Background and purpose To investigate early clinical surrogates for long-term independency of patients treated with thrombectomy for large vessel occlusion stroke in daily clinical routine. Methods ...

Objective Antibodies against contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2-Abs) have been described in acquired neuromyotonia, limbic encephalitis (LE) and Morvan syndrome (MoS). However, it is unknown ...

Background Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis (NMDARE) is a severe autoimmune disorder with high morbidity and mortality. Current treatments have limitations including relapse, ...

Correspondence to Professor Piero Parchi, Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica Diagnostica e Sperimentale, Università di Bologna, Bologna 40138, Italy; piero.parchi{at}unibo.it Objective To compare ...

Correspondence to Dr Kazumoto Shibuya, Neurology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; kazumoto{at}net.email.ne.jp Background Previous studies have shown that patients ...

Correspondence to Dr Robert Steinbach, Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena 07747, Thüringen, Germany; Robert.Steinbach{at}med.uni-jena.de Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Kangwon National University, School of Medicine, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Otolaryngology, Kangwon National University, School of Medicine, ...

Institute for Neuroradiology, JW Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany Dr Oliver Singer, Department of Neurology, JW Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Schleusenweg 2-16, D-60528 ...

Objectives The placement of an external ventricular drain (EVD) is a common neurosurgical operation that carries great benefit in acute hydrocephalus but is not without risk. In our centre, bolt EVDs ...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate available evidence for each step in autoimmune encephalitis management and provide expert opinion when evidence is lacking. The paper approaches autoimmune ...

Correspondence to Dr Christine Lo, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford Nuffield, Oxford OX1 1NF, Oxfordshire, UK; christine.lo{at}nhs.net Background An unmet need remains for ...

Angiographic studies on 150 pituitary adenomas and 33 craniopharyngiomas presenting for surgical treatment are reviewed. Eleven incidental silent aneurysms (four arising from the intracavernous and ...