Micturitional Disturbance.

Micturitional disturbance in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome.

OBJECTIVES To examine the frequency and pathophysiology of micturitional disturbance in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome. METHODS Micturitional symptoms were noted and neurological examinations made repeatedly during admission to hospital of patients with clinical and neurophysiologically definite Guillain-Barré syndrome. Urodynamic studies consisted of uroflowmetry, measurement of resid...

Micturitional disturbance in herpetic brainstem encephalitis; contribution of the pontine micturition centre.

Micturitional disturbance is rarely mentioned in human herpetic brainstem encephalitis although the pontine tegmentum, called the pontine micturition centre, seems to regulate the lower urinary tract in experimental animals. The case of a 45 year old man, who developed subacute coma and hiccup-like dysrhythmic breathing, and needed assisted ventilation is reported. Examination of CSF showed mon...

Sleep Disturbance in Travelers

Micturitional disturbances are associated with impaired breathing control in multiple sclerosis.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate whether the localization of multiple sclerosis (MS), the duration of the disease, and the level of neurologic functioning in patients with MS predispose them to disturbed breathing control. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Outpatient pneumology department of a university hospital. PATIENTS Twenty-three MS patients and 51 healthy control subjects. MEASUR...

Sleep Disturbance

disturbances in fibromyalgia syndrome: relationship to pain and depression. Sleep disturbance is a widely reported and debilitating concomitant of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and plays a pivotal role in exacerbating patients reporting of symptoms. Bigatti and colleagues report a longitudinal study that examined self-reported sleep, pain, depression and physical functioning at baseline in FMS pa...