The evaluation of the population health status has been based on simple estimators such as general mortality rates or by age groups, incidence rates, prevalence or lethality, these estimators present limitations to measure the health-disease phenomenon. Stroke of both ischemic and hemorrhagic origin has many similar risk factors that are classified into two categories:…
Dysphagia is when difficulties occur in the swallowing process. This symptom can be present in the first days after the stroke, manifesting itself with levels of severity, ranging from the difficulty of swallowing only some types of food, to the total impossibility of feeding or hydrating through the mouth, reaching the most serious cases, the…
In the pages of this site, we almost exclusively refer to the most common strokes, and until now, we have never discussed the topic of cerebellar stroke and what is the cerebellum. This is a particularly complex issue, on one hand due to the complexity of the functions that the cerebellum performs, on the other…
