background: bilateral activity is a rehabilitation method for cerebral vascular accident (cva) patients with proven efficacy. this study investigated the effects of bilateral activities on the affected side upper limb functions in cva patients. methods: in this empirical study, 21 cva patients were assigned into case and control groups. during 8 weeks interventions the case group received bilat...

Until December 8, 2007, the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb received 12 reports of (specific symptoms of) cerebral infarction associated with the use of cisplatin. Reported terms were brainstem infarction, arterial thromboembolism, cerebral infarction, cerebrovascular accident, cerebrovascular disorder, embolism, hemiplegia, paralysis, and cortical blindness. Four of these reports we...

In patients with malignant hypertension, immediate blood pressure reduction is indicated to prevent further organ damage. Because cerebral autoregulatory capacity is impaired in these patients, a pharmacologically induced decline of blood pressure reduces cerebral blood flow with the danger of cerebral hypoperfusion. We compared the reduction in transcranial Doppler-determined middle cerebral a...

Case presentation: A 12 years old Iranian girl, who lived in Brazil for 5 previously to the stroke and was bilingual (Persian Portuguese). On October 2016 girl suddenly presented seizures, hemiparesis aphasia. Tests immunological, infectious coagulation diseases were normal; echocardiogram showed a 39 × 17 mm tumor left atrial cavity, that surgically excised 20 days after. The patient came our ...

The risk of stroke is actually highest during the perinatal period. However, some newborn infants may have no signs indicative of the need of brain imaging, or brain images taken may not be sensitive enough to diagnose ischemic injuries; so, the diagnosis of stroke may be delayed several months or years. The neurological picture in patients with perinatal stroke detected through neuroimaging mo...

In women ages 15-45 years, an additional set of risk factors are important in the pathogenesis of ischemic stroke. Some of these pertain strictly to women, and relate to exogenous hormones and pregnancy. Various other conditions are more common in women, which include migraine with aura, selected vascular disorders and autoimmune conditions. These differences do have implications for management...

Acidente Vascular Encefálico (AVE) e Aneurisma Cerebral (AC) são patologias que acometem milhares de pacientes pelo mundo anualmente, difícil controle, possuem alta morbimortalidade se correlacionam, já a ruptura um aneurisma cerebral desencadeia uma hemorragia intracraniana. Existem fatores risco como maus hábitos vida, tabagismo, hipertensão arterial sistêmica (HAS), idade, sexo, os quais inf...