Neurologic worsening during the acute phase of ischemic stroke.

Background: Although capacities for intensive monitoring of patients with stroke are still limited, patients at risk for early neurologic worsening are poorly defined.

Objective: To identify patients at risk for neurologic worsening.

Design: An inception cohort was assessed using the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIH-SS) at hospital admission and again 48 to 72 hours later.

Clinical outcome and neuropsychological deficits after right decompressive hemicraniectomy in MCA infarction.

Background And Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyse in detail the functional outcome and the neuropsychological deficits in patients with space-occupying infarction of the non-dominant hemisphere one year after surgery.

Methods: Postoperative complications and retrospective consent to surgery were assessed in a semi-structured interview in 26 patients. Functional outcome was measured with the Barthel-Index (BI) and Rankin-Scale.