Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Following Cerebrovascular Accident: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Background: Cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) following cerebrovascular accident (CVA) have rarely been reported.

Methods: Case report and literature review.

Results: We describe the case of a 58-year-old, right-handed man developed OCD 17 months after stroke resulting from lesion of the right middle cerebral artery infarction.

Development of a prognostic scale for severely hemiplegic stroke patients in a rehabilitation hospital.

Objectives: For patients with severe hemiplegia in a rehabilitation hospital, early prediction of the functional prognosis and outcomes is challenging. The purpose of this study was to create and verify a prognostic scale in severely hemiplegic stroke patients and allowing for prediction of (1) the ability to walk at the time of hospital discharge, (2) the ability to carry out activities of daily living (ADL), and (3) feasibility of home discharge.

Patients And Methods: The study was conducted on 80 severely hemiplegic stroke patients.

Prediction of Independent Walking Ability for Severely Hemiplegic Stroke Patients at Discharge from a Rehabilitation Hospital.

Background: It is important to predict walking ability for stroke patients, because rehabilitation programs are planned on such predictions. We therefore examined predictive factors that are available before discharge from a rehabilitation hospital.

Methods: Seventy-two consecutive patients with a first attack of stroke with severe hemiplegia were included in this study.

The effect of voluntary training with family participation on early home discharge in patients with severe stroke at a convalescent rehabilitation ward.

Background: The purpose of this study was to clarify the effects of voluntary training with family participation in addition to conventional rehabilitation for stroke patients.

Methods/design: The subjects were 49 first-time stroke patients with severe hemiplegia. They were divided into two groups: a family participation group, in which voluntary training was performed with family members (21 patients), and a nonfamily participation group, in which voluntary training was performed with a physical therapist (28 patients).

A proposal of subcategorization of bacterial prostatitis: NIH category I and II diseases can be further subcategorized on analysis by therapeutic and immunological procedures.

Aim: We propose preliminarily that acute (category I of the NIH consensus definition) and chronic prostatitis (category II) can be subcategorized into primary and recurrent diseases based on the precise analysis of the clinical course and the immunological parameters in prostatic secretions of our cases.

Methods: Five patients with stone-free, acute febrile prostatitis and nine patients with acute episodes of afebrile urinary infection were included. The expressed prostatic secretions (EPS) were collected soon after the acute illnesses subsided after medication administration and they were examined microscopically, bacteriologically, and serologically.