hyperphagia/fever

Idiopathic hypothalamic dysfunction is a rare disorder presenting at age 3-7 years. Severe hypothalamic and brainstem dysfunction leads to death in 25% of patients. The disease is presumed to be autoimmune, or in some cases paraneoplastic. No successful treatment has been reported. Patient V.

A 36-year-old man with prolonged confusion developed after psychomotor status was reported. He had no past history of epileptic seizures or psychotic disorders. The status continued for 20 hours, and twilight state and a slight fever lasted for about 10 days. Thereafter gross impairment of memory

Kleine-Levin Syndrome is characterized by hypersomnolence, hyperphagia and sexual disinhibition. The article reported a case of 10-year-old boy with a two-week history of altered sensorium, irrelevant talks, markedly increasing appetite and tendency to sleep most of the times. Immediately preceding

A 9-year-old boy with a past medical history of asthma was admitted from the emergency department (ED) for evaluation of a rash, polyarthralgia, and hyperglycemia noted at the referring hospital. The rash was reported as purpuric "bumps," which started 3 days prior to presentation. The rash had

Acute release of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) during repeated restraint (3-h restraint on each of 3 days) causes temporary hypophagia but chronic suppression of body weight in rats. Here we demonstrated that a second bout of repeated restraint caused additional weight loss, but continuing

BACKGROUND Temperament refers to four different humors differentiating in individuals and, as a result, proposes specific therapy for diseases as well as special types of management (avoidance). OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to overview the relationship between dystemprament and treatment and

The first surviving Polish publications on epilepsy were written in the 16th and 17th centuries. Many causes of epileptic seizures are quoted and they are divided into two categories: internal and external. Internal causes (causa interna) include imbalance in the basic bodily humors, that is, yellow

Intracerebroventricular injections of 10-20-microg orexin-A induce food intake in rats for about 30 min, or enhance fasting-induced hyperphagia. In thermoregulatory studies, an amount of 2 microg of the peptide causes hypometabolism and hypothermia in the same period. The thermoregulatory reaction

Discrete, bilateral, radiofrequency destruction of the ventral noradrenergic bundle (VB) resulted in a pronounced fall in levels of noradrenaline in the hypothalamus but not in the cortex. On days 4 and 12, but not 28, post-surgery, VB-lesioned rats were hyperactive (rearing and ambulation) upon

Since 1983 we have been involved in the diagnostic work-up and emergency treatment of a female patient now 48 years old who has a mitochondrial myopathy resembling Luft's disease. The syndrome was first described in 1959, and in more detail in 1962, by Luft and et al., who reported a picture of

BACKGROUND Pituicytoma is a rare tumor arising from the neurohypophysis or pars intermedia of the adenohypophysis. METHODS A 36 year old male came to our observation presenting polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia, decreased libido and altered sleep-wake rhythm. The biochemical tests showed hypotonic