AIM To report angiographic and clinical results obtained in patients with supraclinoid segment blood blister-like aneurysms (BBLAs) of the internal carotid artery treated with stent-assisted coil embolization. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective review of patients, who were treated for a ruptured supraclinoid BBLAs of the internal carotid artery (ICA) from 2004 to 2010, was performed. Clinic...

OBJECTIVE C-reactive protein, a well known marker of inflammation is being investigated as a probable marker of predicting acute cardiovascular events and its severity. The aim of the present study was to assess the possible role of highly-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in predicting short-term functional outcome of ischemic stroke. METHODOLOGY A prospective study was conducted on su...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To enable self-reporting of functional outcome in quality registers, the corresponding questions have to be easy to interpret. In scientific research, the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) is a standard assessment method. Such methods, with an outsider observer, are not feasible to use in quality registers. For several aspects, eg, comparisons between outcome in clinical studie...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The SAINT I trial that showed a significant benefit of the neuroprotectant NXY-059 used a novel outcome for acute ischemic stroke trials: a shift toward good functional outcome on the 7-category modified Rankin scale (mRS). METHODS We used the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel shift test to analyze the distribution of the 90-day mRS outcomes in the NINDS and ECASS-II databases an...

Transplantation of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMCs) has been proven safe in animal and human studies. However, there are very few studies in stroke patients. In this study, intra-arterial autologous BMMCs were infused in patients with moderate to severe acute middle cerebral artery infarcts. The subjects of this study included 20 patients with early or late spontaneous recanali...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Animal studies showed that human albumin therapy is strongly neuroprotective in focal ischemia. The aim of our study was to determine if relatively high serum albumin level is associated with decreased risk of poor outcome in ischemic stroke patients. METHODS Seven hundred fifty-nine consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke were included. Functional outcome was m...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Quality of life (QoL) is important to stroke survivors yet is often recorded as a secondary measure in acute stroke randomized controlled trials. We examined whether commonly used stroke outcome measures captured aspects of QoL. METHODS We examined primary outcomes by National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Barthel Index (BI) and modified Rankin Scale (mRS),...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of demographic and clinical characteristics on mobility, disability, and activities of daily life of patients with stroke. METHODS This cross-sectional clinical study was performed in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine in Adana, Turkey, between February 2011 and December 2011. The study included ...

Background: Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) is a stroke type which resulted in disability. Memantine have been supposed to have the effect on the functional status in patients with ICH. Objectives: Comparing the effect of memantine with placebo on the clinical outcome of ICH. Materials and Methods: This double-blind clinical trial was conducted in an academic hospital in northern Iran on patient...