INTRODUCTION Aphasia is considered to be the most difficult disorders of speech-language communication, and is often companion by all forms of cerebrovascular disease. GOAL To determine the outcome of aphasia disorder a year after a stroke and stroke type influence on the outcome of aphasia disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed one-year outcome of aphasia disorders in patients who had...

To determine the relations between post-stroke aphasia severity and aphasia type and lesion location, a retrospective review was undertaken using the medical records of 97 Korean patients, treated within 90 days of onset, for aphasia caused by unilateral left hemispheric stroke. Types of aphasia were classified according to the validated Korean version of the Western Aphasia Battery (K-WAB), an...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine cross-linguistic differences in a picture-description task between Korean- and English-speaking individuals with Broca's and anomic aphasia to determine whether a variation exists in the use of verbs and nouns across the language and aphasia groups. Method Forty-eight individuals (male = 29; female = 19) participated in the study (n = 28 for aph...

aphasia diagnosis is a challenging medical diagnostic task due to the linguistic uncertainty and vagueness, large number of measurements with imprecision, inconsistencies in the definition of aphasic syndromes, natural diversity and subjectivity in test objects as well as in options of experts who diagnose the disease. in this paper we present a new self-organized multi agent system that diagno...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little is known about the contribution of aphasia to the cost of care for patients who experience stroke. METHODS We retrospectively examined a cohort of South Carolina Medicare beneficiaries who experienced ischemic stroke in 2004 to determine the attributable cost of aphasia. Univariate analyses were used to compare demographic, comorbidity, and severity differences b...

BACKGROUND To study the characteristics of vascular aphasia in a cohort of patients with a first-ever stroke. METHODS All patients admitted to the Lausanne neurology department for a first-ever stroke between 1979 and 2004 were included. Neurological examination including language was performed on admission. Stroke risk factors, stroke origin and location, associated symptoms and Rankin scale...

OBJECTIVE Very few studies have investigated the predictive value of functional outcome, social outcome and discharge destination in patients with cerebrovascular accident (CVA) with aphasia. The aim of this study was to verify whether aphasia is predictor for outcome in patients with stroke with aphasia. METHODS The study was carried out in 262 patients with primary diagnosis of CVA and apha...

Objective To evaluate the types and severity of subcortical aphasia after stroke and to determine the predictors of the degree of aphasic impairment. Methods Medical records of 38 patients with post-stroke subcortical aphasia (19 males; mean age, 61.7±13.8 years) were reviewed retrospectively with respect to the following tests: the Korean version of the Western Aphasia Battery (K-WAB), the K...

OBJECTIVE To analyze cognitive functions of post-stroke aphasia patients compared to patients having right hemispheric stroke and left hemispheric lesions without aphasia, and to look for a relationship between cognitive deficits and aphasia severity. METHODS Thirty-six patients with right hemispheric stroke (group 1), 32 with left hemispheric lesion without aphasia (group 2), and 26 left hem...

RATIONALE The efficacy of rehabilitation therapy for aphasia caused by stroke is uncertain. AIMS AND HYPOTHESIS The Very Early Rehabilitation of Speech (VERSE) trial aims to determine if intensive prescribed aphasia therapy (VERSE) is more effective and cost saving than non-prescribed, intensive (usual care-plus) and non-intensive usual care (UC) therapy when started within 15 days of stroke ...