Infantile hemiplegia refers to brain injuries that occur before or at birth and lead to hemiplegia/ total paralysis of one side of the body, including the face, arm and leg. The main purpose of this article is to provide valuable information to pediatric dentists about the review and treatment alternatives for patients with infantile hemiplegia. This article reports the case of a 12-year-old gi...

This study examined the ability of children with hemiplegia to perform motor imagery of their unaffected hand. Children (8-12 years) formed three groups--R-HEMI: right-sided hemiplegia, n = 21; L-HEMI: left-sided hemiplegia, n = 19; and Comparisons, n = 21. We expected no group differences on a simple imagined grasping task, but the hemiplegia groups to perform atypically on an imagined pointin...

We describe a patient with hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy syndrome. The pathophysiology of hemiconvulsion-hemiplegiaepilepsy syndrome remains uncertain and there are probably multiple potential contributing factors. Our patient had a chromosomal 16p13.11 microdeletion that confers susceptibility to various types of epilepsy. This is the first report detailing an association of hemiconvulsio...

abiotrophia defectiva was previously known as a member of the nutritionally variant streptococcus (nvs). this microorganism is a member of the normal flora of mouth, urogenital and intestinal tracts. it causes various infections such as bacteriemia, brain abscess, septic arthritis and rarely infective endocarditis. only < 1% of all cases of endocarditis are caused by a. defectiva. a 23 year old...