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Comas in the emergency room of a central hospital.
De Mendonça, A; Melo, T P; Crespo, M; Ferro, J MThe aim of the present prospective work was to study the etiologic diagnosis and prognosis of the comatose patients for whom a neurologic examination is requested. It included 148 consecutive cases admitted to the emergency room of a general hospital. Coma was caused by supratentorial lesions in 38%, subtentorial lesions in 10%, diffuse or metabolic brain dysfunction in 49%, and psychiatric disorder in 1% of th...
Nimodipine in subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Ferro, J M; Canhão, P; Melo, T P; Campos, J G; Trindade, A; Antunes, J LThe efficacy of nimodipine in decreasing mortality and morbidity of subarachnoid haemorrhage (HSA) is evaluated in 51 patients admitted to the Neurological and Neurosurgery Departments of the Santa Maria Hospital. Reductions of 2 x (0.65, 6.39) of the incidence of ischemia in the total group and of 2.1 x (0.58, 7.79) of mortality in the sub-group with initial severity of less than 4 points of the Hunt score wer...
Role of endarterectomy in the secondary prevention of cerebrovascular accidents...
Ferro, J M; Oliveira, V; Melo, T P; Crespo, M; Lopes, J; Fernandes e Fernandes, J; Damião, A; Campos, J G
The patient with acute cerebrovascular disorders: assessment of associated dise...
Monteiro, J; Ferreira, D; Fonseca, T P; Freitas, A; Melo, T P; Ferro, J; Nogueira, J B; Franco, A S; Mota, E; da Costa, J NWe performed a prospective study in 106 patients with acute stroke. The main purpose was to evaluate the associated diseases and to determine their prevalence and incidence in two different types of cerebrovascular disease: the intracerebral hemorrhage (HI) and ischaemic events (AI). The studied population included 54 men and 52 women with a mean age of 66.8 +/- 10.3 years. A clinical examination was performed ...