Effect of Right Insular Involvement on Death and Functional Outcome After Acute Ischemic Stroke in the IST-3 Trial (Third International Stroke Trial) [Clinical Sciences]

Conclusions—We found an association between right insular involvement and higher odds of death and worse functional outcome. The difference between right- and left-sided insular lesions on outcomes seemed to be most evident for mild/moderate strokes.Clinical Trial Registration—URL: http://www.isrctn.com. Unique identifier: ISRCTN25765518.

http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/47/12/2959.short?rss=1

Source: Stroke - November 27, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Luciano A. Sposato, Geoffrey Cohen, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Peter Sandercock, Richard I. Lindley, Vladimir Hachinski, on behalf of the IST-3 Expert Reading Panel and the IST-3 Collaborative Group Tags: Computerized Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Mortality/Survival, Ischemic Stroke Original Contributions Source Type: research