Background: This study investigated the prevalence of worsening problems using Post Stroke Checklist (PSC) at 3, 6, and 12 months post-stroke and their associations with health-related quality of life. Methods: In stroke patients admitted between June 2014 and December 2015, PSC and EuroQol-5D...
Background and aim A post-stroke checklist was developed to improve the standard of long-term post-stroke care and health-related quality of life. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of worsening problems using a post-stroke checklist at 3, 6, and 12 months post-stroke and their associatio...
Some responders experienced worsening of their depressive symptoms after stopping the study drug. Notably, among the five responders, four achieved remission and not merely an improvement in their depressive symptoms. The common adverse events of infections (upper respiratory and herpes simplex) and ...
PPCS (≥3 new or worsening symptoms on the Post-Concussion Symptom Inventory) was assessed at 28 days postenrollment. Early physical activity and PPCS relationships were examined by unadjusted analysis, 1:1 propensity score matching, and inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW). ...
The patient is on that medication till now and in the attempts to reduce the doses ended up with worsening of his mental state. Conclusions. The diagnosis of depression in neurological patients should not based on examination according to scales as they do not assess the duration of symptoms ...
Emerging evidence suggests that post-stroke aphasia severity depends on the integrity of the brain beyond the lesion. While measures of lesion anatomy and brain integrity combine synergistically to explain aphasic symptoms, substantial interindividual va
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Auto-antibodies to myelin basic protein are associated with worsening cognitive trajectory in the first year after stroke [18]. In addition, in both animals and humans, an infection in the days after stroke boosts harmful autoimmunity and worsens overall outcomes, likely by acting as an adjuvant ...
A subgroup of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 remain symptomatic over three months after infection. A distinctive symptom of patients with long COVID is post-exertional malaise, which is associated with a worsening of fatigue- and pain-related symptoms after acute mental or physical exercise, ...
Pacing and slow progression have successfully been applied to reduce negative effects, post-exertional malaise (PEM), and worsening of symptoms within these populations53,54,55. For the participants in this study, a slower progression and/or lower intensity might have reduced the described negative...