Post Stroke Cognitive Impairment

Assiut University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Cognition - Other

Treatments: Other: Cognitive assessment: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Cognitive Assessment for Stroke patients, Oxford cognitive screening, Trail Making Test B, Digit Span-Backward, verbal fluency, Clinical Dem

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07320300

post stroke cognition

Details and patient eligibility

About

clinical evaluation of the prevalence and severity of cognitive impairment among patients after ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke admitted to the Neuropsychiatry department

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients of both sexes, aged 18- 60 years, with a history of first stroke within 3 months of admission, all types of stroke confirmed by imaging (ischemia, parenchymal haemorrhage, subarachnoid haemorrhage, venous stroke)

Exclusion criteria

• Age above 60 years, refusal to participate in the study, pre-existing dementia or significant psychiatric illness, severe aphasia or communication deficits precluding cognitive testing or severe comorbid condition limiting follow-ups, systemic diseases that are known to affect the central nervous system, such as (thyroid dysfunction, chronic infections, or system failure like liver or renal failure), significant sensory impairment (deafness and blindness), history of malignancy and those who have had neurosurgical procedures or severe head trauma at any time before a stroke.