Spotlight on the October 5 Issue

Persian-translation Special Issue vol. 8, no. 5, October 2011

Cover Special Issue vol. 8, no. 5, October 2011-

Spotlight on the July 11 issue.

Recurrent thromboembolic events after ischemic stroke in patients with cancer The authors identified 263 patients with active systemic cancer diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke at a cancer center. Despite a median survival of 84 days, 90 patients had 117 recurrent thromboembolic events. Patients with acute ischemic stroke with active cancer faced a substantial short-term risk of recurrent str...

Spotlight on the November 15 issue.

Adherence to antihypertensive agents after ischemic stroke and risk of cardiovascular outcomes The authors examined 14,227 patients with ischemic stroke who were treated with antihypertensive (AH) agents. Each case was matched to 15 controls. Adherence to AH agents was associated with adherence to other secondary preventive therapies and a risk reduction for nonfatal vascular events after an is...

Spotlight on the January 3 Issue.

34 Focal structural changes and cognitive dysfunction in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy J. O’Muircheartaigh, C. Vollmar, G.J. Barker, V. Kumari, M.R. Symms, P. Thompson, J.S. Duncan, M.J. Koepp, and M.P. Richardson 41 Multimodality imaging in the surgical treatment of children with nonlesional epilepsy J.H. Seo, K. Holland, D. Rose, L. Rozhkov, H. Fujiwara, A.Byars, T.Arthur, T.DeGrauw, J.L. Leach...