345 results match your criteria: "Bangur Institute Of Neurosciences[Affiliation]"

We report a case of a 14-year-old non-immunised girl with a prior history of measles infection presenting with afebrile seizures progressing to epilepsia partialis continua (EPC), quadriparesis and headache. Further evaluation revealed Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositivity with elevated anti-measles antibody titres in Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Electroencephalography showed focal epileptiform activity and Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain revealed bilateral, asymmetrical long repetition time MRI (TR) hyperintensities involving juxtacortical white matter in both parietal lobes, left temporal and also in the left basal ganglia without any contrast enhancement or Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) restriction.

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Background: Wilson disease (WD), a potentially treatable genetic disorder with perturbations in copper metabolism, presents with hepatic and neuropsychiatric manifestations. Both hyper and hypokinetic movements predominate the latter spectrum. Motor stereotypies, however, are exceedingly rare.

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Covid-19 associated Guillain-Barré syndrome: A series of a relatively uncommon neurological complication.

Diabetes Metab Syndr

December 2021

Department of Internal Medicine, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, 1, Khudiram Bose Sarani, Kolkata, 700004, India. Electronic address:

Background And Aims: The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world topsy turvy since its emergence and has claimed innumerable lives worldwide. Neurological manifestations of the disease have raised several eyebrows around the world among which Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) deserve special mention. Although majority of the cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) present with respiratory symptoms, extrapulmonary manifestations are being increasingly reported.

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Temporal lobe epilepsy with nocturnal wandering leading to discovery of Moyamoya Angiopathy.

Acta Neurol Belg

February 2023

Department of Neurology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Bangur Institute of Neurosciences, 52/1A Shambunath Pandit Street, Kolkata, 700025, India.

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MRI-negative myeloradiculoneuropathy following Covid-19 infection: An index case.

Diabetes Metab Syndr

December 2021

Department of Neurology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Bangur Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata, India. Electronic address:

Covid-19 associated several neurological manifestation in the form of Post-infectious transverse myelitis(TM) and para-infectious TM has been reported. A 54 years old female patient presented to us with acute retention of urine and upper motor neuron type of bilateral lower limb weakness in shock stage, after 12 days of covid-19 infection. MRI (3T) brain and spine showed no abnormality and Nerve conduction study showed acquired motor axonal polyradiculoneuropathy in bilateral lower limbs.

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Introduction: Wilson disease (WD) is characterized by a wide variety of clinical manifestations. Our study aimed to correlate genotype with clinical and radiological features in Indian WD patients.

Methods: We conducted a descriptive observational study in a tertiary care neurology referral center of eastern India over a period of 2 years.

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Moyamoya angiopathy, a rare cerebrovascular condition, can be primary (moyamoya disease) or secondary (moyamoya syndrome). Genetic factors, such as the ring finger protein 213 (RNF213), have been associated with moyamoya disease. However, X-linked moyamoya angiopathy/moyamoya syndrome and hypergonadotropic hypogonadism associated with moyamoya syndrome are rare.

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Introduction: There is paucity of data regarding economic burden, employment affection, psychological and nutritional status of CP patients, of non-alcoholic etiology, especially during their periods of stable disease, i.e., without any complications and/or recent endoscopic/surgical interventions.

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Bilateral Facial Nerve Palsy in a Young Woman From West Bengal: Do Not Forget Lyme Neuroborreliosis.

Neurol India

September 2021

Department of Neurology, University Hospital "12 de Octubre"; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas; Department of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.

Borrelia burgdorferi can affect the nervous system in various ways, which can generate significant confusion and dilemma regarding diagnosis. From India, a country until recently known to be a nonendemic zone for Lyme disease, several cases and one study of Lyme neuroborreliosis have been published. The aim of this study was to describe a young woman with bilateral facial nerve palsy as the presenting manifestation of Lyme neuroborreliosis.

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Spectrum of Anti-NMDA Receptor Antibody Encephalitis: Clinical Profile, Management and Outcomes.

Ann Indian Acad Neurol

March 2021

Department of Neurology, Bangur Institute of Neurosciences, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Annex 1, Gokhel Road, Bhowanipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Article Synopsis
  • Anti-NMDAR antibody encephalitis is an immune-related condition characterized by a range of neuropsychological symptoms and is identified based on specific clinical criteria.
  • A study analyzed 25 patients diagnosed with this condition, revealing that the majority experienced memory issues, behavioral changes, and seizures, with some requiring more intensive treatment.
  • Outcomes showed that while some patients fully or partially recovered, others faced significant disabilities and mortality, with better recovery rates observed in the pediatric group.
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Treatment related fluctuation and response to intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in post COVID-19 Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Diabetes Metab Syndr

October 2021

Department of Neuromedicine, Bangur Institute of Neurosciences, IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Annex 1, 52/1 Shambhunath Pandit Street, Kolkata, 700020, India.

Treatment related fluctuation (TRF) poses a special challenge in the treatment of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). Many cases of GBS following COVID-19 infection have been reported in literature till date, but treatment related fluctuation (TRF) in post COVID-19 GBS has not been reported till date. We report a 35-year-old male patient who developed GBS following COVID-19 infection and had TRF after intravenous immunoglobulin (IV-IG) therapy.

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Background: Bilingualism may affect the profile of cognitive disturbances associated with stroke. Its impact on aphasia severity, however, is in need of substantiation.

Aims: To determine the relationship between bilingualism and vascular aphasia severity.

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Complex movement disorders in SARS-CoV-2 infection induced acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.

J Neuroimmunol

September 2021

Department of Neurology, University Hospital "12 de Octubre", Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain; Department of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address:

Movement disorders are extremely rare in acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and in the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We herein report a 34-years-old previously healthy woman who presented with a febrile illness and a constellation of movement disorders (predominantly myoclonus) followed by encephalopathy. After exclusion of common infectious, autoimmune and paraneoplastic etiologies, she was diagnosed to have COVID-19 induced ADEM, which responded to intravenous methylprednisolone and intravenous immunoglobulin.

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Background: Neurological manifestations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are being widely documented. However, movement disorders in the setting of 2019 coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) have been a strikingly less discussed topic.

Objectives: To summarize available pieces of evidence documenting de novo movement disorders in COVID-19.

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Limb-shaking TIA in Moyamoya angiopathy.

Clin Neurol Neurosurg

August 2021

Department of Neurology, Alfried Krupp Von Bohlen Und Halbach, Hospital, Alfried-Krupp-Str. 21, 45117 Essen, Germany; Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, Medical Faculity, Duesseldorf, Germany. Electronic address:

Background: Limb shaking TIA(LS-TIA) is an rare manifestation seen in high grade steno-occlusive carotid disease. LS-TIA is rarely recognized as a presenting manifestation of MMA and has never been previously studied prospectively in MMA cohort.

Methods: Of 104 cases of MMA collected in our Indian center in last 4 years, 5 new patients had LS-TIA.

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While hypopituitarism is known to be associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, panhypopituitarism as a complication of myocardial infarction (MI) is very rare. Here, we report a case of rapidly developing empty sella syndrome with florid manifestations of panhypopituitarism after MI (due to critical stenosis in the left anterior descending artery) complicated by cardiogenic shock in a 65-year-old man. The patient was initially stabilized with conservative management of non-ST-elevated MI and cardiogenic shock, but after initial improvement, he again deteriorated with refractory shock (not adequately responding to vasopressors), seizures, hypoglycemia, hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, and metabolic acidosis.

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Background And Purpose: Very few large scale multicentric stroke clinical trials have been done in India. The Indian Council of Medical Research funded INSTRuCT (Indian Stroke Clinical Trial Network) as a task force project with the objectives to establish a state-of-the-art stroke clinical trial network and to conduct pharmacological and nonpharmacological stroke clinical trials relevant to the nation and globally. The purpose of the article is to enumerate the structure of multicentric stroke network, with emphasis on its scope, challenges and expectations in India.

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There is a paucity of antihypertensive drug adherence studies among stroke patients in West Bengal. With an aim to identify antihypertensive drug adherence and its determinants, this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted for 2 months among a calculated sample of 133 study participants using predesigned and pretested schedule, the metric "Proportion of days covered (PDC)," and the Morisky, Green, and Levine (MGL) Scale. Data were compiled and analyzed using SPSS software (version 20.

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