Stroke severity and incidence of acute large vessel occlusions in patients with hyper-acute cerebral ischemia: Results from a prospective cohort study based on CT-angiography (CTA)

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 336-342

  Hansen, C K ^a   Christensen, A ^a   Ovesen, C ^a   Havsteen, I ^a   Christensen, H ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute stroke therapy; CT; Stroke; Thrombolysis; tPA; Vascular events

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84924756141     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijs.12383     Document Type: Article

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