Post-Stroke Fatigue: Common but Poorly Understood
Fig. 14.1 Data on prevalence of post-stroke fatigue in selected large studies (>100 patients) The onset of fatigue after stroke typically occurs early, during the acute hospital stay. In the…
Post-stroke Cardiac Complications
Fig. 3.1 Frequency distribution of numbers of deaths and cause of death per week from stroke onset; weeks 7–12 have been compressed because of low absolute numbers (From Prosser et…
Infections After Stroke
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Ajay Bhalla and Jonathan Birns (eds.)Management of Post-Stroke Complications10.1007/978-3-319-17855-4_5 5. Infections After Stroke Mehool Patel1 and Angela Kulendran2 (1) General and Geriatric Medicine, University Hospital Lewisham, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Lewisham,…
Future Developments
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Ajay Bhalla and Jonathan Birns (eds.)Management of Post-Stroke Complications10.1007/978-3-319-17855-4_16 16. Future Developments Lalit Kalra1 (1) Department of Clinical Neurosciences, King’s College London, London, UK Lalit Kalra Email: Lalit.kalra@kcl.ac.uk Abstract The…
Swallowing and Nutritional Complications
Disease-related Psychological Social and environmental Anorexia Depression Social instability Dementia Bereavement Financial issues Gastrointestinal symptoms Mental illness Social isolation Pain Psychosis Access to shops Co-morbidities, e.g. diabetes Anxiety Cooking and…
Mental Consequences of Stroke
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Ajay Bhalla and Jonathan Birns (eds.)Management of Post-Stroke Complications10.1007/978-3-319-17855-4_15 15. Mental Consequences of Stroke Luis Ayerbe1 (1) Centre of Primary Care and Public Health, Barts and the London School of Medicine…
Post-Stroke Pain
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Ajay Bhalla and Jonathan Birns (eds.)Management of Post-Stroke Complications10.1007/978-3-319-17855-4_13 13. Post-Stroke Pain Pippa Tyrrell1 and Anthony K. P. Jones1 (1) Stroke and Pain Research Groups, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Salford Royal NHS Trust,…
Post-Stroke Cognitive Impairment
and Jonathan Birns2 (1) Department of Neurology, Atkinson Morley Wing, St George’s University Hospital, London, UK (2) Department of Ageing and Health, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK…
Falls and Osteoporosis Post-Stroke
Study Subjects Methods Findings Ugur et al. (2000) [20] 293 stroke patients discharged from an inpatient unit. 52 % male A standard questionnaire was posted to the patients or their…
Management of Spasticity
Fig. 10.1 The majority of descending pathways controlling spinal reflex excitability. (Inhibitory fibres are shown in grey and excitatory fibres are shown in black) There are two main contributory factors…
