical practice.