Criteria for Emergency Brain MRI During Stroke-Alert
Intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) should be given to patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and avoided in stroke mimics (SM). Select use of emergency brain magnetic resonance imaging (eMRI-brain) in stroke-alerts aids diagnosis, but accepted utilization criteria for eMRI-brain do not currently exist. We developed criteria for eMRI-brain and report the yield of eMRI-brain in stroke-alert patients.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - Category: Neurology Authors: Evgeny Sidorov, Courtney Iser, Nidhi Kapoor, Bappaditya Ray, Juliane Chainakul, Chao Xu, Andrei V. Alexandrov, David Lee Gordon Source Type: research