Spasticity, a neurological problem secondary to an upper motor neuron lesion, has a significant effect on skeletal muscle. The upper motor neuron lesions may be secondary to a cerebral vascular accident, head injury, spinal cord injury, or degenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis, or perinatal brain injuries such as cerebral palsy. Functional ability in these patients can be severely co...

A pair of hypertensive identical twins are reported, one of whom was non-compliant with her antihypertension medication, and after a subarachnoid haemorrhage was found to have multiple cerebral aneurysms. The other asymptomatic compliant twin was noted to have only a single small cerebral aneurysm. As both identical twins are likely to share the same cerebral vascular architecture it is suggest...

Morgagni was thought first to have described the condition of coarctation of the aorta in 1760. Crafoord and Nylin (I945) discussed the surgical treatment of coarctation, describing two male patients, aged I2 and 27 years, in whom successful surgery had been performed. Surgical treatment was also described by Kirklin et al. (I952), in an infant ten weeks old and at the other end of the scale, G...

A 64-year-old woman with a history of ovarian carcinoma and cerebrovascular accident presented with the acute onset of a severe throbbing headache with associated nausea and vomiting. Th e patient described intermittent headaches over the preceding month with associated vision changes during these episodes. She was found to have intraventricular hemorrhage on an initial head computed tomography...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To evaluate prevalence, aetiology, prognosis, and associated neurological and ophthalmological problems in children with cortical visual impairment (CVI). METHODS The records of 7200 outpatients seen in the paediatric ophthalmology practice over the past 15 years were reviewed in order to compile data concerning CVI. In addition, the authors devised and applied a system for gr...

Neurological symptoms as the result of non-typical course of superficial cerebral veins are described in available literature very rarely. The case described below indicates that in some circumstances the compression symptoms derived from the cerebral cortex may be incredibly more serious than their anatomical reasons. In our observation a young woman was described complaining of paroxysmal num...

Lower limb orthotic intervention is considered as an important element in the rehabilitation of the patients with stroke. Hemiplegic gait are widely used by clinicians to describe a pattern of limb movement and body posture for the patients with stroke. This gait pattern is dangerous to the patients as it is an unstable walking pattern and has a high risk of fall. Application of ankle foot orth...

background: coronary angiography consists of the selective injection of contrast agents in coronary arteries. optimal strategy for heparin administration during coronary angiography has yet to be determined. we assessed the effect of heparin administration during coronary angiography on vascular, hemorrhagic, and ischemic complications. methods: five hundred candiates for diagnostic coronary an...

Background: Simultaneous multiple intracerebral hemorrhages (ICHs) are rare and their underlying mechanisms are unknown. Reported etiologies include hypertension, vasculitis, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, venous sinus thrombosis, coagulopathy, and intracranial vascular anomalies. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA; Wegener’s granulomatosis) is a necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis affecting ...

Objetivos: Identificar o número de dias necessários à obtenção ganhos em independência e quais estes ganhos, indivíduos com acidente vascular cerebral internados num serviço Medicina Física Reabilitação, após intervenção do Enfermeiro Reabilitação. Método: estudo quantitativo, descritivo retrospetivo. Analisados os registros enfermagem referentes aos doentes cerebral, no período janeiro 2013 a ...