Assessing the individual risk of stroke in caregivers of patients with stroke.

Background:  Genetic factors influence the risk of developing stroke. Still, it is unclear whether this risk is intrinsically high in certain people or if nongenetic factors explain it entirely.

Objective:  To compare the risk of stroke in kin and nonkin caregivers.

Content and Quality of Information about Stroke in Wikipedia across Multiple Languages.

Background: Given the high contribution of stroke to the global burden of disease, there is a need for good-quality information on Web platforms such as Wikipedia.

Aims: This study aimed to describe the quality of the Wikipedia articles on stroke written in different languages.

Methods: We studied the world's 30 most spoken languages.

Matrix metalloproteinase-2 and matrix metalloproteinase-9 serum levels in patients with vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia with and without stroke: case-control study.

Purpose: To describe the differences in the serum levels of MMP-2 and MMP-9 of patients with vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia (VBD) with and without acute stroke.

Methods: Case-control study. From an outpatient clinic, we recruited 14 controls and 19 patients with VBD.

Endovascular Treatment of Ischemic Stroke in a Developing Country.

Background: There is inequality in access to recent advancements in endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS), and Mexico is unusually sensitive to such inequality.

Aims: To report the initial experience of the Mexican Endovascular Reperfusion Registry (MERR).

Methods: The MERR is an academic, independent, prospective, multicenter, observational registry of patients treated with endovascular reperfusion techniques in Mexican hospitals.

Multiple hereditary exostoses and stroke due to vertebral artery dissection.

Unlabelled: Vascular complications related to multiple hereditary exostoses are uncommon. We present a 39-year-old male patient with multiple exostoses in the upper and lower limbs with an associated positive familial history of such lesions. He experienced a sudden onset of left-side ataxia and hypoesthesia secondary to a left lateral medullary infarction, which was due to a stenotic-pattern vertebral artery dissection (V1-V4).