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Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease: Risk Factors and Outcomes in Patients With Acute Critical Hemispheric Ischemic Stroke
Conclusions— Occlusive carotid artery disease is not uncommon among Chinese patients who have had an acute critical hemispheric infarction. Older age is the factor most significantly correlated with a poor outcome, and occlusive carotid disease is the factor most significantly correlated with death.
Source: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine - January 21, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Lim, S.-N., Chang, Y.-J., Lin, S.-K. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research

Improving mechanical thrombectomy time metrics in the angiography suite: Stroke cart, parallel workflows, and conscious sedation.
Conclusions Use of a stroke cart, parallel workflows by neurointerventionalists, technologists, and nursing staff, and use of conscious sedation may be useful to other institutions in efforts to improve procedural times. PMID: 29145742 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Interventional Neuroradiology - November 19, 2017 Category: Radiology Tags: Interv Neuroradiol Source Type: research