Peripheral Neuropathy in Patients Recovering from Severe COVID-19: A Case Series.

: Neurological manifestations have been reported in a significant proportion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence and severity of peripheral nervous system (PNS) involvement in a large group of convalescent COVID-19 patients undergoing in-hospital multidisciplinary rehabilitation. : Convalescent COVID-19 patients admitted to a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit were consecutively screened for inclusion within 48 h of discharge from an acute care setting.

Loss of cutaneous large and small fibers in naive and l-dopa-treated PD patients.

Objective: To study small and large fiber pathology in drug-naive and l-dopa-treated patients affected by Parkinson disease (PD) in early phases, before the occurrence of neuropathic electrophysiologic abnormalities.

Methods: We enrolled 85 patients with idiopathic PD (male/female 49/36, age 61.3 ± 9.

Predictors of recovery of responsiveness in prolonged anoxic vegetative state.

Objective: The number of patients in prolonged postanoxic vegetative state (VS) is increasing. However, little information is available about prognostic markers of long-term outcome in patients who remain in VS more than 1 month postonset. The present 2-year prospective clinical study aimed to identify prognostic markers, recorded in the chronic phase, that might be useful for predicting recovery of responsiveness in a cohort of postanoxic VS patients.

Cognitive rehabilitation in non-communicative brain-damaged patients.

Conscious patients with severe motor and speech disorders have great difficulty interacting with the environment and communicating with other people. Several augmentative communication devices are now available to exploit these patients' expressive potential, but their use often demands considerable cognitive effort. Non-communicative patients with severe brain lesions may have, in addition, specific cognitive deficits that hinder the efficient use of augmentative communication methods.