• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

• Publikační typ
• abstrakt z konference MeSH

OBJECTIVE: The role of inflammation and neuroimmune mechanisms, which have been documented in various neuropsychiatric disorders including the seizure subtype of functional neurological disorder, remains unclear in functional movement disorders (FMD). To explore these mechanisms, we analyzed selected inflammatory markers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in patients with FMD. METHODS: We compared CSF markers in 26 patients with clinically established FMD (20 females; mean [SD] age = 43.3 [10.9], disease duration = 3.9 [3], range = 0.1-11 years; mean follow-up after lumbar puncture = 4.3 [2] years, range = 0.5-7 years) and 26 sex- and age-matched clinical controls with noninflammatory nonneurodegenerative neurological disorders, mostly sleep disorders. RESULTS: Sixty-five percent of FMD patients versus 15% of controls showed cytological abnormalities (i.e., increased white blood cells [WBC] count, signs of WBC activation, or both; odds ratio [OR] = 9.85, 95% confidence interval = 2.37-52.00, p < .01, corrected), with a significantly higher frequency of an isolated lymphocytic activation, 35% versus 0% (OR = ∞, 95% confidence interval = 2.53-∞, p < .05, corrected). There were no differences in CSF protein and albumin levels, quotient albumin, IgG index, and oligoclonal bands. CSF abnormalities were not associated with more severe motor symptoms or a higher frequency of depression in FMD. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest a possible involvement of immune mechanisms in the pathophysiology of (at least a subtype of) FMD that deserves further investigation.

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• biologické markery mozkomíšní mok   MeSH
• cytologie MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• konverzní poruchy mozkomíšní mok   patofyziologie   MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• počet leukocytů MeSH
• pohybové poruchy * mozkomíšní mok   patofyziologie   MeSH
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• dospělí MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: COVID-19-related inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, and coagulopathy may increase the bleeding risk and lower the efficacy of revascularization treatments in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). We aimed to evaluate the safety and outcomes of revascularization treatments in patients with AIS and COVID-19. METHODS: This was a retrospective multicenter cohort study of consecutive patients with AIS receiving intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) and/or endovascular treatment (EVT) between March 2020 and June 2021 tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. With a doubly robust model combining propensity score weighting and multivariate regression, we studied the association of COVID-19 with intracranial bleeding complications and clinical outcomes. Subgroup analyses were performed according to treatment groups (IVT-only and EVT). RESULTS: Of a total of 15,128 included patients from 105 centers, 853 (5.6%) were diagnosed with COVID-19; of those, 5,848 (38.7%) patients received IVT-only and 9,280 (61.3%) EVT (with or without IVT). Patients with COVID-19 had a higher rate of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (SICH) (adjusted OR 1.53; 95% CI 1.16-2.01), symptomatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (SSAH) (OR 1.80; 95% CI 1.20-2.69), SICH and/or SSAH combined (OR 1.56; 95% CI 1.23-1.99), 24-hour mortality (OR 2.47; 95% CI 1.58-3.86), and 3-month mortality (OR 1.88; 95% CI 1.52-2.33). Patients with COVID-19 also had an unfavorable shift in the distribution of the modified Rankin score at 3 months (OR 1.42; 95% CI 1.26-1.60). DISCUSSION: Patients with AIS and COVID-19 showed higher rates of intracranial bleeding complications and worse clinical outcomes after revascularization treatments than contemporaneous non-COVID-19 patients receiving treatment. Current available data do not allow direct conclusions to be drawn on the effectiveness of revascularization treatments in patients with COVID-19 or to establish different treatment recommendations in this subgroup of patients with ischemic stroke. Our findings can be taken into consideration for treatment decisions, patient monitoring, and establishing prognosis. TRIAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION: The study was registered under ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT04895462.

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• cerebrální krvácení komplikace   MeSH
• cévní mozková příhoda * epidemiologie   terapie   diagnóza   MeSH
• COVID-19 * komplikace   MeSH
• endovaskulární výkony * škodlivé účinky   MeSH
• fibrinolytika terapeutické užití   MeSH
• intrakraniální krvácení etiologie   MeSH
• ischemická cévní mozková příhoda * epidemiologie   chirurgie   MeSH
• ischemie mozku * komplikace   epidemiologie   chirurgie   MeSH
• kohortové studie MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• registrace MeSH
• trombolytická terapie škodlivé účinky   MeSH
• výsledek terapie MeSH
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• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• multicentrická studie MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH

BACKGROUND: Patients with functional neurological disorders (FND) often present with multiple motor, sensory, psychological and cognitive symptoms. In order to explore the relationship between these common symptoms, we performed a detailed clinical assessment of motor, non-motor symptoms, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and disability in a large cohort of patients with motor FND. To understand the clinical heterogeneity, cluster analysis was used to search for subgroups within the cohort. METHODS: One hundred fifty-two patients with a clinically established diagnosis of motor FND were assessed for motor symptom severity using the Simplified Functional Movement Disorder Rating Scale (S-FMDRS), the number of different motor phenotypes (i.e. tremor, dystonia, gait disorder, myoclonus, and weakness), gait severity and postural instability. All patients then evaluated each motor symptom type severity on a Likert scale and completed questionnaires for depression, anxiety, pain, fatigue, cognitive complaints and HRQoL. RESULTS: Significant correlations were found among the self-reported and all objective motor symptoms severity measures. All self-reported measures including HRQoL correlated strongly with each other. S-FMDRS weakly correlated with HRQoL. Hierarchical cluster analysis supplemented with gap statistics revealed a homogenous patient sample which could not be separated into subgroups. CONCLUSIONS: We interpret the lack of evidence of clusters along with a high degree of correlation between all self-reported and objective measures of motor or non-motor symptoms and HRQoL within current neurobiological models as evidence to support a unified pathophysiology of 'functional' symptoms. Our results support the unification of functional and somatic syndromes in classification schemes and for future mechanistic and therapeutic research.

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• konverzní poruchy * MeSH
• kvalita života * psychologie   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• syndrom MeSH
• úzkost diagnóza   MeSH
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• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

OBJECTIVE: Pathophysiology explanations for functional movement disorders often assume a role for emotional hyperarousal. Pupillometry is a validated method for evaluation of emotional arousal by detecting changes in pupil size in response to emotional stimuli. In a case-control study design, we aimed to study objective and subjective emotional arousal using pupillometry and affective ratings. To assess attentional engagement by affective stimuli, we used videooculographic tracking of eye movement patterns (scanpath). METHODS: Twenty-five female patients with functional movement disorders (mean age: 40.9 [SD 12.7] years) and 23 age matched healthy female controls participated in the study. Using infrared high-resolution eye-tracker, both pupil size and eye movement pattern in response to emotionally charged erotic, adventure, threat, victim, and neutral pictures were recorded along with subjective ratings of emotional valence and arousal of the presented pictures. RESULTS: A between-group comparison showed significantly smaller pupil dilation to adventure stimuli compared to neutral stimuli in patients compared to controls (P < 0.004, bootstrap, uncorr., adj. η2 = 0.00). No significant difference in pupillary response to other stimuli and scanpath parameters was found between the groups. Patients rated significantly lower emotional arousal to erotic pictures than controls (P < 0.001, bootstrap, uncorr., adj. η2 = 0.09). CONCLUSION: This study did not find evidence of autonomous or subjective emotional hyperarousal. The mismatch between objective autonomic measures and subjective arousal ratings in patients is of pathophysiological interest and in line with recent findings of impaired interoception in functional movement disorders.

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• arousal * fyziologie   MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• emoce fyziologie   MeSH
• konverzní poruchy * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• pozornost MeSH
• studie případů a kontrol MeSH
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• dospělí MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH

OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to assess cognitive functioning across multiple cognitive domains using a standardised neuropsychological battery in patients with motor functional neurological disorders (mFND). METHODS: Thirty patients with clinically established mFND and 30 age-, sex- and education-matched control subjects underwent a thorough neuropsychological assessment evaluating (1) attention including processing speed, (2) executive functions including working memory, (3) short-term memory, (4) speech and language and (5) visuospatial functions. Performance validity tests (PVT) and self-report measures of depression, anxiety and cognitive complaints were included in the assessment. Only patients with valid test performance were included in the analysis. RESULTS: Three patients scored below the cut-off scores in PVT. Patients performed significantly worse than controls in the following areas: (1) the attention domain which included a slow processing speed (p = 0.005, Cohen's d = 0.89), (2) executive functions (p = 0.01, Cohen's d = 0.88) and (3) speech and language domains (p = 0.025, Cohen's d = 0.77). Patients with mFND showed greater intra-individual variability in cognitive performance (p = 0.005, Cohen's d = 0.94). Cognitive impairments were independent of depressive symptoms, which were higher in mFND patients. CONCLUSION: This study revealed both subjective and objective cognitive impairment in patients with mFND. The neuropsychological profile in mFND was characterised primarily by attentional impairment including a slow processing speed and a high intra-individual variability in cognitive performance. Cognitive impairment was associated with a valid test performance, highlighting that the deficits observed were not likely to be explained by a lack of effort in the patient group. Attention is considered to play a key role in mFND pathophysiology, and the results suggest that such impairments are objectively measurable.

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• exekutivní funkce fyziologie   MeSH
• kognice fyziologie   MeSH
• kognitivní dysfunkce * komplikace   etiologie   MeSH
• kognitivní poruchy * diagnóza   etiologie   MeSH
• konverzní poruchy * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• neuropsychologické testy MeSH
• pozornost fyziologie   MeSH
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• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

BACKGROUND: There are gaps in our neurobiological understanding of functional movement disorder (FMD). OBJECTIVES: We investigated gray matter volumetric profiles in FMD, and related findings to resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) profiles using Human Connectome Project data. METHODS: Volumetric differences between 53 FMD patients and 50 controls were examined, as well as relationships between individual differences in FMD symptom severity and volumetric profiles. Atrophy network mapping was also used to probe whether FMD-related structural alterations preferentially impacted brain areas with dense rsFC. RESULTS: Compared to controls without neurological comorbidities (albeit with mild depression and anxiety as a group), the FMD cohort did not show any volumetric differences. Across patients with FMD, individual differences in symptom severity negatively correlated with right supramarginal and bilateral superior temporal gyri volumes. These findings remained significant adjusting for FMD subtype or antidepressant use, but did not remain statistically significant adjusting for depression and anxiety scores. Symptom severity-related structural alterations mapped onto regions with dense rsFC-identifying several disease epicenters in default mode, ventral attention, and salience networks. CONCLUSIONS: This study supports that FMD is a multinetwork disorder with an important role for the temporoparietal junction and its related connectivity in the pathophysiology of this condition. More research is needed to explore the intersection of functional neurological symptoms and mood.

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• biologické markery MeSH
• dyskineze * MeSH
• konektom * MeSH
• konverzní poruchy * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• magnetická rezonanční tomografie MeSH
• mapování mozku MeSH
• mozek diagnostické zobrazování   MeSH
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• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural MeSH

BACKGROUND: Functional movement disorders, a common cause of neurological disabilities, can occur with heterogeneous motor manifestations including functional weakness. However, the underlying mechanisms related to brain function and connectivity are unknown. OBJECTIVE: To identify brain connectivity alterations related to functional weakness we assessed network centrality changes in a group of patients with heterogeneous motor manifestations using task-free functional MRI in combination with different network centrality approaches. METHODS: Task-free functional MRI was performed in 48 patients with heterogeneous motor manifestations including 28 patients showing functional weakness and 65 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Functional connectivity differences were assessed using different network centrality approaches, i.e. global correlation, eigenvector centrality, and intrinsic connectivity. Motor symptom severity was assessed using The Simplified Functional Movement Disorders Rating Scale and correlated with network centrality. RESULTS: Comparing patients with and without functional weakness showed significant network centrality differences in the left temporoparietal junction and precuneus. Patients with functional weakness showed increased centrality in the same anatomical regions when comparing functional weakness with healthy controls. Moreover, in the same regions, patients with functional weakness showed a positive correlation between motor symptom severity and network centrality. This correlation was shown to be specific to functional weakness with an interaction analysis, confirming a significant difference between patients with and without functional weakness. CONCLUSIONS: We identified the temporoparietal junction and precuneus as key regions involved in brain connectivity alterations related to functional weakness. We propose that both regions may be promising targets for phenotype-specific non-invasive brain stimulation.

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• konverzní poruchy * MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• magnetická rezonanční tomografie MeSH
• mapování mozku MeSH
• mozek * diagnostické zobrazování   MeSH
• temenní lalok MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH

Prezentujeme případ 76letého muže v anamnéze s tromboembolickou chorobou a ischemickou chorobou srdeční, který byl přijat do nemocnice pro akutní hypoxemickou respirační insuficienci při oboustranné pneumonii v důsledku onemocnění COVID-19. Vzhledem k tomu, že druhý den hospitalizace poklesla spontánní saturace O2 na 60 %, byl pacient přeložen na jednotku intenzivní péče, kde byla zahájena intenzivní oxygenoterapie (vysokoprůtoková nazální oxygenoterapie a neinvazivní ventilace prostřednictvím CPAP: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure). Saturace O2 postupně stoupala a docházelo ke zlepšení klinické symptomatologie. Po následné dechové rehabilitaci byl pacient po 17 dnech hospitalizace propuštěn do domácí péče. Ve sdělení jsou zvažovány hlavní faktory, které ovlivňují výsledek léčby ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome). Vedle intenzivní oxygenoterapie přispěly velmi pravděpodobně k úspěšnému zvládnutí závažného stavu u tohoto pacienta včasné podání nízkomolekulárního heparinu, remdesiviru a dexamethasonu. Klinické zlepšení doprovázelo zlepšení laboratorních nálezů (CRP, prokalcitonin, D-dimery, kreatinin, hs-troponin, počet lymfocytů). Závěrem je diskutována možná kauzální souvislost koronavirové infekce s herpetiformním exantémem, který se objevil před propuštěním pacienta z nemocnice.

We present a 76-year-old male with a past medical history of thromboembolism and coronary heart disease. He was admitted to the hospital with acute hypoxemic respiratory insufficiency due to bilateral COVID-19 pneumonia. As spontaneous O2 saturation dropped to 60% on the second day of the hospital stay, the patient was transferred to the intensive care unit where an intensive oxygen therapy was initiated (HFNO: High-Flow Nasal Oxygenotherapy and non invasive ventilation via CPAP: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure). His oxygen saturation gradually increased and follow-up showed improvement in symptoms. After 17 days of in-patient treatment, he was discharged to homecare. Main factors affecting the outcome of ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) are considered. Besides the intensive oxygen therapy, an early administration of low molecular heparin, remdesivir and dexamethasone most probably contributed to reversing the initial serious finding in this patient. Clinical improvement was accompanied by improved laboratory tests (CRP, procalcitonin, d-dimer, creatinine, hs-troponin, lymphocyte count). Finally, we discuss a potential association of coronavirus infection with herpetiform exanthema, which appeared before the patient was discharged from the hospital.

• Klíčová slova
• remdesivir,
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• adenosinmonofosfát analogy a deriváty   terapeutické užití   MeSH
• COVID-19 * komplikace   terapie   MeSH
• dexamethason terapeutické užití   MeSH
• heparin nízkomolekulární terapeutické užití   MeSH
• ischemická choroba srdeční MeSH
• kožní manifestace MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• oxygenoterapie MeSH
• pneumonie diagnostické zobrazování   terapie   MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• tromboembolie MeSH
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• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• Publikační typ
• kazuistiky MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH