Irina Kemala Nasution

University of Sumatera Utara | USU · Neurology

BACKGROUND: In intracranial tumors, glucocorticoids are the main therapy to treat peritumoral edema. Neurologic Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (NANO) score is an instrument that can assess neurological function objectively and practically in patients with intracranial tumors. AIM: This study aims to determine the effect of dexamethasone administratio...

Several studies have shown that there is an increase in bilirubin levels, leukocytes, and blood pressure in acute phase strokes. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between liver function levels, leucocytes, and blood pressure with the functional outcome of acute stroke. The method was a cross-sectional study with a sample s...

Stroke is one of the diseases that have a long-term impact on people who suffer it. Patients are feared not only for the “sudden attacks,” but also for the after-effect due to the disease itself. The paralysis of certain limbs is very disturbing and even inhibits the activity of a patient’s life. The process of rehabilitation usually takes a long t...

BACTERIAL PATTERN AND ANTIBIOTICS SENSITIVITY OF SEPSIS STROKE PATIENTS IN NEUROLOGY INPATIENT ROOMS OF HAJI ADAM MALIK GENERAL HOSPITAL MEDANABSTRACTIntroduction: Stroke patients are at high risk of sepsis because of the immune-suppressive effect of cerebral damage and the immobilization due to neurological deficit. The choice of empiric antibioti...

Patients in the intensive care unit require fast and efficient handling, including in-diagnosis service. The objectives of this study are to produce a computer-aided system so that it can help radiologists to classify the types of brain tumors suffered by patients quickly and accurately; to build applications that can determine the location of brai...

One crucial step in detecting intra-cerebral hemorrhage automatically is to develop a midline setting that will divide the brain structure into 2 parts: the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. This is useful for the process of detecting bleeding in the brain. By comparing the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere, bleeding detection can be...

BACKGROUND: As the most cause of death in patients with solid extracranial malignancy, brain metastasis (BM) nowadays being studied extensively especially on how to find a reliable laboratory marker that can correlate with its clinical outcome. Leukocyte subtypes, primarily neutrophils and lymphocytes and its ratio known as Neutrophils-Lymphocyte R...

Hypertension is one of the main health problems in Indonesia, which if not controlled will result in health, psychological, social and economic burdens. A common clinical consequence of hypertension is impaired cognitive function, namely dementia and senility, which can be examined through the Indonesian version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment...

Ischemic stroke is one of stroke subtype often correlated with disturbance of cognitive function. We conduct an observational study with cross-sectional design of 70 ischemic stroke patients. Objective of this study is to evaluate cognitive differences based on hemispheric lateralization lesions. We used Montreal Cognitive Assessment – Indonesian v...

Low back pain (LBP) is a world health problems and a major cause of disability. The study is to determine the correlation between pain intensity and quality of life (QoL) in patients with chronic LBP. This study was a descriptive, analytical research with the cross sectional design. Twenty-nine chronic LBP outpatients that have visited the Neurolog...

Background: Cognitive dysfunction in chronic primary headache patients have been reported by several authors. These findings however, are controversial. Considering these controversial data we carried out further investigation our study was design to assess the presence of cognitive defect in group of patients affected by chronic primary headache....