Temporary and highly variable recovery of neuromuscular dysfunction by electrical stimulation in the follow-up of acute critical illness neuromyopathy: a pilot study.

Background: In sepsis-associated critical illness neuromyopathy (CIPNM) serial electrical stimulation of motor nerves induces a short-lived temporary recovery of compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) termed facilitation phenomenon (FP). This technique is different from other stimulation techniques published. The identification of FP suggests a major functional component in acute CIPNM.

Temporary reversal of nerve and muscle dysfunction by serial electrical stimulation in critical illness neuromyopathy.

Objective: Critical Illness Neuromyopathy (CIPNM) is a complication in sepsis patients with still enigmatic disease mechanisms. We investigated a novel electrical stimulation method to better define neuromuscular dysfunction in patients with CIPNM.

Methods: We studied 18 sepsis CIPNM patients on intensive care units, 13 at an early and 5 at a later disease stage, 7 sepsis control, and 8 neuropathy control patients.

Long-term efficacy and safety of CT-P6 versus trastuzumab in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer: final results from a randomized phase III trial.

Purpose: Equivalent efficacy was demonstrated for the biosimilar CT-P6 and trastuzumab following neoadjuvant therapy for patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2)-positive early breast cancer. Following adjuvant treatment, efficacy and safety were comparable between treatments. We report updated safety and efficacy data after up to 3 years' follow-up.

Efficacy and safety of CT-P6 versus reference trastuzumab in HER2-positive early breast cancer: updated results of a randomised phase 3 trial.

Purpose: Neoadjuvant CT-P6, a trastuzumab biosimilar, demonstrated equivalent efficacy to reference trastuzumab in a phase 3 trial of HER2-positive early-stage breast cancer (EBC) (NCT02162667). We report post hoc analyses evaluating pathological complete response (pCR) and breast pCR alongside additional efficacy and safety measures.

Methods: Following neoadjuvant treatment and surgery, patients received adjuvant CT-P6 or trastuzumab (6 mg/kg) every 3 weeks for ≤ 1 year.

HEPATIC ARTERIAL ANATOMY VARIATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA EVALUATED BY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver malignancy and one of the major reasons for performing percutaneous endovascular procedures or liver surgery. Hepatic arterial anatomy is of major importance in performing these procedures on the liver. The aim of our study was to estimate the prevalence of various hepatic arterial variants in HCC patients.

Eye movements in ephedrone-induced parkinsonism.

Patients with ephedrone parkinsonism (EP) show a complex, rapidly progressive, irreversible, and levodopa non-responsive parkinsonian and dystonic syndrome due to manganese intoxication. Eye movements may help to differentiate parkinsonian syndromes providing insights into which brain networks are affected in the underlying disease, but they have never been systematically studied in EP. Horizontal and vertical eye movements were recorded in 28 EP and compared to 21 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, and 27 age- and gender-matched healthy subjects using standardized oculomotor tasks with infrared videooculography.

Application of sonography for evaluation of posterior circulation disorders.

Posterior circulation disorders (PCD) include a) vertebrobasilar insufficiency (VBI), which has a wide clinical manifestation such as vestibulocerebellar syndrome, cephalalgia, cochlear syndrome, vegetovascular dystonia, visual disturbances, "syndrome of vertebral artery compression" etc, b) vertebrobasilar TIA and c) stroke. All of them are caused by blood flow disturbances in vertebral (VA), basilar (BAS) and posterior cerebral arteries (PCA). Aim - evaluation of role of extracranial duplex-sonography (EDS), transcranial color-coded duplex-sonography (TCCD) and rotational functional tests (RFT) in PCD.

Quantitative electroencephalography coherence and dipole source index during various cognitive tasks in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most important disorder of childhood and adolescence. Debates about diagnostic approaches requiring for the precise assessment of ADHD remains actual till nowadays. The role of neurophysiological methods for this purpose is controversial.

Quantative EEG during baseline and various cognitive tasks in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

It is known that attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a widely spread condition in school aged childhood population. Making of precise diagnosis is a serious problem of modern pediatric neurology. In spite of large amount of guidelines and questionnaires the unified consensus of diagnosis is still absent.

Headaches and cerebral blood flow disturbances in patients with chronic nasal pathology.

Study aimed at research of cerebral blood flow and blood NO contents in patients with chronic non-surgical nasal pathology with accompanying headaches. Eighty five patients with non-surgical chronic nasal pathology with accompanying headaches were investigated. Patients were divided in two age categories: 1st group of 58 patients (18 to 55 years), and 2nd group of 27 patients (>55 years).

[Benign schwannomas of the nasal cavity: report of one case].

The authors report one rare case of enormous benign nasal schwannoma. One side nasal obstruction and whitish aspect of tumor at the end nasal exam are the most common signs seen in all patients. This type of tumor is very rare pathology in the surgeons practice.