Background and Purpose Indications for carotid endarterectomy have engendered considerable
debate among experts and have resulted in publication of retrospective reviews, natural …

ObjectiveTo develop recommendations for the establishment and operation of primary
stroke centers as an approach to improve the medical care of patients with stroke.…

… - and time-responsive radiation inhibition of intimal hyperplasia, with the most prominent
inhibition noted for radiation administered in temporal proximity to the injury (from, Mayberg MR, …

Background Endarterectomy reduces risk of stroke in certain patients with recently symptomatic
internal carotid stenosis. However, investigators have made different recommendations …

Objective. —To determine whether carotid endarterectomy provides protection against
subsequent cerebral ischemia in men with ischemic symptoms in the distribution of significant (>…

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a common and often devastating occurrence; each
year approx-imately 30 000 Americans have nontraumatic SAH. 1 Despite considerable …

Purpose: It has been suggested that altered drug permeability across the blood–brain barrier
(BBB) may be involved in pharmacoresistance to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). To test this …

Background and Purpose— Hypothermia is effective in improving outcome in experimental
models of brain infarction. We studied the feasibility and safety of hypothermia in patients …

… von Kummer overlaps as section editor for interventional neuroradiology, and another new
editor, Marc Mayberg, edits the section on neurosurgery. We hope readers will be attracted to …

Two brain-specific proteins, S-100β and neuron-specific enolase (NSE), are released
systemically after cerebral lesions, but S-100β levels sometimes rise in the absence of neuronal …