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

AND THE JAPAN STROKE SOCIETY

Contents

Volume 22, Number 3 April 2013

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

185 Gastroesophageal Reflux during Enteral Feeding in Stroke Patients:

A 24-hour Esophageal pH-monitoring Study

Yukie Satou, Hiroaki Oguro, Yo Murakami, Keiichi Onoda, Shingo Mitaki,

Chizuko Hamada, Ryo Mizuhara, and Shuhei Yamaguchi

190 Tissue Plasminogen Activator Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute

Ischemic Stroke in 4 Hospital Groups in Japan

Syoichiro Kono, Kentaro Deguchi, Nobutoshi Morimoto, Tomoko Kurata,

Shoko Deguchi, Tohru Yamashita, Yoshio Ikeda, Tohru Matsuura,

Hisashi Narai, Nobuhiko Omori, Yasuhiro Manabe, Taijyun Yunoki,

Yoshiki Takao, Sanami Kawata, Kenichi Kashihara, and Koji Abe

197 Usefulness of Dual and Fully Automated Measurements

of Cerebral Blood Flow during Balloon Occlusion Test

of the Internal Carotid Artery

Takeshi Torigai, Mitsuhito Mase, Takayuki Ohno, Hiroyuki Katano,

Yusuke Nisikawa, Keita Sakurai, Shigeru Sasaki, Junko Toyama,

and Kazuo Yamada

205 Demographic, Clinical, and Radiologic Predictors of Neurologic

Deterioration in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke

Nobukazu Miyamoto, Yasutaka Tanaka, Yuji Ueno, Miyako Kawamura,

Yoshiaki Shimada, Ryota Tanaka, Nobutaka Hattori, and Takao Urabe

211 Association between Inflammatory Biomarkers and Progression

of Intracranial Large Artery Stenosis after Ischemic Stroke

Kanako Shimizu, Kana Shimomura, Yoshiaki Tokuyama, Kenzo Sakurai,

Kenji Isahaya, Satoshi Takaishi, Bunta Kato, Noriko Usuki,

Takahiro Shimizu, Koji Yamada, and Yasuhiro Hasegawa

CONTENTS

218 Clinical, Anatomic, and Procedural Durability of Carotid

Revascularization

Kevin M. Barrett, Raid G. Ossi, Thomas G. Brott, and James F. Meschia

227 Intravenous Thrombolysis in Thai Patients with Acute Ischemic

Stroke: Role of Aging

Pornpatr A. Dharmasaroja, Sombat Muengtaweepongsa,

and Permphan Dharmasaroja

232 Minimally Invasive Procedures Reduced the Damages to Motor

Function in Patients with Thalamic Hematoma: Observed

by Motor Evoked Potential and Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Guofeng Wu, Likun Wang, Jian Liu, Yuanhong Mao, and Guannan Qin

241 Unwitnessed Stroke: Impact of Different Onset Times on

Eligibility into Stroke Trials

Matthew B. Maas, and Aneesh B. Singhal

244 Determinants of Emergency Medical Services Use in a Brazilian

Population with Acute Ischemic Stroke

Gustavo W. Kuster, Monique Bueno Alves, Miguel Cendoroglo Neto,

and Gisele Sampaio Silva

250 Elevated Admission Blood Pressure and Acute Ischemic Lesions

in Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage

EthemMurat Arsava, Ozlem Kayim-Yildiz, Kader K. Oguz, Erhan Akpinar,

and Mehmet Akif Topcuoglu

255 Prevalence and Clinical Features of Asymptomatic Peripheral

Artery Disease in Japanese Stroke Patients

Haruhiko Hoshino, Yoshiaki Itoh, Satoshi Yamada, and Norihiro Suzuki

260 Clinical Features and Functional Outcome of Stroke After Transient

Ischemic Attack

Takao Hoshino, Satoko Mizuno, Satoru Shimizu, and Shinichiro Uchiyama

267 Swallowing Analysis for Semisolid Food Texture in Poststroke

Dysphagic Patients

Ryo Momosaki, Masahiro Abo, and Kazushige Kobayashi

CONTENTS

271 Anemia is Associated with Poor Outcomes in Patients

with Less Severe Ischemic Stroke

Jason J. Sico, John Concato, Carolyn K. Wells, Albert C. Lo,

Steven E. Nadeau, Linda S. Williams, Aldo J. Peixoto,

Mark Gorman, John L. Boice, and Dawn M. Bravata

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

279 Geotopographic and Environmental Characteristics of

Communities and the Seasonality of Stroke Occurrences

Tanvir Chowdhury Turin, Adrian V. Specogna, and Nahid Rumana