Background and Purpose—Mild stroke (MS) and rapidly improving stroke (RIS) symptoms
are common stroke presentations. Our objective is to describe the short-term outcomes in …

Background and Purpose—Prior studies have shown that patients with mild ischemic stroke
have substantial disability rates at hospital discharge. We sought to determine disability …

Introduction Among ischemic stroke patients arriving within the treatment window, rapidly
improving symptoms or having a mild deficit (ie too good to treat) is a common reason for …

Background Despite effective treatments, many patients are still not offered reperfusion
therapy for acute ischemic stroke. Methods We present a single-center observational study …

Background and Purpose: Although most strokes present with mild symptoms, these have
been poorly represented in clinical trials. The objective of this study is to describe …

Background and Purpose—Acute ischemic stroke with mild or rapidly improving symptoms
is expected to result in good functional outcome, whether treated or not. Therefore …

Importance Mild strokes have been poorly represented in thrombolytic trials and only a few
series have reported outcomes after treatment with intravenous (IV) recombinant tissue …

Background One third of patients presenting with initially mild strokes have unfavorable
outcomes, and the efficacy of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in this population has not been …

Background: The benefit of intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke is
time dependent. To assist hospitals in providing faster thrombolytic treatment, the American …

Introduction In up to one third of patients with mild stroke suitable to receive systemic
thrombolysis the treatment is not administered because the treating physicians estimate a …