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Reduction in early stroke risk in carotid stenosis with transient ischemic attack associated with statin treatment

Áine Merwick1, Gregory W Albers, Ethem M Arsava

  • 1From the Neurovascular Unit for Translational and Therapeutics Research, Stroke Service and Department of Neurology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital/Dublin Academic Medical Centre, Dublin, Ireland (Á.M., P.J.K.); Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford Stroke Centre, Palo Alto, CA (G.W.A., J.M.O.); Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (E.M.A., H.A.); Department of Neurology, Sainte-Anne Hospital, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France (D.C., J.-L.M.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and Radiology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (S.B.C., A.M.D.); Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA (B.L.C.); Stroke Prevention Research Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom (M.F.G., P.M.R.); Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospitalt Universitari Arnau de Vilanova de Lleida and Universitat de Lleida, Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida, Lleida, Spain (F.P.); Department of Neurology, UCLA Stroke Center (J.L.S.); Division of Neurology, YLL School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore (V.K.S.); Second Department of Neurology, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece (G.T.); Department of Neurology, International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic (G.T.); and Department of Neurology, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece (G.T.).

Stroke
|August 3, 2013
PubMed
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Keywords:
carotid stenosisischemic attack, transientstatin

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