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Hakan Ay1, Walter J Koroshetz, Mark Vangel

  • 1The AA Martinos Center, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. ayhmgh@hotmail.com

Stroke
|November 5, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Age is a significant factor in acute stroke outcomes. Older patients with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and mean transit time (MTT) mismatch have a higher risk of infarction, indicating age as a marker for stroke severity.

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