title: Clinical evaluation of patients with migraine induced stroke in mashhad, iran.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Migraine Induced Stroke (MIS) is an important cause of brain infarction in the young people.
  
  
  METHODS
  Consecutive patients with MIS admitted in Ghaem hospital, Mashhad during 2006-2010 enrolled a prospective clinical study. All of the patients suspected to MIS had brain MRI with a 0.5 Tesla generation, Philips NT Intra, Netherland. All of the MIS patients underwent a standard battery of diagnostic investigations for detecting etiology of stroke. Disability of MIS patients was detected based on the modified Rankin scale at 90 days post stroke.
  
  
  RESULTS
  32 MIS patients (18 females, 14 males) with mean age 37.2 ± 3.8 years ranged 15-58 years were evaluated. Hypodense area of infarction corresponding to clinical manifestations was detected in MRI in 32% of our MIS patients. The mean disability score in our MIS patients was 1.09 ± 0.32, which is significantly lower than other stroke patients (z = 2.55, P = 0.007)
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MIS is an important cause of stroke in Persian young adults which have good prognosis.
authors.affiliation: MD, Professor of Cerebrovascular Disease, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
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