Medscape29d
In-Ambulance Blood Test May Rapidly Identify Stroke Type
The test measures the levels of glial fibrillary ... “We found that in patients with moderate or severe neurologic deficit strokes (NIHSS [The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale ...
Healio25d
Neural stem cell transplant improves outcomes for chronic ischemic stroke at 12 months
Secondary outcomes included performance on a gait speed test, Barthel Index (BI), NIH Stroke Scale score (NIHSS), Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI, resting state fMRI and ...
ahajournals.org25d
How Good Are Neurologists? A Diagnostic Accuracy Study on the Performance of Neurologists in the Emergency Room
Only fully determined data sets of index and reference test were analyzed. Descriptive statistics for ... the performance of the dichotomized NIHSS score at 5 alone and (2) combined with other risk ...
ahajournals.org25d
Speech Therapy Combined With Cerebrolysin in Enhancing Nonfluent Aphasia Recovery After Acute Ischemic Stroke: ESCAS Randomized Pilot Study
NIHSS indicates National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; Q1, quantile 1; Q3, quantile 3; and WAB-AQ, Western Aphasia Battery-Aphasia Quotient. Wiloxon rank-sum test. †χ 2 test. At the third visit, ...
BMJ11d
Intracerebral implantation of human neural stem cells and motor recovery after stroke: multicentre prospective single-arm study (PISCES-2)
National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Motor Arm score of 2, 3 or 4; and a score of 0 or 1 for test 2 of the Action Research Arm Test (ARAT: grasp a 2.5 cm 3 block and move it from the ...
jnis.bmj26d
Optimal thresholds to predict long-term outcome after complete endovascular recanalization in acute anterior ischemic stroke
We analyzed optimal thresholds of relevant parameters to discern functional independence after successful endovascular recanalization and test their predictive performance ... National Institutes of ...
jnis.bmj10d
An explainable machine learning model for predicting the outcome of ischemic stroke after mechanical thrombectomy
For instance, an increase in the NIHSS score above 12 decreases the SHAP values and hence ... The results indicate that the PFCML-MT model had high discriminatory power with an AUC of 0.87 in the test ...
Frontiers19d
Late pandemic COVID-19 positivity at the time of thrombectomy is associated with poor outcomes and tandem carotid pathology
While COVID-19 may not influence outcome to the degree that age and NIHSS do, the excess mortality continues to ... Given that COVID-recovered patients often still test positive, and the established ...
Medscape2d
Successful Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on a Stroke/Neurovascular Unit
A project was developed to determine the barriers to NIHSS use by the nursing staff, to develop and implement a plan to improve the completion rate, and to evaluate progress as interventions were ...
STAT7d
At ‘Stand Up for Science’ rally, Francis Collins warns major NIH research programs ‘at severe risk’
WASHINGTON — Days after retiring from the National Institutes of Health, the agency’s former director warned that two signature programs — an initiative to decipher how the brain works, and ...