ABSTRACT
The authors describe seven patients in whom the administration of tiapride led to the disappearance of visual hallucinatory manifestations with the characteristics of "release hallucinations", the results being maintained throughout the period of treatment. The authors also discuss the mechanism and presumed site of action of the drug.
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Hallucinations/drug therapy , Tiapamil Hydrochloride/therapeutic use , AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/complications , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Blindness/complications , Blindness/physiopathology , Brain Ischemia/complications , Cataract/complications , Cytomegalovirus Retinitis/complications , Female , Glaucoma/complications , Hallucinations/etiology , Hallucinations/physiopathology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Visual FieldsABSTRACT
The authors present 50 cases of "chronic constitutional tetany" observed in the E.M.T. laboratory of the Ospedali Riuniti di Finale e Pietra Ligure in the last 7 years. We consider various parameters regarding the sindrome (sex, age, season, headache etc.). We have studied all the cases from the electromyographic point of view, with adequate method, to reproduce, in the periods of latency, the characteristic E.M.G. and clinical features. The "tetanigenic threshold" appears abnormally low in these patients. In the today etiologic and physiopathologic doubt, the clinical and electromyographic criteria, assume a fundamental relevancy in the study of these patients, often defined as "functionalis".
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Electromyography , Tetany/diagnosis , Adolescent , Adult , Arrhythmias, Cardiac/complications , Asthma/complications , Calcium/blood , Child , Child, Preschool , Chronic Disease , Electroencephalography , Female , Humans , Magnesium/blood , Male , Middle Aged , Migraine Disorders/complications , Paresthesia/complications , Tetany/complications , Tetany/etiologySubject(s)
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/epidemiology , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/diagnosis , Female , Humans , Italy , Male , Middle Aged , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
The Authors present the electromyographic study of 40 cases of low-back and sciatic pain due to lumbar herniation of the intervertebral disk after surgical checking. The E.M.G. parameters, which are thought to be more valid in order to make a diagnosis of the motor nerve-root pain and choose the test muscles to be examined, are shown here. Following the data of scientific publications, a special emphasis is put on the usefulness of the this check-up in order to supply important elements for the evaluation of the degree and position of the nerve-root damage.
