athetosis/inflammation

Objective: To evaluate the sleep status and the correlation of sleep status with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Methods: A case-control study was carried out, including 568 IBD patients including 188 ucerative colitis (UC) patients and 380 Crohn's disease (CD) patients at 36

BACKGROUND Myelopathy is, frequently, the first manifestation of a multiple sclerosis (MS), being the acute transverse mielitis, partial or incomplete, the habitual clinical syndrome. Other sensitive symptoms with an origin in the spinal cord as 'steroanesthesia', 'pseudo-athetosis' or

We report a 50-year-old man who developed sensory neuropathy of acute onset. It affected position and vibration senses very severely, and superficial sensations mildly. There were athetoid movements of the outstretched left arm when the eyes were closed. The upper limbs were more severely affected

Recent studies have confirmed that gout is an inborn error of metabolism. It has now become evident that the hyperuricemia associated with gout might occur either due to overproduction of uric acid, underexcretion of uric acid or a combination of these processes. Furthermore, patients with excessive

"Acute diffuse lymphocytic meningoencephalitis" is characterized neuropathologically by swelling of the brain and an unproportionally slight degree of inflammatory findings. Although many cases of this encephalitis have been reported in Japan, it was scarcely reported in other countries. The present

Paroxysmal dyskinesias are rare movement disorders. In one fourth of cases, a symptomatic cause can be found, e.g., brain ischemia or inflammatory diseases. We report a unique case of secondary paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD). The 37-year-old patient suffered from a primary CNS lymphoma

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of children with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced meningoencephalitis (ME) in order to establish a possible correlation with

To report the phenomenology of movement disorder (MD) in neurological Wilson disease (NWD), and correlate these with MRI, and biomarkers of oxidative stress, excitotoxicity, and inflammation. Eighty-two patients were included, and their phenomenology of MD was categorized. The severity of dystonia