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 ...

Thus, the baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score, a clinical measure of neurologic deficit with a range of 0 (no deficit) to 42 (maximum possible deficit), was used to ...

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 ...

Of these, 868 (1.5%) had a stroke with an NIHSS score greater than 25 and 19,995 (35%) had an NIHSS score of 15 to 25, Dr Mazya reported. Study outcomes focused on safety, with various definitions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced age, increased infarct volume, and higher National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score at admission are factors predicting poor outcomes post-thrombectomy.