RESULTS: Among 2671 patients, 23.4% (626) needed MRI to diagnose vertigo of central origin. Of these, 4.6% (122/2671) of patients had confirmed vertigo of central origin, such as cerebral infarction (2.4%, 63/2671) or cerebral vascular accident (0.7%, 19). For the diagnosis of a central cause of acute isolated vertigo in patients in the ED, the sensitivity of MRI was 89.3%, and the specificity ...

All pathologic neuromuscular disorders have two common characteristics: (1) they occur as a direct result of damage to nervous tissue (supraspinal, spinal cord or peripheral nerve); and (2) the damage results in a disruption of a feedback loop or communication path between supraspinal structures (brain) or between supraspinal structures and the organs associated with them. These include four se...

Cortical blindness following grand mal seizures occurred in five adult patients. The causes of seizures included idiopathic epilepsy, vascular accident, brain cyst, acute encephalitis and chronic encephalitis. Blindness was permanent in one patients, but the others recovered within several days. Since most of the patients were either unaware of or denied their blindness, it is possible that thi...

THE cerebral hemodynamies of cerebrovaseular disease are not well understood. One limitation to their physiologic evaluation is the marked variability of human cerebrovascular disease. Important variations include the nature of the acute episode (i.e., thrombosis, embolus, hemorrhage with or without cerebral infarction) ; the amount of underlying cerebrovascular disease; the presence and degree...

The issue of cerebral vascular pathology is one the most important social problems in modern world, and Russia no exception. Cerebrovascular diseases are distinguished by high prevalence, mortality disability rates. They great importance from a health perspective not only each individual, but total nation. Acute or chronic disorders circulation naturally results atherosclerosis major arteries h...

The Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA) results in disabilities of paretic limbs, but few studies have investigated the impacts CVA on perception deficits as well related functional changes. Motor function alterations caused by CVA, such presence associated reactions, loss postural control mechanisms, and tone disorders, shift body's center gravity, generating a risk falls. aim present study was t...