Cocaine abuse is associated with an increased risk of cardiac and cerebro vascular events, such as myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, and ischemic stroke. The underlying mechanisms leading to these complications ...

OBJECTIVE: Neurologic complications are known as important cause of morbidity and mortality in orthotopic heart transplantation. Our aim was to identify the frequency and outcome of neurologic complications after heart ...

Background: Well studied in patients with ischemic stroke after reperfusion thera-pies (RT), hemorrhagic transformation (HT) is also common in patients not treated with RT and can lead to disability even in initially ...

Objective: To establish the complications during hospital stay in patients with stroke in the Department of Clinical Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital in Cuenca in 2005 and 2009. Methods and Materials: This descriptive ...

The aim of the study was to assess risk factors for vascular dementia (VaD) in elderly psychiatric outpatients without dementia, and to determine to what extent clinical interventions targeted such risk factors. Out of 250 ...

The aim of the study was to assess risk factors for vascular dementia (VaD) in elderly psychiatric outpatients without dementia, and to determine to what extent clinical interventions targeted such risk factors. Out of 250 ...

Dysphagia is a swallowing disorder resulting from neurological causes such as cerebrovascular accident. The aim of this study is to describe the characteristics of swallowing commonly found in post-stroke patients showing ...