Dermatoglyphic features in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Objective: To examine dermatoglyphic features to clarify implicated genetic predisposition in the etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Methods: The study was conducted between January and December 2013 in the Departments of Anatomy, and Neurology, Cumhuriyet University School of Medicine, Sivas, Turkey. The dermatoglyphic data of 61 patients, and a control group consisting of 62 healthy adults obtained with a digital scanner were transferred to a computer environment.

Consciousness disturbance and poikilothermia revealing brain involvement in neuromyelitis optica.

A 21-year-old woman was admitted due to altered mental status and hypothermia. The patient had a diagnosis of neuromyelitis optica (NMO) for 12 years and she was positive for serum anti-aquaporin 4 antibody. On admission, physical examination revealed coma with decerebration rigidity and poikilothermia.

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis presenting as transient ischemic attacks in a case with homozygous mutations of MTHFR A1298C and CG677T.

We report a case with recurrent, transient attacks of slurred speech, weakness, and numbness of the right half of the face and the right arm without seizure activity, accompanied by headache and double vision. Neurologic examination revealed bilateral papilledema and right abducens palsy. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed thrombosis of the dural venous sinuses and the cortical veins, with no evidence of parenchymal lesion.