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The variation in stroke care: Why?
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 annually. The focus on preventing stroke is important in any health care strategy. However; it remains a challenge to meet the standard [...]
Atypical presentations of stroke
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 end. Edlow and Salim wrote in the Lancet Neurology issue of June 2011 an interesting article about the atypical presentations of acute cerebravascualr [...]
British Medical Journal: How Should I approach a suspected TIA?
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 2011; 342:d1938). The authors from Glasgow/Scotland raised few research questions at the end of their review. They tried to address the daily practice difficulties related to TIA and [...]
Haemodynamic stroke: Management and Prognosis
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 line of the October 2010 issue of the Journal (The Lancet Neurology 9;10: 1008-1017). Severe obstruction of the carotid or vertebral arteries was [...]
