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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2017

Aphasia As a Predictor of Stroke Outcome.

Ronald M Lazar, Amelia K Boehme

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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51citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. tDCS and Speech Therapy in Aphasia Treatment: A Multicenter Comparative Study of Efficacy.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2025
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  10. Accelerated brain aging and anterior white matter hyperintensity burden in chronic post-stroke aphasia: a lesion-aware MRI analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ronald M LazarDepartment of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1720 7th Ave S-SC 650, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA. rlazar@uabmc.edu.
Amelia K BoehmeDepartment of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, 710 W168th St, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

StrokeBelt StrokeNetU24NS107223 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Toby Gropen, Mark Robert Harrigan · 2018 to 2026
$2.6M
New York Stroke Trials Network of Columbia and Cornell (NYCCSTN)U10NS086728 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MARSHALL, RANDOLPH S · 2013 to 2017
$2.0M
NINDS NIH HHS U10 NS086728NINDS NIH HHS U24 NS107223
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewAphasia is a common feature of stroke, affecting 21-38% of acute stroke patients and an estimated 1 million stroke survivors. Although stroke, as a syndrome, is the leading cause of disability in the USA, less is known about the independent impact of aphasia on stroke outcomes. RECENT

findingsDuring the acute stroke period, aphasia has been found to increase length of stay, inpatient complications, overall neurological disability, mortality, and to alter discharge disposition. Outcomes during the sub-acute and chronic stroke periods show that aphasia is associated with lower Functional Independence Measures (FIM) scores, longer stays in rehabilitation settings, poorer function in activities of daily living, and mortality. Factors that complicate the analysis of aphasia on post-stroke outcomes, however, include widely different systems of care across international settings that result in varying admission patterns to acute stroke units, allowable length of stays based on reimbursement, and criteria for rehabilitation placement. Aphasia arising from stroke is associated with worse outcomes both in the acute and chronic periods. Future research will have to incorporate disparate patterns in analytic models, and to take into account specific aphasia profiles and evolving methods of post-stroke speech-language therapy.

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Activities of Daily LivingAphasiaDisease ProgressionHumansPatient DischargeStrokeAphasiaDisabilityLength of stayMortalityOutcomesStroke

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PMID28929424
PMCPMC13077792
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