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

… The American Heart Association requests that this document be cited as follows: Latchaw
RE, Alberts MJ, Lev MH, Connors JJ, Harbaugh RE, Higashida RT, Hobson R, Kidwell CS, …

Background and Purpose— To develop recommendations for the establishment of comprehensive
stroke centers capable of delivering the full spectrum of care to seriously ill patients …

Anumber of techniques have been developed during the past four decades to evaluate
cerebral perfusion. The oldest used 133Xe, a lipophilic radioactive tracer that easily diffuses …

PURPOSE To develop a scoring method for brain observations in patients with X-linked
adrenoleukodystrophy. METHODS One hundred seventy-five brain MR scans in 83 male …

… This revision will re-examine the key elements for a PSC, performance measures, and
options for certification in an effort to update them and provide levels of evidence. …

… Most painful musculoskeletal conditions increase with age and because there is an increase
in multi-morbidity, non-communicable diseases, and reduced physical activity associated …

… To ascertain the optimal potential outcome of transplantation, we prospectively evaluated
patients who received marrow from an HLA-identical sib, the donorrecipient relationship most …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: MR imaging and contrast-enhanced MR angiography
have been used to detect evidence of spinal dural arteriovenous fistulae (AVF); however, the …

STROKE IS THE third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only heart disease
and cancer. With an estimated three million survivors of stroke in the United States, the cost …