Jean-Louis Mas

..We studied the risks of recurrent cerebrovascular events associated with these cardiac abnormalities...

..We assessed to what extent rapid management of TIA patients admitted to a stroke unit led to specific treatments which can prevent stroke and evaluated the early risk and predictors of stroke in these patients...

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..We reviewed evidence on carotid angioplasty and stenting in carotid stenosis...

..4% but seems to be higher within the first month and some recurrences are asymptomatic. Patients with connective tissue disease or familial history of CAD have an increased risk of CAD recurrence, but other risk factors remain unknown...

..Many patients do not receive prevention consistent with recommendations after stroke, but the relative importance of patient- and physician-related factors is uncertain...

..To evaluate the respective value of 5 MR sequences to distinguish between stroke patients with and without acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)...

..We assessed the reproducibility of MRI for the identification and quantification of carotid atherosclerotic plaque components...

..Most patients respond poorly to analgesics. We describe four patients with typical RCA whose headache rapidly disappeared after IV nimodipine treatment was initiated...

..The treatment decision requires consideration of individual factors to optimize the risk/benefit ratio...

..Carotid stenting is less invasive than endarterectomy, but it is unclear whether it is as safe in patients with symptomatic carotid-artery stenosis...

..However, few studies have specifically assessed the absolute risk of coronary events in those patients and predictors of such events are not well known...

..We aimed at quantifying and explaining the underuse of antithrombotic treatments after an ischemic stroke in patients seen in French primary care...

..In those who are not good surgical candidates, carotid stenting might be equivalent to surgery, but whether or not any form of carotid revascularization is superior to medical treatment alone remains unknown...

..This Leigh-like encephalopathy appears to be associated with a much more severe outcome than isolated Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy...

..New medical strategies and the advantages of angioplasty are currently under investigation...

..This variability has to be taken into account when deciding on a potential risky treatment to prevent recurrent strokes...

..CONCLUSIONS: Although their significance remains unclear, multiple HVSs are more frequently observed in symptomatic patients with multiple intracerebral stenoses than in asymptomatic patients without stenosis...

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..Higher stiffness of carotid wall material and circumferential wall stress could increase the risk of dissection in these patients...

..Use of preventive drugs was lower in patients with a history of ischaemic stroke or PAD, and should increase, accordingly to the results of recent randomized controlled trials...

..This sign may allow an early detection of high-grade cervical carotid stenosis in stroke patients before dedicated neck imaging is performed...

..Therefore, it is justified to update these meta-analyses...

..We assessed these factors in 18,992 CVD patients within a worldwide registry of stable outpatients...

..The purpose of this study was to determine the possible benefit of dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI), ischemic stroke, or symptomatic peripheral arterial disease (PAD)...

..Two other randomized multicenter trials-ICSS and CREST-are ongoing. With an intended sample size of up to 7,000 patients, future meta-analyses will allow more-accurate treatment recommendations and subgroup analysis...

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..We sought to characterize the risk factors and treatments of a diverse contemporary population of patients with atherothrombosis...

..However, OAC is still underused, even at discharge from neurological centers. The objective of this study was to identify the reasons underlying the prescription of OAC at discharge after an ischemic stroke in patients with NVAF...

..Overall, clopidogrel plus aspirin was not significantly more effective than aspirin alone in reducing the rate of myocardial infarction, stroke, or death from cardiovascular causes. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00050817.)...

..3%; 95%CI, 1.3 to 2.6; p<0.001). Recruitment that began too late and an over-selected population, with overrepresentation of patients with diabetes and small vessel disease in particular, may partly explain these negative results...

..Three causes of ischemic stroke (cerebral venous thrombosis, aortic arch atheroma, patent foramen ovale) are detailed...

..Absolute annual risks were estimated through weighted meta-regressions with a random effect. To test the predictions of expected event rates derived from our analysis, we used individual patient data...

..The aim of the Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation Ensemble (SAFE) II study was to identify the reasons underlying the under-utilization of oral anticoagulation (OAC) in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF)...