Advances in Stroke 2003: Introduction

Advances in Stroke 2007: introduction.

Advances in Stroke Advances in Stroke 2009

2009 will be remembered as the year that genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revealed both their promise and limitations as an approach to understand the genetic architecture of stroke. The promise of GWAS lies in their extraordinary power to detect novel biologic loci that, if replicated, can serve as markers for novel genes, proteins, and ultimately mechanisms of disease. In this regard, s...

Advances in stroke: advances in interventional neuroradiology.

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) has not been shown to be as safe as carotid endarterectomy for treatment of symptomatic extracranial carotid artery stenosis in the immediate postoperative period. However, beyond the postoperative period, data continues to support a role for CAS in selected patients. A large systematic review of 206 individual studies (54 713 total patients) undergoing CAS found t...

Advances in Stroke 2008

Advances in Stroke

Over the past 2 years, there have been substantial advances in many areas of stroke imaging; in this review, due to space limitations, we highlight major themes with a focus on acute stroke as well as vessel imaging. We recognize that there has been a much larger body of important work including imaging in animal models, stroke recovery, and cognitive impairment that we anticipate is covered in...