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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 [...]