The Fate of Hypertensive Patients with Clinically Proven Spontaneous Intracerebral Hematomas Treated Without Intracranial Surgery • Twenty-five hypertensive patients who had clinically proven intracerebral hematomas, mainly in the internal capsule, were not treated surgically because of stabilization or improvement of their condition or because of extreme brain damage. All of these patients wer...

UNLABELLED Theme: Transition of care. INTRODUCTION Oral feeding is one of the hardest steps for premature infants after respiratory independence and is a challenge for nurses in neonatology. OBJECTIVES To know the characteristics of preterm infants, essential for oral feeding; to know the nurses' opinion on nursing interventions, that promote the transition of gavage feeding for oral feedin...

The neurological findings of 100 patients of adult cerebral malaria were studied. The commonest neurological feature was symmetrical upper motor neuron lesion as evidenced by exaggerated tendon reflexes and bilateral planter extensor (61%). Twenty two percent had features of meningeal irritation and/or meningism. Abnormal posturing occurred decerebrate rigidity (6%) and decorticate rigidity (4%...

Testicular sensation was examined in 32 male diabetics with symptoms suggestive of autonomic neuropathy to evaluate its usefulness as a clinical sign in this condition. Vascular reflex responses to the Valsalva manoeuvre and sustained handgrip and blood pressure fall on standing were measured as objective tests of autonomic involvement. Absent or diminished testicular sensation correlated well ...

Damage of the central nervous system often produces an upper motoneuron (UMN) syndrome. Characteristics of the UMS include the presence of positive and negative signs. Positive signs are increased phasic and tonic stretch reflexes, clonus, co-contraction, released flexor reflexes, spastic dystonia, and associated reactions, whereas negative signs signify the loss or impairment of voluntary move...

Assessed 48 infants of HIV-positive and HIV-negative mothers on the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale. Infants exposed to HIV-positive mothers were disadvantaged from birth due to their mothers having obstetric complications and to the infants having orienting problems and abnormal reflexes on the Brazelton Newborn Scale. These problems may be early precursors of the later visual-s...

A family with recessively inherited ataxia and dystonic episodes that responded to antiepileptic medication is described. The onset was in the first decade. Clinically the patients have gait and limb ataxia, nystagmus and brisk reflexes, with abnormal visual, auditory and somatosensory evoked responses, but normal nerve conduction velocities and electromyography. Their intelligence is borderlin...

How does temporal selection work, and along what dimensions does it vary from one instance to the next? We explored these questions using a phenomenon in which temporal selection goes awry. In the attentional blink, subjects fail to report the second of a pair of targets (T1 and T2) when they are presented at stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) of roughly 200 to 500 ms. We directly tested the pr...

Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke (MELAS) syndrome is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in the genes in the mitochondrial DNA. In most cases, the signs and symptoms of this disorder appear in childhood following a period of normal development. A 2 year old female child with global developmental delay presented with trauma to the paedi...