Open AccessBilingual aphasia after stroke. Case report
Author(s) -
Joseph Bruno Bidin Brooks,
Fábio César Prosdócimi
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5327/1516-3180.187
Subject(s) - aphasia , fluency , hemiparesis , context (archaeology) , stroke (engine) , language assessment , psychology , audiology , medicine , lesion , cognitive psychology , history , psychiatry , engineering , mechanical engineering , pedagogy , mathematics education , archaeology
Context: With the largest number of bilingual individuals in the world, there is a growing need for understanding and studying language in different populations. In cases of bilingual aphasia, patterns of language recovery can vary. Parallel, or simultaneous, recovery in both languages is the most common type of language recovery, followed by differential recovery, where there is an improvement in one language compared to another. This case report was approved by the Ethics Committee of Universidade Metropolitana de Santos. Case Report: The present case refers to a male patient, 52 years old, righthanded, born in Arkansas-United States of America and resident for 20 years in the city of Santos, São Paulo. The patient is bilingual fluent in English and Portuguese and had a sudden deficit in strength and sensitivity in the right hemibody, associated with language disorders. Imaging exams showed a hemorrhagic lesion in the topography of the left lenticular nucleus. In the neurological evaluation, hemiparesis and proportioned and complete hemiparesis were shown on the right. In the language assessment, he presented an important impairment of fluency, compression and repetition in the Portuguese language and relative preservation, with slight dysfunction in fluency in the English language. Conclusions: Symptomatic treatment was instituted and after 12 months he had partial improvement of motor symptoms and complete aphasia.