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Mattarozzi K Stracciari A Vignatelli L D'Alessandro R Morelli MC Guarino M 《Archives of neurology》2004,61(2):242-247
BACKGROUND: The long-term effects of liver transplantation (LT) on minimal hepatic encephalopathy are poorly documented. OBJECTIVE: To assess the cognitive performance of patients with cirrhosis and without overt encephalopathy, before and after LT. DESIGN: Longitudinal study comparing cognitive performance of patients with cirrhosis before LT and 6 to 18 months after LT, with matched control patients. SETTING: University medical center. RESULTS: Six months after LT, patients had improved their performance in visuospatial and selective attention, visuospatial short-term and long-term memory, and language tasks. After 18 months, a further improvement was found for selective attention and verbal short-term memory, while no other cognitive functions varied over time. CONCLUSIONS: The present findings confirm preliminary studies showing that LT improves cognitive functions in patients with cirrhosis. The cognitive improvement is not generalized, but appears prominent in attention and memory and, once achieved, remains stable. Rates of recovery differ, being early for some functions and later for others. 相似文献
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Ingravallo F Vignatelli L Brini M Brugaletta C Franceschini C Lugaresi F Manca MC Garbarino S Montagna P Cicognani A Plazzi G 《Journal of sleep research》2008,17(1):111-119
Impairment because of narcolepsy strongly limits job performance, but there are no standard criteria to assess disability in people with narcolepsy and a scale of disease severity is still lacking. We explored: (1) the interobserver reliability among Italian Medical Commissions making disability and handicap benefit decisions for people with narcolepsy, searching for correlations between the recognized disability degree and patients' features; (2) the willingness to report patients to the driving licence authority and (3) possible sources of variance in judgement. Fifteen narcoleptic patients were examined by four Medical Commissions in simulated sessions. Raw agreement and interobserver reliability among Commissions were calculated for disability and handicap benefit decisions and for driving licence decisions. Levels of judgement differed on percentage of disability (P < 0.001), severity of handicap (P = 0.0007) and the need to inform the driving licence authority (P = 0.032). Interobserver reliability ranged from Kappa = -0.10 to 0.35 for disability benefit decision and from Kappa = -0.26 to 0.36 for handicap benefit decision. The raw agreement on driving licence decision ranged from 73% to 100% (Kappa not calculable). Spearman's correlation between percentages of disability and patients' features showed correlations with age, daytime naps, sleepiness, cataplexy and quality of life. This first interobserver reliability study on social benefit decisions for narcolepsy shows the difficulty of reaching an agreement in this field, mainly because of variance in interpretation of the assessment criteria. The minimum set of indicators of disease severity correlating with patients' self assessments encourages a disability classification of narcolepsy. 相似文献
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Luca Vignatelli Simone Masetti Mario Amore Caterina Laterza Katia Mattarozzi Giulia Pierangeli Pietro Cortelli Stefano Vandi Roberto Vetrugno Giuseppe Plazzi Pasquale Montagna 《Sleep medicine》2010,11(4):343-350
ObjectiveTo describe the unique case of a middle-aged woman with severe insomnia recurring with a regular infradian period without any other significant clinical condition. To infer the existence of a circadian dysfunction modeled according to the physical phenomenon of the “beats.”Patient/MethodsA two-year prospective observation by means of a sleep log was performed during the patient’s normal life. She underwent one month of motor activity recording and also polysomnography, circadian rhythm of body core temperature and psychiatric evaluation during periods with and without insomnia.ResultsVisual inspection of the 293-day plot of the sleep log disclosed a regular 42-day rhythm of insomnia recurrence confirmed by a Discrete Fourier Transform. During the periods of insomnia, lasting 5–7 days, only moderate mood symptoms (depressive overlapping hypomaniac symptoms) were present. Treatment with sodium valproate was effective in curtailing insomnia.ConclusionThe wax and wane infradian modulation of the sleep length suggested the presence of a basic mechanism similar to the physical phenomenon of the “beats,” i.e., a long period modulation of the amplitude of an oscillating system due to the interference of two uncoupled oscillators with a slightly different oscillation frequency. Hypothesizing a dysfunction of the circadian component of sleep, namely two uncoupled circadian cycles, a simple mathematical model estimated the difference of their periods of oscillation |34 ± 2 min| and reproduced the sleep-log data of the drug-free period of observation. 相似文献