Coenzyme Q 10 improves lactic acidosis, strokelike episodes, and epilepsy in a patient with MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes)Angel Berbel-Garcia
Department of Neurology, Hospital Mancha Centro, Alcazar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, Spain
Clin Neuropharmacol 27:187-91. 2004
..The unpredictable a priori efficacy of therapy suggests that a long-term trial of oral coenzyme Q may be warranted...
- [Acute polyneuropathy and encephalopathy caused by arsenic poisoning]
A Berbel-Garcia
Servicio de Neurologia, Hospital Mancha Centro, Alcazar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, Spain
Rev Neurol 38:928-30. 2004
..The most frequent neurological complication of inorganic arsenic intoxication is a distal symmetrical polyneuropathy...
- Magnetic resonance image-reversible findings in a patient with general paresis
Angel Berbel-Garcia
Department of Neurology, Hospital Mancha Centro, Alcazar de San Juan Ciudad Real, Spain
Sex Transm Dis 31:350-2. 2004
..MRI demonstrated cortical-subcortical atrophy and broad-coalescent high-intensity T2 lesions in right frontotemporal lobes...
- [Transient cerebral oedema associated to hypoglycaemia]
A Berbel-Garcia
Servicio de Neurologia, Hospital Mancha Centro, Alcazar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, Spain
Rev Neurol 39:1030-3. 2004
..Neonatal hypoglycaemia is common but rarely symptomatic due to protective mechanisms. Very few reports on hypoglycaemic injury are available in adults and most of them in patients with poor outcome...
- [Idiopathic spinal cord herniation. Presentation of a new case and review of the literature]
A Berbel
Servicio de Neurologia, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Espana
Rev Neurol 32:54-7. 2001
..Our aim is to report a new case, review the relevant literature, describe the radiological findings and consider the etiopathogenic findings...
- [The importance of neurological examinations in the age of the technological revolution]
A Berbel-Garcia
Servicio de Neurologia, Hospital Mancha Centro, Alcazar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, Spain
Rev Neurol 39:1140-2. 2004
..On the other hand high demand for outpatient neurologic care prevents adequate patient's evaluation...
- [Lhermitte's sign in three oncological patients]
J Porta-Etessam
Servicio de Neurologia, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Espana
Rev Neurol 30:649-51. 2000
..CONCLUSION: Lhermitte's sign is non-specific, although in oncological patients a detailed clinical history and examination should be done seeking data regarding chemotherapy, radiotherapy and spinal compression...
- Cerebrospinal fluid levels of thiamine in patients with Parkinson's disease
F J Jimenez-Jimenez
Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Principe de Asturias, Madrid, Spain
Neurosci Lett 271:33-6. 1999
..These results suggest that low CSF free thiamine levels could be related with the risk for PD...
- [Cervical radiculopathy as a form of presentation of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma]
D A Pérez-Martínez
Servicio de Neurologia, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Espana
Rev Neurol 27:91-3. 1998
..This condition may be the presenting form of the illness, although relatively infrequently. Onset with involvement of the cauda equina or as an isolated radiculopathy is even rarer and has mainly been described at lumbar level...
- Serum levels of coenzyme Q10 in patients with Parkinson's disease
F J Jimenez-Jimenez
Department of Medicine Neurology, University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
J Neural Transm 107:177-81. 2000
..45). These values were not influenced significantly by therapy with levodopa or dopamine agonists. The normality of serum coenzyme Q10 and coenzyme Q10/cholesterol ratio suggest that these values are not related with the risk for PD...
- [Thalamic dementia due to infarct of the left thalamus and genum of the right internal capsule]
J Porta-Etessam
Servicio de Neurologia Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, 28041, Espana
Rev Neurol 33:1043-6. 2001
..We report a case of dementia of acute onset involving the left thalamus and the genum of the right internal capsule...
- [Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration with asymmetrical pan-cerebellar syndrome]
J Porta-Etessam
Servicio de Neurologia Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Espana
Rev Neurol 26:1015-7. 1998
..Different families of tumours are associated with this, particularly (in view of its frequency) oat cell pulmonary carcinoma, gynecological tumours and Hodgkin's lymphoma...
Prevalence of stroke and transient ischemic attack in three elderly populations of central SpainJ Diaz-Guzman
Department of Neurology, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
Neuroepidemiology 30:247-53. 2008
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- [Amyotrophic neuralgia: review of 37 cases]
A Martinez-Salio
Sección de Neuromuscular, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Espana
Rev Neurol 27:823-6. 1998
..Amyotrophic neuralgia is characterized by pain of acute or subacute onset, accompanied by weakness and occasionally by atrophy of the brachial muscles, of unknown origin. We present our experience over the past 20 years...
- Two pathogenic mutations in the mitochondrial DNA tRNA Leu(UUR) gene (T3258C and A3280G) resulting in variable clinical phenotypes
Y Campos
, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Avda. de Cordoba Km 5.4, Madrid 28041, Spain
Neuromuscul Disord 13:416-20. 2003
..In both patients, single muscle fiber analysis revealed greater abundance of mutant genomes in ragged-red fibers than in normal fibers, supporting the pathogenicity of both mutations...
- Population-based case-control study of cigarette smoking and essential tremor
Julian Benito-Leon
Department of Neurology, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
Mov Disord 23:246-52. 2008
..22-0.69, P = 0.001). We demonstrated an inverse association between ever smoking and ET. Additional studies are needed to reproduce these findings and assess whether this association is due to a biologically protective effect...
- Gabapentin in the treatment of SUNCT syndrome
J Porta-Etessam
Neurology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
Headache 42:523-4. 2002
