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G Abrams

Publications and source records attributed to G Abrams.

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PubMed1978

Cerebral cysticercosis.

Five patients with cerebral cysticercosis, two within the year preceding the date of this article, were seen at the New York Neurological Institute. The patients presented with mental changes, seizures, and symptoms of increased intracranial pressure, and had a history of having immigrated from an area endemic for cysticercosis. They were found to have parenchymal or intraventricular cysticercosis cysts. The interval from immigration to onset of symptoms was as long as 3 years. Plain radiograms of the skull and soft tissues, ventriculograms, and especially the CT scan, as well as the CSF examination, were useful in making the diagnosis. Surgical removal of an intraventricular cyst was curative in two patients and seizures were controlled with anticonvulsants in the other three.

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PubMed1977

Bumadizone calcium in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

A double-blind crossover trial of bumadizone calcium (Eumotol), a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, has been carried out in 56 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. On both objective and subjective criteria bumadizone was superior to placebo and paracetamol at a statistically highly significant level (P less than 0,01). When tested against acetylsalicylic acid, bumadizone was more effective in 13 patients and less effective in 4 patients. Although this does not represent a statistically significant difference it does suggest that its anti-inflammatory and analgesic qualities are at least equal to those of salicylate in high dosages. There were no serious side-effects in the patients who received bumadizone and the drug was better tolerated than either acetylsalicylic acid or paracetamol.

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Word deafness in head injury: implications for coma assessment and rehabilitation.

Pure word deafness, usually involving left hemisphere focal lesions that destroy Heschl's gyrus and/or isolate auditory association cortex, may be rare, but cases with additional perceptual or cognitive symptoms may not be. Word deafness can be transient or evolving, and has been seen in various conditions without identifiable focal lesions. Only two closed head injury cases with focal contusions have been reported; we report two more, with diffuse damage and no focal signs. One patient's symptoms evolved soon after they were recognized. The other patient's unresponsiveness to spoken verbal stimuli persisted despite relatively preserved reading and speech, in a context of poor initiation and moderately severe cognitive impairment. Unrecognized, word deafness following head injury could lead to overestimation of coma duration if transient, and impede rehabilitation if chronic.

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