[Evaluation of serum total carnitine values in persons with severe motor and intellectual disabilities with enteral (tube) feeding].

Objective: The nutritive evaluation and the serum carnitine values were measured for persons with severe motor and intellectual disabilities with enteral (tube) feeding.

Methods: In Shimada Rehabilitation Center, twenty one people who had serum albumin levels of 3.4 g/dl or less, and were taking nutrition with enteral (tube) feeding, were tested.

[Acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion with visual disturbance and higher brain dysfunction].

Acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion (AESD) is a recently described clinicoradiologic syndrome. Clinically, a prolonged febrile seizure is followed by subsequent seizures which occur several days after the initial seizure. On MRI, reduced diffusion appears predominantly in the frontoparietal subcortical white matter at the time of the subsequent seizures.

[Dysgenesis of the carotid artery associated with congenital ipsilateral Horner syndrome].

We report a case with dysgenesis of the carotid artery associated with congenital Homer syndrome. A 6-year-old boy, who had undergone surgical repair for pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and patent ductus arteriosus at 20 months of age, presented with miosis of the left eye, and anhidrosis of the left face, neck, and shoulder girdle. Since the anhidrosis was obvious in early childhood, he was suspected as having congenital Horner syndrome.