Upper limb ischemic preconditioning prevents recurrent stroke in intracranial arterial stenosis

Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1853-1861

  Meng, Ran ^a,b   Asmaro, Karam ^c   Meng, Lu ^d   Liu, Yu ^a   Ma, Chun ^a   Xi, Chunjiang ^a   Li, Guoqing ^a   Ren, Canghong ^a   Luo, Yumin ^a   Ling, Feng ^a   Jia, Jianping ^a   Hua, Yang ^a   Wang, Xiaoying ^b   Ding, Yuchuan ^c   Lo, Eng H ^b   Ji, Xunming ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANKIN SCALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER;

EID: 84871309721     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318271f76a     Document Type: Article

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