Acute cerebellar infarction or hemorrhage may initially manifest in a clinically indolent manner only to later deteriorate into a life-threatening neurologic catastrophe. At the other end of the spectrum, some patients with cerebellar stroke may present in a moribund comatose state. In both patient groups, it is often unclear at what point surgical intervention should be considered either to pr...

background and purpose: the relationship between uric acid and stroke recurrence is ambiguous. some studies have explored this relationship in acute ischemic stroke but had different results. we evaluated the association of admission uric acid level with risk of stroke recurrence in patients with ischemic stroke. methods: we studied ischemic stroke patients presenting to our hospital with magne...

Stroke (noun): a sudden disabling attack... caused by an interruption in the flow of blood to the brain, especially through thrombosis. Stroke is a considerable cause of mortality and morbidity in the UK. The field of stroke medicine has changed considerably in recent years with the development of hyper-acute treatments such as thrombolysis, specialist stroke units and a better understanding of...

Despite huge global burden, stroke disease has traditionally received little attention in the general medical press. We review a series of four acute stroke research articles published in a themed issue of the Lancet. Claiborne-Johnston and coworkers presented a scoring system to stratify risk of stroke following transient ischaemic attack. Chalela and colleagues demonstrated that magnetic reso...

Stroke is the third most common cause of mortality and morbidity after all cardiac and cancer disorders. The prognosis after acute ischemic stroke (AIS) varies greatly, depending upon the pre-morbid condition, stroke severity, age, and post-stroke complications. The overall mortality rate at 30 days after stroke is 28%. Stroke is the clinical expression of a vascular lesion be it atherothrombot...

One of the most important causes of long-term disability in both Japan and other Western countries is stroke. Although intravenous thrombolysis using recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (IV rt-PA) was approved in United States and Japan, few patients have been treated by IV rt-PA. The low utilization of IV rt-PA at present is quite similar to the Japanese national estimate. One of the most...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Little is known about the presenting features of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke in children presenting to the emergency department (ED). Yet, initial clinical assessment is a key step in the management pathway of stroke. We describe the presentation in the ED of children with confirmed acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke subtypes. METHODS We conducted a retrospective ...

BACKGROUND: Thrombolytic treatment is the main of acute ischemic stroke. Thailand started thrombolytic in 2008 only at university hospitals Bangkok and gradually increased services large provincial until widespread 2014. However, no studies regard stroke management Thailand.
 AIM: This study aims to present data: incidence, rate treatment, mortality for 13 years
 METHODS: A from Natio...

background: stroke is a heterogeneous disease with several risk factors. high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hscrp) is a marker for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. recent studies have shown that high hscrp level is a risk factor for ischemic stroke. the objective of our study was to investigate the association of high hscrp (> 3 mg/l) levels with ischemic stroke and its subtypes i...