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Validation of international stroke scales for use by nurses in Greek settings.
CONCLUSIONS: The Greek version of the stroke tools show that both SSS and BI have high internal consistency and reliability and together with the mRS could be used in any Greek stroke care delivery setting. PMID: 27680397 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - September 28, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Theofanidis D Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research

Stroke Incidence and Outcomes in Northeastern Greece Clinical Sciences
Conclusions—This is the largest to date population-based study in Greece documenting one of the highest stroke incidences ever reported in South Europe, highlighting the need for efficient stroke prevention and treatment strategies in Northeastern Greece.
Source: Stroke - January 22, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Georgios Tsivgoulis, Athanasia Patousi, Maria Pikilidou, Theodosis Birbilis, Aristeidis H. Katsanos, Michalis Mantatzis, Aristeidis Asimis, Nikolaos Papanas, Panagiotis Skendros, Aikaterini Terzoudi, Aikaterini Karamanli, Ioannis Kouroumichakis, Pantelis Tags: Epidemiology, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Ischemic Stroke Original Contributions Source Type: research

Can We Learn from Our Children About stroke? Effectiveness of a School-Based Educational Programme in Greece
Stroke is the second most common cause of death worldwide and the leading cause of chronic functional limitations.1 Without appropriate and timely care between the stroke symptom appearance and the treatment in acute stroke incidents, the ischemic brain ages 3.6 years for every hour of blood deprivation.2 Yet patients repeatedly arrive late to the hospital.3,4 The lack of public awareness about stroke symptoms has been reported in the literature as one of the main factors, causing this belated arrival to the hospital and hence the belated medical treatment.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - May 13, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Hariklia Proios, Maria Baskini, Christos Keramydas, Tatiana Pourliaka, Kalliopi Tsakpounidou Source Type: research

Moving from traditional to more advanced treatments in stroke care is cost-effective: A case study from Greece
Ischemic stroke (IS) is one of the leading causes of mortality and disability,1, 2 with the economic burden of post-stroke care being substantial.1, 2 After incidence of IS, the following effective treatments have been found to significantly improve survival and quality of life: (a) treatment in specialized centres (Stroke Units; SU), (b) use of intravenous thrombolytic therapy (IVT), (c) use of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for patients with large vessel occlusions (LVO) and (d) rehabilitation.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - September 10, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Konstantinos Dimitriadis, Ilias Kyriopoulos, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Konstantinos Vemmos, Wolfgang G. Kunz, Elias Mossialos Source Type: research

The Hippocratic Doctrine of “the Acute Brain Suffering” as the Brain Stroke
Background: The ancient Greek term "apoplexy" as is repeatedly mentioned by the Hippocratic School of Medicine, included a cluster of diseases, mainly those concerning the central nervous system. The term was wrongfully infiltrated in Western European medicine as synonymous to what is called today a "stroke" of the brain. Objective: While in "Corpus Hippocraticum" the definition of the stroke was rather ambiguous; our study aims to unveil those fragments referring to it, in order to compose the Hippocratic theory of what it stood for "Acute Brain Suffering" (Greek: Οξείες Οδύνες του Εγκεφάλου) durin...
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - November 9, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Gregory Tsoucalas, Theodore G Papaioannou, Marianna Karamanou Source Type: research

Cardiac Imaging Within Emergency CT Angiography for Acute Stroke Can Detect Atrial Clots
This study was approved by the ethics committee of the medical faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum. FIGURE 1 Figure 1. Flow chart showing the selection of the study population. Results A total of 59 patients underwent emergency CCTA (Figure 2A) for suspected stroke, of which 44 received the final diagnosis ischemic stroke. There were 17 patients who had ischemic stroke or TIA and known or newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation (Table 1; mean age: 77.5 years, standard deviation: 8.4 years; 53% female). As hypothesized, intracardiac thrombi could be visualized: once in an artificially occluded left atrial appe...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 9, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Stroke recurrence and mortality in northeastern Greece: the Evros Stroke Registry
AbstractUp to date there is no population-based study from Greece providing long-term data on incidence of both all-cause mortality and stroke recurrence for patients with first ever stroke (FES). Adult patients with FES were registered during a 24-month period (2010 –2012) and followed-up for 12 months. We calculated cumulative incidences of stroke mortality and recurrence. Univariable and multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were used to identify independent determinants of 1-year mortality and 1-year stroke recurrence. We prospectivel y documented 703 first ever stroke cases (mean age 75 ± ...
Source: Journal of Neurology - August 20, 2018 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Quality of Life and Psychological Distress of Caregivers' of Stroke People.
CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers of people with stroke experience mental disorders and burden negatively affecting their quality of life. Therefore, there is a need to implement strategies which should aim to the management of these problems for the welfare of both patients and their caregivers. PMID: 30315561 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Acta Neurologica Taiwanica - October 15, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: Acta Neurol Taiwan Source Type: research

Pure word deafness due to bilateral temporal lobe ischemic stroke occurring at different time points over the years: a case report on the insight of brain language network reorganization
Neurocase. 2021 Mar 9:1-7. doi: 10.1080/13554794.2021.1896744. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHere we present a case of a native Greek male patient who presented clinically with sudden onset pure word deafness after an ischemic stroke in the temporoparietal region of the right hemisphere, but who had suffered an ischemic stroke 9 years previously in an adjacent area of the left hemisphere, causing aphasic symptoms which resolved quickly and almost completely. What makes this case interesting and novel is that it is the first case describing a patient whose ventral language comprehension circuit did not reorganize successful...
Source: Neurocase - March 9, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Ioanna-Eleni Virvidaki Lambros Messinis Grigorios Nasios Source Type: research

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