Stroke

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Stroke

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NEWS:

American Heart and American Stroke Associations Endorse New Stroke Rehabilitation Guidelines

Aspirin Is Safer Than Warfarin and Just As Effective for Treating Blocked Arteries in the Brain

Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally

Mini-Strokes Need More Medical Attention

Stroke patients are not treated quickly enough

Withdrawing Aspirin May Significantly Increase Stroke Risk

ARTICLES:

Administering antihypertensive drugs after acute ischemic stroke: timing is everything

American Heart and American Stroke Associations Endorse New Stroke Rehabilitation Guidelines (2005)

Clot-Busting Therapy Helps Stroke Victims

Evidence Shows Sloppy Stroke Care in U.S.

NGC - Antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy for ischemic stroke: the Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy. (2004)

NGC - Physical activity and exercise recommendations for stroke survivors. (2004)

NCG - Stroke management and prevention in the long-term care setting. (2005)

NGC - VA/DoD clinical practice guideline for the management of stroke rehabilitation in the primary care setting. (2003)

The Canadian Stroke Quality of Care Study: establishing indicators for optimal acute stroke care

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A randomized controlled trial of early supported discharge and continued rehabilitation at home after stroke: five-year follow-up of patient outcome. (Stroke. 2005)

[Adapted exercise important after stroke. Acute and long-term effects of different training programs] (Lakartidningen. 2005)

Anticoagulation and platelet antiaggregation therapy in stroke prevention. (Current Opinion in Neurology 2005)

Antioxidant strategies in the treatment of stroke. (Free Radic Biol Med. 2005)

Antiplatelet Drugs In the Secondary Prevention After Stroke. Differential Efficacy in Large Versus Small Vessel Disease? A Subgroup Analysis From ESPS-2. (Stroke. 2005)

Antiplatelet therapy contributes to acute deterioration of intracerebral hemorrhage (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Arterial occlusive lesions recanalize more frequently in women than in men after intravenous tissue plasminogen activator administration for acute stroke. (Stroke. 2005)

Avoiding central nervous system bleeding during antithrombotic therapy: recent data and ideas. (Stroke. 2005)

Calcium antagonists for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. (Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2005)

[Can ischaemic stroke be prevented with statins?] (Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2005)

Choice of antihypertensives after acute ischemic stroke. (CMAJ. 2005)

Comparison of Warfarin and Aspirin for Symptomatic Intracranial Arterial Stenosis (NEJM 2005)

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment in Sleep Apnea Prevents New Vascular Events After Ischemic Stroke (Chest. 2005)

Current treatments in neurology: Stroke. (J Neurol. 2005)

Differences in stroke care practices between regional and metropolitan hospitals (Internal Medicine Journal 2005)

Dose evaluation for long-term magnesium treatment in aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. (J Clin Pharm Ther. 2005)

Effects of antiplatelet agents on outcomes for elderly patients with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage. (J Trauma. 2005)

Effects of mental practice on affected limb use and function in chronic stroke. (Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2005)

Efficacy and costs of secondary prevention with antiplatelets after ischaemic stroke. (Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2005)

[Epidemiology and management of stroke patients in emergency departments of the Centre region of France.] (Rev Neurol (Paris). 2005)

Exercise leads to faster postural reflexes, improved balance and mobility, and fewer falls in older persons with chronic stroke. (J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005)

Exercise training to improve motor performance in chronic stroke: effects of a community-based exercise program. (Int J Rehabil Res. 2005)

Flat positioning improves blood flow velocity in acute ischemic stroke (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Intravenous Heparin Started Within the First 3 Hours After Onset of Symptoms as a Treatment for Acute Nonlacunar Hemispheric Cerebral Infarctions. (Stroke. 2005)

Long-Term Stability of Improved Language Functions in Chronic Aphasia After Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy (Stroke. 2005)

Managing the patient at risk for a second stroke. (J Hypertens. 2005)

New treatments in acute ischemic stroke. (Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2005)

Poor Outcomes in Patients Who Do Not Receive Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator Because of Mild or Improving Ischemic Stroke. (Stroke. 2005)

Predictors of major neurologic improvement after thrombolysis in acute stroke (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Prioritizing interventions to improve rates of thrombolysis for ischemic stroke (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care (Stroke. 2005)

Recovery from stroke: differences between subtypes. (Int J Rehabil Res. 2005)

Rehabilitation and acute stroke care. (CMAJ. 2005)

Safety and Feasibility of a Lower Dose Intravenous TPA Therapy for Ischemic Stroke beyond the First Three Hours. (Cerebrovasc Dis. 2005)

Selection of thrombolytic therapy beyond 3 h using magnetic resonance imaging. (Current Opinion in Neurology 2005)

Sex-Based Differences in Response to Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Acute Ischemic Stroke (Stroke. 2005)

Should a patient with primary intracerebral haemorrhage receive antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy? (BMJ 2005)

Sonothrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke for patients ineligible for rt-PA (NEUROLOGY 2005)

Stroke and coronary heart disease in treated hypertension a prospective cohort study over three decades (Journal of Internal Medicine 2005)

Stroke prevention. MATCHing therapy to the patient with TIA. (Postgrad Med. 2005)

The Canadian Stroke Quality of Care Study: establishing indicators for optimal acute stroke care. (CMAJ. 2005)

The Incidence of Ischemic Stroke versus Intracerebral Hemorrhage after Carotid Endarterectomy: A Review of 2452 Cases. (Ann Vasc Surg. 2005)

The need for emergency treatment of transient ischemic attack and minor stroke. (Expert Rev Neurother. 2005)

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

Therapeutic hypothermia for stroke: do new outfits change an old friend? (Expert Rev Neurother. 2005)

Therapeutic strategy for acute stroke--prologue for an epoch of brain attack--. Acute stroke therapy based on Japanese guidelines for the management of stroke 2004. (Intern Med. 2005)

Therapeutic strategy for acute stroke--prologue for an epoch of brain attack--. EBM and current state in Japan of thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke. (Intern Med. 2005)

Therapeutic strategy for acute stroke--prologue for an epoch of brain attack--. The present state of acute ischemic stroke therapy in Japan. (Intern Med. 2005)

Thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke: results of the Canadian Alteplase for Stroke Effectiveness Study (CMAJ 2005)

Thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke: 3 h and beyond. (Expert Rev Neurother. 2005)

Thrombolytic Therapy of Acute Ischemic Stroke: Correlation of Angiographic Recanalization with Clinical Outcome (American Journal of Neuroradiology 2005)

Thrombolysis for stroke in the elderly. (J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2005)

Time to hospital arrival, use of thrombolytics, and in-hospital outcomes in ischemic stroke. (Neurology. 2005)

Transcranial Low-Frequency Ultrasound-Mediated Thrombolysis in Brain Ischemia: Increased Risk of Hemorrhage With Combined Ultrasound and Tissue Plasminogen Activator: Results of a Phase II Clinical Trial (Stroke. 2005)

When melatonin gets on your nerves: its beneficial actions in experimental models of stroke. (Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2005)

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