[The risk of hemorrhage in long-term use of aspirin and triflusal].

Introduction: Different studies have shown that aspirin (AAS), in low doses, may lead to a considerable frequency of hemorrhagic complications when used in the long term.

Objective: We compare the long-term occurrence of hemorrhagic complications with low doses of AAS and high doses of triflusal.

Patients And Methods: Our series included 106 patients who took 900 mg triflusal per day (300 mg 3 times per day) and 111 who took AAS (330 mg/day once daily).

[Transient cerebral and bone marrow ischemia in patients with atrioseptal aneurysm].

The relationship between atrioseptal aneurysm and ischemic stroke has not been clearly demonstrated. We present three patients with transient cerebrovascular events and one patient with transient medullar ischemia related with the presence of atrioseptal aneurysm. Other causes of cerebrovascular disease have been excluded.

[Somatosensory focal seizures as an onset form in adult Moyamoya syndrome].

Moya-Moya disease is a chronic infrequent vasculopathy. Occasionally such abnormalities are found in association with one of many conditions, in these cases the angiographic abnormality should be termed Moya-Moya syndrome rather than Moya-Moya disease. Although in children the usual manifestations are ischemic events and seizures.

[Risk factors and prognostic variables in transient ischemic attacks and in infarctions with minimal sequelae. A multivariate comparative study].

Background: There are no clinical differences accounting for a distinction between transient ischemic attack (TIA) and cerebral infarct with minimal sequelae (IMS). The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether there are diverse risk factors involving a different prognosis in these two groups.

Methods: 144 patients with TIA and 110 with IMS of atherothrombotic origin were prospectively controlled during a mean period of 21 months.

[Neurologic manifestations of dissecting aneurysms of the aorta].

Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta keeps on being nowadays a diagnostic problem, although it is a well known entity. Dissecting aneurysms may be classified into type A, dissection involving the ascending aorta, and type B, dissection involving descending aorta. The frequency of neurologic manifestations oscillates from 18 to 30%.