Stroke

• National Stroke Association
• Stroke Information Guide - Nat'l Inst. of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
• Brainstem Strokes
• Guidelines for Carotid Endarterectomy - American Heart Association - 1998
• Guidelines for the Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - AHA - 1994
• Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke - AHA - 1994
• Guidelines for Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Stroke - AHA - 1996
• Guidelines for the Management of Transient Ischemic Attacks - AHA - 1994
• MEDLINE
• Damming the Damage After a Stroke - Complement's role
• Neuronal Protection in Stroke by an sLe(x)-Glycosylated Complement Inhibitory Protein. Science 1999 Jul 23;285(5427):595-599
• Benefits of physical therapy after stroke:Motor cortex plasticity during constraint-induced movement therapy in stroke patients. Neurosci Lett 1998 Jun 26;250(1):5-8
• Neural substrates for the effects of rehabilitative training on motor recovery after ischemic infarct. Science 1996 Jun 21;272(5269):1791-4
• Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial of thrombolytic therapy with intravenous alteplase in acute ischaemic stroke (ECASS II). Second European-Australasian Acute Stroke Study Investigators. Lancet. 1998 Oct 17;352(9136):1245-51
• Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke rt-PA Stroke Study Group. N Engl J Med. 1995 Dec 14;333(24):1581-7
• Benefit of carotid endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic moderate or severe stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators. N Engl J Med 1998 Nov 12;339(20):1415-25. Barnett HJ, Taylor DW, Eliasziw M, Fox AJ, Ferguson GG, Haynes RB, Rankin RN, Clagett GP, Hachinski VC,Sackett DL, Thorpe KE, Meldrum HE. John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, ON, Canada.
• Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators. N Engl J Med 1991 Aug 15;325(7):445-53. Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• Use-dependent growth of pyramidal neurons after neocortical damage. J Neurosci 1994 Apr;14(4):2140-52. Jones TA, Schallert T
• Potential effects of common drugs on stroke recovery. Arch Neurol 1998 Apr;55(4):454-6 . Goldstein LB
• Exercise and risk of stroke in male physicians. Stroke 1999 Jan;30(1):1-6. Lee IM, Hennekens CH, Berger K, Buring JE, Manson JE. Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (I.-M.L., C.H.H., J.E.B., J.E.M.); the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass (I.-M.L.
• Vascular Effects of Estrogen and Cholesterol-Lowering Therapies in Hypercholesterolemic Postmenopausal Women. Circulation 1999 Jan 26;99(3):354-360. Koh KK, Cardillo C, Bui MN, Hathaway L, Csako G, Waclawiw MA, Panza JA, Cannon RO 3rd. Cardiology Branch (K.K.K., C.C., M.N.B., L.H., J.A.P., R.O.C.) and the Office of Biostatistics Research (M.A.W.), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Clinical Pathology Department (G.C.), Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
• Elevated Tissue Plasminogen Activator Antigen and Stroke Risk : The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. Stroke 1999 Jan;30(1):7-11 .Macko RF, Kittner SJ, Epstein A, Cox DK, Wozniak MA, Wityk RJ, Stern BJ, Sloan MA, Sherwin R, Price TR, McCarter RJ, Johnson CJ, Earley CJ, Buchholz DW, Stolley PD
• Time course of lesion development in patients with acute stroke: serial diffusion- and hemodynamic-weighted magnetic resonance imaging.  Stroke 1998 Nov;29(11):2268-76. Schwamm LH, Koroshetz WJ, Sorensen AG, Wang B, Copen WA, Budzik R, Rordorf G, Buonanno FS, Schaefer PW, Gonzalez RG. Departmentof Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. 02114, USA.
• Carotid-Artery Intima and Media Thickness as a Risk Factor for Myocardial Infarction and Stroke in Older Adults. N Engl J Med 1999 Jan 7;340(1):14-22.  O'Leary DH, Polak JF, Kronmal RA, Manolio TA, Burke GL, Wolfson SKJ Jr. The CHS Coordinating Center, Century Sq., 1501 4th Ave., Suite 2025, Seattle, WA 98101 - daniel.oleary@es.nemc.org