Background Stenting is an alternative to endarterectomy for treatment of carotid artery
stenosis, but long-term efficacy is uncertain. We report long-term data from the randomised …

Background and Purpose The EuroQol measures aspects of quality of life that are highly
relevant to stroke patients. It is short and simple and many stroke patients can complete the …

Background and Purpose It is often difficult to determine the health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
of stroke patients because physical and cognitive problems limit their ability to …

Background We aimed to create a multidisciplinary consensus clinical guideline for best
practice in the diagnosis, investigation and management of spontaneous intracranial …

Background and Purpose—The EuroQol and Medical Outcome Survey 36-item short-form
health survey (SF-36) questionnaires have both been validated for the assessment of health-…

Methods and results We included all patients who had been entered by United Kingdom
centres in the International Stroke Trial between 2 March 1993 and 31 May 1995 who were not …

A robust treatment paradigm for spontaneous intracranial hypotension has yet to be agreed
upon. We present retrospective data from the patient cohort at our UK regional …

Acute stroke is a substantial public health problem; over the next decade about 15 million
patients will suffer acute stroke in Europe and the United States, 1 and approximately 85% of …

Background and Purpose—Research in acute stroke has expanded rapidly. Many potentially
important interventions lack commercial potential (eg, admission to a stroke unit). We …

An increased understanding of the pathophysiological consequences of stroke and, in
particular, the notion of an ischaemic penumbra in acute cerebral infarction has led to the …