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Avaliação clínica da relação entre postura, respiração e deglutição em paciente...

O Acidente Vascular Cerebral (AVC) é a doença neurológica que mais incapacita os adultos. A respiração, a postura e a deglutição possuem uma relação direta nesta doença, necessitando assim de uma intervenção multidisciplinar. O objetivo do presente estudo foi realizar uma avaliação clínica integrada para analisar a relação entres estas disfunções. Trata-se de uma paciente do sexo feminino com 37 anos, com seis ...

Guidelines for acute ischemic stroke treatment: part II: stroke treatment

The second part of these Guidelines covers the topics of antiplatelet, anticoagulant, and statin therapy in acute ischemic stroke, reperfusion therapy, and classification of Stroke Centers. Information on the classes and levels of evidence used in this guideline is provided in Part I. A translated version of the Guidelines is available from the Brazilian Stroke Society website (www.sbdcv.com.br).

Aphasia and herpes virus encephalitis: a case study

CONTEXT: Meningoencephalitis early in life, of any etiology, is a risk factor for development of subsequent sequelae, which may be of physical, psychiatric, behavioral or cognitive origin. Anomia is a language abnormality frequently found in such cases, and other language deficits are rarely described. The aim of this study was to describe the cognitive and linguistic manifestations following a case of herpetic...

Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among elderly Brazilians over eighty ...

INTRODUCTION: An ischemic stroke is usually a catastrophic event, mostly in the elderly. Cardiovascular involvement is the leading cause of ischemic stroke in this age population and hence the knowledge about its risk factors is important for the definition of specific policies of prevention. PURPOSE: To evaluate the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in patients with age equal to or above 80 in a hospit...

Internal carotid artery dissection presenting as cluster headache

Dissecção espontânea das artérias carótidas e vertebrais em uma população multi...

A dissecção espontânea das artérias carótidas e vertebrais (DEACV) é considerada uma causa rara de acidente vascular cerebral, particularmente em países com população multiétnica. O objetivo desse estudo foi avaliar características clínicas e de neuroimagem dos pacientes com DEACV em uma população multiétnica. Foram estudados 66 pacientes com diagnóstico de DEACV em dois hospitais terciários de São Paulo. Aplic...

Spontaneous artery dissection in a patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (H...

BACKGROUND: The relationship between human immunodeficiency virus infection and stroke may be attributed in some cases to an underlying vasculopathy such as in spontaneous cervical arteries dissections. CASE REPORT: We report the case of an HIV-infected patient who developed a Wallemberg's syndrome due to a vertebral artery dissection. Screening laboratory exams showed hyperhomocysteinemia and also high C-react...