Preclusion of Ischemic Stroke Patients from Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator Treatment for Mild Symptoms Should Not be Based on Low National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale Scores

Conclusions: Language impairment, distal (hand) paresis, and gait disorder are common disabling deficits in patients with low NIHSS scores. Judgment of whether a stroke is disabling should not be based on the NIHSS score but on the assessment of the individual neurologic deficits and their impact on functional impairment.

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - February 25, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Matthias Wendt, Serdar Tütüncü, Jochen B. Fiebach, Jan F. Scheitz, Heinrich J. Audebert, Christian H. Nolte Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research