So, we made physical therapy in groups of three or more patients each, in 70 stroke patients all of them with middle cerebral artery infarct -50 walked and 20 did not walk in the beginning of treatment. The physical therapy in group was applied for three months. They all started treatment in acute phase of stroke.The results obtained after the physical therapy in group were analysed through both: 1 .The following measure tools: the Barthel Index, the Rivermead Mobility Index, the Canadian Neurological Scale, the Orgogozo Unifed Form for Neurological Stroke Scales, Motricity Index. 2.The notes about: the relative's participation in the rehabilitation program; both the patient's and the relative's understanding of the disease; the adherence to the clinical treatment and physical therapy; the patient's expectation of a good quality of life and the patient's interaction with both his family and society.The results suggest that this kind of treatment may be good for public health services. This therapy was not sufficient for those who did not walk, perhaps because of the short time of therapy. This mean that they were not adapted to the daily living activity after the threrapy. However, to most of the walking patients, the physical therapy in group was enough.

In studies about cerebral infarcts in children, despite many different methodologic approach, a common observation is the wide diversity of etiologies. According to the Pan American Health Organization, in the last decade the mortality rate for Brazilian children under one year was 6 times higher than the rates reported by developed countries 1 . We hypothesized that the high morbidity condition of the disease in Brazil is a consequence of distinctive characteristics in the distribution of the causes of cerebral infarcts.Thus, the objective of the present investigation was to identify cerebral infarcts in children aged zero to 15 years attended at a tertiary hospital, ABSTRACT -Cerebral infarcts in children present peculiar characteristics either due to their diversity of causes or due to the unknown nature of the causes. The etiologies of cerebral infarct were reviewed in children from zero to 15 years old, attended at a tertiary hospital, in Ribeirão Preto (Brazil), from 1990 to 1997, adopting the modified Trial of ORG 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) criteria of classification; 1 -Atherosclerosis in large arteries; 2 -Cardioembolic; 3 -Occlusion of small vessels; 4 -Other etiologies; 5 -Undetermined cause. Thirty-nine children were included, 18 males and 21 females, aged 2 months to 15 years, mean age 5.67. The largest group, N=22 (56.4%), included children with "other etiologies", 7 of them aged under two years. The most common etiology was dehydration and septic shock leading to brain hypoperfusion and watershed infarcts. Nine (23%) children had "Undetermined etiology", 7 (17,9%) cardioembolic subtype and none had atherosclerosis. Laboratory improvement is needed for the large number of patients without a defined cause, and the high proportion of children with dehydration in the group with a determined cause emphasizes the need for preventive health actions among infants and children. CEREBRAL INFARCT IN CHILDREN AGED ZERO TO FIFTEEN YEARSKEY WORDS: cerebrovascular disease, cerebral infarct, stroke, children, infants, etiology. Infarto cerebral em crianças de zero a quinze anos de idadeRESUMO -Infartos cerebrais em crianças apresentam peculiaridades, como grande variedade de causas e alta freqüência sem etiologia definida. Foram revistos os diagnósticos etiológicos em crianças de zero a 15 anos, atendidas durante o ictus e com imagens cerebrais sugestivas de infarto, entre 1990 e 1997 em hospital terciário de Ribeirão Preto (SP). Adotou-se o critério de classificação modificado do Trial of ORG 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST): 1 -Arterioesclerose de grandes artérias, 2 -Cardioembólico, 3 -Oclusão de pequenos vasos, 4 -Outras etiologias, 5 -Não determinada. Trinta e nove crianças foram incluídas, 18 do sexo masculino e 21 do feminino, com idade variando entre 2 meses e 15 anos e média de 5,67. O maior grupo, com 22 crianças (56,4%), foi o de "Outras etiologias", 7 das quais com idades entre 2 meses e um ano. A etiologia mais freqüente foi desidratação e choque séptico, levando a hipoperfusão ce...

The hemolytic-uremic syndrome is a pathology characterized by a triad consisting of acute renal failure, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia, with complications of the central nervous system arising in a considerable number of cases. Altered cranial computerized tomography examinations usually reveal cerebral infarctions. We present here two cases in which diffuse hypodensity was observed in the white matter in addition to the infarcts. This hypodensity was reversible after resolution of the acute phase of the disease, as is also the case for the alterations described in uremic encephalopathy and in hypertensive encephalopathy of other etiologies.

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