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Infection during delivery linked to greater risk of stroke after delivery According to preliminary research to be presented at ISC 2019, women diagnosed with an infection during delivery had a [...]

The objective of this analysis which is published in the BMJ on 24/1/2019 (2019; 364) is to investigate whether further centralisation of acute stroke services in Greater Manchester in 2015 was [...]

Dr. Amer Jafar, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London is talking on 7th February 2019 at 7pm about Stroke in Wales. The venue is the Post Graduate Centre in Royal Glamorgan Hospital, [...]

Michael G Hennerici writes: Today, aware of the increasing number of meetings, and faced with expectations of commercial sponsorship both for free participation, and the added risks of dilution [...]

  A substantial proportion of patients with ischaemic stroke present with embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS), which is associated with a considerable rate of recurrence. The [...]

The Second Gwent Stroke Conference was held in Cwmbran/Wales on 25th September 2018. The team from the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has organised this conference which included lectures [...]

Based around the core curriculum for specialist trainees, Oxford Case Histories in Stroke features 51 well-structured, peer-reviewed cases from the Oxford Hospitals giving detailed coverage of [...]

Stroke services have been centralised in several countries in recent years. Diagnosing acute stroke is challenging and a high proportion of patients admitted to stroke units are diagnosed as a [...]

Compared with ischaemic stroke (IS), the association of atrial fibrillation (AF) with transient ischaemic attack (TIA) is less well established. The authors of this study  (Stroke,December 2016) [...]

It was recently demonstrated that cerebral microinfarcts (CMIs) can be detected in vivo using 3.0 tesla (T) magnetic resonance imaging. The authors investigated the prevalence, risk factors, and [...]