Relation of laboratory and clinical variables to the grade of carotid atherosclerosis.

Background And Purpose: To clarify diagnostic entities in ischemic stroke we analyzed the relation between the severity of carotid atherosclerosis, coagulation parameters, lipoproteins, neurological status, and risk factors in 232 patients.

Methods: Duplex ultrasonography, computed tomography scan, and laboratory investigations were performed between the third and tenth days after stroke. Based on carotid ultrasound scores, we categorized the patients into four groups (A, B, C, and D) according to severity of atherosclerosis.

Spectral EEG parameters in patients with tick-borne encephalitis: a follow-up study.

Follow-up of spectral EEG parameters were reported for five patients with serologically verified tick-borne encephalitis. Comparisons were made for clinical data and findings of EEG analysis (power probability mapping, peak-power frequencies, and alpha/theta power ratios) were compared. A prominent feature of the EEG abnormality was the marked attenuation of background alpha activity.