Background and Purpose—The purpose of this review is to provide insight into the quality of
economic evaluation in the field of cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) on the basis of a …

PURPOSE: To evaluate—relative to routine clinical practice—the potential cost-
effectiveness of implementing a strategy compliant with National Institute of Neurological …

PURPOSE To determine the worth of CT angiography of the circle of Willis as a supplement
to routine CT in the examination of patients with symptoms of acute stroke in terms of its …

Thrombolysis is increasingly being used in treating acute ischemic stroke but it is also
accompanied with a serious complication of cerebral hemorrhage in a dose-dependent …

This book provides a comprehensive clinical review of the diagnosis and treatment of
patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease. The book includes chapters on the clinical …

Our purpose was to relate the outcome after local intra-arterial fibrinolysis (LIF) to the natural
course in middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion. We retrospectively studied 40 patients …

Background Thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke raises several unsettled
bioethical issues related to risk versus benefit. Excluding the National Institutes of …

Cerebral ischaemia due to thrombo-embolic complications of intracranial endovascular
therapy remains one of the more obvious hazards of this otherwise rather gentle treatment …

With increased understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of acute ischemic stroke,
advances in imaging and interventional techniques, and the development of new fibrinolytic …

Stroke is the leading cause of long term disability and the third leading cause of death in the
US. Nearly US40.9billion(1997values)arespenteachyearondirectandindirectstroke …