In this study, neuropsychological profiles of 14 older
adult patients with mild or moderate closed head injury (CHI), 14
patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 14
community-residing elderly controls were compared. The groups were
similar in demographic features, and the CHI and AD patients had
comparable Mini-Mental State Examination scores. Tests of verbal
learning and memory, letter and category fluency, and naming were
administered. Relative to the CHI group, AD patients exhibited more
devastated memory and did not show a normal facilitation on the
category retrieval task. The patient groups exhibited similar levels
of categorical clustering and naming accuracy for both high-and
low-frequency words. These results suggest that neuropsychological
markers of memory and semantic processing may be useful in
differentiating the cognitive effects from AD versus early recovery
from CHI.
Ectopia cordis is a rare congenital anomaly in which the heart is displaced outside of the thoracic cavity. This case report describes the in utero diagnosis of thoracic ectopia cordis in conjunction with fetal acrania, both of which were thought to result from an amniotic band located near the fetal head.
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