Association of the ASCO Classification with the Executive Function Subscores of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Patients with Postischemic Stroke

Conclusions: These results suggest that the ASCO phenotypic classification of stroke is useful not only for assessing the etiology of ischemic stroke but also for predicting cognitive decline after ischemic stroke.

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - August 29, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Kazuo Washida, Masafumi Ihara, Hisatsugu Tachibana, Kenji Sekiguchi, Hisatomo Kowa, Fumio Kanda, Tatsushi Toda Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research