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Chronic pain treatment with spinal cord neurostimulation

The Guidelines Project, an initiative of the Brazilian Medical Association, aims to combine information from the medical field in order to standardize producers to assist the reasoning and decision-making of doctors. The information provided through this project must be assessed and criticized by the physician responsible for the conduct that will be adopted, depending on the conditions and the clinical status ...

Deep brain stimulation - depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder

The Guidelines Project, an initiative of the Brazilian Medical Association, aims to combine information from the medical field in order to standardize producers to assist the reasoning and decision-making of doctors. The information provided through this project must be assessed and criticized by the physician responsible for the conduct that will be adopted, depending on the conditions and the clinical status ...

Neuropsychological and quality of life assessment in patients with Parkinson's ...

ABSTRACT Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been widely used to control motor symptoms and improve quality of life in patients with Parkinsons disease (PD). Recently, DBS in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) has become the preferred target for patients with mixed motor symptoms. Despite resultant motor and quality of life improvements, the procedure has been associated with cognitive decline, mainly in language skill...

Anchored fat-fascia graft for clival skull base reconstruction

Long-term evaluation of physical activity habits after epilepsy surgery

OBJETIVES: Studies have shown that people with epilepsy have a low degree of participation in physical activities. The purpose of this study was to assess the physical exercise habits in patients after epilepsy surgery using a standardized questionnaire. MMETHODOLOGY: The study population consisted of 102 patients submitted to cortico-amigdalo-hippocampectomy. A questionnaire was designed to assess physical act...

Intrasellar internal carotid aneurysm coexisting with GH-secreting pituitary ad...

Níveis cardíacos de troponina I em pacientes com epilepsia do lobo temporal ref...

OBJETIVOS: A morte súbita em epilepsia (SUDEP) é a principal causa de morte entre os pacientes com epilepsia. Alterações morfológicas e funcionais do coração estão relacionadas com a SUDEP. Nesse sentido, o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a concentração de troponina I, um importante marcador de lesão do miocárdio, em pacientes com epilepsia do lobo temporal de difícil controle e que foram submetidos à ressecç...

Peri-ictal complexity loss as determined by approximate entropy analysis in the...

RATIONALE: The development of closed-loop devices suitable for use in the treatment of epileptic patients would very likely rely on the adequate development of paradigms able to forecast the occurrence of seizures. In this paper, we studied the usefulness of approximate enthropy, of a non-linear paradigm, in this patient population. METHODS: We applied approximate entropy (ApEn) analysis to study the variabilit...

Surgical outcome in patients with refractory epilepsy associated to MRI-defined...

INTRODUCTION: Several pre-operative work-up protocols have been used while selecting epileptic patients for surgery among different centers. The relative value of the different available pre-operative tests is still under discussion. OBJECTIVE: We report on the surgical outcome obtained in patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy associated to mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) and who were evaluated pre-op...

Magnetic resonance imaging of cavernous sinus invasion by pituitary adenoma dia...

This study used MRI to define preoperative imaging criteria for cavernous sinus invasion (CSI) by pituitary adenoma (PA). MR images of 103 patients with PA submitted to surgery (48 with CSI) were retrospectively reviewed. The following MR signs were studied and compared to intraoperative findings (the latter were considered the gold standard for CSI detection): presence of normal pituitary gland between the ade...