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High Incidence of Pneumonia in Elderly Patients with Basal Ganglia Infarction Arch Int Med 157:321-324, Nakagawa,T.,et al, 1997 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract The incidence of pneumonia was 2.12 times higher in the patients of group B(27.4%;P<.01)and 3.64 times higher in the patients group C(47.0%;P<.001) than in the patients of group A(12.9%).The latency of response was longer in the patients of groups B(P<.05)and C(P<.001)than in those of group A at 1 AM.The percentage of positive scans was also higher in the patients of groups B(P<.01)and C(P<.001)than in those of group A.Basal ganglia strokes might predispose these patients to develop pneumonia owing to frequent aspiration during sleep.

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