Background and Purpose—Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a major complication
of thrombolysis in patients with acute ischemic stroke. We analyzed whether baseline …

Lacunar infarcts or small subcortical infarcts result from occlusion of a single penetrating artery
and account for one quarter of cerebral infarctions. Patients with a lacunar infarct usually …

Background and Purpose— Statins may be beneficial for patients with acute ischemic stroke.
We tested the hypothesis that patients pretreated with statins at the onset of stroke have …

Symptomatic lacunar ischemic stroke (25% of all brain infarctions) results from occlusion of
a single penetrating artery by microatheromas or lipohyalinosis and rarely from an …

Transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) are heterogeneous from the clinical, physiopathological,
aetiological and prognostic points of view. Single-photon emission tomography (SPET) may …

Background and Objectives: Hospital admission delay is a main limiting factor for effective
thrombolytic therapy in stroke patients. We developed a stroke code system for rapid request …

Background and Purpose. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and transcranial
Doppler (TCD) are the methods of choice to study patent foramen ovale (PFO), but there are …

Fundamento y objetivo Se desconoce si el riesgo de transformación hemorrágica
sintomática(THS) del infarto cerebral por el uso de activador del plasminógeno tisular (t-PA) en la …

The clinical features, etiology, and neurological outcome in patients with primary intraventricular
hemorrhage (PIVH) have rarely been reported. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical …

The influence of statins on the results of intravenous thrombolysis for ischemic stroke is
controversial. We studied the risks and benefits of statin pretreatment (SP) in patients treated with …