We prospectively enrolled consecutive patients with acute cerebral infarction or transient ischemic attack within 7 days after onset between October 2009 and September 2010. All of the patients ...

When patients exhibit stroke symptoms, doctors must quickly make a life or death determination: Are their symptoms caused by a clot that can be treated with blood thinners or by bleeding in the brain, ...

Neuroimaging is recommended for any case that is suspicious for stroke, particularly occipital stroke. MRI of the brain and brainstem revealed changes in both occipital lobes consistent with an old ...

In a small "proof of principle" study, stroke researchers have found that a simple, one-minute eye movement exam performed at the bedside worked better than an MRI to distinguish new strokes from ...

The eye test correctly identified all 69 stroke victims, while the MRI identified 61. The remaining eight patients were confirmed during the follow-up MRI exam to have had a stroke. Though the eye ...

Hypertensive disorders account for approximately 25% of excess cases of maternal stroke associated with migraine, according to research published in JAMA Neurology. Although hypertensive disorders ...

Risk Estimator ID’d for Sight-Threatening Diabetic Retinopathy For adults with hypertension, the presence of hypertensive retinopathy may be valuable in assessing the risk of stroke. Yi-Ting Ong, from ...