Publications by authors named "Sherwin J U Agustin"
Objective: The success of clinical research and tissue donation programs are highly dependent on recruitment of willing volunteers. A comprehensive survey of patient preferences and attitudes can help identify and address barriers hindering the recruitment for research.
Method: This is a cross-sectional study on 105 Parkinson's disease patients who completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire.
Brain donations are imperative for research; understanding possible barriers to entry is required to improve brain donation rates. While a few surveys have studied attitudes towards brain banking in patients with neurodegenerative disorders, none have surveyed patients with chronic neurological disorders but without neurodegeneration. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 187 participants, with both neurodegenerative (n = 122) and non-neurodegenerative disorders (n = 65), to compare their attitudes and preferences towards brain donation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHistopathological examination of brain tissue is required for better understanding of neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease and related disorders. However, patient willingness remains the greatest hurdle hampering participation in brain donation for research. While there is extensive research being conducted on the subject in West, to the best of our knowledge, there are no studies done in this regard in Asia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: There is controversy about the optimal patient position for the detection of right-to-left shunt (RLS). The study was performed to investigate which patient position best detects RLS during contrast-enhanced transcranial Doppler.
Methods: We prospectively evaluated consecutive patients with ischemic stroke or TIA referred to our Noninvasive Cerebrovascular Laboratory for suspected paradoxical embolism.