Purpose To evaluate the inter-rater reliability and predictive validity of the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI) in patients after stroke. Methods One hundred sixty-one patients were selected for consecutive application of the FAI and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). Spearman's test was used for correlation between different scales. The FAI and NIHSS association was evaluated...

BACKGROUND M2 occlusions may result in poor outcomes and potentially benefit from endovascular therapy. Data on the rate of M2 strokes is lacking. METHODOLOGY Patients with acute ischemic stroke discharged over a period of 3 years from a tertiary level hospital in the 'stroke belt' were evaluated for M2 occlusions on baseline vascular imaging. Regional and national incidence was calculated fr...

background: ischemic brain strokes consisttwo‑thirdsof strokesand their complications bear a lot of disability for patient and society. in this study, we seek for effect of erythropoietin on ischemic brain stroke’s outcomes according to national institutes of health stroke scale (nihss) changes. methods: this study is a rct (randomized clinical trial). all patients with focal neurologic deficit...

OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of admission serum cholesterol levels (SCL) on severity of initial neurological deficit, neurological outcome at month 3 and neurological recovery in patients with acute first-ever ischemic stroke. METHODS Prospectively collected data from 889 consecutive patients with first-ever acute ischemic stroke were retrospectively analysed. Patients who suffered a re...

Objectives To determine the validity and reliability of a Latvian version of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (LV-NIHSS) for evaluating Latvian stroke patients. Methods The adaption of the LV-NIHSS followed standard methods used for the adaption and validation of clinical assessment tools. The scale validity was tested by comparison with the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and the modifi...

Objective. To determine the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale's (NIHSS's) association with upper extremity (UE) impairment and functional outcomes. Design. Secondary, retrospective analysis of randomized controlled trial data. Setting. Not applicable. Participants. 146 subjects with stable, chronic stroke-induced hemiparesis. Intervention. The NIHSS, the UE Fugl-Meyer (FM), and the Arm...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To prospectively evaluate the reliability and validity of this previously developed stroke scale in an independently collected cohort. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) has been criticized for its complexity and variability. Prior formal clinimetric analyses were used to obtain a modified version of NIHSS (mNIHSS), which retrospectively demonstrated i...

BACKGROUND The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) was created to detect treatment-related differences in clinical trials and was designed to measure right- and left-sided cerebral hemispheric function. OBJECTIVE To validate the original design in patients with very large strokes. DESIGN A previously published factor structure was fit to the data. Then, a new analysis was con...