Abstract Background Abnormal intermuscular coordination limits the motor capability of stroke-affected upper limbs. By evaluating in affected limb under various biomechanical task constraints, impact a stroke on control can be analyzed and coordination-based rehabilitation strategies developed. In this study, we investigated after during isokinetic movements. Methods Sixteen chronic survivors e...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Accurate identification of risk factors for stroke is important for public health promotion and disease prevention. HDL cholesterol is a potential risk factor, yet its role in stroke risk is unclear, as is whether HDL cholesterol content or particle number might be a better indicator of stroke risk. Furthermore, the degree to which ethnicity moderates the risk is unknown....

Worse Heterogeneity Affecting Outcome From Acute Stroke Therapy : Making Reperfusion Print ISSN: 0039-2499. Online ISSN: 1524-4628 Copyright © 2001 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Stroke doi: 10.1161/hs1001.096588 2001;32:2318-2327 Stroke. http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/32/10/23...

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...

background: epidemiological research has shown that increased total homocysteine (thcy) levels are associated with an increased risk of thromboembolic disease; however, controversy still exists over which subtype of stroke is allied to hyperhomocysteinemia. this study aimed to investigate whether elevated thcy is an independent risk factor for ischemic stroke and to compare thcy levels in patie...

conclusions due to considerable inter- and intra- heterogeneity among studies performed by other centers such as differences in study project, background, and population features, determining a pharmacotherapy model based on safe implementation of treatments in stroke or sits seem advantageous. results age, time of onset, systolic blood pressure, diabetes, stroke severity, co-morbidities and pr...

background: few investigators have reported case fatality and disability of iranian patients with stroke. this study was designed to collect morbidity and case fatality data of hospitalized patients with stroke, and stroke care quality in isfahan, iran. methods: from 2006 to 2011, from overlapping sources (discharge diagnoses, attending physicians, and hospitalization wards), all hospitalized p...

stroke is the third cause of death in the world after the cancer and cardiovascular disease. . it has been shown that stroke in northeast of iran occurs approximately one decade earlier than in western countries. reasons for the high stroke incidence among persian are not yet clear. it is the first gene-association study in persian population, which determines the relationship between 25 gene v...

Direct numerical simulation is used to study the mixing of a passive scalar by a vortex ring issuing from a nozzle into stationary fluid. The ‘formation number’ (Gharib et al. J. Fluid Mech. vol. 360, 1998, p. 121), is found to be 3.6. Simulations are performed for a range of stroke ratios (ratio of stroke length to nozzle exit diameter) encompassing the formation number, and the effect of stro...

background stroke is the second cause of death and disability in the world, and oxidative stress which could be considered as a prognostic factor in patients for prevention, follow up and determination of stroke’s severity has a conceivable role in neural damage. objectives the aim of our study was to explain the association between oxidant/antioxidant imbalance as a prognostic factor in patien...