11-34 % of acute ischemic stroke patients will develop hyponatremia. Hyponatremia in stroke is usually of the hypoosmolar type caused either due to the Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Anti Diuretic Hormone (SIADH) or Cerebral Salt Wasting Syndrome (CSWS). In Ischemic strok...
The neuropsychiatric manifestations of lupus are very heterogeneous and are a source of significant morbidity and mortality. Transverse myelitis is a rare but serious complication of systemic lupus erythematosus, classically described as an acute attack with a poor functional pro...
The flower sea urchin (Toxopneustes pileolus) sting is characterised by severe pain, followed by a brief paralysis of facial muscles that may create confusion with the diagnosis of similar clinical conditions like facial palsy and an episode of myasthenia gravis (MG), at the firs...
Background: Correct identification of the central sulcus and adjacent gyri is essential for localizing tumors and planning effective surgery. With brain lesions central sulcus and surrounding sensory and motor eloquent areas may be obliterated. Central sulcus is the sulcus anteri...
Background: Parkinson's disease is a slowly progressing neurodegenerative disease with accumulation of alpha synuclein and the formation of Levy's intraneuronal bodies. The prevalence of PD ranges from 100 to 200 cases per 100,000 population, however, in reality in Ukraine, many...
Aims: This study assessed histological parameter of the hippocampus using scopolamine-induced cognitive dysfunction rats following the administration of aqueous extract of Telfairia occidentalis seed. Materials and Methods: Thirty Wistar rats weighed between 180-200 g were random...
Anthoula C. Tsolaki, Anastasia Konsta, Georgia N. Porfyri, Olga Sinani, Pantelis Karaberis, Efthimia Samara, Georgia Deretzi & Ioannis Diakogiannis·Asian Journal of Research and Reports in Neurology·2020
Psychotic symptoms are common in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and are associated with poorer quality of life, significant patient morbidity, early mortality, and caregiver burden. We present a case of a 49-year old female patient with late-onset psychosis, which led to the diagnosis...
Landau-Kleffner syndrome or acquired epileptic aphasia is an acquired infantile epileptic syndrome. It was identified by Landau and Kleffner in 1957, where six affected children were listed. It is characterized by an acute loss of speech and language and an overall regression of...
Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome is a rare condition characterized by painful ophthalmoparesis and idiopathic granulomatous inflammation of the cavernous sinus, classically extremely responsive to corticosteroid administration. We present a rare case of a 27-year-old man with Tolosa-Hunt Syn...
Introduction: Febrile convulsion is defined as seizures occurring in children with fever in the absence of any brain pathology. It is usually a frightening experience for the caregivers and parents who in the bid to stop the seizure can apply harmful substances on the child befor...