ABSTRACT These guidelines are the result of a joint effort from writing groups of the Brazilian Stroke Society, the Scientific Department of Cerebrovascular Diseases of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology, the Brazilian Stroke Network and the Brazilian Society of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Neuroradiology. Members from these groups participated in web-based discussion forums with predefined themes, followed by vi...
Migraine and ischemic strokes are two of the most prevalent diseases worldwide. Besides having a coincident symptomatology, for long researchers have been searching for a possible causal relation between these diseases. Current evidence based on data suggest that patients with aura migraine could have a doubled risk of developing an ischemic stroke, when compared to the rest of the population. At the same time,...
Neurosonological studies, specifically transcranial Doppler (TCD) and transcranial color-coded duplex (TCCD), have high level of specificity and sensitivity and they are used as complementary tests for the diagnosis of brain death (BD). A group of experts, from the Neurosonology Department of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology, created a task force to determine the criteria for the following aspects of diagnosi...
Abstract Scientific Department of Cognitive Neurology and Aging of ABN had a consensus meeting to write recommendations on treatment of vascular dementia, there was no previous issue. This disease has numerous particularities and can be considered a preventable dementia. Prevention treatment is primary care of vascular risk factors or a secondary prevention of factors that could cause recurrence of ischemic or ...
Patent foramen ovale (PFO), a relatively common abnormality in adults, has been associated with migraine. Few studies also linked PFO with cluster headache (CH). To verify whether right-to-left shunt (RLS) is related to headaches other than migraine and CH, we used transcranial Doppler following microbubbles injection to detect shunts in 24 CH, 7 paroxysmal hemicrania (PH), one SUNCT, two hemicrania continua (H...
Monomelic amyotrophy (MA) is a rare condition in which neurogenic amyotrophy is restricted to an upper or lower limb. Usually sporadic, it usually has an insidious onset with a mean evolution of 2 to 4 years following first clinical manifestations, which is, in turned, followed by stabilization. We report a case of 20-years-old man who presented slowly progressive amyotrophy associated with proximal paresis of ...
O acidente vascular cerebral (AVC) é a terceira causa de óbito e a principal causa de incapacidade em indivíduos adultos. Embora a mortalidade do AVC esteja diminuindo em alguns países, a morbidade tem aumentado em razão do envelhecimento da população e do aumento da sobrevida dos pacientes¹. O tratamento com ativador do plasminogênio tissular recombinante (rt-PA) é eficaz quando instituído em até 3 horas após ...
Com finalidade de orientar e oferecer subsídios para a conduta diagnóstica e terapêutica em diferentes situações dentro das doenças cerebrovasculares, a Sociedade Brasileira de Doenças Cerebrovasculares (SBDCV) constituiu um comitê composto por neurologistas de diferentes áreas do Brasil que emitiram um parecer, denominado "Opinião Nacional", redigido nos moldes dos consensos. O presente artigo analisa a "neuro...
The authors report the case of a 29 years old male patient presenting classical Guillain-Barré syndrome following head trauma. Only one other similar case is described in the literature. Head trauma as a precipitating event of the disease is discussed.