A simple score to predict atherosclerotic or embolic intracranial large-vessel occlusion stroke before endovascular treatment

CONCLUSIONS: The atrial fibrillation-blood pressure-clinical neurological deficit-computed tomography hyperdense sign-diabetes mellitus (ABC2D) score can be used to identify atherosclerotic or embolic etiology of patients with ILVOS who require emergency endovascular treatment.PMID:35303701 | DOI:10.3171/2022.1.JNS212924

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery - March 18, 2022 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Geng Liao Zhenyu Zhang Tao-Hsin Tung Yuemei He Linhui Hu Xiong Zhang Hai Chen Jinbo Huang Weijie Du Chaomao Li Zhi Yang Yong Cai Hanxiang Liang Source Type: research