Diagnostic TCD for intracranial stenosis in acute stroke patients: experience from a tertiary care stroke center in Karachi, Pakistan

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• 作者：Ayeesha Kamran Kamal ; Hasan Rehman ; Nasir Mustafa ; Bilal Ahmed…
• 关键词：Transcranial Doppler ; Intracranial stenosis ; Magnetic resonance angiography ; Cerebral infarction prevention ; Cerebrovascular accident
• 刊名：BMC Research Notes
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：8
• 期：1
• 全文大小：768 KB
• 刊物主题：Biomedicine general; Medicine/Public Health, general; Life Sciences, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1756-0500

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Background Stroke is a common cause of morbidity and mortality around the world. Intracranial large artery atherosclerosis (ICAD) is a frequent etiology of stroke in the South Asian population. There is a need for widely available screening tools to identify patients that are at high risk of stroke due to ICAD for aggressive risk management. This study describes the experience of using the transcranial Doppler (TCD) as a screening tool for this purpose at a tertiary care hospital in a developing country.