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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...