Stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy-also known as SMART syndrome-constitute a rare condition typically characterized by headache, seizures, vision abnormalities, hemiparesis, and aphasia. The condition usually resolves within a few days or weeks of onset with no residual impairments. However, resolution in some cases extends over a period of months rather than weeks and may be incomplete. The purpose of this case report is to provide an in-depth description of the progression of changes in cognitive and language functioning for a person exhibiting SMART syndrome characterized by slow recovery.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1
Individual speech-language therapy sessions totaling 1.5 to 2.5 hours five days per week. Intervention activities include performing oral and written confrontation and responsive naming, writing single words to dictation, reading single words and sentences aloud, and generating written and spoken picture descriptions.
Quality Living, Inc.
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Standardized assessment
Aphasia Quotient of the Western Aphasia Battery - Revised
Time frame: Change from baseline at 6 months
Spoken picture description
Spoken language sample elicited through a request to describe events depicted in a Norman Rockwell drawing.
Time frame: Change from baseline at 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 14 weeks, 20 weeks, and 26 weeks
Written picture description
Written language sample elicited through a request to write about events depicted in a Norman Rockwell drawing.
Time frame: Change from baseline at 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 14 weeks, 20 weeks, and 26 weeks
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