OBJECTIVE to identify predictors of good outcome in acute basilar artery occlusion (Bao). Background: acute ischemic stroke (aiS) caused by Bao is often associated with a severe and persistent neurological deficit and a high mortality rate. METHODS the set consisted of 70 consecutive aiS patients (51 males; mean age 64.5 ± 14.5 years) with Bao. the role of the following factors was assessed: ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Early neurological deficit severity is the most important determinant of final functional outcome in acute ischemic stroke. However, deficit severity frequently changes during the first hours and days postonset. METHODS Analysis of control group patients enrolled in the 2 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke tissue-type plasminogen activator trials. N...

The authors present a historical review of the neurological diseases related to the famous moviemaker Federico Fellini. There is an account of diseases depicted on his movies as well as his ischemic stroke and consequent neurological deficit - left spatial neglect.

To investigate the mechanisms underlying the neuroprotective effect of L-serine, permanent focal cerebral ischemia was induced by occlusion of the middle cerebral artery while monitoring cerebral blood flow (CBF). Rats were divided into control and L-serine-treated groups after middle cerebral artery occlusion. The neurological deficit score and brain infarct volume were assessed. Nissl stainin...

BY ARBITRARY DEFINITION, focal neurological deficit due to vascular disease which resolves in less than 24 hours is called a transient ischemic attack (TIA); one that exceeds this length of time is attributed to infarction or hemorrhage. Some neurologists distinguish another category, in which a neurological deficit lasting more than 24 hours eventually resolves completely — usually within 3 we...

Coil migration is a rare but devastating endovascular complication that can lead to severe neurological deficit. There are only 11 cases reported in the literature, with majority located within middle and anterior cerebral arteries.

The cases of sixty patients in whom a burst fracture of a thoracic or lumbar vertebral body had been treated with posterior instrumentation and arthrodesis less than two weeks after the injury were retrospectively reviewed. Thirty of the patients had an associated laminar fracture. Eleven of the thirty, all of whom had a lumbar fracture and a preoperative neurological deficit, were noted at ope...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Isradipine, a calcium channel blocker, provides consistent protection of the brain from injury and reduces neurological deficits produced by ischemic stroke in hypertensive rats. In these experiments, isradipine was utilized to cross-validate both the serial MRI measurement of brain infarctions with histology measurements and to validate a series of simple neurological deficit t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the improvement in neurological deficit following late decompression and stabilization of the fractured thoracolumbar spine. METHODS Between January 2001 and August 2004 neurological recovery in 120 thoracolumbar fractures was studied after posterior stabilization at the Hospital for Bone & Joint Surgery, Srinagar, India. There were 88 male and 32 female patients. Fall f...

The diagnosis of thiamine deficiency is essentially made on clinical grounds and may present with neurological deficit such as peripheral neuropathy and Wernicke’s encephalopathy, or with high output heart failure (wet beriberi). This study was done to determine the frequency with which both the neurological and cardiovascular manifestations coexist in states of thiamine deficiency. The hospita...