Subgroup analyses were prespecified for the primary outcome according to age (≤70 or >70 years), dichotomous baseline NIHSS score (6 to 20 or >20), baseline NIHSS score (6 to 9, 10 to 20, or >20 ...

A total of 25 patients at 24 hours and 17 patients at 7 days had both baseline and follow-up NIHSS scores of 1, which met the definition of major neurologic improvement; reclassifying these ...

A significant difference was identified in terms of NIHSS at 24 hours after rtPA between the AVERT and pot-AVERT groups, with median scores of 8.5 (IQR 5–14) and 5.5 (IQR 2–12) respectively ...

They collected data on pre-stroke antiplatelet use, anticoagulant use, the patient's initial NIH stroke score (NIHSS), postintervention modified Rankin score (mRS), and incidence of intracranial ...

Gattringer and colleagues describe how they developed the score in a paper published online in Stroke on December 14.. They used data on 77,653 ischemic stroke patients from the Austrian national ...

Early neurologic deterioration -- as measured by an increase of 2 or more points on the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) at 7 days -- occurred in fewer of those on DAPT (4.8% vs ...

Score; Facial palsy: 0: Absent or symmetrical movement. 1: Mild or slightly asymmetrical. 2: Moderate or completely asymmetrical. Arm motor function: 0: A person could hold their arm up for more ...

The proportion of patients with an increase in NIHSS score of 4 points or more in the first 72 hours was 4.2% among those treated with tirofiban and 13.2% among those treated with oral aspirin, a ...

The median time from stroke onset to randomization was 4.6 hours. The median NIHSS score was 2. The primary outcome was a return to baseline neurological functioning according to the mRS score at 90 ...