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1. Development of imaging-based risk scores for prediction of intracranial haemorrhage and ischaemic stroke in patients taking antithrombotic therapy after ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack: a pooled analysis of individual patient data from cohort studies

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Henry Ma, Eleni Sakka, Hugues Chabriat, Duncan Wilson, Appu Suman, Peter J. Kelly, SL Ho, Charlotte Zerna, Eric Jouvent, Lawrence K.S. Wong, Anthea Parry, Frances Harrington, Jan Stam, Christopher Patterson, Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Shigeru Inamura, Krishna A Dani, Henry Houlden, Sebastian Thilemann, Kotaro Iida, Chao Xu, Eunbin Ko, Daniel Guisado-Alonso, Urs Fischer, Caroline E. Lovelock, Man Yu Tse, Wing Chi Fong, Azlisham Mohd Nor, Clare Shakeshaft, Philippe Maeder, Henrik Gensicke, Stefan T. Engelter, James Okwera, Christopher Chen, Dulka Manawadu, John F. Corrigan, Efrat Kliper, Shelagh B. Coutts, Alexander P. Leff, Kam Tat Leung, Chathuri Yatawara, Leopold Hertzberger, M. Eline Kooi, Kazuhisa Yoshifuji, Hing Lung Ip, Keon-Joo Lee, Sanjeevikumar Meenakishundaram, Hiroyuki Irie, Marc Randall, Hatice Ozkan, Hideo Hara, Jill Abrigo, Raquel Delgado-Mederos, Shaloo Singhal, Enrico Flossmann, Beatriz Gómez-Ansón, Paul O'Mahony, Carmen Barbato, Ahamad Hassan, Francesca M Chappell, Harald Proschel, Vincent Mok, Masashi Nishihara, Lakshmanan Sekaran, Derya Selcuk Demirelli, Chu Peng Hoi, Hakan Ay, Joan Martí-Fàbregas, Rebeca Marín, Anne Cristine Guevarra, Martin Cooper, Einor Ben Assayag, Anne-Marie Mendyk, Christine Roffe, Myung Suk Jang, Maarten van Gemert, Hannah Cohen, Jae-Sung Lim, YK Wong, Bonnie Y.K. Lam, Janet Putterill, Wouter Schoonewille, Nick S. Ward, Nikola Sprigg, Kui Kai Lau, Bernard Esisi, Peter M. Rothwell, Henk Verbiest, Kirsty Harkness, Elisa Merino, Gareth Ambler, Arumug Nallasivam, Nigel Smyth, Paul A. Armitage, Heinrich Mattle, Pol Camps-Renom, Martin M. Brown, David Cohen, Min Lou, Pankaj Sharma, Sarah Gunkel, Elles Douven, Andreas Charidimou, Djamil Vahidassr, Cathy Soufan, Alexandros A Polymeris, Michael G. Hennerici, Chris Moran, Rachel Marsh, Mahmud Sajid, Kyohei Fujita, David J. Werring, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Derek Hayden, Joseph Kwan, Timothy J. England, Jaap van der Sande, Luis Prats-Sánchez, Paul Guyler, Ryan Hoi Kit Cheung, Koon-Ho Chan, Frank-Erik de Leeuw, Simone Browning, Jon Scott, Adrian Barry, Alejandro Martínez-Domeño, Luc Bracoub, Dinesh Chadha, Ijaz Anwar, Deborah Kelly, Moon-Ku Han, Anil M. Tuladhar, Thomas Gattringer, Fiona Carty, Abduelbaset Elmarim, Syed Mansoor, Enrico Flossman, Dilek Necioglu Orken, Jane Sword, Velandai Srikanth, Ping Wing Ng, Thomas W. Leung, Richard Shek-kwan Chang, Hans Rolf Jäger, Marwan El-Koussy, Jeroen Hendrikse, Khaled Darawil, Kazunori Toyoda, Mathuri Prabhakaran, Karim Mahawish, Ethem Murat Arsava, Jihoon Kang, Kwok Kui Wong, Michael Power, Felix Fluri, Enas Lawrence, Maam Mamun, Sissi Ispoglou, Mathew Burn, Siu Hung Li, Henry K.F. Mak, Kaori Miwa, Els De Schryver, Franz Fazekas, Jonathan G. Best, Louise Shaw, Hen Hallevi, Keith W. Muir, Ilse Burger, Adrian Wong, Nils Peters, Susana Muñoz-Maniega, Yusuke Yakushiji, David Calvet, Mark White, Michael McCormick, Vinodh Krishnamurthy, David Hargroves, Jan C. Purrucker, Tae Jin Song, Masayuki Shiozawa, Noortje A.M. Maaijwee, Prasanna Aghoram, Nicolas Christ, Lino Ramos, Yannie Soo, Thanh G. Phan, Parashkev Nachev, David J. Seiffge, Kim Wiegertjes, Leo H. Bonati, Chahin Pachai, Oi Ling Chan, Yvo B.W.E.M. Roos, Santiago Medrano-Martorell, Natan M. Bornstein, Elizabeth A. Warburton, Richard Li, Prabel Datta, Pascal P. Gratz, Edmund Ka Ming Wong, Hedley C. A. Emsley, Marie-Yvonne Douste-Blazy, Gunaratam Gunathilagan, Nagaendran Kandiah, Masatoshi Koga, Roland Veltkamp, Lee-Anne Slater, Suk Fung Tsang, Beom Joon Kim, Simon Jung, Zeynep Tanriverdi, Sarah Caine, Peter J. Koudstaal, Laurence Legrand, Kari Saastamoinen, Ale Algra, Jean-Louis Mas, Christine Delmaire, Fidel Nuñez, Robert J. van Oostenbrugge, Sebastian Eppinger, Lillian Choy, Robert Luder, Vincent I.H. Kwa, Aad van der Lugt, Marie Dominique Fratacci, Stephen Makin, Layan Akijian, Régis Bordet, Mi Hwa Yang, Ying Zhou, Elio Giallombardo, Adrian R Parry-Jones, John S. Thornton, Amos D. Korczyn, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, David J. Williams, Aravindakshan Manoj, Julie Staals, Solveig Horstmann, Dianne H.K. van Dam-Nolen, Claire Cullen, Benjamin Wagner, Jun Tanaka, Martin Dennis, Stef Bakker, Gregory Y.H. Lip, L. Jaap Kappelle, Robin Lemmens, Achim Gass, David Mangion, Matthew Smith, Toshio Imaizumi, Wenyan Liu, Jeremy Molad, Christopher Price, Paul J. Nederkoorn, P. J. A. M. Brouwers, Vincent Thijs, Sze Ho Ma, Mark Schembri, Peter Wilkinson, Janice E. O’Connell, Karen Ma, John Ly, Leonidas Panos, Chung Yan Chan, Toshihiro Ide, Christopher Traenka, Joost Jöbsis, Gargi Banerjee, Paul Berntsen, Michael J. Thrippleton, Raymond T.F. Cheung, Christopher Karayiannis, Werner H. Mess, Robert Simister, Jayesh Modi Medanta, Syuhei Ikeda, John Mitchell, Linxin Li, Mauro S.B. Silva, Eric Vicaut, John Coyle, Shoichiro Sato, Michelle Davis, Jonathan Birns, Richard J. Perry, Sean M. Murphy, KC Teo, Maria del C. Valdés Hernández, Bibek Gyanwali, Tarek A. Yousry, Kath Pasco, Sebastian Köhler, Joachim Fladt, Edward S. Hui, Philippe Lyrer, Young Dae Kim, Anna K. Heye, Eric E. Smith, Saima Hilal, Ender Uysal, Ji Hoe Heo, Ysoline Beigneux, Cisca Linn, Hee-Joon Bae, Simon Leach, Winnie C.W. Chu, Ronil V. Chandra, Neurology, ACS - Atherosclerosis & ischemic syndromes, ANS - Neurovascular Disorders, MUMC+: HZC Med Staf Spec Klinische Neurofys (9), RS: Carim - B06 Imaging, MUMC+: HZC Klinische Neurofysiologie (5), Klinische Neurowetenschappen, Psychiatrie & Neuropsychologie, RS: MHeNs - R1 - Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, MUMC+: MA Neurologie (3), RS: Carim - B05 Cerebral small vessel disease, MUMC+: Hersen en Zenuw Centrum (3), MUMC+: MA Med Staf Spec Neurologie (9), RS: NUTRIM - R1 - Obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular health, Beeldvorming, and MUMC+: DA BV Klinisch Fysicus (9)

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Adult, Male, Risk, EXTERNAL VALIDATION, medicine.medical_specialty, Neurology, MODELS, Clinical Neurology, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Fibrinolytic Agents, Recurrence, Internal medicine, Antithrombotic, Humans, Medicine, Prospective cohort study, 610 Medicine & health, Stroke, METAANALYSIS, Aged, Ischemic Stroke, Science & Technology, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Proportional hazards model, Magnetic resonance imaging, Middle Aged, Disorders of movement Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 3], medicine.disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ischemic Attack, Transient, ATRIAL-FIBRILLATION, Cardiology, Female, Neurology (clinical), Neurosciences & Neurology, business, Intracranial Hemorrhages, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Fibrinolytic agent, Cohort study
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Contains fulltext : 235277.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) BACKGROUND: Balancing the risks of recurrent ischaemic stroke and intracranial haemorrhage is important for patients treated with antithrombotic therapy after ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack. However, existing predictive models offer insufficient performance, particularly for assessing the risk of intracranial haemorrhage. We aimed to develop new risk scores incorporating clinical variables and cerebral microbleeds, an MRI biomarker of intracranial haemorrhage and ischaemic stroke risk. METHODS: We did a pooled analysis of individual-patient data from the Microbleeds International Collaborative Network (MICON), which includes 38 hospital-based prospective cohort studies from 18 countries. All studies recruited participants with previous ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack, acquired baseline MRI allowing quantification of cerebral microbleeds, and followed-up participants for ischaemic stroke and intracranial haemorrhage. Participants not taking antithrombotic drugs were excluded. We developed Cox regression models to predict the 5-year risks of intracranial haemorrhage and ischaemic stroke, selecting candidate predictors on biological relevance and simplifying models using backward elimination. We derived integer risk scores for clinical use. We assessed model performance in internal validation, adjusted for optimism using bootstrapping. The study is registered on PROSPERO, CRD42016036602. FINDINGS: The included studies recruited participants between Aug 28, 2001, and Feb 4, 2018. 15 766 participants had follow-up for intracranial haemorrhage, and 15 784 for ischaemic stroke. Over a median follow-up of 2 years, 184 intracranial haemorrhages and 1048 ischaemic strokes were reported. The risk models we developed included cerebral microbleed burden and simple clinical variables. Optimism-adjusted c indices were 0·73 (95% CI 0·69-0·77) with a calibration slope of 0·94 (0·81-1·06) for the intracranial haemorrhage model and 0·63 (0·62-0·65) with a calibration slope of 0·97 (0·87-1·07) for the ischaemic stroke model. There was good agreement between predicted and observed risk for both models. INTERPRETATION: The MICON risk scores, incorporating clinical variables and cerebral microbleeds, offer predictive value for the long-term risks of intracranial haemorrhage and ischaemic stroke in patients prescribed antithrombotic therapy for secondary stroke prevention; external validation is warranted. FUNDING: British Heart Foundation and Stroke Association.

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2021
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2. Pontine stroke mimicking Bell’s palsy: a cautionary tale!

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Enrico Flossmann, Ravpreet Kaur, and Louise Dunphy

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Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Facial Paralysis, Case Report, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Vertigo, Pons, Bell's palsy, medicine, Paralysis, Bell Palsy, Humans, cardiovascular diseases, Stroke, Aged, Palsy, biology, business.industry, Facial weakness, General Medicine, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, Facial paralysis, stomatognathic diseases, Etiology, Female, medicine.symptom, business, Intracranial Hemorrhages, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Stroke has been called apoplexy since the ancient times of Babylonia. Johann Jakob Wepfer, a Swiss physician, first described the aetiology, clinical features, pathogenesis and postmortem features of an intracranial haemorrhage in 1655. Haemorrhagic and ischaemic strokes are the two subtypes of stroke. Bell’s palsy usually presents with an isolated facial nerve palsy. A lacunar infarct involving the lower pons is a rare cause of solitary infranuclear facial paralysis. The authors present the case of a 66-year-old woman presenting with a 3-day history of headache, vertigo, nausea, vomiting and facial weakness. Her comorbidities included diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia. It was challenging to identify the pontine infarct on MRI due to its small size and the confounding presentation of complete hemi-facial paralysis mimicking Bell’s palsy. Our case provides a cautionary reminder that an isolated facial palsy should not always be attributed to Bell’s palsy, but can be a presentation of a rare dorsal pontine infarct as observed in our case. Anatomic knowledge is crucial for clinical localisation and correlation.

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2021

3. Andersen-Tawil Syndrome Presenting with Complete Heart Block

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Vino Vivekanandam, Natalie James, Roope Männikkö, Richa Sud, Emma Matthews, Doreen Fialho, Enrico Flossmann, Kostas Savvatis, Michael G. Hanna, Thomas D Gossios, and K. Suetterlin

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0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Delayed Diagnosis, Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias, Heart block, Sudden cardiac death, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Andersen–Tawil syndrome, Internal medicine, Medicine, Humans, Atrioventricular Block, Andersen Syndrome, Kcnj2 gene, business.industry, Cardiac arrhythmia, Muscle weakness, Periodic paralysis, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Neurology, cardiovascular system, Cardiology, Neurology (clinical), medicine.symptom, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Andersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS) is a rare autosomal dominant neuromuscular disorder due to mutations in the KCNJ2 gene. The classical phenotype of ATS consists of a triad of periodic paralysis, cardiac conduction abnormalities and dysmorphic features. Episodes of either muscle weakness or cardiac arrhythmia may predominate however, and dysmorphic features may be subtle, masking the true breadth of the clinical presentation, and posing a diagnostic challenge. The severity of cardiac involvement varies but includes reports of life-threatening events or sudden cardiac death, usually attributed to ventricular tachyarrhythmias. We report the first case of advanced atrioventricular (AV) block in ATS and highlight clinical factors that may delay diagnosis.

Published
2020

4. Cerebral microbleeds and stroke risk after ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack: a pooled analysis of individual patient data from cohort studies

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Christopher Price, P. J. A. M. Brouwers, Vincent Thijs, Sze Ho Ma, Mark Schembri, Raymond T.F. Cheung, Christopher Karayiannis, Werner H. Mess, Robert Simister, Peter Wilkinson, Jayesh Modi Medanta, Janice E. O’Connell, Karen Ma, Martin Dennis, Sean C. Murphy, John Ly, Velandai Srikanth, Hing Lung Ip, Mathew Burn, Saima Hilal, Ijaz Anwar, Richard Shek-kwan Chang, Christopher Chen, Carmen Barbato, Hatice Ozkan, Achim Gass, Louise Shaw, Hen Hallevi, Aravindakshan Manoj, Julie Staals, Frances Harrington, Henry Houlden, Hideo Hara, Kam Tat Leung, Christopher Traenka, Jeroen Hendrikse, Keon-Joo Lee, Elio Giallombardo, Ender Uysal, Edmund Ka Ming Wong, Joost Jöbsis, Gargi Banerjee, Dulka Manawadu, Rebeca Marín, John S. Thornton, Nick S. Ward, Vinodh Krishnamurthy, Thomas W. Leung, Ji Hoe Heo, Philippe Maeder, Masatoshi Koga, Michael Power, Marc Randall, Amos D. Korczyn, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Derya Selcuk Demirelli, Richard Li, Prabel Datta, Christine Guevarra, YK Wong, Ysoline Beigneux, Cisca Linn, Solveig Horstmann, Henk Verbiest, Kirsty Harkness, Eric Vicaut, John Coyle, Shoichiro Sato, Anne Marie Mendyk, Chathuri Yatawara, Alexandros A Polymeris, Lisa Hert, Joan Martí-Fàbregas, Felix Fluri, Cathy Soufan, Djamil Vahidassr, Lakshmanan Sekaran, Chu Peng Hoi, Maarten van Gemert, Andreas Charidimou, Robert Luder, Lillian Choy, Jaap van der Sande, Hannah Cohen, Jae-Sung Lim, Maam Mamun, Vincent I.H. Kwa, Kyohei Fujita, Joseph Kwan, Syuhei Ikeda, John Mitchell, Paul Berntsen, Michael J. Thrippleton, Shelagh B. Coutts, Simone Browning, Paul Guyler, Heinrich Mattle, Elles Douven, Jonathan Birns, M. Eline Kooi, Jan Stam, Hedley C. A. Emsley, David Mangion, David Calvet, Min Lou, Yannie Soo, Santiago Medrano-Martorell, Michael G. Hennerici, Chris Moran, Thomas Gattringer, Bernard Esisi, Kazuhisa Yoshifuji, Hakan Ay, Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Derek Hayden, Richard J. Perry, Gunaratam Gunathilagan, Hans Rolf Jäger, Frank-Erik de Leeuw, Luis Prats-Sánchez, Pankaj Sharma, Mi Hwa Yang, Marie Yvonne Douste-Blazy, Enas Lawrence, Nils Peters, Elisa Merino, KC Teo, Ethem Murat Arsava, Luc Bracoub, Dinesh Chadha, Linxin Li, Nikola Sprigg, Adrian R Parry-Jones, Pascal P. Gratz, Siu Hung Li, Stephen Makin, Arumug Nallasivam, Jane Sword, Mauro S.B. Silva, Ping Wing Ng, Layan Akijian, Krishna A Dani, Sebastian Thilemann, Marie Dominique Fratacci, Gareth Ambler, Nagaendran Kandiah, Lee-Anne Slater, Ilse Burger, Kath Pasco, Paul J. Nederkoorn, Suk Fung Tsang, Tae Jin Song, Henry Ma, Kaori Miwa, Keith W. Muir, Susana Muñoz-Maniega, Jihoon Kang, Nicolas Christ, Beom Joon Kim, Noortje A.M. Maaijwee, Kwok Kui Wong, Jon Scott, Leonidas Panos, Oi Ling Chan, Shigeru Inamura, Prasanna Aghoram, David Hargroves, Lino Ramos, Ying Zhou, Chung Yan Chan, Masayuki Shiozawa, Eleni Sakka, Michelle Davis, Matthew Smith, Leo H. Bonati, Dilek Necioglu Orken, Toshihiro Ide, Jaap Kappelle, Ale Algra, Charlotte Zerna, Laurence Legrand, Eric Jouvent, Roland Veltkamp, Simon Jung, Zeynep Tanriverdi, Shahoo Singhal, Sarah Caine, Natan M. Bornstein, Régis Bordet, Anil M. Tuladhar, Maarten Schrooten, John F. Corrigan, Alexander P. Leff, Kazunori Toyoda, Mathuri Prabhakaran, Kim Wiegertjes, Eunbin Ko, Wouter Schoonewille, Sebastian Köhler, Yvo B.W.E.M. Roos, Wing Chi Fong, Jun Tanaka, Abduelbaset Elmarim, Syed Mansoor, Peter J. Koudstaal, Kari Saastamoinen, Eric E. Smith, Paul O'Mahony, Hugues Chabriat, Duncan Wilson, Appu Suman, Dianne H.K. van Dam-Nolen, Parashkev Nachev, Ahamad Hassan, Maria del C. Valdés Hernández, Clare Shakeshaft, Stefan T. Engelter, James Okwera, Aad van der Lugt, Els De Schryver, Stef Bakker, Azlisham Mohd Nor, Yusuke Yakushiji, Robert J. van Oostenbrugge, Claire Cullen, Man Yu Tse, Sebastian Eppinger, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Kotaro Iida, Efrat Kliper, Bibek Gyanwali, Elizabeth A. Warburton, Hee-Joon Bae, Thanh G. Phan, Tarek A. Yousry, Henrik Gensicke, Christine Delmaire, Jean-Louis Mas, Jill Abrigo, Fiona Carty, Jan C. Purrucker, Masashi Nishihara, Leopold Hertzberger, Joachim Fladt, Einor Ben Assayag, Simon Leach, Winnie C.W. Chu, Edward S. Hui, Bonnie Y.K. Lam, Moon Ku Han, Francesca M Chappell, David Williams, Robin Lemmens, Philippe Lyrer, Hiroyuki Irie, Raquel Delgado-Mederos, Ronil V. Chandra, Nigel Smyth, Henry K.F. Mak, Young Dae Kim, Ryan Hoi Kit Cheung, Beatriz Gómez-Ansón, Fidel Nuñez, Anna K. Heye, Adrian Barry, Janet Putterill, Mark White, Alejandro Martínez-Domeño, Vincent Mok, Rachel Marsh, Mahmud Sajid, Timothy J. England, SL Ho, Christopher Patterson, Daniel Guisado-Alonso, Peter J. Kelly, Lawrence K.S. Wong, Anthea Parry, Enrico Flossman, Chao Xu, Marwan El-Koussy, Karim Mahawish, Sissi Ispoglou, Franz Fazekas, Toshio Imaizumi, David J. Seiffge, Wenyan Liu, Chahin Pachai, Adrian Wong, Khaled Darawil, Jeremy Molad, Sanjeevikumar Meenakishundaram, Enrico Flossmann, Harald Proschel, Caroline E. Lovelock, Christine Roffe, Kui Kai Lau, Michael McCormick, Peter M. Rothwell, Paul A. Armitage, Sarah Gunkel, Myung Suk Jang, Martin Cooper, Pol Camps-Renom, Martin M. Brown, David Cohen, David J. Werring, Koon-Ho Chan, Deborah Kelly, Neurology, ACS - Atherosclerosis & ischemic syndromes, ANS - Neurovascular Disorders, Division 2, Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, RS: Carim - B06 Imaging, Beeldvorming, MUMC+: DA BV Klinisch Fysicus (9), RS: NUTRIM - R1 - Obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular health, RS: CARIM - R3.11 - Imaging, MUMC+: MA Neurologie (3), Klinische Neurowetenschappen, RS: Carim - B05 Cerebral small vessel disease, RS: CARIM - R3.03 - Cerebral small vessel disease, and MUMC+: MA Med Staf Spec Neurologie (9)

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INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY, PREDICT, Brain Ischemia, 0302 clinical medicine, SMALL VESSEL DISEASE, Medicine, CHINESE PATIENTS, 10. No inequality, Stroke, medicine.diagnostic_test, DEMENTIA, Hazard ratio, Absolute risk reduction, Brain, Atrial fibrillation, ASSOCIATION, Disorders of movement Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 3], Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 3. Good health, Ischemic Attack, Transient, Cardiology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Intracranial Hemorrhages, medicine.drug, Cohort study, medicine.medical_specialty, RECURRENT STROKE, Clinical Neurology, 610 Medicine & health, Neuroimaging, Article, WARFARIN, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Journal Article, Humans, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Science & Technology, business.industry, Warfarin, Magnetic resonance imaging, T2-ASTERISK-WEIGHTED MR-IMAGES, medicine.disease, ATRIAL-FIBRILLATION, Neurosciences & Neurology, Neurology (clinical), business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Contains fulltext : 208975.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) BACKGROUND: Cerebral microbleeds are a neuroimaging biomarker of stroke risk. A crucial clinical question is whether cerebral microbleeds indicate patients with recent ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack in whom the rate of future intracranial haemorrhage is likely to exceed that of recurrent ischaemic stroke when treated with antithrombotic drugs. We therefore aimed to establish whether a large burden of cerebral microbleeds or particular anatomical patterns of cerebral microbleeds can identify ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack patients at higher absolute risk of intracranial haemorrhage than ischaemic stroke. METHODS: We did a pooled analysis of individual patient data from cohort studies in adults with recent ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack. Cohorts were eligible for inclusion if they prospectively recruited adult participants with ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack; included at least 50 participants; collected data on stroke events over at least 3 months follow-up; used an appropriate MRI sequence that is sensitive to magnetic susceptibility; and documented the number and anatomical distribution of cerebral microbleeds reliably using consensus criteria and validated scales. Our prespecified primary outcomes were a composite of any symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage or ischaemic stroke, symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage, and symptomatic ischaemic stroke. We registered this study with the PROSPERO international prospective register of systematic reviews, number CRD42016036602. FINDINGS: Between Jan 1, 1996, and Dec 1, 2018, we identified 344 studies. After exclusions for ineligibility or declined requests for inclusion, 20 322 patients from 38 cohorts (over 35 225 patient-years of follow-up; median 1.34 years [IQR 0.19-2.44]) were included in our analyses. The adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] comparing patients with cerebral microbleeds to those without was 1.35 (95% CI 1.20-1.50) for the composite outcome of intracranial haemorrhage and ischaemic stroke; 2.45 (1.82-3.29) for intracranial haemorrhage and 1.23 (1.08-1.40) for ischaemic stroke. The aHR increased with increasing cerebral microbleed burden for intracranial haemorrhage but this effect was less marked for ischaemic stroke (for five or more cerebral microbleeds, aHR 4.55 [95% CI 3.08-6.72] for intracranial haemorrhage vs 1.47 [1.19-1.80] for ischaemic stroke; for ten or more cerebral microbleeds, aHR 5.52 [3.36-9.05] vs 1.43 [1.07-1.91]; and for >/=20 cerebral microbleeds, aHR 8.61 [4.69-15.81] vs 1.86 [1.23-1.82]). However, irrespective of cerebral microbleed anatomical distribution or burden, the rate of ischaemic stroke exceeded that of intracranial haemorrhage (for ten or more cerebral microbleeds, 64 ischaemic strokes [95% CI 48-84] per 1000 patient-years vs 27 intracranial haemorrhages [17-41] per 1000 patient-years; and for >/=20 cerebral microbleeds, 73 ischaemic strokes [46-108] per 1000 patient-years vs 39 intracranial haemorrhages [21-67] per 1000 patient-years). INTERPRETATION: In patients with recent ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack, cerebral microbleeds are associated with a greater relative hazard (aHR) for subsequent intracranial haemorrhage than for ischaemic stroke, but the absolute risk of ischaemic stroke is higher than that of intracranial haemorrhage, regardless of cerebral microbleed presence, antomical distribution, or burden. FUNDING: British Heart Foundation and UK Stroke Association.

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2019
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5. Superficial siderosis following spontaneous intracranial hypotension

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Enrico Flossmann, Alastair J.S. Webb, and Richard Armstrong

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Siderosis, Photophobia, Nausea, Intracranial Hypotension, Neurological examination, Xanthochromia, medicine, Humans, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Headache, Brain, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Superficial siderosis, Surgery, Spinal Cord, Migraine, Anesthesia, Vomiting, Neurology (clinical), medicine.symptom, Headaches, business
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A 33-year-old man presented in 2002 with an acute, severe, occipital headache associated with nausea and photophobia, causing him to collapse to the pavement; there was no persisting neurological impairment. He had mild hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia and asthma, but took no regular medication. His initial neurological examination was normal. A CT scan of head was normal but cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) showed xanthochromia, but was otherwise normal. A four-vessel digital subtraction cerebral angiogram was normal. He took nimodipine for 3 weeks and was discharged. He subsequently developed recurrent left-sided headaches, each lasting hours to days, with backache and dizziness, nausea and photophobia. These varied in frequency and severity but progressed over time, eventually having more days with headache than without. Following a more severe episode, he required hospital admission, with a diagnosis of migraine. In 2008, he developed neck pain with tingling in his left middle finger. An MR scan of cervical spine showed a posterior osteophytic bar with root impingement at C5/6 and C6/7. He obtained temporary relief from a nerve root blockade at both levels but eventually underwent a C5/6/7 anterior cervical decompression and fusion. In 2014, he became progressively unsteady and developed a subtle right-hand tremor. One day he woke with severe headache with nausea, vomiting and photophobia, with worsened unsteadiness. On examination there was mild ataxia on tandem gait with scanning dysarthria. CT scan of …

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2015
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6. Molecular Genetics of Ischaemic Stroke

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Enrico Floßmann

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Pathology, business.industry, Leukoaraiosis, Disease, medicine.disease, Bioinformatics, Connective tissue disease, Twin study, Molecular genetics, Medicine, Family history, business, CADASIL, Stroke
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Rare examples of single gene disorders have been described for all major subtypes of ischaemic stroke; accelerated atherosclerosis and subsequent thrombo-embolism (e.g. homocysteinuria), connective tissue disease resulting in arterial dissections (e.g. Ehler-Danlos type IV), disorders of cerebral small vessels (e.g. CADASIL), cardiac embolism (e.g. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), mitochondrial cytopathies increasing cerebral tissue susceptibility to insults (e.g. MELAS) and coagulopathies (e.g. sickle cell disease). Although animal models, family history and twin studies suggest that hereditary factors might contribute to the risk of sporadic stroke, no single gene has so far been conclusively shown to do so. It is unlikely that the direct genetic contribution of any single gene towards stroke is more than modest and it is likely that the effects are mainly mediated through genetic influences on risk factors and intermediate phenotypes. Single genes are unlikely to be helpful for any risk stratification in clinical practice. Key Concepts: Rare examples of single gene disorders have been described for all major subtypes of ischaemic stroke. Although animal models, family history and twin studies suggest that hereditary factors might contribute to the risk of sporadic stroke, no single gene has so far been conclusively shown to do so. It is unlikely that the direct genetic contribution of any single gene towards stroke is more than modest. It is likely that genetic effects are mainly mediated through genetic influences on risk factors and intermediate phenotypes. Single genes are unlikely to be helpful for any risk stratification in clinical practice. Keywords: ischaemic stroke; genes; family history; heritability; CADASIL; MELAS; hypertension; atherosclerosis; leukoaraiosis

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2010
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7. A 'broken heart' artifact in cardiovascular MR

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Steffen E, Petersen, Jane M, Francis, Frank, Wiesmann, Enrico, Flossmann, Matthew D, Robson, and Stefan, Neubauer

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Adult, Male, Radiography, Humans, Equipment Failure, Artifacts, Cardiovascular System, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Published
2003

8. Health toll of the Middle East crisis

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Enrico Floßmann and Oliver Floßmann

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Economic growth, Middle East, Injury control, biology, business.industry, Accident prevention, Poison control, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Suicide prevention, Occupational safety and health, Toll, medicine, biology.protein, Medical emergency, business
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2002
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