Estimates of stroke incidence and case fatality in Zabrze, 2005-2006.

Background And Purpose: Epidemiological rates for stroke obtained in the United States and Western Europe indicate a decrease in incidence and case fatality. Data published for Poland, as for other Central-Eastern European countries, reported unfavourable results, but this was based on data from the 1990s. The authors evaluated current stroke rates in a population study of the southern Poland city of Zabrze.

[Resistance to aspirin in secondary stroke prevention. A pilot study].

Introduction: The purpose of the study was to establish the frequency of aspirin resistance in patients treated in the Department of Neurology in Zabrze with diagnosed transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or ischaemic stroke who used aspirin in the dose of 150 mg daily.

Material And Methods: We examined 20 patients (14 female, 6 male), the mean age 66.8 +/- 11.

[Evaluation of frequency of fatigue syndrome in patients with multiple sclerosis].

Introduction: Fatigue is a common symptom occuring in different neurological diseases. It has an influence on social and proffesional live, and daily living activities of the patients. The aim of the study was to assess frequency of fatigue and its association with depression and anxiety in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

[Etiology and clinical signs as short-term risk factors of status epilepticus].

Introduction: The aim of the study was an analysis of causes, clinical symptoms, complications and predictors of an unfavorable course of status epilepticus (SE).

Material And Methods: Retrospective evaluation of medical files of 28 patients (17 M, 11 F, aged 52 +/- 15 yrs) was made. Patients were treated for status epilepticus in a Neurology Clinic in Zabrze between January 1997 and March 2008.

[The problem of fatigue in neurological disorders].

Fatigue or piercing feeling of weakness, lack of strength and energy or total exhaustion is a common complaint of patients with neurological disorders. From 40 to over 90 per cent of individuals with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, neuroboreliosis, post polio syndrome or stroke confirm its experience. It is not infrequently numbered among most disabling complaints.

[Post-polio syndrome. A case report].

Certain acute anterior poliomyelitis survivors express complaints of abnormal fatigue, weakness and muscular atrophy many years after acute onset. These are basic clinical symptoms of so-called post-polio syndrome (PPS). PPS is characterized by a relatively slow, but progressive pathological muscular process, in some cases leading to functional impairment of daily living and professional activity.

[Contemporary opinions on osteoporosis in neurological disorders].

Osteoporosis is a generalized skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and leading to an increased fracture risk. It is classified by the World Health Organization as one of the main civilization diseases. Given the aging society, its significance is continuously increasing.

[Guillain-Barré syndrome with central nervous system symptoms. Report of two cases].

Guillain-Barré syndrome - acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy - is characterized by symmetrical flaccid paresis of limbs and areflexia or hyporeflexia which progress over a few days, up to 4 weeks. The central nervous system lesion is rarely reported in the course or treatment of the disease. In the paper two cases of patients with diagnosed Guillain-Barré syndrome with the central nervous system manifestations were discussed.