Predictive factors for the development of epilepsy after ischemic stroke.

Objectives: Ischemic stroke is one of the most common causes of epilepsy in adults. The incidence of post-stroke epilepsy (PSE) is approximately 7%. Risk factors are higher stroke severity, cortical localization, higher National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) upon admission and acute symptomatic seizures.

[Migraine preventive treatment: monoclonal antibodies against calcitonine gene related peptide].

Migraine is a very prevalent disorder that is estimated to affect about 10-15% of adult subjects. According to the World Health Organization migraine is one of the first causes of disability. Traditional preventive treatments discovered by serendipity include Beta blockers, antinconvulsants drugs, calcium channel blockers, tricyclic antidepressants and onabotulinum A and offer about 50% efficacy after controlled placebo trials and real life use.

The prevalence of migraine in Argentina: A reappraisal.

Background: Argentina has one of the largest territories in the world, which spreads over a lengthy latitudinal span. Its population is mainly composed of a mixture of South American natives and the descendants of numerous waves of European immigrants. Results from a previous study suggested that the prevalence of migraine in Argentina is the lowest in the region.

Prediction of Balance After Inpatient Rehabilitation in Stroke Subjects with Severe Balance Alterations at the Admission.

Background: Patients with severe motor alterations would be those on who the prediction of the expected motor response after inpatient rehabilitation programs is most required.

Objectives: To analyze if the balance progress measured by the Berg Balance Scale and the time of hospitalization could be independent predictors of the Berg Balance at the end of a post stroke rehabilitation program in patients with severe balance alteration at the admission. Secondly, to compare a Berg Balance prediction model at the time of discharge based on the Berg Balance at the time of admission (model 1) to a Berg Balance prediction model at the time of discharge based on Berg Balance progress and the time of hospitalization (model 2).

Trigeminal Neuralgia Crisis - Intravenous Phenytoin as Acute Rescue Treatment.

Objective: The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to analyze responses to intravenous (IV) phenytoin (PHT) for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) crisis in a group of patients treated at our institution.

Background: TN is one of the most common causes of facial pain. Its treatment relies on preventive therapy with either carbamazepine or oxcarbazepine.

[Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for adult patients with stroke].

It is estimated that two thirds of people who have suffered a stroke have sequels that condition their quality of life. The rehabilitation of the stroke is a complex process, which requires the multidisciplinary approach of specialized professionals (doctors, kinesiologists, nurses, occupational therapists, phonoaudiologists, neuropsychologists and nutritionists). Currently, the practices carried out are a consequence of the combination of evidence and consensus, most of them through international stroke rehabilitation guides.

High-technology augmentative communication for adults with post-stroke aphasia: a systematic review.

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems were introduced into clinical practice by therapists to help compensate for persistent language deficits in people with aphasia. Although, there is currently a push towards an increased focus on compensatory approaches in an attempt to maximize communication function for social interaction, available studies including AAC systems, especially technologically advanced communication tools and systems, known as 'high-technology AAC', show key issues and obstacles for these tools to become utilized in mainstream clinical practice. Areas covered: The current review synthesizes communication intervention studies that involved the use of high-technology communication devices to enhance linguistic communication skills for adults with post-stroke aphasia.

Early motor predictors of recovery in patients with severe traumatic brain injury.

Research Design: Retrospective observational study.

Objective: To compare motor variables between patients with severe traumatic brain injury who emerge and patients who do not emerge from vegetative state, in an attempt to identify early motor manifestations associated with consistent patient improvement.

Methods And Procedures: Patients were divided into two groups: group 1, patients who emerged from vegetative state attaining at least a state of functional interactive communication and/or functional use of two different objects (n = 8); and group 2, patients who did not emerge (n = 7).

Cluster headache in children and adolescents: ten years of follow-up in three pediatric cases.

Background: Cluster headache (CH) is a rare cause of headache in children. Onset before 12 years of age is unusual, and long-term follow-up of pediatric cases has been not reported.

Objectives: To report three cases of CH with onset at childhood and at least ten years of follow-up.