Publications by authors named "Jens Benemann"
Background And Purpose: Several predictive scores have been developed and validated for stratifying cerebrovascular patients based on the risk of future (cerebro)vascular events. We aimed to prospectively compare the predictive accuracy of the Essen Stroke Risk Score, Stroke Prognostic Instrument, Hankey score, and the Life Long After Cerebral ischemia score.
Methods: Between August 2005 and December 2006, we included 2381 patients from 10 German stroke centers with an acute nondisabling ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack and with prospective assessment of clinical variables for calculation of the predictive scores.
Background/aim: Prognosis and optimal secondary prevention in ischemic stroke patients with coagulopathies remain unclear. The goal of this prospective observational multicenter study was to determine the risk of recurrence in cryptogenic stroke patients with either no or defined coagulopathies under various prevention regimens.
Methods: A total of 429 patients from 14 German stroke centers with an acute cryptogenic ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack in whom specialized coagulation testing for inherited and acquired coagulopathies (factor V Leiden mutation/resistance to activated protein C, prothrombin mutation, deficiencies of protein C, protein S, antithrombin III, anticardiolipin IgG antibodies, lupus anticoagulant) had been performed were included.
Background: Stroke and mortality rates in patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) differ widely between community-based studies and research cohorts. Our aim therefore was to provide a reliable estimate for TIA patients treated in German neurology departments with an acute stroke unit.
Methods: A total of 1951 consecutively admitted TIA patients were prospectively documented in 13 centers and 1480 (75.
Background: Risk stratification can contribute to individualised optimal secondary prevention in patients with cerebrovascular disease.
Objective: To prospectively investigate the prediction of the Essen Stroke Risk Score (ESRS) and a pathological Ankle Brachial Index (ABI) in consecutive patients hospitalised with acute ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) in 85 neurological stroke units throughout Germany.
Methods: 852 patients were prospectively documented on standardised case report forms, including assessment of ESRS and ABI.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) patients often show atherosclerotic vascular disease in other vascular territories. We evaluated how often whole-body MR imaging detects concomitant arterial pathologies in CHD patients, and how often these pathologies were not known to the patients previously. Of 4,814 participants in the population-based Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study, 327 reported CHD (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: While several models have been developed to predict mortality following intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), the functional outcome and its predictors in surviving patients have been poorly investigated so far.
Objectives: To identify predictors and validate a prognostic model for independent functional outcome in patients with acute ICH.
Design: An inception cohort was assessed on the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIH-SS) at admission and followed-up after 100 days.
Background: Even though increased environmental platinum levels were found since the introduction of automobile catalytic converters, little is known about the pathways of corporal uptake and the bioavailability of platinum in the general adult population. The aim of this study is to identify and quantify the main exposure pathways of gold and platinum in the general adult population.
Methods: The German Environmental Survey 1998 (GerES III) collected population-based data on the corporal gold and platinum burden from a large sample of 1080 persons, 18-69 years of age.