Development of a generic version of the multiple errands test for severe acquired brain injuries.

Background: Impairment of executive functions is a frequent and disabling consequence of brain injury. In 1991, Shallice and Burgess elaborated the Multiple Errand Test (MET) to assess everyday troubles associated with this impairment.

Objective: Our first aim was to create a generic version of MET (MET-G) readily adaptable to different settings and for retesting.

Rehabilitation in a rare case of coffin-siris syndrome with major cognitive and behavioural disorders.

Background: Coffin-Siris syndrome is a rare genetic disease with heterozygous variants in the ARID1A, ARID1B, ARID2, DPF2, SMARCA4, SMARCB1, SMARCE1 or SOX11 genes. It may manifest with somatic anomalies, deafness, urogenital malformations, recurrent infections, mental retardation, speech deficit, agenesis of the corpus callosum, convulsions, hypotonia, developmental delay, and scoliosis.

Case Report: A 14-year-old boy with Coffin-Siris syndrome due to variants in the ARID1A gene was referred to the clinic.

Application of an Intensive Rehabilitation Program After Very Late Recovery of Consciousness: A Single-Case Neurorehabilitation and Neuroimaging Study.

Late recovery of consciousness in vegetative state is considered as an exceptional outcome and has been reported prevalently in patients who suffered a traumatic brain injury. In these patients, the benefits of prolonging the rehabilitation, aimed at the recovery of autonomy in basic everyday activities, has been demonstrated. Here, we describe the application of an intensive multi-professional rehabilitation program carried out on a young female patient, with exceptionally late recovery of consciousness, specifically, after 7 years of vegetative state due to severe brain hemorrhage.

[Sclerotherapy of varicocele. Efficacy of radiological, clinical and seminal treatment].

Between december 1983 and april 1989, percutaneous retrograde sclerotherapy of varicocele was successfully performed on 364 patients. A 5% solution of sodium morrhuate and benzylic alcohol (Varicocid) was administered through a coaxial balloon catheter inserted into the spermatic vein. 10 of the patients had relapses after surgery.

Preoperative 'dynamic' antegrade phlebography of the spermatic vein: physiological detection of spontaneous reflux in clinical and subclinical varicocele. A study of 142 patients.

From March 1977 to December 1982, 142 patients with varicocele of various sizes underwent preoperative antegrade or retrograde phlebography of the left spermatic vein. In 8 of them both procedures were carried out. A retrospective analysis of 68 preoperative antegrade venographies in supine (0 degree) and upright (30 degrees, 45 degrees and 90 degrees) positions was made and compared with 66 retrograde venograms.