Multimedia holistic rehabilitation method for patients after stroke-efficiency analysis.

The article presents the results of post-stroke rehabilitation of patients with brain dysfunctions causing cognitive impairments such as problems with concentrating, reasoning, logical thinking, and memory. Some of those patients suffered from various forms of aphasia as well. The holistic rehabilitation of the stroke patients was aided by specially designed computer systems offering an array of varied multimedia tasks.

A multimedia holistic rehabilitation method for patients after stroke.

The rehabilitation of patients after a stroke must provide polisensoric cognitive therapy. A specially designed computer/information system suits well to these requirements and offers a complementary and holistic treatment, which can be used in a rehabilitation center and later at the patient's home.

[Computer-based rehabilitation of cognitive impairments and motor arm function of patients with hemiparesis after stroke].

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of the computer program made for the patients after stroke to treat their cognitive impairments and hemiparesis.

Research Design And Methods: The experimental group involved 10 patients after stroke who were obliged to train on a computer every day during their three-week stay on the rehabilitation ward. The control group involved 10 patients after stroke who did not participate in any computer training during their rehabilitation process.

[Polyethylene faults as causes for failure in total hip replacement].

The paper deals with polyethylene faults leading to failure in total hip replacement. The material has well known advantages and is widely used but has also significant disadvantages: excessive wear of some cups, delamination and peeling of the bearing surface of the cup, fracture and fragmentation of the cup and inducing adverse biological reactions that might lead to the loosening of the implant. Final modeling of the polyethylene cup, radiation sterilization and biological factors can alter internal structure of the polyethylene and change mechanical properties of the cup with failure of the hip arthroplasty resulting.

[Acute pancreatitis as a distant complication of partial gastrectomy by the Billroth II method].

The paper presents a patient with acute pancreatitis (AP) after partial gastrectomy by means of Billroth mode. AP was caused by the occlusion of the intestinal afferent loop and the secondary pancreatic duct retention. The occlusion resulted from gastrointestinal anastomosis performed arterior to the transverse colon and adhesion.