Publications by authors named "Sara Z Bahar"
Background: Ischaemic stroke in young adults encompasses approximately 5 - 15% of all ischaemic strokes, depending on the selected upper age limit. The key features of the disease, including incidence, risk factors, underlying causes, mortality, outcomes, as well as long-term risks of recurrent events are different from those for elderly patients. There is also evidence indicating that these characteristics may differ ethnically and geographically.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAkinetic mutism is characterized by profound apathy and a lack of verbal and motor output for action, despite preserved alertness. The condition usually follows bilateral damage to the medial frontal subcortical circuits. We report a 59-year-old right-handed woman who was admitted to the neurology ward with sudden-onset akinetic mutism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: We compared among young patients with ischemic stroke the distribution of vascular risk factors among sex, age groups, and 3 distinct geographic regions in Europe.
Methods: We included patients with first-ever ischemic stroke aged 15 to 49 years from existing hospital- or population-based prospective or consecutive young stroke registries involving 15 cities in 12 countries. Geographic regions were defined as northern (Finland, Norway), central (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Switzerland), and southern (Greece, Italy, Turkey) Europe.
Background: We aimed to investigate gender differences in Turkish stroke patients.
Material And Methods: Demographics, risk factors, clinical and etiologic subtypes, laboratory findings, clinical course, and in-hospital prognosis of 1 522 patients with ischemic stroke (IS) and 320 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage prospectively registered in the Istanbul Medical School Stroke Registry (1994-2004) were analyzed separately.
Results: The mean age of IS patients was higher in females (n : 751) (P<0.
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- Spinal subdural hematoma (SDH) is a rare condition, especially when it occurs alongside cranial SDH, which was observed in a 77-year-old male patient.
- The patient experienced symptoms like lower back pain, paraparesis, and urinary retention, following a sudden headache, and imaging revealed both types of hematomas due to cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) related to polycythemia vera.
- This case suggests that spinal SDH may result from blood migration from the brain, marking the first documented instance of simultaneous spinal SDH and cerebral hemorrhage in a patient with myeloproliferative disease.