Clinical and functional outcome and factors predicting prognosis in osmotic demyelination syndrome (central pontine and/or extrapontine myelinolysis) in 25 patients

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 326-331

  Kallakatta, Ramesha Nekkare ^a   Radhakrishnan, Ashalatha ^a   Fayaz, R K ^a   Unnikrishnan, J P ^a   Kesavadas, Chandrasekharan ^a   Sarma, Sankara P ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMYELINATION; DISABILITY RATING SCALE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRAPONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENT MEASURE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; OSMOTIC DEMYELINATION SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951778632     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.201764     Document Type: Article

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