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introduction: aphasia is a common manifestation of stroke and evaluation of relationships of aphasia and brain topography could lead to better understanding of cognitive neurophysiology. methods: 100 stroke patients with aphasia admitted in valie-asr hospital, khorasan since april 2003 were enrolled in this prospective cross-sectional study. diagnosis of stroke and aphasia was made by a neurolo...

background and purpose: cancer and cerebrovascular accidents (cva) are two most common causes of mortality and morbidity in the elderly. patients with brain tumor can be highly affected by postsurgical stroke. cva may be the first manifestation in these patients . therefore, we aimed to assess the epidemiological factors affecting cva after brain surgery. methods: in this cross-sectional study ...

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 demogra...

myelodysplastic syndromes (mds) are a group of hematological disorders ranging from chronic refractory anemia to leukemia. there are some reports about association of mds with autoimmune disorders and vasculitis. in this study we describe a patient with mds and vasculitis presenting with central nervous system (cns) involvement. a clinical response to immunosuppressive therapy was also observed...

TO THE EDITOR: Schipke and Tetzlaff (5) suggest breath-hold diving may recruit intrapulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses (IPAVA), providing a pathway for venous gas emboli to become arterialized leading to transient neurological injury consistent with transient ischemic attacks. To be a valid hypothesis there must be evidence of microbubbles in the right ventricle, left ventricle, carotid, or ce...

OBJECTIVES Our purpose of this study was to assess the cerebral hemodynamic improvement with perfusion computed tomography (CT), before and after superficial temporal artery (STA) to middle cerebral artery (MCA) bypass surgery in patients with cerebrovascular steno-occlusive diseases including both moyamoya disease and nonmoyamoya steno-occlusions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-four STA-MCA by...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of embolic signals (ES) in acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and their association with stroke. METHODS From December 2004 to October 2006, 209 consecutive patients with ACS (without prosthetic heart valves or previous stroke) were studied within 72 hours of symptom onset. Patients underwent ES monitoring in both middl...

Introduction The more widespread appreciation of the fact that transient ischaemic cerebrovascular attacks (TIAs) often give warning of an impending completed stroke has been a significant advance in the management of cerebrovascular disease. An increasing number of patients are now referred for investigation after they have experienced only one or two TIAs while there may still be time to prev...