Background The relative importance of previous diagnosis and hereditary prothrombotic risk
factors for cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) in children in determining risk of a second …

The current guidelines for the management of cardiovascular risk focus on individual risk
factors and risk factor thresholds. For patients who are asymptomatic, the guidelines …

Comment 254 www. thelancet. com/neurology Vol 16 April 2017 at 6 months was detected
in 1· 4% of 220 patients assigned to the standard care group and 8· 9% of 221 patients …

Results Thirty one cases with cerebral sinus thrombosis were identified, 18 of them were
boys. Clinical presentation included 18 patients with seizures and 13 with high intracranial …

Until recently stroke clinicians asked two common questions about aspirin use and primary
intracerebral haemorrhage. Does aspirin prescribed as a secondary prevention drug after …

Venous thromboembolic (VTE) events are being increasingly diagnosed in systemic and
cerebral vessels in children. Systemic VTE are increasing in children as a result of …

Clinical suspicion of stroke needs to be confirmed by brain imaging. CT, first introduced in
1971, 1 has now become the most widely available test for urgent assessment of patients …

“Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.”
Austrian-American management consultant and author Peter Drucker may have written the …

In today's Lancet, Michael Hennerici and colleagues1 report on the European Stroke
Treatment with Ancrod Trial (ESTAT), which assessed the effects of a purified fraction of …

The etiology of neonatal sinovenous thrombosis is poorly understood. The authors report the
risk factors and radiologic features of neonatal sinovenous thrombosis seen over an 11-year …