Post-stroke management concerns and outcomes.
In the United States alone, there are 1.7 million stroke survivors at any given time, 75% between the age of 55 and 84 years, thereby posing a formidable rehabilitation task. In order to reduce short-term mortality from strokes, management should focus on improved pre-stroke status of high-risk patients and on improved recognition and therapy of medical complications of stroke during the first 3 weeks. Long-term recovery from stroke can be facilitated by skilled rehabilitation and augmented by treatment of depression and other emotional problems. Newer experimental therapies instituted during the first hours after stroke may also prove to accelerate recovery over the first 3 months after stroke.
Grotta
J C
JC
Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston.
D002423:Cause of Death; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis