The safety of spinal manipulation is an issue that demands regular and rigorous assessment, as manipulation of the upper spine has been associated with serious adverse events such as cerebrovascular accidents due to cervical artery dissection. A correlation between stroke and cervical manipulation has been reported with increasing frequency, and each new report seems to reignite debate between ...

Psychiatric illnesses following cerebrovascular accidents has been a popular area of research in recent times. Though poststroke anxiety and mood disorders including depression have been reported often, reports of poststroke psychosis have been considerably rarer. This case report documents an even rarer occurrence of a psychotic disorder in an 8-year-old child with moyamoya disease following a...

AIM Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in haemodialysis patients, but the risks and benefits of anticoagulation in this group are not well characterized. We investigated the prevalence of AF, its associated risk factors, and the incidence of stroke and haemorrhage in a cohort of haemodialysis patients. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 155 patients undergoing maintenance haemodialysis on 1 ...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether persons with right- and left-sided cerebrovascular accidents differ significantly in mean impact of neurobehavioural impairments on ability to perform activities of daily living. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS Retrospective study of data from 215 persons (103 right-sided, 112 left-sided cerebrovascular accident). The Activities of daily living-focused Occupation-based Neurob...

One of the neurologic complications of human immunodeficiency virus infection are cerebrovascular accidents. In HIV infected patients, ischemic strokes have been reported secondary to nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis and cerebral arteritis. We describe an unusual cause of stroke in HIV-1 infection: Herpes Zoster ophtalmicus with contralateral hemiplegia.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Abuse of the popular recreational drug "Ecstasy" (MDMA) has been linked to the occurrence of cerebrovascular accidents. It is known that MDMA alters brain serotonin (5-HT) concentrations and that brain postsynaptic 5-HT(2) receptors play a role in the regulation of brain microvasculature. Therefore, we used brain imaging to find out whether MDMA use predisposes one to cer...

BACKGROUND Carotid artery disease is thought to be a risk factor for neurological complications after cardiac surgery. Routine ultrasonographic screening is still not performed in every patient scheduled for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). AIM To assess factors which may facilitate the selection for elective carotid artery ultrasound examination in patients undergoing CABG. METHODS ...