A5069519964- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
- Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations
- Global Health and Surgery
- Spinal Hematomas and Complications
- Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
- Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Voice and Speech Disorders
- Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
- Surgical Simulation and Training
- Stuttering Research and Treatment
University of Lisbon
2017-2024
Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental
2024
Hospital de Egas Moniz
2017-2019
The surgical procedure for severe, drug-resistant, unilateral hemispheric epilepsy is challenging. Over the last decades landscape disconnection procedures changed from anatomical hemispherectomy to functional hemispherotomy with a reduction of complications and stable good seizure outcome. Here, task force European surgeons prepared, on behalf EANS Section Functional Neurosurgery, consensus statement different aspects procedure. To determine history, indication, timing, techniques, current...
A man in his late 60s with well-controlled HIV underwent an uneventful surgical clipping of unruptured intracranial aneurism. Postoperatively, he developed fever, seizures and altered mental status. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) showed lymphocytic pleocytosis, high protein count a positive herpes simplex virus (HSV)-2 PCR. Acyclovir was started. Brain MRI right hemisphere T2/FLAIR-weighted anterior temporal cortical subcortical hyperintensities. After 2 months, psychosis, upper limb tremor...
Patients with demyelinating diseases (DDs) such as multiple sclerosis have a 20-fold higher risk of developing trigeminal neuralgia (TN). DD-related TN is more frequently refractory to the usual medical and surgical treatment. We report case 57-year-old man presenting our neurology outpatient clinic 12-year history associated lesions on magnetic resonance imaging. After new failure pharmacological treatment oxcarbazepine, pregabalin, baclofen, duloxetine, motor cortex stimulation (MCS) was...