background :older adults with cerebrovascular accident (cva) show evidence of auditory and speech perception problems. in present study, it was examined whether these problems are due to impairments of concurrent auditory segregation procedure which is the basic level of auditory scene analysis and auditory organization in auditory scenes with competing sounds. methods : concurrent auditory seg...

  Purpose: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an important step for patient survival inside   and outside the hospital. Therefore, the results of CPR can be effective in modifying the structure   of this operation and in eliminating its shortcomings. The purpose of this study was to evaluate   the success rate of CPR in intensive care unit of an Iran’s Army Air Force hospital in 2012.   Mat...

OBJECTIVE A follow-up of accident rate and driving patterns of patients 6-9 years after brain injury. DESIGN Postal questionnaire sent to patients with brain injury who were assessed consecutively in the period 1997-2000 and who were re-issued. SUBJECTS A total of 93 persons, 69 men and 24 women, mean age 57 years, average 9 years post-injury, 65 persons with brain injury after cerebrovascu...

[Purpose] This study verified that the smoothness of reaching movements is able to quantitatively evaluate the effects of two- and three-dimensional images on movement in healthy people. In addition, clinical data of cerebrovascular accident patients were also analyzed by the same method. [Subjects] Ten healthy adult volunteers and two male patients with previous cerebrovascular accidents parti...

A 65-year-old male presented with right hemiparesis and skin lesions. On examination, the patient had multiple, discrete, skin-colored papules on the neck and upper chest with wrinkling of the skin. The lateral part of the trunk and medial aspect of both upper arms showed atrophic plaques. A computerized tomography scan of the head showed dilatation of the basilar artery with a frontoparietal i...

tlte usual manifestation of acute promyelocyte leukemia is hemorrliagic tendency hut thrombotic manifestations may dominate the clinical picture. we report a patient with promyelocyte leukemia which presented as thrombotic cerebrovascular accident and responded to all-transretionic acid and chemotherapy.

Methods The diastolic distal BA (between left anterior descending and left circumflex) and its systolicdiastolic range were explored. A stratified post-hoc survival analysis was performed for 5-year major adverse cardiac and cardiovascular events (MACCE) (all-cause death, cerebrovascular accident, myocardial infarction, or repeat revascularization), a safety endpoint (all-cause death, cerebrova...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to identify factors that were significant in predicting occupational therapy treatment choices and discharge outcomes after inpatient rehabilitation for 112 patients who had experienced a cerebrovascular accident. METHOD A retrospective descriptive study was conducted. RESULTS According to discriminant function analysis, the cerebrovascular accident disabi...