Carotid Thrombosis in a Crack Cocaine Smoker Woman by Mattia Cosenza, Luigi Panza, Anna Paola Califano, Carolina Defendini, Maria D’Andria, Roberto Romiti, Antonio Fabio Massimo Vainieri, Sergio Morelli

“…Introduction. We report a case of stroke in a crack smoker with occlusion of the middle cerebral artery and a large thrombus in the carotid artery. …”
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Strategies for Regenerating Striatal Neurons in the Adult Brain by Using Endogenous Neural Stem Cells by Kanako Nakaguchi, Hiroshi Masuda, Naoko Kaneko, Kazunobu Sawamoto

“…Currently, there is no effective treatment for the marked neuronal loss caused by neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington's disease (HD) or ischemic stroke. However, recent studies have shown that new neurons are continuously generated by endogenous neural stem cells in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the adult mammalian brain, including the human brain. …”
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Development and Control of a Robotic Exoskeleton for Shoulder, Elbow and Forearm Movement Assistance by Mohammad Habibur Rahman, Thierry Kittel-Ouimet, Maarouf Saad, Jean-Pierre Kenné, Philippe S. Archambault

“…World health organization reports, annually more than 15 million people worldwide suffer a stroke and cardiovascular disease, among which 85% of stroke patients incur acute arm impairment, and 40% of victims are chronically impaired or permanently disabled. …”
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Central Poststroke Pain: An Abstruse Outcome by James L Henry, Chitra Lalloo, Kiran Yashpal

“…Diagnosis is further complicated by cognitive and speech limitations that may occur following stroke, as well as by depression, anxiety and sleep disturbances. …”
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Right Unilateral Spatial Neglect Improves with Intrinsic Motivation by Hirotaka Saito, Haruka Kobayashi, Junichi Yatsu, Shigeru Obayashi

“…In the acute phase of stroke, it is well known that the incidence and severity of unilateral spatial neglect (USN) are more significant in the right hemisphere injuries. …”
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An exploratory review of resiliency assessments after brain injury. by Janna Griffioen, Nicole Gingrich, Courtney L Pollock, Julia Schmidt

“…<h4>Results</h4>Thirty-two articles were retrieved, including nine measures of resiliency: Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-Acquired Brain Injury, Confidence after Stroke Measure, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Daily Living Self-Efficacy Scale, General Self-Efficacy Scale, Participation Strategies Self-Efficacy Scale, Resilience Scale, Robson Self-Esteem Scale, and the Stroke Self-Efficacy Questionnaire. …”
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Electrostatic in-plane structural superlubric actuator by Xuanyu Huang, Xiaojian Xiang, Chuang Li, Jinhui Nie, Yifan Shao, Zhiping Xu, Quanshui Zheng

“…However, most are designed with suspended beams anchored at fixed points, causing two main issues: restricted actuated stroke and movement modes, and reduced lifespan due to fatigue from repeated beam deformation, contact wear and stiction. …”
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Correlates of Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults with Diabetes by LaRita C. Jones, Olivio J. Clay, Fernando Ovalle, Andrea Cherrington, Michael Crowe

“…In bivariate analyses, African Americans, individuals with specific health issues (neuropathy, stroke, respiratory issues, arthritis, and cardiac issues), and those with higher levels of diabetes distress reported more depressive symptoms. …”
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Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Early Clinical Outcome and Stent Restenosis after Carotid Artery Stenting by Alexandru Achim, Dávid Lackó, Artúr Hüttl, Csaba Csobay-Novák, Ádám Csavajda, Péter Sótonyi, Béla Merkely, Balázs Nemes, Zoltán Ruzsa

“…Overall stroke/death rate in the asymptomatic patients was 2.4%, and the restenosis rate was higher in the diabetes population (2.3% vs. 1%, p=0.04). …”
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Gen inhibiting the Wnt/Ca2+ signaling pathway alleviates cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury by Li Li, Saisai Liu, Mengzhe Wang, Mengjia Li, Yi Liu, Haili Chen, Jie Chen, Weiting Tao, Li Huang, Shidi Zhao

“…Abstract Cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury (CIRI) is a major complication of acute ischemic stroke (AIS), characterized by calcium overload, oxidative stress, and cell apoptosis. …”
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Thicker Carotid Intima Media Thickness in Children with Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1: A-2138T and A-2464G Mutation by Yuyun Yueniwati, Valentina Yurina, Mohammad Rasjad Indra

“…Subjects were 54 children: 27 were from parents with ischemic stroke (cases), and 27 were from healthy parents (controlled). …”
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Reversible Cortical Blindness as a Prominent Manifestation of Cerebral Embolism due to Infective Endocarditis by Georgios P. Kranidiotis, Alexandra N. Gougoutsi, Theodoros A. Retsas, Maria I. Anastasiou-Nana

“…Infective endocarditis in the left heart may be complicated by stroke, due to embolisation from infectious valvular vegetations. …”
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Pairing regression and configurational analysis in health services research: modelling outcomes in an observational cohort using a split-sample design by Jason J Sico, Laura J Myers, Dawn M Bravata, Ying Zhang, Anthony J Perkins, Edward J Miech, Joanne Daggy

“…Background Configurational methods are increasingly being used in health services research.Objectives To use configurational analysis and logistic regression within a single data set to compare results from the two methods.Design Secondary analysis of an observational cohort; a split-sample design involved randomly dividing patients into training and validation samples.Participants and setting Patients who had a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) in US Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.Measures The patient outcome was the combined endpoint of all-cause mortality or recurrent ischaemic stroke within 1 year post-TIA. The quality-of-care outcome was the without-fail rate (proportion of patients who received all processes for which they were eligible, among seven processes).Results For the recurrent stroke or death outcome, configurational analysis yielded a three-pathway model identifying a set of (validation sample) patients where the prevalence was 15.0% (83/552), substantially higher than the overall sample prevalence of 11.0% (relative difference, 36%). …”
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Multi-modal characterisation of early-stage, subclinical cardiac deterioration in patients with type 2 diabetes by Ambre Bertrand, Andrew Lewis, Julia Camps, Vicente Grau, Blanca Rodriguez

“…Conclusion T2DM prior to cardiovascular disease was linked with a higher heart rate, QTc prolongation, T wave amplitude reduction, as well as lower stroke volume and increased left ventricular wall thickness. …”
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Change in Atrial Fibrillation Burden over Time in Patients with Nonpermanent Atrial Fibrillation by Philipp Krisai, Stefanie Aeschbacher, Matthias Bossard, Elena Herber, Steffen Blum, Pascal Meyre, Thilo Burkard, Michael Kühne, Stefan Osswald, Beat A. Kaufmann, David Conen

“…AF burden was independently associated with a history of prior stroke and BNP levels.…”
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Predictive, preventive and personalized project of vascular cognitive impairment in China (P3): Study design and interim baseline patient characteristics of a Nationwide multicente... by Linlin Wang, Jiwei Jiang, Yanli Wang, Gaifen Liu, Wenyi Li, Qiwei Ren, Shirui Jiang, Min Zhao, Huiying Zhang, Tianlin Jiang, Shiyi Yang, Mei Cui, Qiang Dong, Jun Xu

“…In the AIS cohort, 219 patients (72.5%) were diagnosed with acute post‐stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI). Compared to those without PSCI, the acute PSCI group exhibited significantly lower levels of education and a history of stroke (all P < 0.05). …”
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Regional Alteration within the Cerebellum and the Reorganization of the Cerebrocerebellar System following Poststroke Aphasia by Xiaotong Zhang, Zhaocong Chen, Na Li, Jingfeng Liang, Yan Zou, Huixiang Wu, Zhuang Kang, Zulin Dou, Weihong Qiu

“…Twenty patients diagnosed with aphasia following left-hemispheric stroke and 20 age-matched healthy controls (HCs) were recruited in this study. …”
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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study of Motor Effect by Emanuela Inguaggiato, Nadia Bolognini, Simona Fiori, Giovanni Cioni

“…Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is an emerging tool to improve upper limb motor functions after stroke acquired in adulthood; however, there is a paucity of reports on its efficacy for upper limb motor rehabilitation in congenital or early-acquired stroke. …”
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Health status correlates of malnutrition diagnosed based on the GLIM criteria in older Polish adults-Results of the PolSenior 2 study. by Aleksandra Kaluźniak-Szymanowska, Ewa Deskur-Śmielecka, Roma Krzymińska-Siemaszko, Arkadiusz Styszyński, Sławomir Tobis, Marta Lewandowicz, Jerzy Chudek, Tomasz Kostka, Małgorzata Mossakowska, Karolina Piotrowicz, Hanna Kujawska-Danecka, Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis

“…Suspected malnutrition should also be considered in people at risk of depression, with peptic ulcer disease, past stroke, and cognitive impairment. Chronic pain should also prompt the diagnosis for malnutrition.…”
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Hypertension-Related Admissions and Outcome in a Tertiary Hospital in Northeast Nigeria by P. M. Kolo, Y. B. Jibrin, E. O. Sanya, M. Alkali, I. B. Peter Kio, R. K. Moronkola

“…Stroke had the highest mortality (39.3%), followed by chronic kidney disease (36.6%); hypertensive emergencies (30.9%) and hypertensive heart failure had the lowest intrahospital mortality (27.5%). …”
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