Short-term prognostic value of serum neuron specific enolase and S100B in acute stroke patients.

Objective: To explore the value of blood markers for brain injury as outcome predictors in acute stroke.

Design And Methods: The study included 61 patients with acute stroke (44 ischemic and 17 hemorrhagic) and a high risk control group (79 individuals with no known history of neurological disease). Serum neuron specific enolase (NSE) and S100B were determined by immunoassay (CanAg Diagnostics, Sweden).

[Characterization of a group of patients with cryptococcosis of the central nervous system].

Introduction: Incidence of cryptococcosis of the central nervous system has risen sharply since AIDS became pandemic; from early 1998, the Instituto de Neurología y Neurocirugía in Havana has beaten its own record in the number of cases attended.

Aim: To describe the clinical epidemiological characteristics of patients with this disease who were hospitalised in this centre between 1991 and 2000.

Patients And Methods: We present a descriptive study of 16 adult individuals who were admitted for this reason.