Publications by authors named "Samuel Bovy de Castro-Costa"
This was a descriptive cross-sectional study on patients with spinal cord injuries living in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The aim was to evaluate the pain characteristics among such patients seen at referral care centers for spinal cord injury patients in Curitiba. A total of 109 adults with spinal cord injury in this city were evaluated regarding the presence of pain, especially neuropathic pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSphincter abnormality in polytransfused patient due to paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH): initial manifestation of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1 associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM).
Arq Neuropsiquiatr
December 2010
Objective: Tropical Spastic Paraparesis/HTLV-I Associated Myelopathy (TSP/HAM) is a chronic myelopathy, and pain has been mentioned as a frequent sensory symptom in this condition. The authors aimed at analyzing this symptom in a TSP/HAM patients series.
Method: For this, 46 patients were analyzed considering demographic and clinical characteristics and complaint of pain as to verbal description, time of onset and classification, correlated with the degree of motor disability and type of pain.