Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in patients with various cardiovascular diseases is a life-threatening complication, the development of which can be contributed by both environmental and genetic factors, understanding necessary to determine tactics treatment predict disease course. The article presents brief review studies on predictors CVA, particular association ABCA1 rs2230806 polymorphism ri...

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...

introduction: evaluation of persistent vertigo in post infarct patients is very important as the management depends on whether the cause is purely of central origin or due to associated vestibular affliction.   case report: a patient with left sided dorsolateral medullary syndrome and persistent vestibular symptoms was evaluated. vestibular test battery showed abnormal smooth pursuit, bilateral...

Arterial hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease.1 Epidemiological studies have provided unequivocal evidence for the association between arterial hypertension and mortality from ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular accident (CVA), and vascular diseases.2 Additionally, there is a strong association between blood pressure (BP) reduction and prevention of coronary artery...

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE Sorafenib is the standard treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, fibrolamellar HCC was not included in sorafenib trials. The case is a 26-year-old man with fibrolamellar HCC, who had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) while being treated with sorafenib. This illustrates a probable relationship between use of sorafenib and CVA in low cardiovascular risk patients.