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Quality indicators in acute stroke care: a prospective observational survey in 13 Italian regions.
CONCLUSIONS: Our data confirm the need of quality monitoring in stroke care. Although SU patients showed a better adherence to quality indicators, overall compliance was unsatisfactory. PMID: 24293350 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research - November 29, 2013 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Di Carlo A, Accetta G, Bellan M, Terni G, Lamassa M, Facchini R, Biggeri A, Inzitari D, Ferro S, For the National Stroke Care Group Tags: Aging Clin Exp Res Source Type: research

Stroke in centenarians
ConclusionCentenarians with stroke are from a cardiovascular standpoint healthier than their younger counterparts. Yet, strokes in centenarians are more severe and associated with very high mortality. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2013; ●●: ●●–●●.
Source: Geriatrics and Gerontology International - March 26, 2013 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tom Skyhøj Olsen, Klaus Kaae Andersen Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Early case‐fatality rates in elderly stroke patients do not increase when age increases
ConclusionsVery early stroke case‐fatality rates increasing to the age of 75–85 years subsequently leveled off or even declined with increasing age. Advanced age per se should not be seen as a disadvantage in terms of surviving stroke in the very acute phase. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2013; ●●: ●●–●●.
Source: Geriatrics and Gerontology International - October 10, 2013 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Christian Dehlendorff, Klaus Kaae Andersen, Tom Skyhøj Olsen Tags: Original Article: Epidemiology, Clinical Practice And Health Source Type: research

53 Improving Door to Needle Times in Acute Stroke
ConclusionDelays in the stroke pathway were rectifiable by change of practice. Most changes were simple without need of any additional resource.
Source: Age and Ageing - September 16, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

57 The Workload Distribution and Response Times of FAST Scans in a Level 3 Hospital in Ireland
ConclusionStroke CT will continue to increase the out of hours work load for CT departments across the country especially with our ageing population. It is vital that services, particularly in level 3 stroke centres, are adequately equipped in terms of staffing to meet the highest standard of care in the management of acute stroke.
Source: Age and Ageing - September 16, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

MRI for all: Cheap portable scanners aim to revolutionize medical imaging
.news-article__hero--featured .parallax__element{ object-position: 47% 50%; -o-object-position: 47% 50%; } The patient, a man in his 70s with a shock of silver hair, lies in the neuro intensive care unit (neuro ICU) at Yale New Haven Hospital. Looking at him, you’d never know that a few days earlier a tumor was removed from his pituitary gland. The operation didn’t leave a mark because, as is standard, surgeons reached the tumor through his nose. He chats cheerfully with a pair of research associates who have come to check his progress with a new and potentially revolutionary device they are testing. The cylind...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - February 23, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Observational assessment of communication disorders in vascular dementia patients with right hemisphere damage
ConclusionWe believe that communication disorder in the RBD patients may be evaluated with the DCAS. We plan to standardize the DCAS and apply it for use in rehabilitation in the future.
Source: Psychogeriatrics - September 1, 2014 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Miyuki Kawada, Naofumi Tanaka, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Kenichi Meguro Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Anton–Babinski syndrome in an old patient: a case report and literature review
Abstract Anton–Babinski syndrome is a rare disease featuring bilateral cortical blindness and anosognosia with visual confabulation, but without dementia or any memory impairment. It has a unique neuropsychiatric presentation and should be highly suspected in those with odd visual loss and imaging evidence of occipital lobe injury. In the case discussed herein, a 90‐year‐old man presented with bilateral blindness, obvious anosognosia, and vivid visual confabulation, which he had had for 3 days. Brain computed tomography demonstrated recent hypodense infarctions at the bilateral occipital lobes. Thus, the patient was ...
Source: Psychogeriatrics - December 16, 2014 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jiann‐Jy Chen, Hsin‐Feng Chang, Yung‐Chu Hsu, Dem‐Lion Chen Tags: CASE REPORT Source Type: research

Comparisons of clinical symptoms in biomarker‐confirmed Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and frontotemporal dementia patients in a local memory clinic
ConclusionMemory impairment and apathy are not useful discriminative symptoms in diagnosing AD, DLB, and FTD. Apraxia favours AD. Hallucinations, particularly well‐formed visual hallucinations, favour DLB. Overall, behavioural and neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia symptoms are common among the three groups of dementia patients.
Source: Psychogeriatrics - December 1, 2014 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Yat Fung Shea, Joyce Ha, Leung‐Wing Chu Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Atherosclerotic calcification is related to a higher risk of dementia and cognitive decline
Conclusions Atherosclerosis, in particular in the extracranial carotid arteries, is related to a higher risk of dementia and cognitive decline.
Source: Alzheimer's and Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association - June 28, 2015 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Iodine-induced hyperthyroidism as combination of different etiologies: an overlooked entity in the elderly.
We report the case of an elderly man who was diagnosed with tachyfibrillation secondary to hyperthyroidism. Thyroid hyperfunction was subsequently related both to previous amiodarone therapy (probably mixed form) and the recent use of iodinated contrast medium for computed tomography scan. Thyroid ultrasonography showed a plongeant multinodular goitre. After initial worsening, thyroid function improved slowly but progressively on high-dose thyreostatic therapy combined with steroid therapy; tachyfibrillation caused heart failure and a thrombus in the left atrium, and proved initially resistant to combined antiarrhythmic tr...
Source: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research - November 4, 2015 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Foppiani L, Cascio C, Pinto GL Tags: Aging Clin Exp Res Source Type: research

Alzheimer's disease or Alzheimer's syndrome?: a longitudinal computed tomography neuroradiological follow‐up study of 56 cases diagnosed clinically as Alzheimer's disease
ConclusionCases of so‐called Alzheimer's disease, as observed through continued clinical follow‐up and serial CT examinations, appear so diverse in symptomatology and radiological pathomorphology that it is difficult to consider them a single nosological entity. The pathology of Alzheimer's disease has to be reconsidered in accordance with the variety observed in the sequential development of neuroradiological findings. The pathology must be reconstructed in terms of topographical dimensions and chronological developments. The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease appears to be not so simple based on any conventional diagno...
Source: Psychogeriatrics - December 16, 2015 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Kohshiro Fujisawa, Sadaharu Tsunoda, Hiroaki Hino, Katsuhiko Shibuya, Ayako Takeda, Naoya Aoki Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Associations of fat and muscle tissue with cognitive status in older adults: the AGES-Reykjavik Study
Conclusion</div>a higher amount of abdominal and thigh subcutaneous fat were associated with a lower likelihood of dementia in women only, while more thigh muscle was associated with a lower likelihood of dementia in men and women.</span>
Source: Age and Ageing - February 26, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Mutation analysis of the GLA gene in Chinese patients with intracerebral hemorrhage
In conclusion, our results indicate that the GLA mutation is an uncommon genetic etiology of ICH in China.PMID:33663879 | DOI:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.01.027
Source: Neurobiology of Aging - March 5, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Lu Tang Qiong Yang Xiaolu Liu Danyang Tian Chenying Wu Qi Han Xin Yan Shengchao Ding Dongsheng Fan Source Type: research

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