Virtual Reality-Based Rehabilitation as a Feasible and Engaging Tool for the Management of Chronic Poststroke Upper-Extremity Function Recovery: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: A growing number of stroke survivors are left with little to no rehabilitation services upon discharge from stroke rehabilitation, although arm deficits may persist or develop from disuse once rehabilitation services have ceased. Virtual reality (VR)-based rehabilitation, combined with new technologies such as telerehabilitation, including serious games using VR environments that encourage users to practice functional movements from home with minimal supervision, may have an important role to play in optimizing and maintaining upper extremity (UE) function.

Objective: The primary objective of this study is to determine the extent to which a 1-month intervention using a VR-based serious game is effective in improving UE function compared with an evidence-based home exercise program.

Predictors and outcomes associated with radial versus femoral access for intervention in patients with acute coronary syndrome in a real-world setting: results from the Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Survey (ACSIS) 2010.

Background: Use of transradial intervention (TRI) is becoming more popular, and recent studies suggest an advantage for TRI in high-risk patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The aim of our study was to describe current utilization and outcomes of transradial intervention (TRI) in real-world patients presenting with ACS.

Methods: Data were derived from the ACS Israeli Survey (ACSIS 2010), a nationwide prospective survey of patients presenting with ACS over a 2-month period.

Contemporary use and outcome of percutaneous coronary interventions in patients with acute coronary syndromes: insights from the 2010 ACSIS and ACSIS-PCI surveys.

Aims: In patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the mainstay of treatment based on current guidelines. In this paper we describe contemporary management and outcomes of patients with ACS treated by PCI in the national ACS Israeli survey (ACSIS) performed in March and April 2010.

Methods And Results: The ACSIS 2010 registry was conducted in all 25 hospitals in Israel and included "all comers" admitted with ACS.

Cardiovascular events in patients received combined fibrate/statin treatment versus statin monotherapy: Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Surveys data.

Background: The effect of combination of fibrate with statin on major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) following acute coronary syndrome (ACS) hospitalization is unclear. The main aim of this study was to investigate the 30-day rate of MACE in patients who participated in the nationwide ACS Israeli Surveys (ACSIS) and were treated on discharge with a fibrate (mainly bezafibrate) and statin combination vs. statin alone.