AbstractReported frequency of embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) ranged from 7-33%. An estimated annual stroke recurrence risk in these patients is 2.3–6.8 % and, mortality rate is 5.2%. There is no documented data about ESUS frequency and the re.....
AbstractIschemic stroke in young adults is a challenge globally and a potential source of major morbidity.
Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) is a risk factor for stroke at any age, but particularly so in young adults. Young adults with APS have a higher risk.....
AbstractImpaired coordination caused by cerebral, cerebellar or spinal impairment, with hypoxic or genetic causes, answer to the Pet?’s conductive education quite fair. It might mean the most favorable facilitation for developmental processes and by the so.....
AbstractThrombolytic therapy with Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator (r-tPA) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is well established stroke treatment for almost three decades such as mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in the last 10 years. Current guidelines for.....
AbstractBackground: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a global public health crisis. Currently, there are no treatments to prevent or halt the disease. Given the precedence of chronic neuroinflammation in triggering AD-like neurodegeneration and an observed upre.....
AbstractObjective: Determine whether a two-level cervical sympathetic chain block may be more effective than a standard C6 level stellate ganglion block (SGB) for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Background: A right-sided SGB has ma.....
AbstractA 72-year-old man with basilar artery stroke was underwent successful angioplasty. Bilateral infarctions in the cerebellum, basal ganglia and capsula interna left the patient with central ataxia. His longstanding arterial hypertension (HT) had deteri.....
AbstractBackground: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory infectious disease that presents from mild cases to severe forms. Comorbidities, especially cardiovascular diseases, were associated with poor outcome. The virus uses angiotensin conver.....
AbstractStroke rapid response (stroke code) teams facilitate the evaluation and treatment of patients with potential stroke. We investigated the accuracy of the pre-hospital diagnosis in triggering the stroke path of an acute cerebrovascular disease (CVA) by.....
AbstractAim: Multiple recent trials have proven the efficacy of thrombectomy in large vessel occlusive stroke and earlier reperfusion correlates with improved outcomes. We developed a thrombectomy technical difficulty index (TTDI) to predict the expected pro.....
AbstractThe patient was a 77-year-old man who initially presented with blue toe syndrome (BTS) and multiple cerebral emboli. He was diagnosed as having Trousseau syndrome due to lung adenocarcinoma. BTS is a rare presenting symptom in Trousseau syndrome, whi.....
AbstractThere is a need for adjunctive treatments for poorly controlled seizure disorders. In people with epilepsy, between 25% and 40% treated with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have uncontrolled seizures. In adults, the majority ofuncontrolled seizures have a.....
AbstractBackground: Extracranial carotid artery stenosis represents 8.0% of ischemic strokes in the USA. Patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis are those who have had a recent ischemic stroke or TIA along the ipsilateral carotid artery distribution. Aggr.....
AbstractPosterior circulation stroke is a potentially life threatening and functionally disabling stroke. Nevertheless, patients with posterior circulation stroke may initially presents with a constellation of nonspecific symptoms mimicking other pathologies.....
Abstractt-PA has a widespread neuroendocrine distribution including prominent expression in chromaffin cells of the sympathoadrenal system. Chromaffin cell t-PA is sorted into catecholamine storage vesicles and co-released with catecholamines in response to .....
AbstractBackground: The early risk and influence factors on death of sepsis following acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) was previously unclear.
Methods: We retrospectively enrolled patients with identified sepsis after acute ICH from an ICU in China. W.....
