Biomedical subjects

A Inglezis

Publications and source records attributed to A Inglezis.

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PubMed1993

[Neurological complications in hyperparathyroidism].

The paper describes the clinico-instrumental diagnostic iter in a 57-year-old patient with amyotrophy of the pelvic and pectoral girdles and of the roots of the limbs, with lively and symmetric R.O.T., and without fasciculation, feeling deficit, bulbar involvement and pathological reflexes; EMG was probative for the neurogenic involvement of all four limbs, whereas muscular enzymes were normal. Laboratory controls showed primary hyperparathyroidism caused by a single operated parathyroid adenoma; other test enabled multiple endocrine adenomatosis to be excluded. The paper discusses the involvement of the nervous system during hyperparathyroidism paying special attention to spinal amyotrophy.

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PubMed1991

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome: clinical and instrumental contribution.

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome is a rare disease, which probably has a cell-mediated autoimmune pathogenesis, marked by ocular (anterior and/or posterior uveitis), dermatological (poliosis, canities, vitiligo) and neurological (meningo-encephalitis) disorders of variable severity in variable combinations. The clinical pattern in the case reported here showed severe neurological involvement (headache, ataxia and confusional state) followed by anteroposterior uveitis. Instrumental investigations (cerebrospinal fluid, VEPs, BAEPs, EEG, CT and MRI brainscans) confirmed the diagnosis. The response to cortisone therapy was excellent. We emphasize the importance of the neuroradiological investigations, because of their peculiarities, and review the reports of cases with marked meningo-encephalitic impairment, given the dearth of reports in the neurological journals.

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[A personal case report of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in an adult].

The paper describes the case of a 37-year woman, with no past history of measles infection, who initially showed behavioral disorders, interpretative and reference deliria with a persecutory content. Extrapyramidal rigidity, bradykinesia, myoclonia, dementia, hyperpyrexia and coma with decerebrate rigidity subsequently appeared. Instrumental tests showed a spinal fluid status with intrathecal IgG synthesis and oligoclonal pattern, aspecific signs of widespread electric anomalies in the EEG. Encephalic CT and NRM were altered showing multifocal damage to the white substance. Anti-measles antibody titres were high in both spinal fluid and serum. Post-mortem histological tests confirmed the clinical hypothesis of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. The paper reviews existing reports and pays special attention to cases of SSPE in adults and those cases with a psychiatric outcome. Lastly, the role of neuroradiological methods in the diagnostic iter is assessed.

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