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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 [...]

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 [...]

The tenth report from the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) today reveals that 14 stroke services scored an overall ‘A’ grade for the quality of care they provide for patients. [...]

Practicing evidence based medicine means that you initiate statin treatment for the patients with cardiovascular diseases or TIA/Stroke if the level of the total cholesterol is >3.5 mmol/L. [...]