Publications by authors named "Vera Lucia Braatz"
Response to "Nerve conduction studies support the classification of SARSCoV-2 associated Guillain-Barre subtypes".
Gustavo Figueiredo da Silva Caroline Figueiredo da Silva Raddib Eduardo Noleto da Nobrega Oliveira Fabiana Romancini Rafael Marques Mendes Vera Lucia Braatz
Clin Exp Neuroimmunol
May 2022
Background: Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute monophasic immune-mediated polyradiculoneuropathy, preceded by gastrointestinal or respiratory infections in up to two-thirds of patients. On rare occasions, people develop GBS after vaccination, but no causal association has been proven. In the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, some cases have been reported associating COVID-19 vaccine with GBS.
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- The study aimed to adapt the Global Assessment of Severity of Epilepsy (GASE) and Global Assessment of Disability (GAD) scales into Brazilian Portuguese and compare self-reported scores from patients with those from their physicians.
- A multicenter study involved 138 patients from five epilepsy centers in Brazil, who completed the GASE and GAD questionnaires along with other validated scales, while 20 attending physicians provided their ratings.
- The results showed that the GASE and GAD scales were easy for patients to understand, demonstrated a significant correlation between patient self-ratings and physician ratings, and highlighted the impact of epilepsy on patients' lives.
The authors describe a case report of a patient with parakinesia brachialis oscitans, which occurred during thrombolytic therapy, in a patient with left-middle cerebral artery occlusion.
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