BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and prognosis of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and its subtypes among Iranian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS In a cross-sectional study, medical records of 575 SLE patients were reviewed. The patients developing CVA in their course of disease were extracted. In these patients, data about demogr...

Introduction/Background: Occurrence of a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction (MI) is an uncommon but recognized clinical problem [1]. Although, intracranial hemorrhage is the primary neurological complication noted after thrombolytic therapy [2, 3], ischemic CVA is an infrequent and devastating complication that is reported to occur after 48...

This article examines the nursing care that should be given to patients who have suffered a stroke (cerebrovascular accident or CVA) that has caused them to have dysphagia. It focuses on the maintenance of their nutrition and hydration needs through safe oral feeding practices and how the risk of aspiration can be managed. This is an important nursing issue, particularly as the Royal College of...

Aphasic individuals often lose the ability to analyze written information phonetically because of left hemisphere damage experienced through cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or head trauma. In this study, aphasic and normal adults demonstrated use of a right hemisphere visuospatial strategy to analyze printed whole works and word parts such as prefixes and suffixes. The performances of the two gr...

Objetives: Hemiplegic patients are considered to be a population at risk of suffering osteoporotic fractures. The aim of this work is to understand the absolute risk of fragility fracture in patients with cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and the osteometabolic state of patients with ictus in the acute phase, as well as confirming if there are baseline differences compared to a control group witho...

OBJECTIVE Stroke is a major complication after coronary surgery, occurring in 1-4% of the patients. In this study, we evaluate the incidence and pre- and intraoperative risk factors for the development of a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and the impact of such an event on perioperative mortality and on hospital length of stay. METHODS Data from 4567 patients submitted to isolated coronary art...

Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is a major complication of sickle cell disease. The incidence and mortality of and risk factors for CVA in sickle cell disease patients in the United States have been reported only in small patient samples. The Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease collected clinical data on 4,082 sickle cell disease patients enrolled from 1978 to 1988. Patients were followed f...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the performance of persons with right cerebrovascular accident (RCVA) and persons with left cerebrovascular accident (LCVA) on a variety of measures of praxis and visual perception in order to examine the relative contributions of the left and right cerebral hemispheres to praxis and perception. METHODS Forty-five subjects, 15 with RCVA, 15 ...