Hospital-acquired infections after acute ischaemic stroke and its association with healthcare-related costs and functional outcome.

Introduction: Acute ischaemic stroke is associated with important mortality, morbidity, and healthcare-related costs. Age, pre-stroke functionality and stroke severity are important contributors to functional outcome. Stroke patients also risk developing infections during hospitalization.

Late asthmatic responses after exercise challenge are reproducible.

In this study the reproducibility of a late asthmatic reaction (LAR) after exercise challenge (EC) has been documented. Eighty-three hospitalized patients with asthma were challenged with exercise. The patients were examined according to a standardized protocol that comprised 8 minutes of bicycling at 90% of predicted heart rate.