Background An 83-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and dyslipidemia developed acute onset of impaired speech and comprehension, and right-sided weakness. Her previous medical history was ...

July 15, 2010 — After reviewing the relevant literature, a panel of neurologists, neuroradiologists, and radiologists has concluded that diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) MRI is superior to noncontrast ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2009;7(1):29-48. These examples show that the rate of neuronal loss may vary by a factor of at least 200 in patients with major artery occlusions. Thus, for many patients ...

Lacunar Infarction: (Left) T2-weighted axial MRI; (Right) Flair axial MRI. Note the well-demarcated ischemic stroke in the region of the posterior limb of the right internal capsule. GP = Globus ...

Noncontrast CT is commonly used to diagnose acute stroke because of its ability to detect acute hemorrhage, although it is less sensitive for early detection of ischemic stroke. The American Academy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The portable MRI detected a high percentage of stroke-related infarct. Hyperfine has “practical advantages” over ...

Under current guidelines, intravenous thrombolysis is used to treat acute stroke only if it can be ascertained that the time since the onset of symptoms was less than 4.5 hours. We sought to determine ...