Bosch, Jackie Pearce, Lesly A Sharma, Mukul Canavan, Michelle Whiteley, William N Mikulík, Robert Mundl, Hardi Yusuf, Salim Hart, Robert G O'Donnell, Martin J
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Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
The effect of interventions on functional impairment is an important outcome in stroke prevention trials and should be considered as an adjunct to counting discrete events. In the NAVIGATE-ESUS trial, 7213 patients with recent embolic strokes of undetermined source were randomized to rivaroxaban (15 mg once daily) or aspirin (100 mg daily). After 1...
Wang, Yanshuang Huang, Jiarong Qian, Guizhen Jiang, Shunbin Miao, Chongchang
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This study investigates the differences and changing trend of posterior circulation blood perfusion between different levels of vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia(VBD) patients. The relationship between the deviation of the basilar artery(BA) in different directions and the location of pontine infarction are also investigated. A cohort of 106 patients(...
Ramachandran, Dileep Panicker, Praveen Chithra, P Iype, Thomas
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During the first wave of the pandemic, stroke care suffered globally and there were reduced stroke admissions and delays in time metrics. Stroke care was reorganized during the second wave learning from the experience of previous wave. This study shares our experience in stroke time metrics during the second wave of pandemic compared to the first w...
Amiri, Hesamodin Ashrafian Razavi, Athena Sharifi Tabrizi, Nasim Cheraghmakani, Hamed Baghbanian, Seyed Mohammad Sedaghat-Chaijan, Mehraz Zarvani, Ashraf Ghazaeian, Monireh Hosseinnataj, Abolfazl
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The objective of this study was to evaluate how COVID-19 affects patients with acute ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke outcome. This retrospective study was performed on adult patients (> 18 years old) with stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic) who were admitted to hospital with or without COVID-19. The primary outcome was stroke-related disability, which ...
Myers, Laura J Perkins, Anthony J Kilkenny, Monique F Bravata, Dawn M
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Hospitalizations for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and transient ischemic attack (TIA) decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. We compared the quality of care and outcomes for patients with AIS/TIA before vs. during the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system. This retrospective cohort study compare...
Jacob, Asha P Parker, Stephanie A Bowry, Ritvij Czap, Alexandra L Yamal, Jose-Miguel Wang, Mengxi Grotta, James C
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Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) requires a one-hour infusion after the bolus. The frequency of delay or interruption of the tPA infusion may be useful in weighing the advantages of Tenecteplase (TNKase, TNK) which does not require an infusion. Utilizing the Benefits of Stroke Treatment Delivered Using a Mobile Stroke Unit Compared to Standard Ma...
Hussein, Haitham M Chrenka, Ella A Herrmann, Amanda A
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The purpose of this quality improvement project is to understand the burden of acute care, including inpatient readmission and emergency department (ED) visits, in the month following hospital discharge after stroke. We identified patients discharged from our hospitals between 2015 and 2018 with any stroke diagnosis who had an unplanned readmission...
Priola, Stefano M Ku, Jerry C Palmisciano, Paolo Taslimi, Shervin Mathieu, Francois Pasarikovski, Christopher R Malhotra, Armaan Umana, Giuseppe E Scalia, Gianluca Tomasi, Santino O
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Ischemic stroke has been estimated to occur in up to 26% of patients with blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI). Antithrombotic therapy (AT) may be used for stroke prevention, but the role of endovascular treatment (ET) remains unclear. We systematically reviewed the literature on AT and ET for the treatment of patients with BCVIs. PubMed, EMBASE, We...
Jeanneret, Valerie Jillella, Dinesh V Rangaraju, Srikant Groover, Olivia Peterson, Ryan Koneru, Sitara Nahab, Fadi Kase, Carlos S
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To report a case of a patient with overlapping posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) and reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS), and review the existing literature emphasizing the pathophysiological overlap of these two entities. We conducted a literature search in electronic database PubMed identifying studies reporting...
Imam, Yahia Al-Salahat, Ali Aljurdi, Salman Mahfoud, Ziyad Reyes, Cleo Zarina Akhtar, Naveed Abunaib, Mohammed Al-Orphaly, Mahmood Kim, Seon Woo Khodair, Rola
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Stroke in air travelers is being increasingly recognized. We report on stroke among passengers arriving at or transiting through a busy air travel hub. The stroke database of the sole tertiary care center for stroke in a large busy international hub was interrogated. Demographic data of transit passengers, their stroke risk factors, stroke severity...
