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Time for a New Perspective on Intracerebral Hemorrhage
More than 3 million people worldwide experience intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) each year. Although the incidence of ICH is much lower than that of ischemic stroke, ICH imposes a 50% greater worldwide burden of disability. ICH has a 30-day case fatality rate of more than 40%, and most survivors are left with permanent disabilities. Because of the high likelihood of poor outcomes, physicians caring for patients with ICH tend to use clinical severity scores early on to estimate the risk of mortality or future disability to determine the aggressiveness of medical care and to guide conversations with patients ’ surrogates aro...
Source: JAMA Neurology - July 25, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Intra-arterial Urokinase After Incomplete Mechanical Thrombectomy
Complete and rapid revascularization can dramatically reduce disability after large-vessel occlusion (LVO) acute ischemic stroke (AIS). With modern mechanical thrombectomy (MT), we now have a safe and effective method to recanalize occluded cerebral vessels, and in this issue of JAMA Neurology, Kaesmacher et al move the field 1 step closer to achieving the goal of complete revascularization. Cohort studies have demonstrated that even among patients who achieve substantial reperfusion, defined as a Thrombolysis in Cerebral Infarction grade of 2b or greater, those who achieve the highest grades of reperfusion have quantifiab...
Source: JAMA Neurology - December 9, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Endovascular Therapy for Childhood Stroke —Working Together to Reach Prime Time
The standard of care for stroke treatment in adults changed rapidly in 2015 after results from 5 major clinical trials each showed efficacy of endovascular treatment of anterior circulation large-vessel occlusion within 6 hours of stroke onset. The positive results of these studies have since raised questions about whether endovascular therapy should be used for children who present with stroke due to large-vessel occlusion and, other than age, fit adult criteria for thrombectomy. Compared with the occurrence in adults, ischemic stroke in children is uncommon, but remains important to address because the resulting disabili...
Source: JAMA Neurology - October 14, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Considerations in Assessing Disability Trajectories
To the Editor We thank Dhamoon et al for their prospective longitudinal cohort study assessing the long-term disability trajectory before and after an ischemic stroke compared with myocardial infarction (MI). The authors found that the gradient of increasing disability was significantly steeper after a stroke but remained consistent after MI.
Source: JAMA Neurology - March 12, 2018 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Disability Trajectories Before and After Stroke and Myocardial Infarction
This population-based cohort study evaluates the long-term effects of stroke on functional ability in patients before and after stroke compared with before and after myocardial infarction.
Source: JAMA Neurology - October 23, 2017 Category: Neurology Source Type: research