(1) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(2) Patients with severe aphasia or cognitive impairment who could not communicate well enough for the administration of depression rating scales were excluded.
(3) Among these associated neurological features, only aphasia and apraxia were present in mildly demented cases with sufficient frequency to suggest utility as diagnostic signs early in the course of the disease.
(4) Moreover, on the basis of the results of accumulated lesions on 127 cases with various types of aphasia, the highly involved sites were determined as Broca's area, Wernicke's area and conduction area, and the sizes of the lesions in each area were also determined.
(5) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
(6) Hemiplegia and aphasia, when present, usually regressed within a few months.
(7) For fluency (from the Western Aphasia Battery), subcortical structural damage had direct and indirect (through frontal lobe) effects on the behavior.
(8) In eleven cases the aphasia was due to cerebrovascular disease and in the remaining four cases to traumatic injury to the brain.
(9) Of the four primarily cortical deficits assessed, three (visual field abnormalities, neglect, and aphasia) showed a highly significant graded relationship to the cardiac risk groups.
(10) In reviewing the literature, it was found that these patients were similar to those reported with progressive aphasia.
(11) During the technical and clinical work with the PicBox program we have had the reason and possibility to reflect on the relation between aphasia, language and thinking.
(12) The meaning of the emotional reaction shown by left brain-damaged patients seems easy to understand, if we consider that these subjects are affected by aphasia and by a paresis of the right hand.
(13) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(14) We have made a detailed neurolinguistic study of a patient with motor aphasia.
(15) The extent and severity of his global aphasia were unchanged.
(16) The Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a rare form of acquired childhood aphasia associated with convulsive disorder.
(17) Attention is drawn to the existence of this rare form of aphasia and to the lack of appropriate educational facilities for aphasic children in general.
(18) The patient had an episode of aphasia 15 years ago, but recovered within 6 months.
(19) Clinical manifestations may include transient aphasia and weakness of the limbs with pyramidal signs.
(20) We report here the result of neuropsychological evaluation in a case of associative visual agnosia evolving to optic aphasia.
Dysphagia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Dysphagy
Example Sentences:
(1) All patients presented with severe oropharyngeal dysphagia and frequent aspiration together with pharyngooral and pharyngonasal regurgitation.
(2) Patients were divided into two groups based on etiology of dysphagia (central neurologic vs local mechanical dysfunction).
(3) The main side effect was dysphagia, which appeared to be dose related in individual patients.
(4) A patient presenting with dysphagia and weight loss was found to have a large midesophageal mass.
(5) Experience from the use of feeding plates for babies with cleft palate and from the treatment of dysphagia in patients recovering from stroke led to the design of a simple intraoral appliance.
(6) Carefull angiographic investigation can avoid misjudging the symptoms (stridor, dysphagia) and can contribute to an exact diagnosis thus preventing unnecessary operation.
(7) Complications, such as superficial ulcers, dysphagia, and strictures, were observed in 14%, 7% of emergency, and 3% of elective patients.
(8) The children (a two-year and a three-year old boy), who seemed completely healthy, sudden suffered from acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract with dyspnea, inspiratory stridor, fever, dysphagia, and flow of saliva.
(9) A case of massive DISH in the cervical spine causing dysphagia is described.
(10) Failure to complete feeds, dysphagia, vomiting, coughing, choking and recurrent respiratory symptoms were also significantly more common in this group than in the primary anastomosis group (labeled as group A) even in the absence of stricture.
(11) Eighteen patients complained of dysphagia, but only in 12 of them did endoscopy show esophagitis.
(12) Twenty-four Bouviers with dysphagia were examined between October 1986 and October 1988.
(13) Dysphagia was progressive in all 15 and, in most cases, preceded the onset of other severe brain stem signs.
(14) However, this graft may cause dysphagia by discoordination of contractions, retrograde propulsion of a bolus, or a sustained local contraction, demonstrating the clinical problems associated with free jejunal graft reconstruction of the cervical esophagus.
(15) However, dysphagia occurred in pigs kept alive for more than a month and the main reason was malfunction of the device because of surrounding fibrosis.
(16) Records from 910 patients referred to our clinical esophageal manometry laboratory for evaluation of noncardiac chest pain between January 1983 and December 1985 were reviewed and compared with records from 251 patients referred for dysphagia.
(17) Recurrent ossifications were detected in them some years after surgery, and one of them complained of dysphagia again.
(18) This serendipitous observation antedates clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia.
(19) The most important manometric abnormality was the feeble contractions of the pharyngeal musculature, more pronounced in patients with severe dysphagia (grade II).
(20) Six refused because of excellent relief of their dysphagia, and one was denied operation.