Marc Pawlitzki, Stefanie Schreiber, Daniel Bittner, Julia Kreipe, Frank Leypoldt, Klemens Rupprecht, Roxana O. Carare, Sven G. Meuth, Stefan Vielhaber, Peter Körtvélyessy
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading cause of epilepsy-related premature mortality with an annual rate ranging between 0.3 and 6 cases of SUDEP per 1000 adult persons with epilepsy and 1 case of SUDEP per 4,500 children [1,2].… Read More...
Background and Purpose: Patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) frequently present with hypertension, but it is unclear if this is due to pre-existing hypertension (prHTN) or to the bleed itself or associated pain. We sought to assess the relationship between prHTN and admission systolic blood pressure (aBP) and bleed severity.… Read More...
We aimed to externally validate the Get With the Guidelines (GWTG) risk model for all stroke types to predict in-hospital stroke mortality in Chinese patients and moreover to explore its prognostic value in predicting 3-month mortality after stroke.
Although it was suggested that idiopathic thromobocytopenic purpura (ITP) can be a paradoxical cause of cerebral infarction, previous reports indicate that cerebral infarction associated with ITP occurs when thrombocytopenia is already evident at the onset of cerebral infarction.
