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F Traverso

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PubMed1998

[Targets and prevention of complications in nursing of subarachnoid hemorrhage].

A qualified nursing care is mandatory in patients after SAH. Clinical and instrumental monitoring are basilar to assure the rapid control of dangerous ICP or CPP changes and of epileptic crisis. Prophylaxis of infections is greatly minimized when coherent treatments are applied to any invasive devices, patient body, patient bed and UTI area. Many drugs can be useful to avoid ICP increases by tracheal suctioning and other sensorial stimulations. Having a trained staff, patient outcome can be improved.

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PubMed1997

Vasculitic neuropathy associated with beta-haemolytic streptococcal infection: a case report.

Vasculitic neuropathy is rarely associated with a definable collagen vascular disease. Peripheral neuropathy may be the sole manifestation of vasculitis, and the aetiology is frequently unknown. We here report the case of a woman presenting mononeuritis multiplex, whose sural nerve biopsy was diagnostic of necrotizing vasculitis. There was serological evidence of preceding beta-haemolytic streptococcal infection. We assume that vasculitic neuropathy can be included among the possible sequelae of streptococcal infections.

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PubMed1993

Benign intracranial hypertension associated with HIV infection.

We report the case of a 24-year-old woman with HIV-seropositivity, who developed a clinical picture of pseudotumor cerebri, an association not previously described. The patient improved with the use of acetazolamide. We suggest the possible existence of this disorder in HIV-infected patients with persistent headaches, visual deficits and/or extraocular muscle palsies.

AIDS Dementia Complex↗
PubMed1990

Triphasic waves in Alzheimer's disease.

Clinical records and EEGs of 114 consecutive patients with clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease have been reviewed. The EEGs of 15 patients (13%) contained triphasic waves. Triphasic waves were always atypical as they occurred singularly or in short bursts, and/or they had occipital predominance, and/or they were bilateral but asymmetrical. Triphasic waves, in all but one patient were recorded in a state of complete alertness. No statistically significant differences were found between the triphasic waves group and the other one, with respect to age, age at onset, illness duration, presence of seizures. Myoclonus was more frequent in patients with triphasic waves (p less than 0.01). Triphasic waves patients had a higher degree of dementia (p less than 0.01), both in cases with rapidly evolving disease and in subjects with relatively slow clinical course.

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PubMed1987

Zoster sine herpete causing encephalomyelitis.

The case of a patient with encephalomyelitis and laboratory signs of a central nervous system herpes zoster infection without cutaneous lesions is reported. The diagnosis was supported by the serological evidence of intrathecal synthesis of specific antibodies against Varicella-zoster virus (VZV).

Acyclovir↗
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A family with hereditary intracerebral cavernous angiomas.

There are a very few reports in literature of inherited intracerebral cavernous angiomas. The majority of them are Mexican-American families. In some of the reported families autosomal dominant transmission is suggested. We report a family in which three members of three consecutive generations were proven to have multiple intracerebral cavernous malformations, without involvement of skin, eyes, or other viscera. An autosomal dominant mode of inheritance is clearly suggested.

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[Triphasic waves in dementia syndromes].

Seventy-one EEGs (0.49%) of 53 patients, out of 14,458 recordings, contained triphasic waves: twenty-nine were patients with metabolic encephalopathies and 24 were demented patients (16 of these had a presumptive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and the other eight of mult-infarct dementia). Demented subjects with metabolic disorders are included in the metabolic encephalopathies group. In all of the cases of Alzheimer's disease, triphasic waves were atypical: in 14 they occurred singly or in short bursts, in 10 they had occipital predominance and in 2 they were bilateral but asymmetrical. In 5 cases, triphasic waves were associated with myoclonus and in 2 of them they occurred in long runs with a pseudo-periodic pattern. In these cases the distinction from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was based on neuropathologic findings.

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