Neurosarcoidosis: Definition and Consensus Diagnostic Criteria

The minimally conscious state: definition and diagnostic criteria.

OBJECTIVE To establish consensus recommendations among health care specialties for defining and establishing diagnostic criteria for the minimally conscious state (MCS). BACKGROUND There is a subgroup of patients with severe alteration in consciousness who do not meet diagnostic criteria for coma or the vegetative state (VS). These patients demonstrate inconsistent but discernible evidence of...

Definition and diagnostic criteria of sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy

The syndrome known as nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy is recognized worldwide and has been studied in a wide range of clinical and scientific settings (epilepsy, sleep medicine, neurosurgery, pediatric neurology, epidemiology, genetics). Though uncommon, it is of considerable interest to practicing neurologists because of complexity in differential diagnosis from more common, benign sleep disor...

Metabolic syndrome--definition and diagnostic criteria in Japan.

There is an increasing interest in multiple-risk-factor clustering syndrome as a highly atherogenic state independent of hypercholesterolemia. A variety of common disorders, such as hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and hypertension, are seen in individuals with this syndrome, and cardiovascular disease is very prevalent. In the recent 5 years, multiple-risk-factor syndrome has been called “metabol...

Vulvovaginal candidiasis as a chronic disease: diagnostic criteria and definition.

OBJECTIVE Although recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis is defined as 4 or more discrete attacks of vulvovaginal candidiasis per year, there is no diagnostic nomenclature or definition for the many women who are chronically symptomatic. This study aims to establish and propose a definition and a set of diagnostic criteria, which would enable clinicians to promptly identify and treat women with ch...

Nosocomial Infections: The Definition Criteria