scholarly journals C-04Profile of an Individual with a History of Thalidomide Exposure, Cerebral Vascular Accident, and Lifestyle Factor: A Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 642.1-642
Author(s):  
S Viggiani ◽  
B Myers ◽  
K Hutchinson ◽  
K DeRoche ◽  
C King ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lifestyle Factor ◽  
Cerebral Vascular Accident ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cerebral Vascular

scholarly journals Physical Therapy’s Management for the Complex Treatment of Patients Having Had a Cerebral Vascular Accident - Case Study

GYMNASIUM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol XXI (2 (Supplement)) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Elena Rabolu
Keyword(s):  
Cerebrovascular Accident ◽  
Joint Stiffness ◽  
World Health ◽  
Cerebral Vascular Accident ◽  
Bed Sores ◽  
After Cancer ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Accident Case ◽  
Cerebral Vascular

Worldwide, cerebral vascular accident is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. According to the World Health Organization, 6,5 million cerebrovascular accident- induced deaths were recorded in 2011. In Romania, the cerebrovascular accident is the third mortality cause, after cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The number of cerebral vasculo-circulatory diseases continues to grow, due to atherosclerosis and high blood pressure frequency. Physical therapy aims to help patients gradually recover the range of motion in their lower and upper limbs, reduce oedema, prevent bed sores, prevent or reduce joint stiffness, as well as recover the ability to perform day to day activities. The purpose of this paper was to highlight physical therapy’s beneficial outcome when applied individualised to a patient having had a cerebral vascular accident with a view to improving the psycho- motor and sensory imbalances accompanying this diagnosis.

Abstract P244: Utility or Futility of Echocardiography in Determining Cardiac Causes of CVA

Hypertension ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza A Lodhi ◽  
Hasan Shafiq ◽  
Asim Mushtaq ◽  
Muhammad H Khan ◽  
Ehtesham Haq ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Previous History ◽  
Admission Diagnosis ◽  
Cerebral Vascular Accident ◽  
P Values ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Patient Level ◽  
Single Center Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Current Guidelines ◽  
Cerebral Vascular

Background: Current guidelines recommend that all patients who are suspected to have a cardio-embolic cause for their cerebral vascular accident (CVA) should receive an echocardiogram. However, there are no clear risk stratification tools to help clinicians identify patients at high risk for having cardio-embolic stroke. As a result, echocardiograms appear to be over utilized and may have a low yield in routine clinical practice. Methods: In our single center study we included patients who were >18 years old and had been admitted from November 2015 to February 2016 to our hospital with an admission diagnosis of Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA) using ICD-9 code 434.91. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with a greater likelihood of having an echocardiogram ordered as a part of the diagnostic workup. Results: Among 347 patients who were admitted with a diagnosis of CVA, echocardiogram was ordered in 259 (74.6%) patients. In patients who underwent echocardiography, only 3/259 (0.01%) had abnormal findings (e.g., Patent foramen ovale or intracardiac vegetations) that might suggest a cardio-embolic source for their CVA. In the adjusted analyses we found that factors like age, previous history of CVA, findings of atrial fibrillation on electrocardiogram (p-values > 0.05), were not significantly associated with the decision for ordering echocardiograms. Conclusions: Our study shows a low yield of echocardiography to determine an embolic cause in patients who were admitted to the hospital with diagnosis of CVA. Furthermore, no patient-level variables were associated with the likelihood of having an echocardiogram ordered. This may suggest that providers’ decisions to order echocardiograms is random rather than systematic, which itself stems from lack of clear recommendations for clinicians in when to order this test. More clear guidelines in this matter will be helpful to ensure appropriate utilization of this modality in CVA patients.

Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores movement and circulation across the Mediterranean and seeks to contribute to a history of proto-nationalism in the Maghrib and the Middle East at a particular moment prior to World War I. The discussion is particularly concerned with the interface of two Mediterranean spaces: the Middle East (Egypt, Ottoman Empire) and North Africa (Morocco), where the latter is viewed as a case study where resistance movements sought external allies as a way of compensating for their internal weakness. Applying methods developed by Subaltern Studies, and linking macro-historical approaches, namely of a translocal movement in the Muslim Mediterranean, it explores how the Egypt-based society, al-Ittihad al-Maghribi, through its agent, Aref Taher, used the press as an instrument for political propaganda, promoting its Pan-Islamic programme and its goal of uniting North Africa.

Turning Aliens into Socialists

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Jessica Moberg
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swedish History ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Highly Evolved

Immediately after the Second World War Sweden was struck by a wave of sightings of strange flying objects. In some cases these mass sightings resulted in panic, particularly after authorities failed to identify them. Decades later, these phenomena were interpreted by two members of the Swedish UFO movement, Erland Sandqvist and Gösta Rehn, as alien spaceships, or UFOs. Rehn argued that ‘[t]here is nothing so dramatic in the Swedish history of UFOs as this invasion of alien fly-things’ (Rehn 1969: 50). In this article the interpretation of such sightings proposed by these authors, namely that we are visited by extraterrestrials from outer space, is approached from the perspective of myth theory. According to this mythical theme, not only are we are not alone in the universe, but also the history of humankind has been shaped by encounters with more highly-evolved alien beings. In their modern day form, these kinds of ideas about aliens and UFOs originated in the United States. The reasoning of Sandqvist and Rehn exemplifies the localization process that took place as members of the Swedish UFO movement began to produce their own narratives about aliens and UFOs. The question I will address is: in what ways do these stories change in new contexts? Texts produced by the Swedish UFO movement are analyzed as a case study of this process.

A Case Study on the Process of Creating Interests in History of History-Deokhu

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-159
Author(s):  
Young-Seok Seo ◽  
Bong-Seok Kim
Keyword(s):  
History Of

Scales and Units

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn M. de Luna
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Bantu Languages ◽  
The North ◽  
First Case ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
River Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
Alternative Approaches

This chapter uses two case studies to explore how historians study language movement and change through comparative historical linguistics. The first case study stands as a short chapter in the larger history of the expansion of Bantu languages across eastern, central, and southern Africa. It focuses on the expansion of proto-Kafue, ca. 950–1250, from a linguistic homeland in the middle Kafue River region to lands beyond the Lukanga swamps to the north and the Zambezi River to the south. This expansion was made possible by a dramatic reconfiguration of ties of kinship. The second case study explores linguistic evidence for ridicule along the Lozi-Botatwe frontier in the mid- to late 19th century. Significantly, the units and scales of language movement and change in precolonial periods rendered visible through comparative historical linguistics bring to our attention alternative approaches to language change and movement in contemporary Africa.

Case Study: Rome's House of Memory and History: The Politics of Memory and Public Institutions

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Portelli
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Political Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ambitious Program ◽  
The City

This article centers around the case study of Rome's House of Memory and History to understand the politics of memory and public institutions. This case study is about the organization and politics of public memory: the House of Memory and History, established by the city of Rome in 2006, in the framework of an ambitious program of cultural policy. It summarizes the history of the House's conception and founding, describes its activities and the role of oral history in them, and discusses some of the problems it faces. The idea of a House of Memory and History grew in this cultural and political context. This article traces several political events that led to the culmination of the politics of memory and its effect on public institutions. It says that the House of Memory and History can be considered a success. A discussion on a cultural future winds up this article.

The Wolf Man’s Glückshaube: Rereading Sergei Pankejeff’s Memoir

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 789-814
Author(s):  
Anat Tzur Mahalel
Keyword(s):  
Complex Matrix ◽  
Neurotic Symptom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Wolf Man

A comparative reading of Freud’s canonical case study “From the History of an Infantile Neurosis” (1918) and the memoir written by the protagonist of that study, Sergei Pankejeff, known as the Wolf Man (1971a), centers on the complex matrix of meanings embodied in the act of lifting the veil. The neurotic symptom of a veil seemingly in front of the analysand’s eyes is interpreted by Freud as a repetition of his birth in a Glückshaube (German for “caul,” literally a “lucky hood”). The veil is represented as an ambivalent object both for Freud and for Pankejeff, who are enticed by the sense of a final truth behind the veil yet constantly doubt the possibility of grasping it. For Freud, psychoanalysis is the very process of lifting the veil, yet his analysand remained for him an unsolved riddle. Pankejeff, in a volume dedicated to his identity as the Wolf Man (Gardiner 1971a), created an autobiographical text that deliberately avoids telling the story of the analysand, thus drawing a veil over his story. The paradox embodied in lifting the veil is discussed in relation to Walter Benjamin’s distinction between materiality and truth and his notion of the inherent unity of the veil and the veiled (1925).

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