PREvention of VENous Thromboembolism in Hemorrhagic Stroke Patients - PREVENTIHS Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial and a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background: In this randomized trial, currently utilized standard treatments were compared with enoxaparin for the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).

Methods: Enoxaparin (0.4 mg daily for 10 days) was started after 72 h from the onset of ICH.

Formant Space Reconstruction From Brain Activity in Frontal and Temporal Regions Coding for Heard Vowels.

Classical studies have isolated a distributed network of temporal and frontal areas engaged in the neural representation of speech perception and production. With modern literature arguing against unique roles for these cortical regions, different theories have favored either neural code-sharing or cortical space-sharing, thus trying to explain the intertwined spatial and functional organization of motor and acoustic components across the fronto-temporal cortical network. In this context, the focus of attention has recently shifted toward specific model fitting, aimed at motor and/or acoustic space reconstruction in brain activity within the language network.

Functional and spatial segregation within the inferior frontal and superior temporal cortices during listening, articulation imagery, and production of vowels.

Classical models of language localize speech perception in the left superior temporal and production in the inferior frontal cortex. Nonetheless, neuropsychological, structural and functional studies have questioned such subdivision, suggesting an interwoven organization of the speech function within these cortices. We tested whether sub-regions within frontal and temporal speech-related areas retain specific phonological representations during both perception and production.

Modality-independent encoding of individual concepts in the left parietal cortex.

The organization of semantic information in the brain has been mainly explored through category-based models, on the assumption that categories broadly reflect the organization of conceptual knowledge. However, the analysis of concepts as individual entities, rather than as items belonging to distinct superordinate categories, may represent a significant advancement in the comprehension of how conceptual knowledge is encoded in the human brain. Here, we studied the individual representation of thirty concrete nouns from six different categories, across different sensory modalities (i.

How concepts are encoded in the human brain: A modality independent, category-based cortical organization of semantic knowledge.

How conceptual knowledge is represented in the human brain remains to be determined. To address the differential role of low-level sensory-based and high-level abstract features in semantic processing, we combined behavioral studies of linguistic production and brain activity measures by functional magnetic resonance imaging in sighted and congenitally blind individuals while they performed a property-generation task with concrete nouns from eight categories, presented through visual and/or auditory modalities. Patterns of neural activity within a large semantic cortical network that comprised parahippocampal, lateral occipital, temporo-parieto-occipital and inferior parietal cortices correlated with linguistic production and were independent both from the modality of stimulus presentation (either visual or auditory) and the (lack of) visual experience.

Arterial stiffness in patients with deep and lobar intracerebral hemorrhage.

Background And Purpose: Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) accounts for approximately 10% of stroke cases. Hypertension may play a role in the pathogenesis of ICH that occurs in the basal ganglia, thalamus, pons, and cerebellum, but not in that of lobar ICH. Hypertension contributes to decreased elasticity of arteries, thereby increasing the likelihood of rupture in response to acute elevation in intravascular pressure.

Thrombolytic treatment of cardiac myxoma-induced ischemic stroke: a review.

Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon, with an autopsy frequency of 0.001%-0.28%: 75% of them are benign, and 50-75% of these are myxomas.

Stroke warning syndrome: 18 new cases.

Background: Stroke warning syndrome (SWS) is a rare cause of stroke characterized by recurrent and short-lasting episodes of transient focal neurological deficits leading up to infarction. On the basis of clinical findings and neuroimaging, it can be capsular, pontine, or callosal. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of SWS in patients admitted to our Stroke Unit for an ischemic stroke and to look for the difference in outcome between patients treated or not with systemic thrombolysis by intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (IV-rtPA).

BLIND: a set of semantic feature norms from the congenitally blind.

Feature-based descriptions of concepts produced by subjects in a property generation task are widely used in cognitive science to develop empirically grounded concept representations and to study systematic trends in such representations. This article introduces BLIND, a collection of parallel semantic norms collected from a group of congenitally blind Italian subjects and comparable sighted subjects. The BLIND norms comprise descriptions of 50 nouns and 20 verbs.

Safety of intravenous thrombolysis in ischemic stroke caused by left atrial myxoma.

Intravenous thrombolytic treatment represents the gold standard for acute ischemic stroke treatment. However there is some concern to perform this treatment in patients with known cardiac myxomas for the risk of haemorragic complications. Here we described a 63-year-old patient with ischemic stroke due to embolization of atrial myxoma and treated with intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator alteplase.

Autonomic activity and baroreflex sensitivity in patients submitted to carotid stenting.

Arterial baroreflex and cardiac autonomic control play important roles in hemodynamic instability after carotid artery stenting (CAS). Spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), heart rate variability (HRV) and blood pressure variability (BPV) are established tools for the assessment of arterial baroreflex and cardiac autonomic activity. Aim of the study was to evaluate cardiac autonomic activity (by means of HRV, BPV and BRS) after CAS and to explore the impact of internal carotid artery stenosis on BRS changes after CAS.

[Acquired factor VIII hemophilia in a geriatric patient].

Acquired hemophilia is a rare coagulopathy in adults, associated with bleeding complications. Although the etiology of this disorder remains obscure, an autoimmune mechanism produces the development of autoantibodies against factor VIII. About half of cases are associated with other conditions, mainly post-partum, underlying cancer, autoimmune disease.