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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1988; 11(4):271-275

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1988.11.4.271

Original Article

A Clinical Study of Aphasia: Types and Prognosis

Kyoung Gyu Choi
Corresponding author: Kyoung Gyu Choi. Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1988. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Aphasia is a language disorder due to damage of the language center in the dominant hemisphere. I studied 42 patients whose main neurologic symptom was aphasia. In 42 aphasia patients, motor aphasia appeared in 13 pts(30.9%), sensory aphasia in 11 pts(26.1%), conduction aphasia in 5 pts(11.9%), anomic aphasia in 4 pts(9.5%), global aphasia in 4 pts(9.5%), transcortical motor aphasia in 3 pts(7.4%), transcortical sensory aphasia in 2 pts(4.7%). The most common associated pathologic condition was hypertension(85.7%) and the others were hypertriglyceridemia(42.9%), cardiac arrythmia(38.1%), transient ischemic attack(14.5%), seizure(9.5%) and hypotension(7.4%). The most common combined neurologic symptom was motor hemiparesis(26.22%), and the others were dysphagia, sensory hemianesthesia, ocular motor diturbance, agraphia, alexia, acaculia, finger agnosia and apraxia. The anomic aphasia and transcortical aphasia had best prognosis and the global aphasia had worst prognosis.