Leukoaraiosis predicts poor 90-day outcome after acute large cerebral artery occlusion

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 525-531

  Henninger, Nils ^a,b   Lin, Eugene ^b   Baker, Stephen P ^b   Wakhloo, Ajay K ^b   Takhtani, Deepak ^b   Moonis, Majaz ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; CT; Leukoaraiosis; Outcome; Thrombolysis; Tissue plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL LARGE ARTERY OCCLUSION; LEPTOMENINX; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860167419     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000337335     Document Type: Article

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