Publications by authors named "G R Abiusi"
Introduction: Encephalic calcifications (EC) are a frequent finding in neuroimaging of CT scans, which have many causes,both symptomatic and asymptomatic. This paper has aimed to report a series of patients who had had a previous thyroidectomy years earlier in whom the presence of hypoparathyroidism (HP) EC and their clinical manifestations had been analyzed.
Patients And Methods: A group of 38 women who had undergone a thyroidectomy from 14 to 45 years ago were evaluated.
Background: Clinical and experimental evidence suggests that a localized decrease in oxygen brain tissue availability contributes to the neurological deficit in patients with cerebrovascular disease (CVD) who also present with frontal leukoaraiosis (LA) (periventricular hypodensity on CT scan) and lacunar infarcts. In a prospective controlled trial blinded to patients but not to investigators, we tested the effect of HBO2 on this group of patients.
Methods: Selected patients with symptomatic CVD, LA and lacunar infarcts received daily exposures of 45 minutes for 10 days to hyperbaric oxygen (n=18, HBO2 group) or hyperbaric air (n=8, control group).
Background: Triflusal is an antiplatelet agent that has shown clinical advantages when compared with aspirin in the secondary prevention of vascular events. TAPIRSS (Triflusal versus Aspirin for Prevention of Infarction: a Randomized Stroke Study) explored the efficacy and safety of triflusal in the secondary prevention of stroke in a Latin American homogeneous population with the ultimate aim of preparing for a larger trial in the same setting.
Methods: A double-blind, multicenter, randomized, pilot trial was conducted in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 1996 to November 1999.
Objectives: In view of the several terminologies in countries belonging to the Iberoamerican Cerebrovascular diseases Society it seemed appropriate that the Executive Committee should propose a unified cerebrovascular diseases classification and nomenclature.
Development: Based on the classifications of strokes NINCDS, TOAST, Laussane Stroke Registry, OCSP and that of the cerebrovascular diseases group of the Sociedad Española de Neurología, we devised a system for classification of cerebrovascular diseases with the objective of harmonizing the nomenclature and criteria of Iberomerican countries. We chose the word stroke as the most suitable for the definition of cerebrovascular diseases.
Introduction: Frontal leukoaraiosis (LA) is a common finding in patients with subcortical small-vessel disease and currently its pathogenesis is attributed to ischemic-hypoxic mechanisms. It associates to a vascular subcortical frontal syndrome (VSFS) for which an effective treatment does not exist.
Clinical Cases: We present four subjects from a prospective patient-blind controlled pilot trial to study efficacy and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) vs hyperbaric air in VSFS with LA.