Improvement of carotid atherosclerosis and peripheral artery disease after hepatitis C virus eradication by direct-acting antivirals.

Introduction: Recent research points to a link between chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and cardiovascular disease, especially carotid atherosclerosis, and suggests that HCV clearance may impact cardiovascular outcomes.

Aim: To determine if viral eradication by the new oral direct-acting antiviral (DAA) agents has benefit regarding carotid atherosclerosis, peripheral artery disease (PAD), steatosis, and liver fibrosis.

Patients, Materials And Methods: We conducted a prospective study on 168 patients diagnosed with chronic HCV infection or HCV-related cirrhosis.

Seizures and multiple sclerosis‑more than an epidemiological association (Review).

In order to increase the quality of life of patients with epilepsy, it is essential to develop tools that facilitate early disease diagnosis and encourage the use of individualized therapies. The association between seizures and other neurological pathologies is well known but incompletely explained, with multiple sclerosis (MS)-seizures correlation being a relevant example. In this context, the present review aimed to highlight the most important facts related to the association between the heterogeneous group of epileptic pathology and MS, in order to provide initial directions for establishing a diagnostic and therapeutic protocol.

Morpho-functional and radiological approach of poststroke seizures.

Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizures that cannot be associated with other specific causes. The presence of a single convulsive or tonic seizure after a stroke does not necessarily mean that a person develops a form of epilepsy unless the convulsions become chronic and recurrent poststroke epilepsy. The purpose of our study is to highlight the existence of a connection between the type and the topography of a vascular stroke on the one hand, and on the other hand, the type of seizures that have occurred and how long they have occurred after the stroke.

Morphopathological particularities of cerebrovascular diseases for patients in the northeastern area of Romania.

Cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) are pathologies caused by the primary or secondary damage of one or more arteries supplying the brain. Our study aims to create a link between the modifiable risk factors, the affected vascular territory and the clinical manifestation of CVD in patients from our geographical area. Our study proposes the retrospective analysis of a group of 70 patients diagnosed with ischemic stroke with spontaneous hemorrhagic transformation over a period of five years, between April 1, 2015 and April 1, 2018, admitted in the 1st Neurology Clinic, "Prof.