Helms AK, Torbey MT, Almassi GH. Determinants of mortality in stroke patients with right brain damage.
Curr Atheroscler Rep 2005;
7:289-95. [PMID:
15975322 DOI:
10.1007/s11883-005-0021-5]
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Abstract
Stroke is the world's second leading cause of mortality and long-term disability. Damage to the nondominant right brain has distinct clinical characteristics. The resultant cardiovascular and autonomic dysfunction peculiar to right hemispheric stroke can adversely affect the short- and long-term outcome of stroke victims. Blood flow characteristics to the right hemisphere may also put the right brain at more risk for embolic and silent infarcts.
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