Development of a Non-invasive Device for Swallow Screening in Patients at Risk of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: Results from a Prospective Exploratory Study.

Oropharyngeal dysphagia is prevalent in several at-risk populations, including post-stroke patients, patients in intensive care and the elderly. Dysphagia contributes to longer hospital stays and poor outcomes, including pneumonia. Early identification of dysphagia is recommended as part of the evaluation of at-risk patients, but available bedside screening tools perform inconsistently.

Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome 3 months after blood transfusion.

Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome is characterized by the prolonged but reversible constriction of cerebral arteries accompanied by a sudden onset of severe headache, and is sometimes complicated by subarachnoid hemorrhage or cerebral infarction. It is associated with various clinical conditions and treatments, although the precise pathophysiology is not understood. In particular, several cases of this syndrome have been described to occur in middle-aged women within 1 week of a blood transfusion.

Non-traumatic carotid dissection and stroke associated with anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome: report of a case and review of the literature.

Young adults with stroke frequently do not have any of the traditional risk factors associated with stroke, prompting a search for other mechanical and hypercoagulable causes. The authors report a young man presenting with stroke and subsequently diagnosed with a carotid dissection. Recurrent strokes while on heparin prompted a search for a second etiology and the patient was found to have antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.

"The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?": The anti-abortion movement and the struggle for racial justice.

In 1964, Claude and Jeanne Nolen, who were white, joined an interracial NAACP team intent on desegregating local restaurants in Austin, Texas as a test of the recently passed Civil Rights ACt. Twenty-five years later, the Nolens pleaded "no contest" in a courtroom for their continued social activism. This time the issue was not racial segregation, but rather criminal trespassing for blockading abortion clinics with Operation Rescue.

Repeat imaging for intracranial aneurysms in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease with initially negative studies: a prospective ten-year follow-up.

Patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) have a higher incidence of intracranial aneurysms (ICA) than the general population. These ICA also rupture at an earlier age in patients with ADPKD and are associated with high morbidity and mortality. In a recent study, 25% of patients with ADPKD with a documented ICA demonstrated a new ICA on follow-up.

Recurrence of intracranial aneurysms in autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease.

Background: The natural history of intracranial aneurysms (ICAs) in individuals with autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is poorly defined.

Methods: We followed twenty ADPKD subjects, eleven with ruptured and nine with intact ICA, for 15.2 +/- 8.