ALLMedicine™ Hemimegalencephaly Center

Apr 21st, 2022 - Post-zygotically acquired genetic variants, or somatic variants, that arise during cortical development have emerged as important causes of focal epilepsies, particularly those due to malformations of cortical development. Pathogenic somatic varia...

Apr 1st, 2022 - Focal malformations of cortical development including focal cortical dysplasia, hemimegalencephaly and megalencephaly, are a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders associated with brain overgrowth, cellular and architectural dysplasia, intractab...

Mar 26th, 2022 - Most patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) do not receive prenatal diagnosis. Our aim was to describe MR imaging findings to determine the following: 1. Whether normal fetal MR imaging is more common in fetuses imaged at ≤24 weeks' gestat...

Mar 1st, 2022 - Efficacy of Ketamine Use in Refractory Status Epilepticus Associated With Hemimegalencephaly.|2022|Brisca G,Pirlo D,Prato G,Tortora D,Siri L,|therapeutic use,therapeutic use,drug therapy,etiology,

Feb 2nd, 2022 - Brain somatic mutations in genes belonging to the mTOR pathway are well recognized in malformations of the cortical development, such as focal cortical dysplasia or hemimegalencephaly. The present study aims to search for brain somatic mutations i...

Feb 2nd, 2022 - Brain somatic mutations in genes belonging to the mTOR pathway are well recognized in malformations of the cortical development, such as focal cortical dysplasia or hemimegalencephaly. The present study aims to search for brain somatic mutations i...

Feb 1st, 2020 - BALTIMORE – About one in 4,000 children are born with hemimegalencephaly, meaning one brain hemisphere is abnormally formed and larger than the other. Dr.

Feb 1st, 2020 - BALTIMORE – About one in 4,000 children are born with hemimegalencephaly, meaning one brain hemisphere is abnormally formed and larger than the other. Dr.

Jan 23rd, 2018 - The Diagnosis: Nevus Sebaceous The patient presented with a typical solitary scalp lesion characteristic of nevus sebaceous (NS). The lesion was present at birth as a flat and smooth hairless plaque; however, over time it became more thickened and.

Sep 23rd, 2013 - Two Reports: HPV and Focal Cortical Dysplasia Two amazing research papers concerning the human papillomavirus (HPV) have recently appeared in distantly related medical journals. The first article was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases...

MADRID — Patients with microcephaly, hemimegalencephaly, tuberous sclerosis, and polymicrogyria have an earlier onset of epilepsy and are more likely to experience comorbid neurologic and cognitive deficits than are patients with other malformatio.