Factors influencing response to intravenous lacosamide in emergency situations: LACO-IV study.

Status epilepticus (SE) and acute repetitive seizures (ARSs) frequently result in emergency visits. Wide variations in response are seen with standard antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Oral and intravenous (IV) formulations of lacosamide are approved as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of partial-onset seizures in adults and adolescents.

Artiflex toric phakic intraocular lens implantation in congenital nystagmus.

Case: A 44-year-old woman with congenital nystagmus and myopic astigmatism in both eyes who was submitted to phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation.

Methods: Full ophthalmologic examination including refractive status, corrected (CDVA) and uncorrected (UCVA) monocular and binocular visual acuities, ocular motility, slit-lamp evaluation, tonometry and fundoscopy before and after implantation of toric pIOLs (Artiflex; Ophtec BV, The Netherlands) in both eyes.

Results: Preoperative logMAR CDVA were 0.

Visual and optical performance with the ReZoom multifocal intraocular lens.

Purpose: This study evaluated visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, and wavefront aberrations after refractive multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.

Methods: A prospective study comprising 174 eyes of 87 patients who had bilateral implantation of a multifocal IOL was carried out. A control group of 100 eyes of 50 age-matched patients with a monofocal IOL was used for comparison.

[Clinical usefulness of the Spanish version of the Mississippi Aphasia Screening Test (MASTsp): validation in stroke patients].

Objective: Clinical validation of the Spanish version of the Mississippi Aphasia Screening Test (MASTsp) as a screening test for language disorders in patients who have suffered a stroke.

Material And Methods: A total of 29 patients who had suffered a stroke and had aphasia after a left hemispheric lesion were evaluated with the MASTsp, the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination and the Token Test at baseline and after six months of rehabilitation. Two expert speech-therapists evaluated twelve aphasic patients to determine the inter-observer reliability.

Prevention of hyperopic surprise after LASIK in patients with refractive multifocal intraocular lenses.

Purpose: Three cases of patients who developed a similar hyperopic defect in refraction following laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) after multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) implantation are described.

Methods: Ophthalmologic evaluation including refractive status, corrected and uncorrected visual acuity (both at far and near), and corneal topography in patients presenting similar hyperopic refractive surprise in one eye as a result of LASIK refinement of residual ametropia after refractive multifocal IOL implantation.

Results: Laser in situ keratomileusis enhancement for residual ametropia of -1.

Lack of effect of intraocular lens asphericity on visual performance with acrylic intraocular lenses.

Purpose: To determine whether implantation of acrylic intraocular lens (IOL) with aspheric design (Tecnis Z9003, AMO) results in improved visual acuity or contrast sensitivity compared with conventional spherical acrylic IOL (AR40e, AMO).

Methods: In an intraindividual randomized prospective study of 60 patients with bilateral cataract, the Tecnis Z9003 IOL was compared with the AR40e IOL. Ocular aberrations for a 4.

[Anoxic encephalopathy after ultraviolet radiation session: follow-up and results].

Anoxic encephalopathy is the consequence of acute cerebral oxygen deprivation usually generated by cardiac arrest and/or respiratory failure. Recently an interesting case of one patient with cerebral anoxia after ultraviolet radiation session has been published. This paper shows the clinical evolution of this patient after inclusion in a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program, which included treatment of the psychopathological, neuropsychological and functional impairments that this pathology often generates.

Blue-light filtering intraocular lens in patients with diabetes: contrast sensitivity and chromatic discrimination.

Purpose: To evaluate potential changes in contrast sensitivity and color discrimination in diabetic patients who had cataract surgery and implantation of the blue-light filtering AcrySof Natural (SN60AT) intraocular lens (IOL) compared with an ultraviolet-only filtering (AcrySof SA60AT) IOL.

Setting: Refractive Surgery Unit, Hospital NISA Valencia al Mar, Valencia, Spain.

Methods: Forty-four eyes of 22 diabetic patients were enrolled in a blue-light filtering fellow-eye control study.

[Intelligence and prognosis in severe traumatic brain injury: a neuropsychological study with the Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS-III)].

Objective: To evaluate the utility of the Wechsler adult intelligence scale III (WAIS-III) as a measure of intelligence after severe brain injury, and to elucidate prognostic factors associated with intelligence coefficients (IQs).

Methods: Forty-six patients (age: 27.4 +/- 12.

[Anoxic encephalopathy. Clinical description, prognosis and neuroimaging].

Objectives: To describe the clinical profile (neuropsychological, psychopathological, functional and neuroimaging), as well as the evolution of patients with anoxic encephalopathy.

Patients And Methods: Nine patients with anoxic encephalopathy attending our Service were included in the study. All patients were assessed with a broad range of neuropsychological tests, checklists of psychopathological symptoms, and several functional scales.

[Intelligence, memory and malingering: correlation between scales].

Objectives: To validate the test of memory malingering (TOMM), and to study the influence of intelligence and memory on its performance in brain injury patients.

Patients And Methods: A total of 30 patients with traumatic head injury were included in the study. All patients were assessed with the Complutense verbal learning test, the Visual Reproduction subtest of the Wechsler memory scale-revised, the Boston naming test, two fluency tests (FAS, and animals), the Wechsler adult intelligence test-III, and with the TOMM.

[Complutense Verbal Learning Test versus Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised].

Introduction: We present a comparative study (sensitivity and convergent validity) between a new verbal memory test Complutense Verbal Learning Test (TAVEC) and the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMSr) in a sample of patients with acquired brain injury.

Patients And Methods: Twenty-eight patients with acquired brain injury were included in this study. Twelve patients were reevaluated six months after their inclusion in a cognitive multidisciplinary rehabilitation program.