Investigating the link between antipsychotic use and post-stroke infections in older people: multi-centre propensity score analysis.

Background: The risk of stroke increases with age, and although previous reports have suggested that infection risk may increase with antipsychotic use, relevant studies after stroke are scarce. We aimed to investigate whether antipsychotics increase post-stroke infection risk in the acute stroke period.

Methods: This propensity score matching study included adults diagnosed with first-ever stroke between 2011 and 2020 at five university hospitals.

Post-Stroke Infections: Insights from Big Data Using Clinical Data Warehouse (CDW).

This study analyzed a digitized database of electronic medical records (EMRs) to identify risk factors for post-stroke infections. The sample included 41,236 patients hospitalized with a first stroke diagnosis (ICD-10 codes I60, I61, I63, and I64) between January 2011 and December 2020. Logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the effect of clinical variables on post-stroke infection.

Neural correlates in the development of and recovery from dysphagia after supratentorial stroke: A prospective tractography study.

Background: Swallowing impairment after stroke may be related to the state of the corticobulbar tract (CBT), which is the motor projection fiber responsible for deglutition, but evidence is still lacking regarding which parameter could relate to poststroke swallowing recovery as measured by videofluroscope findings. This prospective study evaluated diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters among dysphagic stroke patients compared with those of nondysphagia stroke patients and age-matched healthy subjects and followed swallowing recovery in dysphagic patients as assessed with the Modified Barium Swallow Impairment Profile (MBSImP©).

Methods: Diffusion tractography was performed in 69 subjects, consisting of 27 S patients with dysphagia, 18 healthy subjects and 24 S patients with no evidence of dysphagia.