Recent articles

Systematic electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring improves detection of covert atrial fibrillation in stroke survivors but the effect on secondary prevention is unknown. We aimed to assess the effect [...]

Previous randomised trials have shown an overwhelming benefit of mechanical thrombectomy for treating patients with stroke caused by large vessel occlusion of the anterior circulation. Whether [...]

Dr. Amer Jafar writes: Stroke can be a devastating disease as it might lead to death in third of the patients and disability in another third. Stroke causes over 4.3 million deaths world-wide [...]

In the daily practice of Stroke physicians, there is always the concern about how accurate is the diagnosis and whether the physicians are going to end up thrombolysing non-stroke patients at the [...]

The latest issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a clinical review about the recent developments in the field of Transient Ischaemic Attack and Ischaemic Stroke (BMJ [...]

Compromising the haemodynamic status due for example to heart failure and hypotension can lead to signs and symptoms of a stroke. A new review article by the Lancet Neurology was published on [...]