%0 Journal Article
%T Functional electrical stimulation improves brain perfusion in cranial trauma patients
%A Amorim
%A B¨¢rbara Juarez
%A Santos
%A Allan de Oliveira
%A Oberg
%A Telma Dagmar
%A Romanato
%A Juliana
%A Anjos
%A Dalton A.
%A Lima
%A Mariana da Cunha Lopes de
%A Ramos
%A Celso Dar¨ªo
%A Honorato
%A Donizete Cesar
%A Camargo
%A Edwaldo Eduardo
%A Etchebehere
%A Elba Cristina de S¨¢ Camargo
%J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
%D 2011
%I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
%R 10.1590/S0004-282X2011000500020
%X objective: demonstrate brain perfusion changes due to neuronal activation after functional electrical stimulation (fes). method: it was studied 14 patients with hemiplegia who were submitted to a program with fes during fourteen weeks. brain perfusion spect was performed before and after fes therapy. these patients were further separated into 2 groups according to the hemiplegia cause: cranial trauma and major vascular insults. all spect images were analyzed using spm. results: there was a significant statistical difference between the two groups related to patient's ages and extent of hypoperfusion in the spect. patients with cranial trauma had a reduction in the hypoperfused area and patients with major vascular insult had an increase in the hypoperfused area after fes therapy. conclusion: fes therapy can result in brain perfusion improvement in patients with brain lesions due to cranial trauma but probably not in patients with major vascular insults with large infarct area.
%K spect
%K electrical stimulation
%K cranial trauma.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X2011000500020&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en