Reliability of retrievable cemented implant-supported prostheses.

Statement Of Problem: One of the disadvantages of a cemented implant restoration is the potential difficulty of retrieving it. The restoration may be destroyed during removal.

Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective clinical study was to assess the long-term survival rates of cemented posterior metal ceramic implant-supported prostheses (ISPs) with a metal screw access hole.

Allocation and preference of patients for domiciliary or institutional rehabilitation after a stroke.

On discharge from an acute-care hospital after a stroke, 191 patients were told that they needed rehabilitation and were offered the option of receiving care in an institution or in their homes. One hundred and one (52.4%) patients chose an institution and 91 (47.

Effectiveness of home rehabilitation after stroke in Israel.

On discharge from an acute general hospital after a stroke, 191 patients were in need of, and were appropriate for, multidisciplinary rehabilitation. One-hundred-and-one patients (52.4%) received it in a rehabilitation institution as inpatients (the institutional rehabilitation group (IR) group) and 91 patients received it at home (the home rehabilitation (HR) group).

Cheyne-Stokes respiration during sleep: a possible effect of body position.

Background: Cheyne-Stokes Respiration (CSR) is a common finding in Chronic Heart Failure and Stroke patients. The body position effect during sleep on obstructive breathing abnormalities is well known. However, the effect of body position during sleep on breathing abnormalities of central type like CSR has not been well documented.

Is the appearance of periarticular new bone formation related to local neurological disability?

The present work examined the relationship between the appearance of periarticular new bone formation (PNBF) and the presence of local sensorimotor disability, and the relationship between PNBF and the severity of the motor disability. The study population consisted of 18 patients with spinal cord lesions and 18 patients with traumatic brain injury. The confinement of PNBF below the level of neurological deficit in patients with spinal cord lesions, and mainly to paralysed or paretic limbs in brain injured patients, indicates a possible causal relationship between the presence of sensorimotor disability and PNBF.

Temporally related changes of sleep complaints in traumatic brain injured patients.

Sleep complaints were obtained from 22 hospitalised patients with traumatic brain injury of recent onset (median 3.5 months after injury) and were compared with those of 77 discharged patients who had sustained brain injury about two to three years (median 29.5 months) previously.

Urinary continence after stroke: association with cystometric profile and computerised tomography findings.

Repeated cystometry was performed in 17 patients after a cerebrovascular accident. Cranial computerised tomography (CT) was performed in all patients. In this series, urinary continence showed a significant correlation both with cystometric bladder tone and with the CT brain findings.