Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular DiseasesOFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL STROKE ASSOCIATION

AND THE JAPAN STROKE SOCIETY

Contents

Volume 23, Number 2 February 2014

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

199 An Emergency Department Intervention to Increase Warfarin Use

for Atrial Fibrillation

Lesli E. Skolarus, Lewis B. Morgenstern, Phillip A. Scott, Lynda D. Lisabeth,

Jillian B. Murphy, Erin M. Migda, and Devin L. Brown

204 Aphasia Predicts Unfavorable Outcome in Mild Ischemic Stroke

Patients and Prompts Thrombolytic Treatment

Mascia Nesi, Giuseppe Lucente, Patrizia Nencini, Laura Fancellu, and

Domenico Inzitari

209 Needs Analysis for Educating Community Pharmacists to Interface

with Prehospital Stroke Chain of Survival

Tina Harrach Denetclaw, Patricia Cefalu, Louis L. Manila, and

John J. Panagotacos

213 Quality of Acute Ischemic Stroke Care in Thailand: A Prospective

Multicenter Countrywide Cohort Study

Yongchai Nilanont, Samart Nidhinandana, Nijasri C. Suwanwela,

Suchat Hanchaiphiboolkul, Taksin Pimpak, Pyatat Tatsanavivat,

Gustavo Saposnik, and Niphon Poungvarin, for the Thai Stroke Registry

220 Initial Experience with Upfront Arterial and Perfusion Imaging

among Ischemic Stroke Patients Presenting within the 4.5-hour

Time Window

Ali Reza Noorian, Katja Bryant, Ashley Aiken, Andrew D. Nicholson,

Adam B. Edwards, Mason P. Markowski, Seena Dehkharghani,

Jemisha C. Bouloute, Jacquelyn Abney, and Fadi Nahab

225 Resistive Training Improves Insulin Sensitivity after Stroke

Frederick M. Ivey and Alice S. Ryan

CONTENTS

230 Prognosis of Intracerebral Hemorrhage after Conservative

Treatment

Mohamed Al-Khaled and J€urgen Eggers, the QugSS2 Study

235 Analysis of Peptidome Profiling of Serum from Patients with Early

Onset Symptoms of Ischemic Stroke

Naira Rico Santana, Edgar Zapico Mu~niz, Dolores Cocho, Yolanda Bravo,

Raquel Delgado Mederos, and Joan Mart�ı-F�abregas

241 Prognostic Value of High-sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T in Acute

Ischemic Stroke

Kashif Waqar Faiz, Bente Thommessen, Gunnar Einvik, Torbjørn Omland,

and Ole Morten Rønning

249 Pineal Calcification Is Associated with Symptomatic Cerebral

Infarction

Amnat Kitkhuandee, Kittisak Sawanyawisuth,

Nutjaree Pratheepawanit Johns, Jaturat Kanpittaya, and Jeffrey Johns

254 Clinical Deterioration Following Middle Cerebral Artery

Hemodynamic Changes after Intravenous Thrombolysis for

Acute Ischemic Stroke

Jos�e Fidel Baizabal-Carvallo, Marlene Alonso-Juarez, and Yves Samson

259 Physical Activity Correlates with Arterial Stiffness in

Community-dwelling Individuals with Stroke

Ada Tang, Janice J. Eng, Penelope M. Brasher, Kenneth M. Madden,

Azam Mohammadi, Andrei V. Krassioukov, and Teresa S. M. Tsang

267 Transient Ischameic Attack/Stroke Electronic Decision Support:

A 14-Month Safety Audit

Timothy L. Lavin and Annemarei Ranta

271 The Effect of Season and Temperature Variation on Hospital

Admissions for Incident Stroke Events in Maputo, Mozambique

Joana Gomes, Albertino Damasceno, Carla Carrilho, Vit�oria Lobo,

H�elder Lopes, Tavares Madede, Pius Pravinrai, Carla Silva-Matos,

Domingos Diogo, Ana Azevedo, and Nuno Lunet

278 Ischemic Lesion Burden and Characteristics of Aortic Atheroma

Jin-Man Jung, Joo Y. Kwon, Hye-Jin Kim, Sun U. Kwon, Jae-Kwan Song,

Jong S. Kim, and Dong-Wha Kang

CONTENTS

283 Insurance Status and Outcome after Intracerebral Hemorrhage:

Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Stroke

Michael L. James, Maria V. Grau-Sepulveda, DaiWai M. Olson,

Eric E. Smith, Adrian F. Hernandez, Eric D. Peterson, Lee H. Schwamm,

Deepak L. Bhatt, and Gregg C. Fonarow

293 High-resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Hidden

Etiologies of Symptomatic Vertebral Arterial Lesions

Jong-Won Chung, Beom Joon Kim, Byung Se Choi, Chul Ho Sohn,

Hee-Joon Bae, Byung-Woo Yoon, and Seung-Hoon Lee

303 The Effect of Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Opener Spermine

on Diazoxide against Focal Cerebral Ischemia—Reperfusion

Injury in Rats

Huanli Dong, Shilei Wang, Zongwang Zhang, Ailan Yu, and Zhong Liu

310 Laterality of Bolus Passage through the Pharynx in Patients with

Unilateral Medullary Infarction

Shinya Mikushi, Hitoshi Kagaya, Mikoto Baba, Haruka Tohara, and

Eiichi Saitoh

315 Electrocardiographic Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease and

Stroke Risk Factors in Rural and Urban Tanzania: A Case–control

Study

Richard W. Walker, Matthew Dewhurst, William K. Gray, Ahmed Jusabani,

Eric Aris, Nigel Unwin, Mark Swai, Philip C. Adams, and

Ferdinand Mugusi

321 Intracranial Hemorrhages Related with Warfarin Use and

Comparison of Warfarin and Acetylsalicylic Acid

Yaprak Secil, Yeliz Ciftci, Figen Tokuco�glu, and Yesim Beckmann

327 Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Access to Mechanical

Revascularization Procedures for Acute Ischemic Stroke

Frank J. Attenello, Peter Adamczyk, Ge Wen, Shuhan He, Katie Zhang,

Jonathan J. Russin, Nerses Sanossian, Arun P. Amar, andWilliam J. Mack

335 Diagnosis of Spontaneous Cervical Artery Dissection May Be

Associated with Increased Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress

Disorder

Verena Speck, Adam Noble, Rainer Kollmar, and Thomas Schenk

CONTENTS

343 Statin Use and Risk of Cerebral Aneurysm Rupture: A

Hospital-based Case–control Study in Japan

Yayoi Yoshimura, Yoshitaka Murakami, Makoto Saitoh, Toshihiro Yokoi,

Tomohiro Aoki, Katsuyuki Miura, Hirotsugu Ueshima, and

Kazuhiko Nozaki, for the SSS Research Group

349 The Barrow Neurological Institute Screen for Higher Cerebral

Functions in Cognitive Screening after Stroke

Petra Redfors, Caisa Hofgren, Ingrid Eriksson, Lukas Holmegaard,

Hans Samuelsson, and Katarina Jood

356 Associations of Collagen Type I a2 Polymorphisms with the

Presence of Intracranial Aneurysms in Patients from Germany

Sven Gl€asker, Bawarjan Schatlo, Jan-Helge Klingler, Veit Braun,

Peter Spangenberg, In-Se Kim, Vera van Velthoven, Josef Zentner,

and Hartmut P. H. Neumann

361 Thrombolysis for Ischemic Stroke in Patients with Brain Tumors

Thorleif Etgen, Ines Steinich, and Lukas Gsottschneider

367 The iScore Predicts Clinical Response to Tissue Plasminogen

Activator in Korean Stroke Patients

Tai Hwan Park, Sang-Soon Park, Youngchai Ko, Soo Joo Lee, Kyung Bok Lee,

Jun Lee, Kyusik Kang, Jong-Moo Park, Jay Chol Choi, Dong-Eog Kim,

Yong-Jin Cho, Keun-Sik Hong, Joon-Tae Kim, Dae-Hyun Kim,

Jae-Kwan Cha, Moon-Ku Han, Ji Sung Lee, Juneyoung Lee,

Kyung-Ho Yu, Byung-Chul Lee, Byung-Woo Yoon, Hee-Joon Bae,

and Gustavo Saposnik

374 Stroke Chameleons

Callum M. Dupre, Richard Libman, Samuel I. Dupre, Jeffrey M. Katz,

Igor Rybinnik, and Thomas Kwiatkowski

379 Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Japanese Patients with

Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation in Relation to the CHADS2 Score:

A Subgroup Analysis of the J-ROCKETAF Trial

Masatsugu Hori, Masayasu Matsumoto, Norio Tanahashi,

Shin-ichi Momomura, Shinichiro Uchiyama, Shinya Goto, Tohru Izumi,

Yukihiro Koretsune, Mariko Kajikawa, Masaharu Kato, Hitoshi Ueda,

Kazuma Iekushi, Satoshi Yamanaka, and Masahiro Tajiri, on behalf of the

J-ROCKET AF Study Investigators

CONTENTS

CASE REPORTS

384 Postoperative Brain Stroke after Shoulder Arthroscopy in the

Lateral Decubitus Position

Ahed Zeidan, Mohammed Bluwi, and Kamal Elshamaa

387 5-Fluorouracil–induced Leukoencephalopathy with Acute

Stroke-like Presentation Fulfilling Criteria for Recombinant

Tissue Plasminogen Activator Therapy

Ryuta Kinno, Yoshitaka Kii, Masanobu Uchiyama, Yoshiyuki Owan,

Takahiro Yamazaki, and Toshiya Fukui

390 Central Alveolar Hypoventilation (Ondine’s Curse) Caused

by Megadolichobasilar Artery

Josef G. Heckmann and Stefan Ernst

393 Cerebral Infarction in a Case of Parry-Romberg Syndrome

Yuji Tomizawa, Ryota Tanaka, Kiyoshi Sekiguchi, Yutaka Oji,

Yasutaka Tanaka, Kazuo Yamashiro, and Nobutaka Hattori

395 Fatal Multiple Systemic Emboli after Intravenous Thrombolysis

for Cardioembolic Stroke

Koji Tanaka, Tomoyuki Ohara, Akiko Ishigami, Yoshihiko Ikeda,

Toshinori Matsushige, Tetsu Satow, Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda, Koji Iihara,

and Kazunori Toyoda

JOURNAL OF STROKE AND CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES ONLINE

Please note that articles with an ‘‘e’’ page designation are available only in the online version of

the Journal at www.strokejournal.org.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

e55 Cerebral Blood Flow andOxygenMetabolismMeasurements Using

Positron Emission Tomography on the First Day after Carotid

Artery Stenting

Nobuyuki Kawai, Tetsuhiro Hatakeyama, Masanobu Okauchi,

Masahiko Kawanishi, Atsushi Shindo, Nobuyuki Kudomi,

Yuka Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Nishiyama, and Takashi Tamiya

CONTENTS

e65 Pregnancy-associated Intracranial Hemorrhage: Results of a Survey

of Neurosurgical Institutes across Japan

Jun C. Takahashi, Koji Iihara, Akira Ishii, Eiju Watanabe, Tomoaki Ikeda,

and Susumu Miyamoto

e73 Incidence and Cost of Stroke and Hemorrhage in Patients

Diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation in France

Francois-Emery Cott�e, Gwendoline Chaize, Isabelle Kachaner,

Anne-Francoise Gaudin, Alexandre Vainchtock,

and Isabelle Durand-Zaleski

e85 The Utility of Middle Cerebral Artery Clot Density and Burden

Assessment by Noncontrast Computed Tomography in Acute

Ischemic Stroke Patients Treated with Thrombolysis

Mehmet A. Topcuoglu, E. Murat Arsava, Oguzhan Kursun, Erhan Akpinar,

and Bulent Erbil

e93 Disparities in Acute Stroke Severity, Outcomes, and Care Relative

to Health Insurance Status

Tefera Gezmu, Martin S. Gizzi, Jawad F. Kirmani, Dona Schneider,

and Mohammad Moussavi

e99 Metformin-inclusive Therapy Reduces the Risk of Stroke in

Patients with Diabetes: A 4-Year Follow-up Study

Yuan-Yang Cheng, Hsin-Bang Leu, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Chen-Ling Chen,

Chia-Hua Kuo, Shin-Da Lee, and Chung-Lan Kao

e107 Peripheral Monocyte Count Is Associated with Case Fatality after

Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Opeolu Adeoye, Kyle Walsh, Jessica G. Woo, Mary Haverbusch,

Charles J. Moomaw, Joseph P. Broderick, Brett M. Kissela,

Dawn Kleindorfer, Matthew L. Flaherty, and Daniel Woo

e113 MRI-guided Sonothrombolysis of Rabbit Carotid Artery

Christakis Damianou, Venediktos Hadjisavvas, Nicos Mylonas,

Andreas Couppis, and Kleanthis Ioannides

e123 Self-reported Sleep Duration in Relation to Incident Stroke

Symptoms: Nuances by BodyMass and Race from the REGARDS

Study

Megan E. Ruiter Petrov, Abraham J. Letter, Virginia J. Howard, and

Dawn Kleindorfer

CONTENTS

CASE REPORTS

e133 Dabigatran-related Intracerebral Hemorrhage Resulting in

Hematoma Expansion

Claus Z. Simonsen, Thorsten Steiner, Anna Tietze, and Dorte Damgaard

e135 A Ruptured Aneurysm Arising at the Leptomeningeal Collateral

Circulation from the Extracranial Vertebral Artery to the Posterior

Inferior Cerebellar Artery Associated with Bilateral Vertebral

Artery Occlusion

Masashi Chonan, Shinjitu Nishimura, Naoto Kimura, Masayuki Ezura,

Hiroshi Uenohara, and Teiji Tominaga

e141 Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome with Multivessel

Cervical Artery Dissections and a Double Aortic Arch

Amre Nouh, Sean Ruland, Michael J. Schneck, David Pasquale, and

Jos�e Biller