Effects of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Sleep Quality in Heart Disease Patients with and without Heart Failure.

Insomnia is a modifiable cardiovascular risk factor. Previous studies suggested that attending a cardiac rehabilitation program may improve sleep quality in cardiac patients and pointed out the association between heart failure and poor sleep quality. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate sleep quality in patients attending a Multidisciplinary Cardiac Rehabilitation Program (MRCP), and to compare sleep quality between patients with and without heart failure.

[Cerebellopontine angle lipoma: a case report].

Introduction: Intracranial lipomas are infrequent tumours and especially so when they are situated in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA), when they only constitute 0.05% of the total number.

Case Report: We present the case of a CPA lipoma diagnosed in a 38-year-old female with hypoacusis as the presenting symptom and in which magnetic resonance (MR) was the complementary test that proved most useful as a diagnostic aid.

[Hemichorea induced by diabetic ketoacidosis and striatal hyperdensity on computerized axial tomography].

Introduction: Hyperglycaemia, usually not ketotic, may cause hemichorea hemiballism. The mechanism of this physiopathological syndrome is still not clear. It usually occurs in elderly ladies and is associated with hyperdensity in the striate area contralateral to the affected side, on CT and MR potentiated in T1.