Post-stroke dysphagia: Clinical characteristics and evolution in a single-primary stroke center.

Background: Dysphagia is a common manifestation after stroke and seems to play a major role in clinical and functional outcomes.

Objectives: To identify clinical predictors of higher degrees of dysphagia, as well as assess its burden in our hospital, in order to understand how to improve the approach to this symptom.

Methods: We included 311 patients admitted in an acute stroke unit in a year-long period.

Falls in unilateral lower limb amputees living in the community. A Portuguese study.

Introduction: Lower limb amputees present a high risk of falling. This study aims to characterise fall history in unilateral lower limb amputees that are autonomous in the community, identifying differences between transfemoral and transtibial amputees and assessing fear of falling between fallers and non-fallers.

Material And Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study of consecutive community-dwelling unilateral lower limb adult amputees of any aetiology, attending outpatient consultation in a Portuguese Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine central and university hospital department.