Differences in subacute motor recovery after intracerebral haemorrhage and ischaemic stroke: Analysis using the VISTA database cohort.

Background: Motor impairment is a significant contributor to disability after stroke, but recovery is often incomplete. Whether motor recovery differs between intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), a subgroup of stroke with far worse outcomes, and ischaemic stroke is not clear.

Methods: We performed a retrospective observational longitudinal cohort study using individual patient-level data from the Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive (VISTA) database (ICH n=892, ischaemic stroke n=6912).