Regular dental flossing is linked to a lower risk for ischemic stroke, primarily by reducing systemic inflammation, which can lead to atrial fibrillation (AF) increasing the likelihood of a ...

Other posterior-segment pathology is less common. Choroidal infarcts might also occur. Although the central retinal artery is not thought to be directly involved in giant cell arteritis ...

Methods The German Stroke Registry (GSR), a national ... In the GSR, there is no standardized assessment of patency of the anterior choroidal artery or anatomical configuration of the circle of Willis ...

and antihypertensive treatment due to the unclear efficacy of stenting and endarterectomy for symptomatic vertebral artery (VA) stenosis. However, the incidence of recurrent ischemic stroke(RIS) in ...

Background Challenging anatomy for carotid artery access can result in a delay to achieve successful recanalization in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Our objective was to study emergent direct ...

1 Department of Neurology, Shaoxing Second Hospital, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China 2 Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States Post-stroke cognitive ... such ...

In 2 eyes, the vessel was extra-macular. OCT in all cases showed a hyporeflective choroidal area with posterior shadowing and elevation of the overlying retina. Subretinal fluid was present in 4 eyes.

1 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 2 Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore The choroidal vascularity index (CVI) is ...

Pain is one of the several unexpected consequences of stroke. Post-stroke pain is not typically among the early stroke symptoms, and it may take weeks or months for post-stroke pain to develop.

2.3 Ocular posterior segment diseases and neuroinflammatory response ... there were more retinal vein occlusions than retinal artery occlusions, and ocular symptoms mostly occurred within 3 weeks ...

More people are surviving stroke to experience its long-term consequences, but outcomes in people living more >10 years after stroke have not been described in detail. Methods Data were collected for ...