• Moysés Loiola Ponte de Souza, Ana Cláudia C Vieira, Gustavo Andrade, Saul Quinino, Maria de Fátima Leal Griz, and Hildo R C Azevedo-Filho.
• Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital da Restauração, Recife, Brazil; Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Hospital da Restauração, Recife, Brazil; Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Federal University of Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil. Electronic address: souzamoyses@hotmail.com.
• World Neurosurg. 2015 Aug 1;84(2):308-13.

ObjectiveTo associate the presence of language deficits with varying scores of the Fisher grading scale in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage in the period preceding the treatment of aneurysm in the anterior circulation, as well as to compare the scores of this scale, identifying the grades more associated with the decline of language.MethodsDatabase analysis of 185 preoperative evaluations of language, through the Montreal Toulouse Protocol Alpha version and verbal fluency through CERAD battery, of patients from "Hospital da Restauração" with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, divided according to the Fisher grading scale (Fisher I, II, III, or IV) and compared with a control group of individuals considered normal.ResultsThe various scores of the Fisher grading scale have different levels of language deficits, more pronounced as the amount of blood increases. Fisher III and IV scores are most associated with the decline of language.ConclusionsOur study made it possible to obtain information not yet available in the literature, by correlating the various scores of the Fisher grading scale with language yet in the period preceding treatment.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

25 keywords...

hide…