Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What looks and feels like a stroke sometimes isn't. Instead, sudden weakness, difficulty speaking, vision changes, dizziness and other symptoms of a stroke might be caused by something else—a stroke mimic. Ad Conditions that mirror a stroke include seizure, m...
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Poor outcome predictors are multiple cortical dysfunction, initial symptoms with altered level of consciousness with/without seizure, middle cerebral artery lesion, infant age onset, persistence of hemiparesis 1 month after stroke, and bilateral hemisphere lesions57,90, 93,99, 100. School re-entry is...
In this retrospective study, we collected clinical and radiographic data on children (age range, 1 month to 18 years) with symptoms and radiographic confirmation of seizure after ischemic stroke for the period of January 1996 to July 2006. Thirty-nine out of 94 children with ischemic stroke had...
Seizures: Seizures are one of the most frequent stroke mimics, particularly in patients with presenting with Todd’s paresis or postictal aphasia/dysphasia. Seizure related cortical signal abnormalities may have associated DWI abnormality. The distinguishing features from an arterial infarct include a no...
104 More direct routes to the brain, such as stereotactic injections, are also being explored, but they carry their own risks, such as infection, hemorrhage, and seizure. Monitoring the fate and survival of injected cells in patients would facilitate a better understanding of the behavior of ...
Seizures (Dogs/Cats):Aseizurecan be the result of heatstroke. Any seizure activity should result in an immediate call to your veterinarian or a visit to the emergency animal clinic in your area. Pale, blue or red gums (Dogs/Cats):For healthy dogs and cats, gums should be pink and moist...
Seizure-free patients significantly more often received statins as secondary prophylaxis (55.7% vs. 41.7%; p < 0.001). For detailed results of the univariate analysis, please refer to Table 1. Acute non-neurological infections were significantly more common in patients with acute symptomatic ...
AC, SIu, SC performed the literature review using the terms “asthma”, “stroke”, “subarachnoid hemorrhage”, “smoking”, “SABA”, “LABA”, “SAMA”, “LAMA”, “corticosteroids”, “TPA”, “antiepileptic”, “seizure”, “hypoxia”, “aspirin”, “beta blockers”, “angiotensin con...
Epilepsy refers to a constellation of disorders and can be classified according to characteristic symptoms and signs, seizure type, cause, age of onset, and electroencephalographic patterns (Berg et al, 2010). For many years it was thought that epilepsy occurred exclu- sively as a result of ...