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Predicting Language Outcome and Recovery After Stroke (PLORAS)

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Aphasia recovery

  • Aphasia is a language disorder which can occur after a stroke.
  • People with aphasia can have difficulty with speaking, understanding, reading and writing.  
  • Having aphasia can be traumatic and life-changing for patients and relatives.

What patients and relatives want to know

Am I going to recover? 
How long will this take?
  • Currently, it is very difficult to answer this.
  • The PLORAS project aims to solve this problem.

Aim 1

To tell future stroke survivors:

  • How much language they are likely to re-gain.
  • How long this is likely to take.

We hope to give future patients a prediction about their recovery.

Each prediction shows how much confidence we have in it.

For example:

  • We are more confident if 90% of patients with the same stroke area recovered in a particular time-frame.  
  • We are less confident if only 50% of patients recovered in a particular time-frame.

Example of a prediction:

" 80% of people with the same stroke area as you (example patient) recovered their speech in 5 years.

 

Aim 2

We want to explain:

  • Why some patients respond better to treatment than others.
  • Why some patients recover more quickly than others.

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