重度子痫前期、子痫并发可复性后部脑病综合征临床分析

目的探讨重度子痫前期、子痫并发可复性后部脑病综合征的临床特点。方法对8例重度子痫前期、子痫并发可复性后部脑病综合征的临床资料进行回顾性分析。结果经积极治疗患者预后良好,8例患者均未遗留神经系统后遗症。结论血压骤然升高和内皮细胞损伤可能是子痫前期、子痫发生PRES的主要原因,重度子痫前期、子痫并发可复性后部脑病综合征在早期诊断、早期治疗后预后良好。     

重度子癎前期发生可逆性后部白质脑病综合征3例（附文献复习）

目的：探讨重度子癎前期发生可逆性后部白质脑病综合征（RPLS）的临床表现及治疗原则。方法：对3例重度子癎前期发生RPLS患者的临床症状、体征、实验室和影像学检查、治疗和预后资料结合6例文献报道进行分析。结果：患者均急性发病,常表现为头痛、视朦和皮质盲。平均动脉压急性升高至130mmHg（1mmHg=0.133kPa）左右时发生RPLS,病灶以枕、顶叶为主。9例患者中4例并发HELLP综合征。经积极治疗,患者症状、体征迅速改善,预后良好。结论：①颅内高压和皮质盲是重度子癎前期发生RPLS时的主要临床表现;②重度子癎前期患者脑血管自动调节机制的上限血压下移,血管内皮功能受损明显;③及时终止妊娠和积极降压、脱水是治疗成功的关键。     

子癎前期、子癎患者并发可逆性后部白质脑病综合征的MRI表现及临床分析

目的探讨子癎前期、子癎并发可逆性后部白质脑病综合征(RPLS)的MRI表现及临床特点。方法回顾性分析17例子癎前期、子癎并发RPLS患者的临床资料。结果 17例RPLS均有高血压、头痛,14例恶心、呕吐;13例视力障碍;16例子癎发作;MRI检查大脑后部为主的白质水肿,特别是枕叶,T2WI、FLAIR呈高信号,DWI呈等信号或稍低信号,ADC图呈高信号。结论子癎前期、子癎易并发可逆性后部白质脑病综合征,视力障碍是RPLS的特征表现,MRI检查可明确诊断RPLS。     

38例可逆性后部白质脑病综合征的临床影像学特征及病因学分析

目的探讨可逆性后部白质脑病综合征(RPLS)的临床影像学特点以及病因学。方法回顾性分析2009年至2014年间在中南大学湘雅医院神经内科就诊的38例病人临床资料、影像学资料及治疗过程。结果 38例患者中女性23例,男性15例;高血压病史31例,有子痫或子痫前期病史6例;服用免疫抑制剂5例,肿瘤化疗史3例。30例(78.9%)患者首发表现为头痛头晕,此外血压增高、恶心呕吐、视力下降、痫性发作和意识障碍为主要临床表现。磁共振影像表现为大脑后半部对称性稍长T1、长T2信号,FLAIR序列为高信号,DWI低信号,并可发现皮质受累。结论 RPLS是一类预后良好的脑病综合征,病因复杂,目前主要依靠临床表现以及影像学明确诊断。     

可逆性后部白质脑病综合征临床及影像学特点分析

目的 探讨可逆性后部白质脑病综合征(RPLS)的临床和影像学特点.方法 回顾性分析9例RPLS患者的临床及影像学资料.结果 9例患者临床表现以头痛、意识障碍、癫发作、视觉异常为主;头颅MRI检查有大脑半球后部白质为主的T1WI低信号,T2WI、Fair像呈高信号的病灶,且大多双侧对称.结论 头痛、意识及精神障碍、癫发作、视觉异常、是可逆性后部白质脑病综合征主要临床表现,影像学特征主要为大脑后部对称性、可逆性脑白质损害.     

可逆性后部白质脑病综合征临床影像学特征

目的探讨可逆性后部白质脑病综合征(reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome,RPLS)的临床和影像学特点。方法回顾性分析8例可逆性后部白质脑病综合征患者的发病原因、临床症状、影像学特征、治疗及预后。结果8例患者中,女5例,男3例;发病原因多样,系统性红斑狼疮2例,妊娠子痫2例,高血压病1例,真菌性脑炎1例,多发性骨髓瘤1例,肾移植1例;其中使用免疫抑制剂3例,化疗药物1例,使用抗真菌药物1例。以头痛、癫痫发作、视觉障碍、意识和精神障碍为主要临床症状。多数患者头颅MRI表现为双侧大脑后部白质对称性T1WI呈低或等信号,T2WI和FLAIR像呈高信号;经采取降压、脱水及对症等治疗2~3周后患者神经系统症状消失,MRI复查病灶完全或大部分消失。结论RPLS是以可逆性后部白质损害为主要神经影像学表现的临床综合征,及时、准确的诊断和治疗可使其临床症状和影像学改变完全可逆。     

围产期可逆性后部白质脑病一例

目的探讨围产期可逆性后部白质脑病(RPLS)的病因,临床表现,影像学表现。方法介绍本院收治的1例围产期可逆性后部白质脑病的临床表现,影像学表现及治疗。结果本例临床症状主要表现为头痛、迅速进展的高颅压症状、癫痫发作、视觉障碍和精神异常,影像学表现主要为以额顶叶为主的可逆性损害,给予控制癫痫,调整血压,减轻脑水肿,抗感染等治疗后患者临床症状及影像学表现均恢复。结论围产期RPLS临床表现多种多样,主要表现为头痛、迅速进展的高颅压症状、癫痫发作、视觉障碍和精神异常,影像学表现主要为以额顶叶为主的可逆性损害,需要与静脉窦血栓,中枢神经系统感染等鉴别,治疗效果及预后良好。     

流行性出血热合并可逆性后部白质脑病综合征1例报告

<正>可逆性后部白质脑病综合征(reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome,RPLS)是一组近几年才被临床医生逐渐认识的神经影像学综合征,它以头痛、癫痫发作、视觉障碍、意识改变以及精神行为异常为主要临床表现,神经影像学主要表现为可逆性大脑后部白质损害,随着临床病例的增多以及研究的进展,目前发现本病也可累及脑干、小脑和基底核。本文报道1例流行性出血热并发RPLS,并根据临床     

可逆性后部白质脑病综合征

可逆性后部白质脑病综合征(RPLS)是一组由多种原因引起的以神经系统异常为主要表现的综合征,临床表现以迅速进展的颅高压症状、癫发作、视觉障碍、意识障碍、精神异常为特征,神经影像学上显示以双侧大脑后部白质为主的水肿区,经及时有效治疗后临床表现和神经影像学改变可以完全恢复,一般不遗留有神经系统后遗症。核磁共振新技术的发展,突出显示了血管源性水肿的特点,有助于RPLS的正确诊断。     

迟发性产后子痫/子痫前期合并可逆性后部白质脑病综合征2例

围产期病人神经系统并发症少见,但孕产妇死亡率增高.有多种可能:子痫,脑卒中,脑静脉窦血栓形成,脑血管炎等[1].近年来,可逆性后部白质脑病综合征(reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome,RPLS)逐渐被人们所认识,我们报道2例迟发性产后子痫/子痫前期合并RPLg的患者.     

Diagnostic Difficulties and Treatment Implications

Summary: Differentiation between types of epileptic seizures has been aided in recent years by the introduction of intensive neurodiagnostic techniques and the development of increasingly detailed classification systems. Paradoxically, these developments have not simplified the task of matching the appropriate antiepileptic drug to a particular seizure type. It is reasonable to assume that anticonvulsant drugs will have different effects on different types of seizures, but faulty, circular reasoning can enter the picture if one also assumes that responses of seizures to different drugs signify different seizure types. There are several examples of differential diagnoses that can fall prey to this problem, including the diagnosis between partial seizures with secondary generalization and generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and the diagnosis between complex partial seizures and absence seizures with automatisms, among others. Considerations of etiology in future classification systems can further complicate the problem: should one then choose an anticonvulsant drug on the basis of individual seizure type or on the basis of the type of epilepsy? Ramifications of this issue extend even to the drug approval process. Official sanction is not given for use of a drug for a seizure type not included in the original efficacy studies, even if later scientific evidence shows that seizure type to be related to a type that is included. New trials must be undertaken. These problems arise from how we choose to classify seizures.     

Cognitive Dysfunction Associated with Antiepileptic Drug Therapy

Summary: Epilepsy is frequently associated with cognitive dysfunction. However, the reasons for this correlation are unclear. Possible influential factors include patient age; duration, frequency, etiology, and type of seizures; hereditary factors; psychosocial issues; and antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy. Whereas many of these factors are beyond the physician's control, AED therapy is one element that can be addressed in treatment decisions by recognizing the potential cognitive effects of particular AEDs. For example, phenobarbital impairs memory and concentration; phenytoin affects attention, problem solving ability, and performance of visuomotor tasks. In contrast, carbamazepine may affect concentration, while valproate would appear to have minimal effects on cognition. Moreover, cognitive effects of AEDs are amplified with coadministration of multiple anticonvulsants (polytherapy). A review of studies on the cognitive effects of monotherapy with AEDs, as opposed to those of polytherapy, provides evidence that drug-related cognitive dysfunction can be reversed if patients are switched to a simpler therapeutic regimen. Future research should be directed toward developing reliable measures for assessing and monitoring cognition, and understanding the particular cognitive side effects of each AED. Physicians also need to revise their opinions about which side effects are "tolerable" for epileptic patients.     

Epilepsy and anomalies of neuronal migration: MRI and clinical aspects

Neuronal migration disorders are the result of disturbed brain development. In such disorders, neurons are abnormally located. In diagnosing these conditions, magnetic resonance imaging is superior to any other imaging technique. This enables us to improve our knowledge of the clinical correlates of neuronal migration. With reference to migrational disorder, a retrospective study of all 303 patients with epileptic seizures referred for magnetic resonance imaging during a 3-year period was performed, 13 patients (aged 12-41, mean age 27) were identified. They represent 4.3% of the entire study group. Of the patients with known epilepsy, 6.7% and of the mentally retarded, 13.7% had migrational disorders. Four patients had schizencephaly as the dominant finding, one was classified as hemimegalencephaly, 2 had isolated heterotopias, and 6 had localized pachy- and/or poly-microgyria. The clinical pictures are complex. Ectopias of grey matter are recognised foci of epilepsy, but from an epileptological and a clinical viewpoint little attention has been given to these disorders. The present study shows that malmigration is not rare in epilepsy patients, especially not in the mentally retarded.     

Carbamazepine Efficacy in Adults With Partial and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures

Summary: Carbamazepine and phenytoin are drugs of choice in initial monotherapy for adult partial and secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures. These designations reflect the results of the Veterans Administration Epilepsy Cooperative Study Group of 1985. An earlier comparative study of carbamazepine and phenytoin by Ramsay and associates found both drugs equally effective in controlling new-onset seizures. Among the advantages of carbamazepine is that it causes relatively few cognitive and dysmorphic side effects. Its disadvantages are its unavailability in parenteral formulation and its metabolic autoinduction. The latter must be compensated for by planned dosage increases to maintain therapeutic plasma steady-state levels during the first 2 or 3 months of treatment. Carbamazepine is judged a drug of choice in the treatment of these secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and the drug of choice in children, adolescents, and women susceptible to the dysmorphic side effects associated with other anticonvulsant agents.     

Etiologic and Preventive Aspects of Epilepsy in the Child–Bridging the Gap Between Laboratory and Clinic

Summary: Four broad categories of basic phenomena are pertinent to developing ways to prevent epilepsy. These include mechanisms of epileptogenesis, ictal initiation and temporary entrainment by the seizure discharge of normally functioning brain, seizure propagation, and control mechanisms that function both to restrain the cascade of epileptic events culminating in a seizure and to arrest the epileptic event and restore the interictal state. In newborns and children, hypoxia-ischemia is a major factor leading to epileptogenesis, and several schemes are proposed to classify, quantify, and prevent hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Control mechanisms must be better understood in order to develop prophylactic recommendations for epilepsy, and an experimental model of "kindling antagonism" may increase our understanding of these. Programs of prevention of seizures in children will evolve only if basic researchers and clinicians work productively together to develop an adequate understanding of factors important in epileptogenesis and antiepileptogenic control mechanisms.     

Classification of methods in transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) and evolving strategy from historical approaches to contemporary innovations

Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) encompasses all methods of non-invasive current application to the brain used in research and clinical practice. We present the first comprehensive and technical review, explaining the evolution of tES in both terminology and dosage over the past 100 years of research to present day. Current transcranial Pulsed Current Stimulation (tPCS) approaches such as Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) descended from Electrosleep (ES) through Cranial Electro-stimulation Therapy (CET), Transcerebral Electrotherapy (TCET), and NeuroElectric Therapy (NET) while others like Transcutaneous Cranial Electrical Stimulation (TCES) descended from Electroanesthesia (EA) through Limoge, and Interferential Stimulation. Prior to a contemporary resurgence in interest, variations of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation were explored intermittently, including Polarizing current, Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), and Transcranial Micropolarization. The development of these approaches alongside Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and pharmacological developments are considered. Both the roots and unique features of contemporary approaches such as transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) and transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS) are discussed. Trends and incremental developments in electrode montage and waveform spanning decades are presented leading to the present day. Commercial devices, seminal conferences, and regulatory decisions are noted. We conclude with six rules on how increasing medical and technological sophistication may now be leveraged for broader success and adoption of tES.     

Predisposing and Causative Factors in Childhood Epilepsy

Summary: We review information from large studies of defined populations, examining the role of known factors and especially of prenatal and perinatal factors in contributing to nonfebrile seizure disorders of early childhood. We depend especially, but not exclusively, on the recently completed analyses from the Collaborative Perinatal Project of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, the NCPP. About 4% of children in the NCPP who had at least one non-febrile nonsymptomatic seizure by the age of 7 years had a previous seizure during acute neurologic illness, such as meningitis or during the acute illness after trauma. Many such seizures should potentially be preventable. Of children with seizures, 10% had had a neonatal seizure and 13% had had a febrile seizure. Among the hundreds of prenatal and perinatal factors explored as predictors of childhood seizure disorders, the principal predictors identified were congenital malformations of the fetus, cerebral and noncerebral; family history of certain neurologic disorders; and neonatal seizures. In agreement with the British National Child Development Study, labor and delivery factors in the NCPP appeared to contribute very little to childhood seizure disorders. Maldevelopment, rather than damage at birth to an initially intact nervous system, appeared to be the more common mechanism. Most seizure disorders of early childhood remained unexplained by the large set of prenatal and perinatal characteristics examined.     

Treatment Considerations in Anticonvulsant Monotherapy

Summary: The long-standing practice of polypharmacy in treating epilepsy is giving way to use of monotherapy. Monotherapy can improve seizure control as well as reduce the risk of serious idiosyncratic reactions, dose-related side effects, and complex drug interactions. Monotherapy also offers improved compliance and cost-effectiveness. The basis of monotherapy is accurate diagnosis and assessment of the patient's seizure type(s), followed by selection of a single appropriate anticonvulsant drug. Many patients currently treated with multiple anticonvulsants can be successfully converted to monotherapy with a carefully monitored program in which troublesome and redundant drugs are gradually withdrawn from the therapeutic regimen.     

Anticonvulsant Drugs and Cognitive Function: A Review of the Literature

Summary: Alterations of cognitive function are separate from disturbances of behavior seen in association with epilepsy. The nature of the cognitive disability may to a certain extent depend on the seizure type. Partial seizures, mainly derived from a temporal lobe focus, impair memory tasks, while generalized seizures seem to have more effect on attentional abilities. A number of studies, reviewed in this paper, suggest that anticonvulsant drugs further impair cognitive function. Maximal impairments are seen in patients receiving polytherapy: rationalization of polytherapy improves cognitive abilities. Studies in children and adults have allowed differentiation of the effects of various commonly used antiepileptic agents. Maximal cognitive deficits are seen with. phenytoin, while phenobarbital and sodium valproate induce moderate disturbances, and carbamazepine seems relatively free from such toxicity. Further research is needed on the interrelationship between types of seizure disorders, types of anticonvulsant medications, and cognitive function.     

Dextromethorphan: Cellular Effects Reducing Neuronal Hyperactivity

Summary: Dextromethorphan is a dextrorotary morphinan without affinity for opioid receptors, commonly used as an antitussive medication. During the past 5 years, interest in the compound and its demethylated derivative, dextrorphan, has been revived because additional neuroprotective and an-tiepileptic properties were found in in vitro studies, animal experiments, and a few clinical cases. Both morphinans are able to inhibit N -methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor channels and voltage-operated calcium and sodium channels with different potencies. The inhibition of the NMDA receptor is believed to be the predominant mechanism of action responsible for the anticonvulsant and neuroprotective properties of the compounds.