title: Performance of language tasks in patients with ruptured aneurysm of the left hemisphere worses in the post-surgical evaluation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the language and verbal fluency performance in aneurismal SAH pre- and post-surgery in patients caused by an aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery (AcomA), left middle cerebral artery (L-MCA) and left posterior comunicating artery (L-PcomA).
  
  
  METHODS
  Assessment in 79 patients with SAH, on two occasions: pre- and post surgical treatment. They were divided into three groups by the aneurysms' location.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Deterioration is detected in the performance of all patients during the post-surgical period; L-MCA aneurysm patients displayed a reduction in verbal naming and fluency; L-PcomA patients deteriorated in the written language and fluency tasks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  After the surgical procedure the patients decreased in various language tasks and these differences in performance being directly related to the location of the aneurysm.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Recife PE, Brasil;
authors.forename: Ana Cláudia C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.affiliation: Hospital da Restauração, Departamento de Neurocirurgia, Recife PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Gustavo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.affiliation: Hospital da Restauração, Departamento de Neurocirurgia, Recife PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Moysés Ponte de
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Hospital da Restauração, Departamento de Neurocirurgia, Recife PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria de Fátima Leal
authors.initials: Mde F
authors.lastname: Griz
authors.affiliation: Hospital da Restauração, Departamento de Neurocirurgia, Recife PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Isabel Eugênia Costa E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Hospital da Restauração, Departamento de Neurocirurgia, Recife PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Saul M C
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Quinino
authors.affiliation: Hospital da Restauração, Departamento de Neurocirurgia, Recife PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Divaldo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Câmara
authors.affiliation: Hospital da Restauração, Departamento de Neurocirurgia, Recife PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Hildo R C
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Azevedo-Filho
mesh_terms: D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery