Clinical outcome after intra-arterial stroke therapy in the very elderly: why is it so heterogeneous?
Very elderly patients (i.e. ≥80 years) are disproportionally affected by acute ischemic stroke. They account for a third of hospital stroke admissions, but two thirds of overall stroke-related morbidity and mortality. There is some evidence of clinical benefit in treating selected very elderly patie...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Neurology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2014.00060/full |