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The effectiveness and safety of anti-fibrinolytics in patients with acute intracranial haemorrhage: statistical analysis plan for an individual patient data meta-analysis [version 3; peer review: 2 approved] (2019)
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Ker, K., Prieto-Merino, D., Sprigg, N., Mahmood, A., Bath, P., Kang Law, Z., Flaherty, K., & Roberts, I. (2019). The effectiveness and safety of anti-fibrinolytics in patients with acute intracranial haemorrhage: statistical analysis plan for an individual patient data meta-analysis [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, Article 120. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.13262.3

Introduction: The Anti-fibrinolytics Trialists Collaboration aims to increase knowledge about the effectiveness and safety of anti-fibrinolytic treatment by conducting individual patient data (IPD) meta-analyses of randomised trials. This article pre... Read More about The effectiveness and safety of anti-fibrinolytics in patients with acute intracranial haemorrhage: statistical analysis plan for an individual patient data meta-analysis [version 3; peer review: 2 approved].

Outcome Assessment by Central Adjudicators Versus Site Investigators in Stroke Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2019)
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Godolphin, P. J., Bath, P. M., Algra, A., Berge, E., Brown, M. M., Chalmers, J., Duley, L., Eliasziw, M., Gregson, J., Greving, J. P., Hankey, G. J., Hosomi, N., Johnston, S. C., Patsko, E., Ranta, A., Sandset, P. M., Serena, J., Weimar, C., Montgomery, A. A., Knipp, S., …on behalf of the Adjudicating Outcomes in Stroke Trials Collaboration*. (2019). Outcome Assessment by Central Adjudicators Versus Site Investigators in Stroke Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Stroke, 50(8), 2187-2196. https://doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.119.025019

© 2019 American Heart Association, Inc. Background and Purpose-In randomized stroke trials, central adjudication of a trial's primary outcome is regularly implemented. However, recent evidence questions the importance of central adjudication in rando... Read More about Outcome Assessment by Central Adjudicators Versus Site Investigators in Stroke Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Tolerability, safety and intermediary pharmacological effects of cilostazol and isosorbide mononitrate, alone and combined, in patients with lacunar ischaemic stroke: the LACunar Intervention-1 (LACI-1) trial, a randomised clinical trial (2019)
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Blair, G. W., Appleton, J. P., Flaherty, K., Doubal, F., Sprigg, N., Dooley, R., Richardson, C., Hamilton, I., Law, Z. K., Shi, Y., Stringer, M. S., Thrippleton, M. J., Boyd, J., Shuler, K., Bath, P. M., & Wardlaw, J. M. (2019). Tolerability, safety and intermediary pharmacological effects of cilostazol and isosorbide mononitrate, alone and combined, in patients with lacunar ischaemic stroke: the LACunar Intervention-1 (LACI-1) trial, a randomised clinical trial. eClinicalMedicine, 11, 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.04.001

Background
Lacunar stroke, a frequent clinical manifestation of small vessel disease (SVD), differs pathologically from other ischaemic stroke subtypes and has no specific long-term secondary prevention. Licenced drugs, isosorbide mononitrate (ISMN)... Read More about Tolerability, safety and intermediary pharmacological effects of cilostazol and isosorbide mononitrate, alone and combined, in patients with lacunar ischaemic stroke: the LACunar Intervention-1 (LACI-1) trial, a randomised clinical trial.

Therapeutic hypothermia for acute ischaemic stroke. Results of a European multicentre, randomised, phase III clinical trial (2019)
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van der Worp, H. B., Macleod, M. R., Bath, P. M., Bathula, R., Christensen, H., Colam, B., Cordonnier, C., Demotes-Mainard, J., Durand-Zaleski, I., Gluud, C., Jakobsen, J. C., Kallmünzer, B., Kollmar, R., Krieger, D. W., Lees, K. R., Michalski, D., Molina, C., Montaner, J., Roine, R. O., Petersson, J., …the EuroHYP-1 investigators. (2019). Therapeutic hypothermia for acute ischaemic stroke. Results of a European multicentre, randomised, phase III clinical trial. European Stroke Journal, 4(3), 254-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/2396987319844690

© European Stroke Organisation 2019. Introduction: We assessed whether modest systemic cooling started within 6 hours of symptom onset improves functional outcome at three months in awake patients with acute ischaemic stroke. Patients and methods: In... Read More about Therapeutic hypothermia for acute ischaemic stroke. Results of a European multicentre, randomised, phase III clinical trial.

Posterior circulation stroke diagnosis using HINTS in patients presenting with acute vestibular syndrome: A systematic review (2019)
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Krishnan, K., Bassilious, K., Eriksen, E., Bath, P. M., Sprigg, N., Brækken, S. K., Ihle-Hansen, H., Horn, M. A., & Sandset, E. C. (2019). Posterior circulation stroke diagnosis using HINTS in patients presenting with acute vestibular syndrome: A systematic review. European Stroke Journal, 4(3), 233-239. https://doi.org/10.1177/2396987319843701

Purpose
Acute vestibular syndrome – vertigo, nausea/vomiting, nystagmus and gait unsteadiness – is common, and differentiating posterior circulation stroke from a peripheral cause can be challenging. The National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NI... Read More about Posterior circulation stroke diagnosis using HINTS in patients presenting with acute vestibular syndrome: A systematic review.

Women in the European Stroke Organisation: one, two, many… – A Top Down and Bottom Up approach (2019)
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Sandset, E. C., de Sousa, D. A., Christensen, H., Cordonnier, C., Fischer, U., Katan, M., Kremer, C., Pavlovic, A., Sprigg, N., van der Worp, H. B., Zedde, M., & Caso, V. (2019). Women in the European Stroke Organisation: one, two, many… – A Top Down and Bottom Up approach. European Stroke Journal, 4(3), 247-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/2396987319841979

Background: An increasing proportion of physicians are women, yet they still face challenges with career advancement. In 2014, the European Stroke Organisation established the goal of increasing the number and participation of women within the societ... Read More about Women in the European Stroke Organisation: one, two, many… – A Top Down and Bottom Up approach.

Applicability of ENCHANTED trial results to current acute ischemic stroke patients eligible for intravenous thrombolysis in England and Wales: Comparison with the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme registry (2019)
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S Anderson, C., Robinson, T. G., Bray, B. D., Paley, L., Sprigg, N., Wang, X., Arima, H., Bath, P. M., Broderick, J. P., Durham, A. C., Kim, J. S., Lavados, P. M., Lee, T. H., Martins, S., Nguyen, T. H., Pandian, J. D., Parsons, M. W., Pontes-Neto, O. M., Ricci, S., Sharma, V. K., …for the ENCHANTED Investigators and the SSNAP Collaboration. (2019). Applicability of ENCHANTED trial results to current acute ischemic stroke patients eligible for intravenous thrombolysis in England and Wales: Comparison with the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme registry. International Journal of Stroke, 14(7), 678-685. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747493019841246

© 2019 World Stroke Organization. Background: Randomized controlled trials provide high-level evidence, but the necessity to include selected patients may limit the generalisability of their results. Methods: Comparisons were made of baseline and out... Read More about Applicability of ENCHANTED trial results to current acute ischemic stroke patients eligible for intravenous thrombolysis in England and Wales: Comparison with the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme registry.

It is safe to use transdermal glyceryl trinitrate to lower blood pressure in patients with acute ischaemic stroke with carotid stenosis (2019)
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Appleton, J. P., Woodhouse, L. J., Belcher, A., Bereczki, D., Berge, E., Caso, V., Chang, H. M., Christensen, H. K., Collins, R., Gommans, J., Laska, A. C., Ntaios, G., Ozturk, S., Sare, G. M., Szatmari, S., Wang, Y., Wardlaw, J. M., Sprigg, N., & Bath, P. M. (2019). It is safe to use transdermal glyceryl trinitrate to lower blood pressure in patients with acute ischaemic stroke with carotid stenosis. Stroke and Vascular Neurology, 4(1), 28-35. https://doi.org/10.1136/svn-2019-000232

Background There is concern that blood pressure (BP) lowering in acute stroke may compromise cerebral perfusion and worsen outcome in the presence of carotid stenosis. We assessed the effect of glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) in patients with carotid steno... Read More about It is safe to use transdermal glyceryl trinitrate to lower blood pressure in patients with acute ischaemic stroke with carotid stenosis.

Automated segmentation of haematoma and perihaematomal oedema in MRI of acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (2019)
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Pszczolkowski, S., Law, Z. K., Gallagher, R. G., Meng, D., Swienton, D. J., Morgan, P. S., Bath, P. M., Sprigg, N., & Dineen, R. A. (2019). Automated segmentation of haematoma and perihaematomal oedema in MRI of acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 106, 126-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.01.022

Background
Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (SICH) is a common condition with high morbidity and mortality. Segmentation of haematoma and perihaematoma oedema on medical images provides quantitative outcome measures for clinical trials and may... Read More about Automated segmentation of haematoma and perihaematomal oedema in MRI of acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage.

Effect of glyceryl trinitrate on haemodynamics in acute stroke: data from the Efficacy of Nitric Oxide in Stroke trial (2019)
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Appleton, J. P., Woodhouse, L. J., Bereczki, D., Berge, E., Christensen, H. K., Collins, R., Gommans, J., Ntaios, G., Ozturk, S., Szatmari, S., Wardlaw, J. M., Sprigg, N., Rothwell, P. M., Bath, P. M., & ENOS Investigators. (2019). Effect of glyceryl trinitrate on haemodynamics in acute stroke: data from the Efficacy of Nitric Oxide in Stroke trial. Stroke, 50(2), 405-412. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.023190

Background and Purpose: Increased blood pressure (BP), heart rate and their derivatives (variability, pulse pressure, rate-pressure product [RPP]) are associated with poor clinical outcome in acute stroke. We assessed the effects of glyceryl trinitra... Read More about Effect of glyceryl trinitrate on haemodynamics in acute stroke: data from the Efficacy of Nitric Oxide in Stroke trial.