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Comas in the emergency room of a central hospital.
De Mendonça, A; Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa.; Melo, T P; Crespo, M; Ferro, J MThe aim of the present prospective work was to study the etiologic diagnosis and prognosis of the comatose patients for whom a neurologic examination is requested. It included 148 consecutive cases admitted to the emergency room of a general hospital. Coma was caused by supratentorial lesions in 38%, subtentorial lesions in 10%, diffuse or metabolic brain dysfunction in 49%, and psychiatric disorder in 1% of th...
An estimate of the prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Portugal.
Garcia, C; Serviço de Neurologia, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa.; Costa, C; Guerreiro, M; Leitão, O; de Mendonça, A; Umbelino, JThe authors projected to the Portuguese population the data on prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease obtained respectively by Hofman et al. and Rocca et al through reanalyses of European epidemiological studies conducted or published between 1980 and 1990. The projection relies on the fact that the results of these reanalyses are extensive to all European countries. With this projection which is based ...
Carbon monoxide poisoning.
Conceição, I; Serviço de Neurologia, Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, H. Sta. Maria, Lisboa.; de Mendonça, A; Alves, M; Fernandes, A; Coelho, HThe authors present a case of acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, with associated cerebral, spinal and peripheral nerve lesions. The spinal lesion observed in our patient is a rare condition and, the association between cerebral ischemic lesions and spinal and peripheral nerve lesions has not been previously described. In this case the spinal cord lesion is of hemorrhagic type as shown by MRI. The authors dis...
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