Management Of Stroke  Health Article

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Figure 1. Examples of the use of diffusion-weighted im...
Figure 1. Examples of the use of diffusion-weighted imaging in acute stroke. a A patient with symptomatic carotid stenosis with several acute infarcts in the middle cerebral artery territory. b A middle-aged woman with a long history of anxiety-related medical problems who was complaining of transient numbness over the right side of the body 24 hours previously. The arrow shows an acute left thalamic infarct.
Figure 3. Carotid angiogram showing a severe carotid stenosis before and after treatment with angioplasty and stent insertion.
Figure 3. Carotid angi...
Figure 6. Benefit of endarterectomy declines rapidly with time 8
Figure 6. Benefit of e...
Table 1
Table 1
Figure 1. Examples of the use of diffusion-weighted imaging in acute stroke. a A patient with symptomatic carotid stenosis with several acute infarcts in the middle cerebral artery territory. b A middle-aged woman with a long history of anxiety-related medical problems who was complaining of transient numbness over the right side of the body 24 hours previously. The arrow shows an acute left thalamic infarct.
Figure 1. Examples of ...
Figure 2. Magnetic resonance angiography (a) , diffusion-weighted imaging (b) and perfusion-weighted imaging (c) performed in a patient 2.5 hours after onset of aphasia and right hemiparesis. Occlusion of the left middle cerebral artery trunk (arrow) is seen, with a small diffusion abnormality and a large perfusion abnormality indicative of a large ischaemic penumbra (tissue potentially salvageable with thrombolysis).
Figure 2. Magnetic res...
Figure 4. Patients treated with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator: early treatment improves outcome compared with controls 3
Figure 4. Patients tre...
Figure 5. Benefit of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with 70% carotid stenosis
Figure 5. Benefit of c...
Figure 7. Percentage of patients who were dead or dependent at 6 months in the Oxford Community Stroke Project, a population-based study of first strokes 7
Figure 7. Percentage o...
Figure 8. High early risk of recurrent stroke (8-12% within the first week) 8 in a populationbased study Recurrent stroke is more likely after large artery stroke than after a cardioembolic or lacunar event
Figure 8. High early r...

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