background: we intended to investigate the serum magnesium impact upon the disability after ischemic stroke. methods: a total of 67 ischemic stroke patients who less than 6 hours had passed from their attacks participated in this cross sectional study. we have measured their serum magnesium level and determined its correlation with their rankin disability score (rds) in the first 72 hours (rds0...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE With the increasing demand for rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke, the telemedicine role of coordinating timely the efforts of the stroke team became important. We developed a system for rapidly exchanging diagnostic images and clinical and management information. METHODS A system was created on the basis of communicating patient data and images between hospital sy...

ADiesel cycle enginewith internal and external irreversibilities of finite combustion rate of the fuel, friction and heat leakage is investigated in this paper. The heat transfer between the working fluid and the environment outside the cylinder obeys generalized radiative heat transfer law [q ∝ ∆(T n)]. Under the conditions of the fixed total cycle time and fuel consumed per cycle, the optimal...

BACKGROUND Interhospital transfer of acute stroke patients is becoming increasingly important as regional stroke systems of care continue to evolve. We describe the characteristics and outcomes of stroke cases transferred to hospitals participating in the Michigan Coverdell Stroke Registry. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty-six hospitals participated in the Michigan registry during 2009 to 2011. Tra...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate time delays, adherence to guidelines, and their impact on outcomes in patients with warfarin-associated intracerebral hemorrhage transferred from community emergency departments to a comprehensive stroke center. METHODS We collected demographic, clinical, transfer time, treatment, and outcome data for patients transferred to ...

background: as yet migraine has been established as one of the risk factors for ischemic stroke. some of the factors have been assessed for the explanation of this relation. hyperhomocysteinemia is seen partly both in stroke and in migraine. this study was conducted to determine the mean plasma levels of homocysteine in ischemic stroke patients on the basis of migraine history.methods: this cro...

BACKGROUND Although task-specific training is emerging as a viable approach for recovering motor function after stroke, there is little evidence for whether the effects of such training transfer to other functional motor tasks not directly practiced in therapy. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the current study was to test whether training on one motor task in individuals with chronic hemiparesis pos...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive stroke centers allow for regionalization of subspecialty stroke care. Efficacy of endovascular treatments, however, may be limited by delays in patient transfer. Our goal was to identify where these delays occurred and to assess the impact of such delays on patient outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS This was a retrospective study evaluating patients treated with endovascula...

OBJECTIVE One use of EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in rehabilitation is the detection of movement intention. In this paper we investigate for the first time the instantaneous phase of movement related cortical potential (MRCP) and its application to the detection of gait intention. APPROACH We demonstrate the utility of MRCP phase in two independent datasets, in which 10 healthy ...