Beginning with a broad discussion of the causes of stroke, the authors proceed to a comprehensive description of the most common stroke syndromes, along with brief, well-chosen case histories of many. This section is the backbone of the book and its major strength for the clinician. ...
Many postoperative complications may occur, ischemic stroke among others, which is generally related to an injury of an intracranial artery. Out of this case, it may be more difficult to find a suitable explanation to this complication. Case presentation We report the case of a child aged years...
Discussion Incidence The available data suggest that the unadjusted incidence of stroke in Iran is comparable to the figures from Arab Countries[26–32], higher than sub-Saharan Africa[33], but lower than developed countries[34], India[35], the Caribbean & Latin America[36], and China[37]....
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12 new items were proposed by the Delphi study participants and were added for discussion at the consensus meeting. Data collected during the Delphi survey were anonymized, and item-level results were presented at the consensus meeting for discussion and voting. The two-day consensus meeting took ...
Case 2 An 80-year-old woman was admitted to our ED with fever and syncope. The patient received a pacemaker (DDDR, Cylos DR, Biotronik) due to third-degree atrioventricular(AV) block 9 years ago. She was bedridden because of stroke sequelae and loss of pacemaker follow-up for the la...
for the evaluation of new therapies. However, the previously noted definition of a control does not require that the treatment be a placebo, although frequently this is the case, because new treatments may have to be compared with the current standard of practice to determine whether they ar...
Discussion This nationwide population-based study of about half million adults compared the clinical outcomes between the ARBs and CCBs during a 3-year follow-up in hypertensive patients. Administration of ARBs significantly reduced the incidences of MACEs compared to CCBs. ARBs showed superior prot...
4. Discussion In this study, we enrolled 815 patients with SCAP and reported four main findings. First, we found that applying scoring in clinical prediction rules, such as CCI or PSI, CURB-65, APACHE II, SOFA, and mNUTRIC scores, could determine hospital mortality and treatment outcomes. ...
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