© 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…
© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015Angelo Sghirlanzoni, Giuseppe Lauria and Luisa Chiapparini (eds.)Prognosis of Neurological Diseases10.1007/978-88-470-5755-5_12 12. Myelin Disorders: Devic’s Syndrome Graziella Filippini1 (1) Scientific Direction, Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy Graziella Filippini Email: gfilippini@istituto-besta.it KeywordsAquaporin-4…
Fig. 10.1 Molecular strain types of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Schematic representation of distinct PrPSc conformers associated with CJD. PrPSc types are identified, based on the different fragment sizes seen on…
Fig. 7.1 Herpes simplex encephalitis, subacute stage. Coronal FLAIR images (a, b) show dishomogeneous hyperintensity in the left temporal medial region and in the left insula. Note the mild enlargement…
Fig. 3.1 Age- and sex-adjusted survival of patients with primary central nervous system vasculitis (PCNSV) versus estimated survival of the US white population (p < 0.001) Patients with several bilaterally affected large…
Fig. 2.1 Intracranial hemorrhage in cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Axial and coronal T2- and axial T1-weighted images (a–c) demonstrate a large right intracranial hemorrhage with perilesional edema. Axial T2*-weighted gradient-echo images,…
© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015Angelo Sghirlanzoni, Giuseppe Lauria and Luisa Chiapparini (eds.)Prognosis of Neurological Diseases10.1007/978-88-470-5755-5_6 6. Sleep Disorders Alessandro Pincherle1 , Giuseppe Didato1 and Flavio Villani1 (1) Clinical Epileptology & Experimental Neurophysiology Unit, Fondazione Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Via Celoria 11,…
Points Description Best motor response 1 No movement 2 Extensor response (decerebrate): elbow extension with pronation and adduction (to local painful stimulus, sometimes spontaneously) 3 Abnormal flexion (decorticate): slow…
