Position paper: ability to drive in cerebrovascular diseases

ERS position paper: work-related respiratory diseases in the EU.

A ccording to a 2000 estimate based on workforce data and the CAREX (Carcinogen Exposure) database [1] there were 386,000 deaths worldwide due to noncancer respiratory diseases (asthma: 38,000; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): 318,000; pneumoconioses: 30,000) and nearly 6.6 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) (asthma: 1,621,000; COPD: 3,733,000; pneumoconioses: 1,288,000...

Symptomatic Epilepsies due to Cerebrovascular Diseases

INTRODUCTION Cerebro-vascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of symptomatic epilepsies. This study aims to investigate: a) Frequency of epilepsy in patients with CVD; b) Correlation of epilepsy with the type of CVD (ischemic and hemorrhage) and with age. METHODOLOGY It is analyzed medical documentation of 816 hospitalized patients with CVD in the clinic of Neurology in University Clinic...

Cerebrovascular Disease in Rheumatic Diseases

Thermography in occlusive cerebrovascular diseases.

Cooling of the skin over the medial supraorbital region in 80% of patients who have an occlusion or severe stenosis of a carotid artery can be demonstrated by facial thermography. Minor stenotic lesions in the carotid arteries do not produce characteristic thermographic changes, while thermography is of no help in the diagnosis of vertebrobasilar arterial disease.Thermographic changes suggestiv...

Position Paper

Introduction We have done some initial work investigating what conditions are necessary for the formation of ‘glue’ to keep an online community together. One condition of the ‘glue’ is community knowledge. We are also investigating a particular representation framework on which community knowledge can be built and used. These are briefly discussed below, along with particular ideas we would lik...