Since sickle cell disease (SCD) carries an increased risk for ischemic stroke, stroke prevention in this patient population is vital. To this end, the 2014 NHLBI guidelines specify that children with ...

Carotid artery stenosis is a major cause of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA ... 26 international centers and used transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) to detect the presence of embolic ...

A large study published in The Lancet Neurology indicates that individuals who possess mitochondrial DNA subhaplogroup K have a markedly lower risk of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA ...

Collateral vessels on CT angiography predict outcome in acute ischemic stroke. Stroke 40 , 3001–3005 (2009). Article Google Scholar ...

Behnke and his wife knew he needed to go to the ER, where doctors used a new technology — a transcranial doppler (TCD ... "It gives us a dynamic picture of the brain. A CAT scan or MRI ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic ... first stroke in those with high transcranial Doppler ...