Comparison of treatment durations before Covid-19 pandemic, pre- and post-vaccination periods in acute ischemic stroke patients in a Turkish tertiary hospital [2023] - 348KB
by Gozde Baran, Ezgi Vural, Sema Nur Erdem, Secil Irmak, Sena Zeynep Cetin, Ipek Midi
Objective: This study aimed to compare the frequency of admission to hospital in patients with acute ischemic stroke before the COVID 19 pandemic, during the pre-vaccination period, and after the star...

The effect of discharge training and telephone counseling service on patients’ functional status and caregiver burden after stroke: A randomized controlled trial [2023] - 587KB
by Deniz Ezgi Bitek, Ozgul Erol
Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of discharge training and telephone counseling service on patients’ functional status and caregiver burden after stroke. Methods: This study was c...

Effects of virtual balance training and conservative rehabilitation on balance in chronic stroke patients [2023] - 600KB
by Serdar Kilinc, Chasan Mola Ali, Isil Doganer, Elif Yaksi, Ferda Ozdemir
Objective: This study aimed to test the comparative efficacy of virtual balance training (VBT) and conservative rehabilitation (CR) relative to CR alone on balance in chronic stroke patients. Methods:...

RNF213 p.R4810K variant in moyamoya disease in adults and children from a Malaysian tertiary center [2023] - 424KB
by Jun Hui Ho, Kay Sin Tan, Wei Kang Lim, Choong Yi Fong, Tsun Haw Toh, Kar Foo Lau, Zhen Shun Chan, Mei-Ling Sharon Tai, Kartini Rahmat, Farah Diana Tarmizi Thayaparan, Sumitha Murugesu, Ching Ching Ng
Background: Ring finger protein 213 (RNF213) is a major susceptibility gene for moyamoya disease (MMD). A single nucleotide variant known as c.14429G>A (p.R4810K, rs112735431) is strongly associated w...

Chronic kidney disease is an independent risk factor of postoperative seizures after burr hole surgery for chronic subdural hematomas [2023] - 246KB
by Tao Zheng, Nian-Hua Wang, Hai-Bin Leng, Si-Wei Que, Meng Nie, Hua Chen, Li-Xin Xu
Background: Postoperative seizures are serious neurological complications of chronic subdural hematomas (CSDH). The identification of risk factors of seizures after CSDH is needed to determine which p...

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on epilepsy patients [2023] - 292KB
by Firdevs E UÇAN TOKUÇ, Fatma GENÇ, Fatma Z ALTUNÇ, Yasemin BİÇER GÖMCELİ
Background: Pandemics like the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) bring along many individual and social problems. We aimed to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety, depression, ...

The evaluation of the inflammatory parameters in the patients with controlled epilepsy versus the patients with resistant epilepsy [2023] - 479KB
by Tulin Gesoglu Demir, Ozlem Ethemoglu, Dilek Agircan
Objective: This study aims to evaluate the effects of C-reactive protein (CRP), albümin, mean platelet volume (MPV) values and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLO), MPV/...

Spectrum of neurological involvement in mucormycosis following COVID 19: A single tertiary centre study [2023] - 737KB
by Somdattaa Ray, Vikram V Kamath, Arjun Raju, Tulasi Nayak, Aditya Moorthy, Preeti G K, Rohit Gaikwad, Deepak Haldipur, Vishwas Vijaydev, Prithvi S Bachalli, Madhusudan H V, Praveen K S, Arun M A, Prahalad S T, Dhanraj Gangolli
Background: This study aims to describe the clinical and imaging spectrum of neurological involvement in rhino-orbital cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) following COVID. In this observational study, all pa...

Early detection of diabetic peripheral neuropathy using EMLA-induced skin wrinkling [2023] - 583KB
by Bennaree Chuesawai, Suwat Srisuwannanukorn
Background & Objective: Screening for early diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DN) is essential for foot ulcer prevention. The Semmes–Weinstein monofilament (SWMF) is commonly used to detect DN in Thai...

The frequency of polyneuropathy according to dialysis type and its effect on quality of life in chronic renal failure [2023] - 348KB
by Seher Kocaoğlu
Objective:This study aimed to evaluate patients with chronic renal failure who underwent peritoneal dialysis (PD) or hemodialysis (HD). We examined the association of dialysis type on the frequency of...