Development of marked striatal hand with antiparkinsonian medication withdrawal during traditional (Ayurvedic) medicine treatment for Parkinson’s disease [2010] - 559KB
by SY Lim, KJ Goh, AA Zain, N Ramli, YM Choo, GH Tan
Ayurveda is a traditional medical system used widely in India and increasingly worldwide. Here, we report on a patient with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who developed marked striatal hand with antiparki...

Episodic astasia-abasia associated with hyper- perfusion in the subthalamic region and dorsal brainstem [2010] - 193KB
by HJ Kim, JY Lee, BS Jeon
Astasia-abasia refers to the inability to stand or walk despite possessing good motor strength and conserved voluntary coordination. Although it is usually regarded as a psychogenic disorder, organic ...

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy limited to the posterior fossa [2010] - 741KB
by K Rahmat, S Kaur, NM Ramli, PA Chandran, KT Wong, S Abdullah, Sharifah, D Ganesan, CT Tan
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rapidly progressive demyelinating disease caused by the reactivation of JC papova virus usually in immunocompromised hosts.1 The disease is a chro...

Bilateral laminotomy and laminectomy with fusion for lumbar stenosis [2010] - 118KB
by V Wiwanitkit
I read the recent report on lumbar spinal stenosis by Mahadewa et al. with great interest. Mahadewa et al. concluded that “bilateral laminotomy and laminectomy with fusion are equally effective over...

Bilateral laminotomy is preferred for lumbar stenosis if radiculopathy is the main symptom [2010] - 118KB
by TGB Mahadewa, S Maliawan, AA Raka Sudewi, TGA Senapathi
We would like to thank Dr. Viroj Wiwanitkit for his interest and comments on our study comparing bilateral laminotomy and laminectomy with fusion for lumbar stenosis. We agree with Wiwanitkit’s comm...

Foreword [2010] - 48KB
by SH Lim, CT Tan
The Asian and Oceanian Congress of Epilepsy was first held in 1996 in Seoul, Korea. Since then, the AOECs have been regular biennial events in the calendar of Asian epilepsy care profession. The 7th ...

Symptomatic generalized epilepsies: Clinical significance and problems [2010] - 99KB
by Y Ohtsuka, K Kobayashi, H Yoshinaga, M Oka, F Endoh
We investigated electroclinical features in patients with symptomatic or cryptogenic generalized epilepsies except for West syndrome. They were divided into a tonic group and a myoclonic group. As a r...

Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus and classical idiopathic generalized epilepsy [2010] - 89KB
by YH Zhang, I Scheffer
The idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGE) comprise two major groups: the classical IGE and generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+). The classical IGE syndromes include childhood abse...

Catastrophic epilepsies: Clinical controversies of infantile spasms [2010] - 145KB
by Y Sogawa, SL Moshé
Infantile spasms is an age-specific epilepsy syndrome, often associated with a grim prognosis in terms of epilepsy and cognitive outcome. Major obstacles to achieve significant progress in treating th...

What is Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in the modern era? [2010] - 99KB
by H Oguni
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome was the first established epileptic syndrome to promote the concept of syndromic classification based on the combination of special clinical pictures and EEG findings. Later, s...