Combining magnetic resonance imaging within six-hours of symptom onset with clinical follow-up at 24h improves prediction of 'malignant' middle cerebral artery infarction

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 210-214

  Kruetzelmann, Anna ^a   Hartmann, Frank ^a   Beck, Christoph ^a   Juettler, Eric ^b,c   Singer, Oliver C ^d   Köhrmann, Martin ^e   Kersten, Jan F ^a   Sobesky, Jan ^f   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Villringer, Arno ^g   Fiehler, Jens ^a   Neumann Haefelin, Tobias ^h   Schellinger, Peter D ⁱ   Röther, Joachim ^j   Thomalla, Götz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Rehabilitationskrankenhaus Ulm gGmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^f CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^h KLINIKUM FULDA   (Germany)

ⁱ KLINIKUM MINDEN   (Germany)

^j ASKLEPIOS KLINIK ALTONA   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Acute stroke; Diffusion weighted; Magnetic resonance imaging; Malignant middle cerebral artery infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION TREE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ACUTE STROKE; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALIGNANT MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCTION;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION TREES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892834034     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijs.12060     Document Type: Article

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