(1) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(2) Thus, during treatment with ethambutol visually (pattern) evoked potentials may reveal a surprisingly high percentage of subclinical optic neuritis.
(3) Complications were minimal and included six wound infections, six episodes of thrombophlebitis and one case of saphenous neuritis; 35 patients had minor residual varices at 6 weeks of which 29 required injection sclerotherapy.
(4) The earliest reports were of peripheral neuritis, but later it was evident that an upper motor neuron syndrome had supervened.
(5) A study of colour vision (CV) in 65 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), (30 patients had had previous optic neuritis) and 51 controls was carried out with Ishihara's pseudoisochromatic plates (I-test), Farnsworth's panel D-15 test (F-test), and Lanthony's desaturated 15-hue test (L-test).
(6) In contrast, eyes with macular holes had a greater reduction in the steady-state VEP amplitude than eyes with optic neuritis.
(7) Cases of chorioretinitis and optic neuritis could be confidently diagnosed only by this technique.
(8) Nerve growth factor (NGF) treatment of PC12 cells induced a 2.8-fold increase in protein kinase C activity concomitant with differentiation and acquisition of neuritis.
(9) We studied 20 patients with acute optic neuritis prospectively for 12 months.
(10) The changes of T cell subsets and Ia-positive cells in the sciatic nerve during the course of experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) in Lewis rats were studied using immunohistochemical techniques.
(11) Pattern-reversal VERs were studied during the visual impairment provoked by exercise in 2 patients with demyelinating optic neuritis.
(12) Four cases of neuritis of the cauda equina (NCE) were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(13) The colour vision deficits were not restricted to patients with optic neuritis or with visual evoked potential (VEP) abnormalities and there was no significant correlation between an abnormal VEP latency and a colour vision deficit.
(14) Only one of the patients with optic neuritis and 3 of the chronic not diagnosed group had EPs demonstrating clinically silent lesions.
(15) The most frequent diagnoses were retrobulbar neuritis (34; 28.5%), sixth cranial nerve palsy (22; 18.5%), third cranial nerve palsy (15; 12.6%) and Adie's tonic pupil (11; 9%).
(16) Fourteen patients with symptoms of acute unilateral optic neuritis were examined with the Pulfrich test and the Aulhorn flicker test.
(17) However, when the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve is affected, the ocular disease (ophthalmic zoster), although also usually mild and self-limited, may have severe complications (corneal scarring, glaucoma, iris atrophy, posterior synechiae, scleritis, motor disturbances, optic neuritis, retinitis, anterior segment necrosis, and phthisis bulbi and servere postherpetic neuralgia).
(18) This method was used on 25 healthy controls and 25 subjects having a definite clinical or laboratory-supported diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, with or without a previous history of optic neuritis.
(19) Being more vulnerable to injury than normally-positioned nerves, however, complicating neuritis can does occur.
(20) Optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) was studied in ten patients with vestibular neuritis, and in seventeen patients with unilateral and thirteen patients with bilateral infratentorial lesions and compared with OKN in fifty healthy subjects.
Neurology
Definition:
(n.) The branch of science which treats of the nervous system.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) The neurologic or digestive signs were present in 12% of the children.
(3) We measured soluble CD8 (sCD8) levels in the CSF of patients with MS, other inflammatory neurologic diseases (INDs), and noninflammatory neurologic diseases (NINDs).
(4) This investigation is thus indicated in patients with neurological symptoms.
(5) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(6) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(7) Definitive neurological deficits occurred in 0.09%, transient deficits were observed in 0.45%.
(8) In spite of antimalaria treatment, with cortisone and then with immuno-depressants, the outcome was fatal with a picture of acute reticulosis and neurological disorders.
(9) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
(10) The calcium entry blocker nimodipine was administered to cats following resuscitation from 18 min of cardiac arrest to evaluate its effect on neurologic and neuropathologic outcome in a clinically relevant model of complete cerebral ischemia.
(11) When compared with a matched group of historical control subjects treated with RT alone, chemotherapy induced a higher rate of neurologic response and led to a longer survival time.
(12) Unrecognized flexion injuries of the cervical spine may lead to late instability and neurologic damage.
(13) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
(14) A multicenter trial was conducted at 9 Neurology Departments to evaluate the action of L-Deprenyl, a specific monoamine oxidase-B inhibitor, combined with L-Dopa in the treatment of Parkinson disease.
(15) One subject had developed renal failure, while the other two continued to function at a high level with no evidence of cognitive decline or psychiatric or neurologic impairment.
(16) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(17) The major toxicity was neurologic, with 12 patients (41%) reporting at least one episode; four of which were graded as severe and two as fatal.
(18) Subjects with past history of chronic substance abuse, neurologic disease, or focal findings on MRI or CT were excluded.
(19) Recent rapid developments in molecular biology have started to clarify the underlying pathophysiology of various neurological diseases.
(20) Neurological deficits are rare early in this disease.