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ESJ Comment: Early recurrence in paroxysmal versus sustained atrial fibrillation in patients with acute ischaemic stroke

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Comment Authors: Madalena Rosário and Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Department of Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, University of Lisbon, Portugal Original Article: Paciaroni M, Angelini F, Agnelli G et al. 2018. Early recurrence in paroxysmal versus sustained atrial fibrillation in patients with acute ischaemic stroke. European Stroke Journal. doi: 10.1177/2396987318785853 Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a […]

ESJ Comment: Acute stroke care: where are we and where are we going?

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Original research article Access to and delivery of acute ischaemic stroke treatments: A survey of national scientific societies and stroke experts in 44 European countries European Stroke Journal DOI: 10.1177/2396987318786023  Comment by Linxin Li Acute stroke care: where are we and where are we going? Despite decreasing in age-standardised stroke incidence and mortality over the […]

Prominent Members under 45: Interview with Jesse Dawson

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For 2018, via the ESO newsletter, we are focusing the spotlight on prominent ESO members under 45. In January we introduced you to Georgios K. Tsivgoulis. For February, we learned more about Else Charlotte Sandset. In March we presented Urs Fischer. In April you met Charlotte Cordonnier. Hopefully you were able to meet some of […]

ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference 2018

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The 12th ESO-Karolinska Stroke Update Conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 11-13 November 2018. The Scientific Programme Committee has compiled a highly interesting and diverse scientific programme. Have a look at it on the conference website and benefit from the early registration deadline by registering before 5 September 2018. You are also welcome […]

How to Set up a Tele-Stroke Network Workshop Report

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The first Telestroke workshop organized by the ESO Telestroke Committee took place in Munich, Germany from 5 to 6 July. the workshop was hosted by the Neurology staff of the Klinikum Harlaching chair Prof. Roman Haberl and the Tempis coordinators Gordian Hubert and Peter Muller-Bama. The meeting was attended by 12 doctors coming from 7 […]

Tales from an old foe – CADASIL

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by Kailash Krishnan MRCP (UK), MRCP (Lond), PhD (Stroke Medicine), Stroke, Division of Neuroscience, University of Nottingham and Department of Stroke Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK A 55-year-old man was admitted recently to the stroke unit with a 6 hour history of slurred speech, right arm and leg weakness. He recalled having an […]

Report from the ‘Brain diseases – from bench to bedside’ conference in Moscow

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By Peter Sandercock The meeting, organized by Professors Eugene Gusev and Alla Guekht, focused on the recent developments in translational research and treatment innovations in cerebrovascular diseases, epilepsy, cognitive impairment and dementia, depression, demyelinating diseases and others. It was held at the Buyanov City Clinical hospital, and was organized in partnership with the following institutions: […]

Early Seizures in Acute Intracerebral Haemorrhage: Consideration for Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus

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Dr Jatinder S. Minhas, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. This brief clinical review was prompted following a recent study by Matsubara et al. Stroke 2018. Epidemiology Early seizures (ES) are defined as seizures occurring within 7-14 days post-acute stroke and those occurring after this window as […]