Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Preliminary data for carotid carotid plaque in a Nigerian cohort

Electroacupuncture for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy post-stroke: A Meta-analysis

Raw data of the patients’ information and assessment scores

The data of stroke intervention analysed and used in the manuscript.

Neurological deficits of each rat were determined postural reflex, body sway, balance beam, and grip strength test and the degree of cerebral tissue injury was detected by TTC. Related protein expression were detected by Western blot.

Includes excel sheet of the patient with detailed data

Raw data of patient characteristics from chart review of stroke alerts from 1/1/2016-1/31/2016 with identifying information redacted due to HIPAA purposes.

ethical approval by both hospitals involved

The enrolled patients data for the study " Risk Factors for Acute Heart Failure and Impact on In-Hospital Mortality After Stroke" at the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery in St. Luke's International Hospital from January 2013 to December 2014.

Dizziness, disequilibrium, a floating sensation, imbalance and vertigo are relatively common complaints in the emergency department. Although the most common posterior circulation symptom is dizziness, few stroke scales specialize in posterior circulation strokes. Furthermore, no systematic studies have investigated the misdiagnosis of posterior circulation infarctions. Here, we investigated the accuracy of the diagnosis of posterior circulation infarctions with dizziness in the emergency department and found that a posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) territory infarction was not properly diagnosed in the emergency department, particularly in young subjects. Based on the results, we developed and validated a stroke recognition tool called the DEFENSIVE (DisEquilibrium, Floating sEnsation, Non-Specific dizziness, Imbalance and VErtigo) stroke scale to improve the diagnostic accuracy of stroke in subjects presenting to the emergency department with acute dizziness. As a result, no subject with ischemic stroke was overlooked in the emergency department after the introduction of the DEFENSIVE stroke scale. In addition, our approach was effective for subjects with false-negativity in the initial diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) study. In summary, the DEFENSIVE stroke scale has good diagnostic accuracy and is simple to use in an emergency setting.