Chronic Childhood Encephalopathy
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1. No dia-a-dia... a luta: a família da criança com deficiência física
This descriptive, qualitative study is aimed at identifying how low-income families manage to restructure themselves after giving birth to a physically disabled child due to Chronic Childhood Encephalopathy. Parents (n=11) from eight nuclear families with a physically disabled child attending a physiotherapeutic clinic/school in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) were
Publicado em: 2005
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2. Residual cognitive deficits 50 years after lead poisoning during childhood.
The long term neurobehavioural consequences of childhood lead poisoning are not known. In this study adult subjects with a documented history of lead poisoning before age 4 and matched controls were examined with an abbreviated battery of neuropsychological tests including measures of attention, reasoning, memory, motor speed, and current mood. The subjects
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3. Progressive neuronal degeneration of childhood with liver disease (Alpers' disease) presenting in young adults.
Two unrelated and previously healthy girls, aged 17 and 18, presented with a subacute encephalopathy, visual and sensory symptoms and signs, and prominent seizures that were difficult to control. Brain MRI showed lesions (high signal on T2 weighted images) in the occipital lobes and thalamus; EEG showed slow wave activity with superimposed polyspikes. Inexor