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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Neurological sciences 21 (2000), S. 251-253 
    ISSN: 1590-3478
    Keywords: Key words Fatal familial insomnia ; Prion disease ; Pica ; Gabriel Gracía Márquez ; Insomnia plague
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract “All the great writers have good eyes” is a sentence by V. Nabokov that is very suitable for G.G. Márquez and his One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel, published in 1967, introduces among many others, the character of little Rebeca, whose frailness and greenish skin revealed hunger “that was older than she was”. The girl, because of a pica syndrome, only liked to eat earth and the cake of white-wash. But her fate appears to be determined by the lethal insomnia plague, whose most fearsome part was not the impossibility of sleeping but its inexorable evolution toward a loss of memory in which the sick person “sinks into a kind of idiocy that had no past”. Rebeca's lethal insomnia looks quite similar to the “peculiar, fatal disorder of sleep” originally described by Lugaresi et al. in 1986. One Hundred Years of Solitude shows that G.G. Márquez was gifted not only with good eyes, but has the seductive power of changing reality into fantasy, while transforming his visions into reality.
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    Springer
    Neurological sciences 13 (1992), S. 749-753 
    ISSN: 1590-3478
    Keywords: General anesthesia ; recovery ; neurological examination ; post-hyperventilation apnea
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Sommario Abbiamo sottoposto a valutazione neurologica fino a 3 ore dal termine dell'erogazione dei farmaci anestetici (Isoflurane-N20-02 per 25 pazienti, Alotano-N20-02 per 38, Fentanyl-Droperidolo-N20-02 per 23) 86 pazienti operati per asportazione di disco intervertebrale lombare erniato. Al tempo 0 la risposta idiomuscolare da percussione del muscolo estensore del carpo era presente in tutti i case mentre erano sempre assenti i riflessi osteotendinei. L'iperreflessia si è presentata con frequenza analoga a quella del brivido, anche se più precocemente. Non siamo stati comunque in grado di evidenziare una correlazione tra i due fenomeni. Non c'è stata relazione alcuna tra temperatura rettale e brivido. La positività alle prove di post-hyperventilationapnoea a 120 minuti in 35 pazienti, nonostante la quasi totalità della popolazione fosse in grado di collaborare ed eseguire correttamente prove di calcolo (100–7), suggerisce una persistenza di anomalie neurologische, quali l'inadeguato “drive” respiratorio, in pazienti considerati “svegli”.
    Notes: Abstract We performed serial neurological evaluations on 86 patients who underwent surgery for herniated lumbar disk during the first 3 hours after the end of anesthesia (isoflurane-N20-02 for 25 patients, halothane-N20-02 for 38, fentanyl-droperidol-N20-02 for 23). At time 0, the idiomuscular response to percussion of the extensor carpi muscle was present in every patient, while tendon reflexes were always absent. Hyperreflexia was as frequent as shivering, but it took place earlier; we could determine no correlation between these two phenomena. There was no correlation between shivering and rectal temperature of the patients. Although almost all the patients were cooperative and could correctly calculate 100–7, the post-hyperventilation-apnea test was positive in 35 patients at time 120 minutes: this suggests that many patients considered “awake” still exhibit neurological abnormalities, such as inadequate respiratory drive.
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