Publications by authors named "Daniel da Cruz Bezerra"

Article Synopsis
  • - Over the last 30 years, stroke care has improved significantly due to advances in reperfusion therapy and better-organized care systems.
  • - Patients treated within a well-structured stroke service experience better outcomes, leading to reduced disability and lower death rates.
  • - The article reviews the scientific evidence for stroke reperfusion therapies, such as thrombolysis and thrombectomy, and their integration into Brazil's public health system.
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Neurologic complications are being recognized as important outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Pathogenesis is varied and incompletely understood, and may include neuroinvasion, indirect post-infectious neuroinflammation, and cerebrovascular pathologies. We present a case of COVID-19-related encephalomyeloradiculitis with clinical and magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders that was associated with anti-aquaporin-4 antibodies.

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