Factors associated with improvement in global aphasia

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Abstract
This study evaluates the correlation of initial aphasia examination and several neuroradiologic variables with language recovery 1 year after the onset of global aphasia in 13 patients. Initial performance on language tests—particularly, auditory-verbal comprehension—is strongly correlated with outcome, while the neuroradiologic measures are not. While cerebral tissue characteristics may influence linguistic capabilities either acutely or chronically in the global aphasic patient, the initial language assessment appears to be more reliably associated with improvement than are CT indices of lesion characteristics.