Hiroshi Komatsu

TL;DR: Enterovirus 71 is one of the pathogenic viruses that cause hand-foot-and-mouth syndrome, as well as a variety of other clinical manifestations, the most important of these is neurologic disease, especially in infants and young children.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that vasculopathy and demyelination caused by an immunologic mechanism play an important role in the pathogeneses of neurologic disorders associated with M. pneumoniae infection is supported.

TL;DR: This study revealed the following characteristics of these disorders: subjects with CLCNKB mutations showed one or more biochemical features of Gitelman syndrome, and subjects with KCNJ1 mutations appeared to show normal fractional chloride excretion sensitivity to furosemide and thiazide administration.

TL;DR: A 2 year old boy developed acute cerebellar ataxia in association with erythema infectiosum and genomic DNA and antibodies against human parvovirus B19 were detected in serum but not in cerebrospinal fluid.

TL;DR: Thyrotropin-releasing hormone has a neurotrophic effect on the spinal anterior motor neurons of spinal muscular atrophy patients and thus may be warranted for the management of spinal muscles atrophy.