© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015Angelo Sghirlanzoni, Giuseppe Lauria and Luisa Chiapparini (eds.)Prognosis of Neurological Diseases10.1007/978-88-470-5755-5_30 30. Extrapyramidal Diseases: Huntington’s Disease Franco Valzania1 (1) Neurological Department, Azienda Sanitaria of Modena, Viale giardini 1355, Modena, 41100, Italy Franco Valzania…
© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015Angelo Sghirlanzoni, Giuseppe Lauria and Luisa Chiapparini (eds.)Prognosis of Neurological Diseases10.1007/978-88-470-5755-5_29 29. Extrapyramidal Diseases: Atypical Parkinsonisms Marco Prastaro1 and Floriano Girotti1 (1) Fondazione Giancarlo Quarta Milano, Milan, Italy Marco Prastaro (Corresponding author) Email: dauko@email.it …
© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015Angelo Sghirlanzoni, Giuseppe Lauria and Luisa Chiapparini (eds.)Prognosis of Neurological Diseases10.1007/978-88-470-5755-5_28 28. Extrapyramidal Diseases: Parkinson’s Disease Filippo Tamma1 (1) U.O.C. Neurologia – Ospedale Generale Regionale “F. Miulli”, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Bari, Italy …
Fig. 27.1 Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis. Coronal Flair images. (a, b) demonstrate first acute phase with swelling and hyperintensity in right insular and mesial temporal lobes; after 3 months, (c) atrophy…
Modifiable risk factors Hypertension Diabetes Lipids Cardiac disease (including atrial fibrillation, recent large myocardial infarction, mitral stenosis) Infective endocarditis Cigarette smoking Obesity Metabolic syndrome Alcohol consumption Physical inactivity Sickle cell…
Systemic organ failure Liver failure: acute, chronic Renal failure: acute, chronic Cardiac failure Pulmonary disease: hypoxemia and hypercarbia/hypercapnia Nutritional deficiency Vitamin B1 deficiency (Wernicke’s encephalopathy, Korsakoff’s syndrome, Marchiafava-Bignami disease) Vitamin…
© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015Angelo Sghirlanzoni, Giuseppe Lauria and Luisa Chiapparini (eds.)Prognosis of Neurological Diseases10.1007/978-88-470-5755-5_17 17. Intellectual Disability Stefano D’Arrigo1 , Enrico Alfei1 and Chiara Pantaleoni1 (1) Developmental Neurology Department, IRCCS Fondazione Istituto Neurologico “C. Besta”, Via Celoria 11, Milan, 20133,…
© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015Angelo Sghirlanzoni, Giuseppe Lauria and Luisa Chiapparini (eds.)Prognosis of Neurological Diseases10.1007/978-88-470-5755-5_15 15. Antibody-Mediated Encephalitis Luigi Zuliani1, Marco Zoccarato1 and Bruno Giometto1 (1) UOC Neurologia, Ospedale “Ca’Foncello”, Azienda ULSS9, Treviso, Italy Bruno Giometto Email: bruno.giometto@unipd.it KeywordsAutoimmune…
Fig. 13.1 Relapse-free survival in PINSs and in MS: patients with PINSs, either those with isolated central damage (encephalitis, encephalomyelitis, and myelitis, red line) and the variants with additional peripheral…
