Stroke

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• Treatment

Stroke

General Information

NEWS:

Lower Blood Pressure Reduces Brain Damage After Stroke

Mexican-Americans Have Higher Stroke Rates

Odds of Second Stroke Are High

Warfarin underperforms in preventing stroke in 'real world'

ARTICLES:

ABCD rule predicts 7-day stroke risk in transient ischemic attack

ICSI - Stroke, Ischemic; Diagnosis and Initial Treatment of

Learn, Take Action, and Live: A Guide to Using Online Tools to Prevent and Manage Heart Disease and Stroke

NGC - Diagnosis and initial treatment of ischemic stroke. (2003)

NPBG - Stroke Assessment Across the Continuum of Care (2005)

Stroke Basics

Stroke Overview

Stroke: Risk Factors and Prevention

Wrong Diagnosis - Introduction: Stroke

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Acute stroke: evaluation and treatment. (Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ). 2005)

Adult Stroke (Circulation 2005)

American Heart Association and American Stroke Association national survey of stroke risk awareness among women. (Circulation. 2005)

An Update on Transient Ischemic Attacks (J Neurosci Nurs. 2005)

[Association between plasmatic levels of homocysteine and stroke: a transversal analytic study] (Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2005)

Atrial fibrillation and stroke: four treatment controversies. (Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2005)

Autonomic Function Is Impaired in Elderly Stroke Survivors. (Stroke. 2005)

Blood Pressure and Vessel Recanalization in the First Hours After Ischemic Stroke (Stroke. 2005)

Blood pressure changes in acute haemorrhagic stroke. (Blood Press Monit. 2005)

Body Fat Distribution and Long-Term Risk of Stroke Mortality (Stroke. 2005)

Characteristics of Blood Pressure Profiles as Predictors of Long-Term Outcome After Acute Ischemic Stroke (Stroke. 2005)

Circadian Variation in Stroke a Prospective Hospital-Based Study (Int J Clin Pract. 2005)

Conversion of Ischemic Brain Tissue Into Infarction Increases With Age (Stroke. 2005)

C-Reactive Protein and Risk of First-Ever Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke in a General Japanese Population. The Hisayama Study. (Stroke. 2005)

Decline in Physical Performance Among Women With a Recent Transient Ischemic Attack or Ischemic Stroke. Opportunities for Functional Preservation: A Report of The Women's Estrogen Stroke Trial. (Stroke. 2005)

Depression and Stroke: Cause or Consequence? (Semin Neurol. 2005)

Dysphagia After Stroke. Incidence, Diagnosis, and Pulmonary Complications. (Stroke. 2005)

Folate Deficiency Increases Postischemic Brain Injury (Stroke. 2005)

Headache, cerebrovascular symptoms, and stroke (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Higher Burden of Hemorrhagic Stroke among Women. (Neuroepidemiology. 2005)

Homocysteine as a predictive factor for hip fracture in stroke patients. (Bone. 2005)

Homocysteine-lowering treatment with folic acid, cobalamin, and pyridoxine does not reduce blood markers of inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, or hypercoagulability in patients with previous transient ischemic attack or stroke: a randomized substudy of the VITATOPS trial. (Stroke. 2005)

Hypertension, antihypertensive treatment and stroke prevention. (Neurol Sci. 2005)

Identification of Chlamydia pneumoniae in intracranial and extracranial arteries in patients with stroke and in controls: combined immunohistochemical and polymerase chain reaction analyses (Human Pathology 2005)

Incidence and Short-Term Prognosis of Transient Ischemic Attack in a Population-Based Study (Stroke. 2005)

Influence of age on stroke outcome following transient focal ischemia. (J Neurosurg. 2005)

Ischaemic stroke in young adults: predictors of outcome and recurrence. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Mild Hypothermia Improves Survival after Prolonged, Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock in Pigs. (J Trauma. 2005)

Natriuretic Peptides and Mortality After Stroke. (Stroke. 2005)

Neurologic worsening during the acute phase of ischemic stroke. (Arch Neurol. 2005)

Participation after stroke compared to normal aging. (J Rehabil Med. 2005)

Patent foramen ovale: paradoxical connection to migraine and stroke. (Curr Opin Neurol. 2005)

Predicting Improvement in Gait After Stroke. A Longitudinal Prospective Study. (Stroke. 2005)

Predictors of disorientation among brain injury and stroke patients during rehabilitation. (Rehabil Nurs. 2005)

Prevention of venous thromboembolism after acute ischemic stroke. (J Thromb Haemost. 2005)

Prognostic role of C-reactive protein in very old patients with acute ischaemic stroke. (J Intern Med. 2005)

Rapid long-term bone loss following stroke in a man with osteoporosis and atherosclerosis. (Osteoporos Int. 2005)

Reduced Vitamin D in Acute Stroke. (Stroke. 2005)

Strokes attributable to underuse of warfarin and antiplatelets (Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases)

[Symptoms, risk factors, and etiology of transient ischemic attack and stroke.] (Nervenarzt. 2005)

The Significance of Prestroke Aspirin Dosage in Fatal Outcome of Acute Stroke. (Clin Neuropharmacol. 2005)

Time Trends of Ischemic Stroke Incidence and Mortality in Patients Diagnosed With First Atrial Fibrillation in 1980 to 2000. Report of a Community-Based Study. (Stroke. 2005)

Timing of TIAs preceding stroke (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Transient ischemic attack with infarction: A unique syndrome? (Annals of Neurology 2005)

[Transient ischemic attacks in the elderly: new definition and diagnostic difficulties] (Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil. 2005)

Transient ischemic attack: a neurologic emergency. (Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Hemorrhagic stroke

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Stroke

NIH - NINDS Brain Basics: Preventing Stroke

NIH - NINDS Know Stroke. Know the Signs. Act in Time.

NIH - NINDS Stroke Information Page

NIH - NINDS Stroke Risk Factors and Symptoms

NIH - NINDS What You Need to Know About Stroke

NIH - Questions and Answers About Stroke

NIH - Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Fact Sheet

NIH - Stroke

NIH - Stroke Rehabilitation Tutorial

NIH - Stroke Resources

NIH - Transient Ischemic Attack

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