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Intranasal butorphanol is an opioid agonist-antagonist that is effective for the treatment of acute pain. Common adverse effects associated with the agent are somnolence, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting; they are readily reversed with naloxone. A patient developed signs and symptoms consistent with
Neurocysticercosis is common in Asia, Africa and South America including Mexico. A diagnosis of neurocysticercosis was made neuroradiologically in an 8-year-old Mexican girl, who had suffered from learning difficulties for a year, and subsequently developed headache, vomiting, gait disturbance,
OBJECTIVE
Currently, headache, nausea/vomiting, visual changes, and altered mental status are accepted as indications for the evaluation of hydrocephalus in children; while dementia, gait apraxia, and urinary incontinence remain indications in the elderly. The clinical presentation of hydrocephalus
A 12-year-old boy with corticosteroid-responsive mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is described. His mother proved to have an asymptomatic mitochondrial myopathy on examination of a muscle biopsy specimen. Three weeks after the onset of vomiting,
BACKGROUND
This case report describes the dental management of a 30-year-old male with cerebral palsy and dyspraxia. Recall examination identified multiple erosive carious lesions despite previous oral hygiene and dietary related instruction. A comprehensive approach to patient management was
A case of multiple cerebral hemorrhage in the bilateral parietal lobes related to cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is reported. A 66-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of headache and vomiting on Feb. 21, 1983. He had no history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, recent head injury,
Pyridoxine-dependent seizure is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that usually presents with neonatal intractable seizures. This syndrome results from an inborn abnormality of the enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase, which results in reduced pyridazine-dependent synthesis of the inhibitory
Three patients with large or huge meningiomas of the pineal region presented with headache, vomiting, gait and visual disturbance, apraxia, agnosia, and transient amnestic aphasia. Computed tomographic scans revealed round, high-density areas of 8 x 7 x 7 cm, 5 x 5 x 4 cm, and 3 x 3 x 3 cm in the
A regional population-based survey identified six patients with pyridoxine dependency. Four presented on the first day of life and the other two at 1 and 8 months of age. Apart from multiple seizure types, other presenting features included jitteriness; encephalopathy, at first thought to be
Belinostat is a pan-histone deacetylase inhibitor with antitumour and anti-angiogenic properties. An open label, multicentre study was conducted in patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) or cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) who failed ≥1 prior systemic therapy and were treated with