• Clinician's quick guide:  after stroke or TIA
• Internet Stroke Center - Washington University - extensive information and links
  • Stroke resources for Professional 
  • Complete list of stroke trials

Acute Stroke Management

• Acute Stroke Tools - Brain Attack Coalition
  • Guidelines, Orders, Pathway, Stroke Scales
• Stroke, acute management - NL
• Stroke, acute treatment with TPA - NL
  • TPA, overview
  • TPA, inclusion & exclusion criteria
  • TPA, sample orders
  • TPA, protocol for elevated BP
  • TPA, protocol for suspected major bleeding 

Prevention of stroke

• Preventing ischemic stroke -Current approaches to primary and secondary prevention - Post Graduate Medicine - May 2000
• Risk factors and prognosis for stroke - NL
  • Choosing Drug Therapy for Patients with Hyperlipidemia AFP June 2000
  • Effective Use of Statins to Prevent Coronary Heart Disease - Feb 2001
• Cholesterol Treatment Guidelines Update - AFP March 2002
• Tayloring therapy to a stroke patient's potential - Post Med Aug 98
• Assessing thrombotic risks - BMJ
• Anticoagulant
  • Anticoagulant use in stroke prevention - NL
• Antiplatelet agents - NL
• Carotid endarterectomy - review NL
  • Carotid endarterectomy: Which patients can benefit? - Post Grad Medicine - May 2000
  • Carotid Endarterectomy update - from MGH
  • Asymptomatic carotid stenosis - Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
  • Absolute benefit of carotid endarterectomy on asymptomatic carotid stenosis is low - BMJ
• Risk, causes, and prevention of ischaemic stroke in elderly patients with symptomatic internal-carotid-artery stenosis. Lancet April 14, 2001
• Antiphospholipid Syndrome - NL

Cerebrovascular disease review

• Stroke overview - basic facts - NL
• Stroke Index - Neurology Curriculum for Med student - NW University
• Risk factors and prognosis for stroke - NL
• Classification of stroke by etiology - NL
• Classification of stroke by anatomy - NL
• Atrial fibrillation from nonvalvular disease - review - NL

• Review of stroke from Virtual Hospital (Univ of Iowa)
• Migraine & Stroke case controlled study - BMJ
• Carotid stenosis & coronary artery disease - NL
• Neuropathology of cerebral infarct & bleed from Univ of Utah

Other types of strokes

• Transient ischemic attack - American Family physician April 2004
• Periventricular leukoencephalopathy
• Intracerebral Hemorrhage - NL
• Cerebral Venous Thrombosis & oral contraceptives - BMJ
• Intracranial Hypertension due to Sigmoid Sinus Thrombosis - Baylor
• Vasculitis of CNS - Baylor
• Risk of intracranial hemorrhage after tPA for MI - Ann of IM
• Superficial siderosis (Superficial hemosiderosis) of the CNS - Baylor
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage - NL

Information for patient & family

• National Stroke Association
• NINDS Stroke Guide