Verbal language spontaneous recovery after ischemic stroke.
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the spontaneous recovery of the verbal language on patients who have had an ischemic stroke.


METHODS
Retrospective analysis of 513 medical records. We characterize referring aspects for data identification, language deficit, spontaneous recovery and speech therapy.


RESULTS
The average age was 62.2 years old (SD= +/-12.3), the average time of academic experience was 4.5 years (SD=+/-3.9), 245 (47.7%) patients presented language disturbance, 166 (54.0%) presented spontaneous recovery, from which 145 (47.2%) had expression deficit (p=0.001); 12 (3.9%) had comprehension deficit and 9 (2.9%) had both expression and comprehension deficit. Speech therapy was carried with 15 patients (4.8%) (p=0.001).


CONCLUSIONS
The verbal language spontaneous recovery occurred in most of the patients being taken care of at the stroke out clinic, and expression disturbance was the most identified alteration. As expected, the left hemisphere was associated with the deficit and smoking and pregressive stroke were the language alteration primary associated factors.
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Gabriela Camargo
GC
Remesso
Ana Lúcia de Magalhães Leal
AL
Chiappetta
Alexandre Santos
AS
Aguiar
Márcia Maiumi
MM
Fukujima
Gilmar Fernandes
GF
do Prado
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D055815:Young Adult