(1) Two male English Setters were noticed to be breathing rapidly, hyperexcitable, and atactic after roaming a rural area for 2 hours.
(2) Atactic and athetoid movements, optic atrophy, oculomotor abnormalities are observed in most cases.
(3) In contrast to published cases with neurological manifestations of infection with M. pneumoniae, the patient was disabled by persistent cerebellar symptoms with generalized ataxia and atactic dysarthria.
(4) Only little progress was achieved in atactic and athetoid patients.
(5) Four of 9 bST-treated cows and none of 8 control cows became atactic on the 1st d of heat stress.
(6) The neurological disturbances, characterized by hyper- and dysmetric movements and bilateral intention tremor with choreatic, atactic and even ballistic motor storms, appeared at 12 years of age.
(7) The differential diagnosis of atactic gait is discussed.
(8) Signs of neurotoxicity were remarkably similar in DXR or MXN treatment animals and included: head tremor, atactic-dystonic posture and circling behavior.
(9) Atactic gait was not observed, though vestibular response was abolished in three patients with Usher syndrome type I.
(10) Poly(2-vinylpyridine 1-oxide) inhibits the cytotoxic effects of quartz in cell cultures but the syndiotactic polymer behaves differently from the isotactic and atactic polymers.
(11) A 53-year-old female had developed slowly progressive dementia and atactic gait since the age of 45.
(12) Own observation: a 68-year-old man with a long history of cervicalgia, subsequently paraesthesias of the upper extremities, without a spastic atactic symptomatology of the lower extremities.
(13) For both stages examined there was a significant increase in the amount of 3H-concanavalin A bound by presumptive fusion areas in posterior regions of the nasal folds as compared with anterior regions; i.e., the atact between the nasal folds.
(14) Objective examination showed: slight hemiparesis in 37.5%, spastic-atactic gait disturbances in 31.5%, isolated damage to the corticospinal tracts with signs limited to one side of the body was more frequent in cortical atrophy, and these signs associated with ataxia were more frequent in subcortional atrophy.
(15) A 62-year-old woman with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) (RAI stage IV) with multiple organ involvement and diabetes mellitus, three months prior to death presented with a symmetrical sensory neuropathy of the upper extremities with little motor impairment and, two months later, sensory atactic neuropathy of the lower limbs.
(16) It is therefore concluded, that this--highly accepted--training may be a valuable tool in neurological rehabilitation of atactic patients.
(17) Electroneuromyographical studies were performed in 39 patients with atactic-spastic and mixed forms of disseminated sclerosis.
(18) The data obtained were compared with electroneuromyographical studies in atactic and spastic syndromes of different origin.
(19) One patient had atactic diplegia, and one was athetotic.
(20) The Unterberger test, recorded by craniocorpography, demonstrates an increase of atactic patterns with increasing age.
Ataxic
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements.
Example Sentences:
(1) Assessment of nutritional status of vitamin B components by plasma or blood levels indicated riboflavin deficiency and possibly thiamine deficiency in Nigerian patients who suffered from tropical ataxic neuropathy and neurologically normal Nigerians who subsisted on predominant cassava diet.
(2) Ninety-five patients (88.8%) had the amblyopia syndrome mainly; twelve patients (11.2%) had amblyopia and other manifestations of the tropical ataxic neuropathy.
(3) In the latter tumors, a peculiar ataxic hemiparesis syndrome is produced by midbrain compression.
(4) The metabolism of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in the CNS was investigated in four kinds of morphologically different ataxic mice; reeler, staggerer, weaver and Purkinje cell degeneration mutants, and in hypocerebellar mice experimentally produced by injection of cytosine arabinoside.
(5) Clinical syndromes, caused by lacunar lesions located either in the supratentorial or in the infratentorial structures, such as pure motor hemiparesis and ataxic hemiparesis were also discussed.
(6) Reported percentages of hypothyroid patients found to have neurologic manifestations of cerebellar dysfunction are extremely diverse: ataxic gait was reported in 5 to 32% (6,7,12,27) of patients and dysdiadochokinesia in 6 to 52% (7,12,27).
(7) Unlike pure motor hemiparesis, ataxic hemiparesis appears to be associated with abnormal somatosensory evoked potentials.
(8) The uptake of 14C-taurine was studied in the platelets of 20 ataxic patients and 20 age-matched normal control subjects.
(9) In the female index patient this was associated with epilepsy and a progressive spastic ataxic gait, while the 2 other siblings had no appreciable clinical nervous system involvement.
(10) The failure of bulbar rhythmogenic mechanisms to maintain an orderly and synchronous recruitment of respiratory drive, which led to untimely and chaotic activations of respiratory muscles, was apparently the underlying cause of various ataxic breathing patterns and a reduced ventilatory efficiency.
(11) One and a half years later, the patient shows decorticated posture with ataxic respiration and negative light reflexes.
(12) Male bison were more ataxic, often observed in sternal or lateral recumbency, less conscious, and were slower to respond than females or controls.
(13) He also had horizontal-clockwise rotatory nystagmus in primary gaze and ataxic gait.
(14) The dog was not ataxic, but had generalized muscular atrophy, decreased patellar reflexes, and slow proprioception.
(15) One morning two were found recumbent, five were ataxic and one had fallen into a river and drowned.
(16) We report 3 cases of AH caused by a lesion in the contralateral cerebral cortex: 2 were cases of postictal seizure while the third patient had left ataxic hemiparesis, left focal motor seizures and cortical memory loss.
(17) Subnormal serum vitamin E values have been found confirming a possible involvement of this vitamin in the pathogenesis of the ataxic syndromes.
(18) Leukocyte glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) activity was measured in 39 normal subjects, 32 neurological controls, 66 patients with progressive ataxic disorders, 32 with multiple system atrophy, 40 with Parkinson's disease, eight with Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, eight with juvenile Parkinsonism and four with the dystonia-Parkinsonism syndrome.
(19) Clinical syndromes were classified according to Fisher's criteria into pure motor hemiparesis (PM), sensorimotor stroke (SM) and ataxic hemiparesis (AH) including dysarthria clumsy hand syndrome.
(20) In general, our physiological and acoustic observations of ataxic dysarthria were compatible with existing perceptual descriptions of this condition.