Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: UMLS:C0018991 (hemiplegia)
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In the I State Home for Incurables in Lodz (Poland) 195 hemiplegia cases were observed over ten years. 140 women and 55 men. This comprised 8.2% and 17.8% of all ill females and males respectively. Causes of the lesion were vascular 187, trauma 4, neoplasm 4. Hemiparesis was in females most frequent between 60 and 80 years, in males between 50 and 80 years. Communication was absent or difficult in 126 cases (in 22 the cause was aphasia, in 104 dementia). Incontinence was noted in 77 cases, inability to walk (on admission) in 129. During the ten years under survey 135 died, 15 were discharged home, 26 females and 18 males were rehabilitated. Very good improvement in motor activity was obtained in 14 females (3 without kinesitherapy) and 7 males, indicating adequate walking and independence in activities of daily living after prolonged bedfastness. (average 2.5 years in males and 2.7 years in females). Altogether 88 patients improved from the locomotor angle. In cases with dementia, incontinence and severe aphasia prognosis in rehabilitation was found to be poor.
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PMID:10 years observation and rehabilitation of stroke disability. Longitudinal study. 118 16

Case fatality rates for stroke were ascertained prospectively in two regional catchment hospitals in Poland and 36 teaching hospitals in the US University Hospital Consortium. Case fatality rates in Poland (23.9%) were higher than in the United States (7.5%). Angina, atrial fibrillation, and congestive heart failure were more frequent in Polish stroke patients (40%, 26%, and 25%, respectively) than in US patients (17%, 12%, and 10%). Stroke severity as indicated by higher frequencies of hemiplegia, disordered consciousness, dysphagia, and aphasia was greater in Poland (19%, 39%, 28%, and 42%, respectively) than the United States (11%, 13%, 14%, and 26%).
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PMID:Ischemic strokes are more severe in Poland than in the United States. 1066 29