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Stroke Questions Further Answered With Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Arch Neurol. 2001;58:555-556.
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IN THE traditional approach to managing stroke, questions that need
to be asked and answered include the following: Who is at risk for stroke?
What can we do about both preventing and treating stroke? Where is the brain
injured? Where in the vascular system is the problem? Why, pathophysiologically,
has this stroke occurred? and How (and when) do we implement therapies to
minimize neurological disability? While hyperacute therapy with intravenous
recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) is the most significant
therapy to date that improves neurological outcome, it remains a potentially
dangerous intervention.
In this issue of the ARCHIVES, Tong and colleagues1
report on a retrospective analysis of both diffusion-weighted (DWI) and perfusion-weighted
(PWI) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from patients with acute ischemic
stroke and find that brain regions experiencing secondary hemorrhagic transformation
(HT) display significantly lower apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values
as well as persistent perfusion deficits. These preliminary . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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