Purpose: The main goals of this study were to translate and assess the psychometric properties and reliability of the Portuguese version of the SAQOL-39 in a group of chronic aphasia patients. Methods: We used the translation and retroversion method from the original scale to ensure conceptual uniformity. The instrument was administered to 33 aphasia patients. Internal consistency was assessed ...

Background We require high-quality information on the current burden, types of therapy and resources available, methods delivery, care pathways long-term outcomes for people with aphasia.Aim To document inform international delivery post-stroke aphasia treatment, to optimise recovery reintegration aphasia.Methods & Procedures Multi-centre, prospective, non-randomised, open study, employing blin...

BACKGROUND The role of the arcuate fasciculus (AF) in the dominant hemisphere in stroke patients with aphasia has not been clearly elucidated. We investigated the relation between language function and diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) findings for the left AF in chronic stroke patients with aphasia. METHOD Twenty five consecutive right-handed stroke patients with aphasia following lesions ...

UNLABELLED This study examined the relationship between the severity of aphasia and regional cerebral perfusion on brain SPECT using statistical parametric mapping (SPM) and a statistical probabilistic anatomic map (SPAM) in patients with a striatocapsular infarction (SCI) along with the other clinical and imaging findings. METHODS The subjects were 16 right-handed Korean-speaking patients wi...

permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The presence of clinical-diffusion mismatch (CDM) in patients with acute ischemic stroke may represent the ischemic penumbra, which requires emergency reperfusion therapy to improve stroke outcomes. We report here our experience of treating a patient with acute is...

The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of oriental medicine therapy on poststroke aphasia. The outcome was measured as the delta value of the Aphasic Quotient score. Patients completed test at two timepoints: baseline and discharge time. Patients who received conventional therapy and language therapy were grouped in the Only Language Therapy group. Patients who received...

Background & Aims: Stroke incidence is 15 million people world wide annually and one third of these patients suffer from aphasia. Aphasia is often associated with significant disability in patients. Costs due to cerebrovascular diseases play an important role in national health expenditures. We aimed to assess the effect of piracetam in treatment of aphasia. Methods: Patients with acute ischemi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the therapeutic effect of neurologic music therapy (NMT) and speech language therapy (SLT) through improvement of the aphasia quotient (AQ) in post-stroke aphasic patients. METHODS Twenty-one post-stroke, nonfluent aphasia patients who had ischemic/hemorrhagic stroke on radiologic evaluation were divided into the NMT and SLT groups. They received NMT and SLT for 1 mon...

Objectives: The brain’s widespread neural functions lead to aphasia in which the patients experience difficulties in cognitive and language functions. Memory, type, and severity of aphasia are associated with language and the naming process. In the current study, we investigated the relationship between memory, type, and severity of aphasia using the confrontation naming test in post-stroke pat...