ABSTRACT The expanding therapeutic arsenal in multiple sclerosis (MS) has allowed for more effective and personalized treatment, but the choice and management of disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) is becoming increasingly complex. In this context, experts from the Brazilian Committee on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis and the Neuroimmunology Scientific Department of the Brazilian Academy of Neurolo...
Objective The study aims to investigate the presence of pain amongst multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Method One hundred MS patients responded to questionnaires evaluating neuropathic and nociceptive pain, depression and anxiety. Statistical analysis was performed using the Mann–Whitney U, Chi-Square and two-tailed Fisher’s exact tests and multivariate logistic regression. Results Women had a statistically hig...
Hypomyelination with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum (H-ABC) is a rare disease that has been recently described. It must be remembered as a possible etiology of leukoencephalopathies in children. We describe a typical case of H-ABC in a 11-month-old boy. He presents with global development delay, oral dyskinesia, and global dystonia and spasticity. Magnetic resonance imaging disclosed typical featur...
Congenital muscle dystrophy (CMD) is a heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive myopathies. It is known that CMD may affect the central nervous system (CNS). Some authors have shown that merosin-negative CMD patients may have encephalic metabolic disturbances. In order to study metabolic changes within the brain, the authors performed a magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) study in a 1-year-old girl with mer...
We report a case of a 18-year-old female patient that developed a migraine-like headache following an acute meningococcal meningitis. She had no previous history of recurrent headaches. The pain was intense, pulsatile and throbbing, typically unilateral, without aura. Its frequency increased during the following weeks and a prophylactic treatment with amitriptyline and atenolol was initiated. There was remissio...
OBJETIVO: Descrever as etiologias da síndrome de West (SW) em um grupo de crianças atendidas no ambiente de um centro de reabilitação. MÉTODO: Análise retrospectiva, avaliando-se os seguintes itens: gênero, idade por ocasião da definição do diagnóstico da SW e sua etiologia. Esta foi dividida em três categorias: sintomática, criptogênica e idiopática. Os casos sintomáticos foram divididos em pré, peri e pós-nat...
Com o objetivo de estudar os aspectos clínicos, a história familiar e o impacto da dor nas atividades laborativas, foi conduzido estudo de série de casos de 50 pacientes portadores de cefaléia do tipo tensional episódica (CTTE). Foram avaliados 40 mulheres e 10 homens, com idade média de 30 (±12) anos. Dor constrictiva esteve presente em 40 pacientes (80%). O enjôo foi o principal fenômeno acompanhante (20%). A...
INTRODUÇÃO: A cefaléia do tipo tensional (CTT), dor cefálica mais comum, tem mecanismos fisiopatológicos, epidemiologia e apresentação clínica pouco estudados. Depressão e ansiedade são comorbidades especialmente enfocadas entre seus portadores. OBJETIVO: Estudar a ocorrência de sintomas depressivos e ansiedade entre portadores de CTT episódica (CTTE) e crônica (CTTC). METODOLOGIA: Cinqüenta pacientes com CTTE ...