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A randomized, double-blind trial of bromocriptine efficacy in nonfluent aphasia after stroke.

Ashtary F, Janghorbani M, Chitsaz A, Reisi M, Bahrami A

Department of Neurology and Epidemiology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Iran.

The authors assessed the efficacy of bromocriptine in nonfluent aphasia after stroke in a 16-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial conducted from June 2002 to April 2004. In all 38 patients after 4 months of treatment, improvement in both the bromocriptine and placebo treatment groups was observed (p < 0.001). The analysis of repeated-measures analysis of variance revealed bromocriptine did not improve nonfluent aphasia.

Published 28 March 2006 in Neurology, 66(6): 914-6.
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