Effects of CHADS2 score, echocardiographic and haematologic parameters on stroke severity and prognosis in patients with stroke due to nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.

Background And Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate utility of CHADS2 score to estimate stroke severity and prognosis in patients with ischemic stroke due to non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) in addition to evaluate effects of hematologic and echocardiographic findings on stroke severity and prognosis.

Methods: This prospective study included 156 ischemic stroke cases due to non-valvular AF in neurology ward of Trakya University Medical School between March 2013-March 2015. National Institute of Health Stroke (NIHS) score was used to evaluate severity of stroke at admission.

Management of a patient with Opalski's syndrome in intensive care unit.

Opalski syndrome is a rare vascular brainstem syndrome which is accepted as a variant of Wallenberg syndrome. Opalski syndrome should be considered in acute conditions in which typical symptoms of lateral medullary infarct are accompanied by ipsilateral hemiparesis. Other brain stem syndromes are distinguished from Opalski syndrome by the presence of contralateral hemiparesis.

A comparison of risk factors and prognosis between intra and extracranial acute atherosclerotic stroke in the Turkish population: a prospective study.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the differences in risk factors and prognosis between acute stroke caused by definitive intracranial atherosclerosis (ICAS) or extracranial atherosclerosis (ECAS) in the Turkısh population.

Methods: This study was prospectively designed in a single centre and conducted with patients who were hospitalised due to acute ischaemic stroke. Inclusion criteria were the diagnosis of atherosclerotic ischaemic stroke, defined as more than 50% stenosis or occlusion in the arterial structure supplying the ischaemic area, having excluded other possible causes.

Early clinical signs, lesion localization, and prognostic factors in unilateral symptomatic internal carotid artery occlusion.

Background: The aim of this study was to assess infarct localization, clinical signs, and prognostic factors in cases with unilateral symptomatic total internal carotid occlusion.

Methods: In total, 101 patients who had a diagnosis of symptomatic unilateral carotid occlusion in the Department of Neurology, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, between January 2008 and May 2012, were included in this study. The relationship between infarct localizations and prognosis of patients was evaluated by cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion-weighted MRI.

Pruritus: do Aδ fibers play a role?

Neuropathological and molecular basis of pruritus has not been clarified and the presence of certain specific neural circuits have been proposed. Our aim in this study was to evaluate the role of Aδ fibers in the neural circuits of pruritus by cutaneous silent period (CSP). Thirty-six patients with chronic idiopathic generalized pruritus and 32 healthy controls were enrolled in the study.