Year Book of Neurology and Neurosurgery

1. Cover - p. 1 2. Contents - p. 2 3. Chapter 1 - p. 6 4. Stent-Assisted Mechanical Recanalization for Treatment of Acute Intracerebral Artery Occlusions - p. 6 5. Stenting versus Endarterectomy for Treatment of Carotid-Artery Stenosis - p. 7 6. Conscious Sedation Versus General Anesthesia During Endovascular Therapy for Acute Anterior Circulation Stroke: Preliminary Results From a Retrospective, Multicenter Study - p. 8 7. Symptomatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage Among Eligible Warfarin-Treated Patients Receiving Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Acute Ischemic Stroke - p. 9 8. Asymptomatic embolisation for prediction of stroke in the Asymptomatic Carotid Emboli Study (ACES): a prospective observational study - p. 10 9. Addition of brain and carotid imaging to the ABCD2 score to identify patients at early risk of stroke after transient ischaemic attack: a multicentre observational study - p. 11 10. Time to treatment with intravenous alteplase and outcome in stroke: an updated pooled analysis of ECASS, ATLANTIS, NINDS, and EPITHET trials - p. 12 11. Apixaban in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation - p. 13 12. Improved Cognitive Outcomes With Endovascular Coiling of Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: Neuropsychological Outcomes From the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT) - p. 14 13. Association Between Stroke Center Hospitalization for Acute Ischemic Stroke and Mortality - p. 15 14. Effects of antihypertensive treatment after acute stroke in the Continue Or Stop post-Stroke Antihypertensives Collaborative Study (COSSACS): a prospective, randomised, open, blinded-endpoint trial - p. 16 15. Collateral Flow Predicts Response to Endovascular Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke - p. 17 16. Chapter 2 - p. 18 17. Definition of drug resistant epilepsy: Consensus proposal by the ad hoc Task Force of the ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies - p. 18 18. Long-term mortality in childhood-onset epilepsy - p. 19 19. Efficacy and usability of buccal midazolam in controlling acute prolonged convulsive seizures in children - p. 20 20. Patients with epilepsy: Cognitively compromised before the start of antiepileptic drug treatment? - p. 21 21. Lengthening of corrected QT during epileptic seizures - p. 22 22. Ethosuximide, Valproic Acid, and Lamotrigine in Childhood Absence Epilepsy - p. 23 23. Valproic Acid Monotherapy in Pregnancy and Major Congenital Malformations - p. 24 24. Anxiety disorders, subsyndromic depressive episodes, and major depressive episodes: Do they differ on their impact on the quality of life of patients with epilepsy? - p. 25 25. Neuropsychiatric symptomatology predicts seizure recurrence in newly treated patients - p. 26 26. Association of Antiepileptic Drugs With Nontraumatic Fractures: A Population-Based Analysis - p. 27 27. Post-Mortem Review and Genetic Analysis of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Cases - p. 28 28. POLG DNA testing as an emerging standard of care before instituting valproic acid therapy for pediatric seizure disorders - p. 29 29. Chapter 3 - p. 30 30. Atypical Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension With a Head-Shaking Headache - p. 30 31. High risk clinical characteristics for subarachnoid haemorrhage in patients with acute headache: prospective cohort study - p. 31 32. Tension-type headache in paediatric age - p. 32 33. Functional abdominal pain in childhood and adolescence increases risk for chronic pain in adulthood - p. 33 34. Medication overuse headache: Neurobiological, behavioural and therapeutic aspects - p. 34 35. Migraines and ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: a dopamine connection - p. 35 36. Migraine and risk of haemorrhagic stroke in women: prospective cohort study - p. 36 37. Prevention and Treatment of Menstrual Migraine - p. 37 38. A Traveler Caught in the “Thick” of Things: A CPC Case of a Young African American Female With Headaches - p. 38 39. Sleep and Headache: The Clinical Relationship - p. 39 40. Chapter 4 - p. 40 41. Causes of encephalitis and differences in their clinical presentations in England: a multicentre, population-based prospective study - p. 40 42. Glycerol adjuvant therapy in adults with bacterial meningitis in a high HIV seroprevalence setting in Malawi: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial - p. 41 43. Adjunctive dexamethasone in bacterial meningitis: a meta-analysis of individual patient data - p. 42 44. Antibiotic treatment duration and long-term outcomes of patients with early lyme disease from a lyme disease-hyperendemic area - p. 43 45. Immune responses to JC virus in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with natalizumab: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study - p. 44 46. Hearing Impairment in Childhood Bacterial Meningitis Is Little Relieved by Dexamethasone or Glycerol - p. 45 47. Nationwide implementation of adjunctive dexamethasone therapy for pneumococcal meningitis - p. 46 48. Nationwide implementation of adjunctive dexamethasone therapy for pneumococcal meningitis - p. 47 49. Heightened Neurologic Complications in Children with Pandemic H1N1 Influenza - p. 48 50. Chapter 5 - p. 49 51. Gene delivery of AAV2-neurturin for Parkinson's disease: a double-blind, randomised, controlled trial - p. 49 52. Preladenant in patients with Parkinson's disease and motor fluctuations: a phase 2, double-blind, randomised trial - p. 50 53. Pain is common in Parkinson's disease - p. 51 54. “DASH” symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease: Red flags for early cognitive decline - p. 52 55. Pharmacological Management of Essential Tremor - p. 53 56. Levodopa-induced dyskinesias in patients with Parkinson's disease: filling the bench-to-bedside gap - p. 54 57. Patient perception of dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease - p. 55 58. Preclinical Biomarkers of Parkinson Disease - p. 56 59. Chapter 6 - p. 57 60. Focal sensory-motor status epilepticus in multiple sclerosis due to a new cortical lesion. An EEG–fMRI co-registration study - p. 57 61. Age-Dependent B Cell Autoimmunity to a Myelin Surface Antigen in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis - p. 58 62. De novo relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis following autologous stem cell transplantation - p. 59 63. Extracellular Matrix in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions: Fibrillar Collagens, Biglycan and Decorin are Upregulated and Associated with Infiltrating Immune Cells - p. 60 64. An Imbalance of Two Functionally and Phenotypically Different Subsets of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Characterizes the Dysfunctional Immune Regulation in Multiple Sclerosis - p. 61 65. Analysis of clinical outcomes according to original treatment groups 16 years after the pivotal IFNB-1b trial - p. 62 66. Demyelinating events in rheumatoid arthritis after drug exposures - p. 63 67. Genetic variation influences glutamate concentrations in brains of patients with multiple sclerosis - p. 64 68. Natalizumab Drug Holiday in Multiple Sclerosis: Poorly Tolerated - p. 65 69. A Randomized Controlled Double-Masked Trial of Albuterol Add-on Therapy in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis - p. 66 70. Using retinal architecture to help characterize multiple sclerosis patients - p. 67 71. A genetic mouse model of adult-onset, pervasive central nervous system demyelination with robust remyelination - p. 68 72. Demyelination versus remyelination in progressive multiple sclerosis - p. 69 73. Cognitive and psychosocial features in childhood and juvenile MS: Two-year follow-up - p. 70 74. Cognitive compensation failure in multiple sclerosis - p. 71 75. Dominant perivenular enhancement of tumefactive demyelinating lesions in multiple sclerosis - p. 72 76. A Phase 3 Trial of Extended Release Oral Dalfampridine in Multiple Sclerosis - p. 73 77. Appearance of Tissue Transglutaminase in Astrocytes in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions: A Role in Cell Adhesion and Migration? - p. 74 78. Gender-Associated Differences of Perforin Polymorphisms in the Susceptibility to Multiple Sclerosis - p. 75 79. Interferon-β Inhibits Toll-Like Receptor 9 Processing in Multiple Sclerosis - p. 76 80. Global N-Acetylaspartate Declines Even in Benign Multiple Sclerosis - p. 77 81. No Evidence of Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency at Multiple Sclerosis Onset - p. 78 82. Axonal Damage in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis is Markedly Reduced by Natalizumab - p. 79 83. Primary retinal pathology in multiple sclerosis as detected by optical coherence tomography - p. 80 84. Related B cell clones populate the meninges and parenchyma of patients with multiple sclerosis - p. 81 85. Glatiramer Acetate Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis: An Immunological Perspective - p. 82 86. Chapter 7 - p. 83 87. Oculopharyngodistal myopathy is a distinct entity: Clinical and genetic features of 47 patients - p. 83 88. TDP-43 Proteinopathy and Motor Neuron Disease in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy - p. 84 89. Clinical and electrophysiological predictors of respiratory failure in Guillain-Barré syndrome: a prospective study - p. 85 90. Antigen-Specific Adaptive Immune Responses in Fingolimod-Treated Multiple Sclerosis Patients - p. 86 91. TRPV4 mutations and cytotoxic hypercalcemia in axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathies - p. 87 92. Urodynamic Profile of Diabetic Patients With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: Association of Diabetic Cystopathy With Autonomic and Peripheral Neuropathy - p. 88 93. Peripheral Neuropathies Associated With Primary Sjögren Syndrome: Immunologic Profiles of Nonataxic Sensory Neuropathy and Sensorimotor Neuropathy - p. 89 94. Dystrophin Immunity in Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy - p. 90 95. Rescue of the spinal muscular atrophy phenotype in a mouse model by early postnatal delivery of SMN - p. 91 96. Widening gap in age at muscular dystrophy—associated death between blacks and whites, 1986–2005 - p. 92 97. Neurologic and Muscular Complications of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic - p. 93 98. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Subtypes and Genetic Testing Strategies - p. 94 99. Recognizing Guillain-Barré syndrome in preschool children - p. 95 100. Prediction of Respiratory Insufficiency in Guillain-Barré Syndrome - p. 96 101. Dysregulation of the ALS-associated gene TDP-43 leads to neuronal death and degeneration in mice - p. 97 102. Chapter 8 - p. 98 103. Hypofractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy: An Effective Therapy for Recurrent High-Grade Gliomas - p. 98 104. Medulloblastoma Comprises Four Distinct Molecular Variants - p. 99 105. Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of bevacizumab therapy for radiation necrosis of the central nervous system - p. 100 106. Immunologic Escape After Prolonged Progression-Free Survival With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Variant III Peptide Vaccination in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma - p. 101 107. Phase I/IIa Study of Cilengitide and Temozolomide With Concomitant Radiotherapy Followed by Cilengitide and Temozolomide Maintenance Therapy in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma - p. 102 108. Scale to Predict Survival After Surgery for Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme - p. 103 109. Gene Expression Profile Correlates with T-Cell Infiltration and Relative Survival in Glioblastoma Patients Vaccinated with Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy - p. 104 110. Chapter 9 - p. 105 111. A Phase I Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of Memory Circuits in Alzheimer's Disease - p. 105 112. Resting Brain Connectivity: Changes during the Progress of Alzheimer Disease - p. 106 113. Cerebral Microhemorrhage and Iron Deposition in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Susceptibility-weighted MR Imaging Assessment - p. 107 114. Chapter 10 - p. 108 115. Risk of Vascular Events in Emergency Department Patients Discharged Home With Diagnosis of Dizziness or Vertigo - p. 108 116. Risk of Stroke in Patients Hospitalized for Isolated Vertigo: A Four-Year Follow-Up Study - p. 109 117. Differences in saccade dynamics between spinocerebellar ataxia 2 and late-onset cerebellar ataxias - p. 110 118. Chapter 11 - p. 111 119. Long-term sleep disturbances in children: A cause of neuronal loss - p. 111 120. Post-H1N1 Narcolepsy-Cataplexy - p. 112 121. Chronic infusion of angiotensin receptor antagonists in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus prevents hypertension in a rat model of sleep apnea - p. 113 122. Impulse Control Disorders with the use of Dopaminergic Agents in Restless Legs Syndrome: a Case-Control Study - p. 114 123. Vascular Inflammation in Obesity and Sleep Apnea - p. 115 124. Elevated Tribbles homolog 2–specific antibody levels in narcolepsy patients - p. 116 125. Anti-Tribbles Homolog 2 Autoantibodies in Japanese Patients with Narcolepsy - p. 117 126. Management of Insomnia in the Geriatric Patient - p. 118 127. Poor effect of guideline based treatment of restless legs syndrome in clinical practice - p. 119 128. The Effect of CPAP in Normalizing Daytime Sleepiness, Quality of Life, and Neurocognitive Function in Patients with Moderate to Severe OSA - p. 120 129. Chapter 12 - p. 121 130. Evaluation of Dual-Energy CT for Differentiating Intracerebral Hemorrhage from Iodinated Contrast Material Staining - p. 121 131. Dynamic 320-Section CT Angiography in Cranial Arteriovenous Shunting Lesions - p. 122 132. C-Arm CT Measurement of Cerebral Blood Volume in Ischemic Stroke: An Experimental Study in Canines - p. 123 133. Diffusion MR Imaging of Hypoglycemic Encephalopathy - p. 124 134. Cost-Effectiveness of CT Perfusion for Selecting Patients for Intravenous Thrombolysis: A US Hospital Perspective - p. 125 135. Ischemic Stroke: Etiologic Work-up with Multidetector CT of Heart and Extra- and Intracranial Arteries - p. 126 136. Chapter 13 - p. 127 137. Incidental Findings on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Children With Sickle Cell Disease - p. 127 138. Value of Cerebral Microhemorrhages Detected with Susceptibility-weighted MR Imaging for Prediction of Long-term Outcome in Children with Nonaccidental Trauma - p. 128 139. Behavior Therapy for Children With Tourette Disorder. A Randomized Controlled Trial - p. 129 140. A prospective study of acute movement disorders in children - p. 130 141. Pompe Disease in Infants: Improving the Prognosis by Newborn Screening and Early Treatment - p. 131 142. Antiepileptic drugs and brain development - p. 132 143. Prognostic Significance of Interictal Epileptiform Discharges in Newly Diagnosed Seizure Disorders - p. 133 144. Streptococcal infection, Tourette syndrome, and OCD: Is there a connection? - p. 134 145. Infantile spasms treated with the ketogenic diet: Prospective single-center experience in 104 consecutive infants - p. 135 146. Impact of Bisphosphonates on Survival for Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - p. 136 147. Chapter 14 - p. 137 148. Petrous Bone Pneumatization Is a Risk Factor for Cerebrospinal Fluid Fistula Following Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery - p. 137 149. A Critical Evaluation of Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery for Patients Younger Than 40 Years of Age - p. 138 150. Anterior Interhemispheric Approach for Tuberculum Sellae Meningioma - p. 139 151. A New Metric for Detecting Change in Slowly Evolving Brain Tumors: Validation in Meningioma Patients - p. 140 152. Cyclooxygenase-2 Supports Tumor Proliferation in Vestibular Schwannomas - p. 141 153. A prospective study of hearing preservation in untreated vestibular schwannomas - p. 142 154. Decision analysis of treatment options for vestibular schwannoma - p. 143 155. Results with judicious modern neurosurgical management of parasagittal and falcine meningiomas - p. 144 156. Defining the “edge of the envelope”: patient selection in treating complex sellar-based neoplasms via transsphenoidal versus open craniotomy - p. 145 157. Impact of fMRI-guided advanced DTI fiber tracking techniques on their clinical applications in patients with brain tumors - p. 146 158. Perioperative and Long-term Outcomes From the Management of Parasagittal Meningiomas Invading the Superior Sagittal Sinus - p. 147 159. Early surgical intervention in adult patients with ganglioglioma is associated with improved clinical seizure outcomes - p. 148 160. Incidence, risk factors, and outcome of venous infarction after meningioma surgery in 705 patients - p. 149 161. Comparison of diffusion tensor imaging tractography of language tracts and intraoperative subcortical stimulations - p. 150 162. 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Is a Promising Marker for Detection of Anaplastic Foci in Diffusely Infiltrating Gliomas With Nonsignificant Contrast Enhancement - p. 151 163. Immune Infiltration of Spontaneous Mouse Astrocytomas Is Dominated by Immunosuppressive Cells from Early Stages of Tumor Development - p. 152 164. Long-term Outcomes and Patterns of Tumor Progression After Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Benign Meningiomas - p. 153 165. Occipital ganglioglioma in an older adult - p. 154 166. The relevance of Simpson Grade I and II resection in modern neurosurgical treatment of World Health Organization Grade I meningiomas - p. 155 167. Treatment decision making based on the published natural history and growth rate of small meningiomas - p. 156 168. The role of radical microsurgical resection in multimodal treatment for skull base meningioma - p. 157 169. Factors affecting outcome following treatment of patients with cavernous sinus meningiomas - p. 158 170. Seizures in patients with glioma treated with phenytoin and levetiracetam - p. 159 171. Embolization of Skull Base Meningiomas and Feeding Vessels Arising From the Internal Carotid Circulation - p. 160 172. The Louisiana State University Experience in the Management of Single Small Cerebellar Metastasis - p. 161 173. A Systematic Review of the Literature on the Effects of Dexamethasone on the Brain From In Vivo Human-Based Studies: Implications for Physiological Brain Imaging of Patients With Intracranial Tumors - p. 162 174. Chapter 15 - p. 163 175. Long-term outcome of vagus nerve stimulation therapy after failed epilepsy surgery - p. 163 176. A Phase I Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of Memory Circuits in Alzheimer's Disease - p. 164 177. Transcranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease - p. 165 178. Gait ataxia in essential tremor is differentially modulated by thalamic stimulation - p. 166 179. Destructive procedures for control of cancer pain: the case for cordotomy - p. 167 180. Double-blind clinical trial of thalamic stimulation in patients with Tourette syndrome - p. 168 181. How safe is it to withdraw antiepileptic drugs following successful surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy? - p. 169 182. Microvascular decompression for elderly patients with trigeminal neuralgia: a prospective study and systematic review with meta-analysis - p. 170 183. Frameless Image-Guided Radiosurgery for Initial Treatment of Typical Trigeminal Neuralgia - p. 171 184. Chapter 16 - p. 172 185. Sleep Deprivation, Elective Surgical Procedures, and Informed Consent - p. 172 186. Improved Delineation of Ventricular Shunt Catheters Using Fast Steady-State Gradient Recalled-Echo Sequences in a Rapid Brain MR Imaging Protocol in Nonsedated Pediatric Patients - p. 173 187. Three-Dimensional In Vivo Modeling of Vestibular Schwannomas and Surrounding Cranial Nerves With Diffusion Imaging Tractography - p. 174 188. Circumferential Watertight Dural Repair Using Nitinol U-Clips in Expanded Endonasal and Sublabial Approaches to the Cranial Base - p. 175 189. Decompressive Craniectomy in Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury - p. 176 190. The Surgical Approach to the Management of Increased Intracranial Pressure After Traumatic Brain Injury - p. 177 191. Warfare-Related Craniectomy Defect Reconstruction: Early Success Using Custom Alloplast Implants - p. 178 192. “In-window” craniotomy and “bridgelike” duraplasty: an alternative to decompressive hemicraniectomy - p. 179 193. Chapter 17 - p. 180 194. A Randomized Trial of Prenatal versus Postnatal Repair of Myelomeningocele - p. 180 195. Incidence of venous infarction after sacrificing middle-third superior sagittal sinus cortical bridging veins in a pediatric population - p. 181 196. Analysis of the risk of shunt failure or infection related to cerebrospinal fluid cell count, protein level, and glucose levels in low-birth-weight premature infants with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus - p. 182 197. Depressed skull fracture by a three-pin head holder: a case illustration - p. 183 198. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy for hydrocephalus in children younger than 1 year of age - p. 184 199. Monitoring of cerebrospinal fluid flow by intraoperative ultrasound in patients with Chiari I malformation - p. 185 200. Morbidity of Transcallosal and Transcortical Approaches to Lesions in and Around the Lateral and Third Ventricles: A Single-Institution Experience - p. 186 201. Clinical and Angiographic Outcomes From Indirect Revascularization Surgery for Moyamoya Disease in Adults and Children: A Review of 63 Procedures - p. 187 202. Endovascular treatment of vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation: management strategy and 21-year experience in Toronto - p. 188 203. Retethering of transected fatty filum terminales - p. 189 204. Posterior fossa craniotomy for trapped fourth ventricle in shunt-treated hydrocephalic children: long-term outcome - p. 190 205. Surgical treatment of trigonocephaly: technique and long-term results in 48 cases - p. 191 206. Chapter 18 - p. 192 207. Infection Rate after Spine Surgery in Cerebral Palsy is High and Impairs Results: Multicenter Analysis of Risk Factors and Treatment - p. 192 208. A Novel Classification System for Spinal Instability in Neoplastic Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach and Expert Consensus From the Spine Oncology Study Group - p. 193 209. A New Thoracic Reconstruction Technique “Transforaminal Thoracic Interbody Fusion”: A Preliminary Report of Clinical Outcomes - p. 194 210. Effective Dose of Peri-operative Oral Pregabalin as an Adjunct to Multimodal Analgesic Regimen in Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery - p. 195 211. 40-Slice Multidetector CT: Is MRI Still Necessary for Cervical Spine Clearance after Blunt Trauma? - p. 196 212. Surgical site infection in spinal surgery: detection and management based on serial C-reactive protein measurements - p. 197 213. Bone Union Rate With Autologous Iliac Bone Versus Local Bone Graft in Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion - p. 198 214. A Clinical Comparative Study on Low Versus Medium Viscosity PolyMethylMetAcrylate Bone Cement in Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: Viscosity Associated With Cement Leakage - p. 199 215. A clinical prediction rule for ambulation outcomes after traumatic spinal cord injury: a longitudinal cohort study - p. 200 216. Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures Treated with Posterior Decompression and Pedicle Screw Instrumentation Supplemented with Balloon-Assisted Vertebroplasty and Calcium Phosphate Reconstruction: Surgical Technique - p. 201 217. Current Practice in the Timing of Surgical Intervention in Spinal Cord Injury - p. 202 218. Early Versus Late Stabilization of the Spine in the Polytrauma Patient - p. 203 219. A pictorial classification atlas of cement extravasation with vertebral augmentation - p. 204 220. Metastatic Paraplegia and Vital Prognosis: Perspectives and Limitations for Rehabilitation Care. Part 1 - p. 205 221. Minimal Access Versus Open Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion in the Treatment of Spondylolisthesis - p. 206 222. Cervical Subarachnoid Catheter Placement for Continuous Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage: A Safe and Efficacious Alternative to the Classic Lumbar Cistern Drain - p. 207 223. Safe Zone for C1 Lateral Mass Screws: Anatomic and Radiological Study - p. 208 224. Incidence and prevalence of surgery at segments adjacent to a previous posterior lumbar arthrodesis - p. 209