TABLE 1:

Clinical Presentation and Stroke Risk Factors

Patient no.	Age (y)/Sex	Stroke Risk Factors	Clinical Presentation	Symptom Duration (hrs)
1	82/F	HTN, HLD, CAD	Nonfluent aphasia and mild right hemiparesis	0.5
2	32/F	IDDM	Fluent aphasia, left gaze preference and right hemiparesis	4
3	91/F	CHF, CAD	Fluent aphasia	10
4	39/F	Smoking	Face, arm, leg numbness; no weakness. No sensory inattention	0.25
5	78/F	HTN, DM	Nonfluent aphasia	3
6	81/F	AF^*	vertigo and gait ataxia	2
7	76/M	CAD	Isolated right hand and arm weakness, no aphasia	0.75
8	68/F	HTN	Left arm and hand weakness,	6
			sensory neglect
9	77/M	HTN, AF^*	Left facial weakness, left hand clumsiness, dysarthria and left dysdiadochokinesia	0.5
10	54/M	Smoking, HTN	Complete speech arrest and mild right pronator drift	0.5
11	76/M	HTN	Complete speech arrest	0.17
12	81/M	CAD, HTN	Dysarthria, left facial and left hemiparesis	0.42

Note. AF indicates atrial fibrillation, CAD, coronary artery disease, CHF, congestive heart failure; DM, diabetes mellitus; HLD, hyperlipidaemia, HTN, hypertension; IDDM, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
* Not receiving anticoagulation therapy.