J.M.FREEMAN: Well, I think we see at any center where there are pediatric neurologistsincreasingnumb- ers of children with seizures and what appears to be a degenerative course. Whether this truly represents a chronic encephalitis is a different matter. I think there is no evidence in these...
A rational management of patients with pediatric rheumatic diseases requires the regular assessment of the level of disease activity and damage, as well as the evaluation of therapeutic response through validated and standardized outcome measures. Ideally, such tools should be simple, feasible, and easi...
You should develop a specific plan for each patient with each patient. A pediatric neurologist. So in terms of lumbar puncture, yes, you can get an LP and CSF studies to exclude meningitis or encephalitis in a child with a complex febrile seizure. The literature has long told us that in ...
pediatric neurologists and pediatric rheumatologists at BCH. In general, they defer the use of EMG/NCS in the absence of signs of large-fiber dysfunction on neurologic examination, such as weakness, hyporeflexia, or a loss of proprioception or vibration sense. Similarly, the pediatric neurologist...