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International Journal of Stroke is the official publication of the World Stroke Organization. It provides a significant contribution to the international stroke research community by concentrating on both the clinical aspects of stroke from around the world as well as basic science contributions in areas of clinical interest. View full journal description

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Distinct Perforator Hemodynamic Phenotypes Differentiate Mechanisms of Single Subcortical Infarction: In Vivo Evidence from 7T Phase-Contrast MRI

  • Ning Wei
  • Yu-Yuan Xu
  • Yue Suo
  • zhe zhang
  • Wanlin Zhu
  • Hui Qu
  • Xiping Gong
  • Kehui Dong
  • Zixiao Li
  • Yongjun Wang
  • Zihao Zhang
  • Jing Jing
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Infarct Growth Rate and Tenecteplase Benefit in Ischemic Stroke at 4.5 to 24 Hours Without Thrombectomy ——A Secondary Analysis of the TRACE-Ⅲ Randomized Trial

  • Liyuan Wang
  • Li Zhou
  • Jinfeng Yin
  • Aoming Jin
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Marc Fisher
  • Lee Schwamm
  • Mark Parsons
  • Xia Meng
  • Chunmiao Duan
  • Lixia Zong
  • wanxing Ye
  • Fengyuan Che
  • Li-Hua Wang
  • Hongguo Dai
  • Hao Wang
  • Ziran Wang
  • Manjun Hao
  • Zhixin Cao
  • Shuangzhe Wu
  • Yongjun Wang
  • Yunyun Xiong
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The Importance of Advocacy in Advancing Stroke Care: The Global Stroke Action Coalition

  • Michelle Nelson
  • Maria Mia Fredin Grupper
  • HB Van der Worp
  • Nicoletta Brunelli
  • Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian
  • Fawaz Al-Mufti
  • Kaiz Asif
  • Ruth van Asperen
  • Angelique Balguid
  • Sarah Belson
  • Deidre Anne De Silva
  • Belen Velazquez Garcia
  • S. Haughton
  • Yong Jiang
  • Amy Mason
  • Sheila Martins
  • Pamela Naidoo
  • Jeyaraj Durai Pandian
  • Michele Schaub Jackson
  • Katherine Setum
  • Christina Sperling
  • Yongjun Wang
  • Bo Norrving
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Global burden of cerebral small vessel disease determined from large MRI studies – a systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Bonnie YK Lam
  • Yuan Cai
  • Huijing Zheng
  • Jize Wei
  • Rufus Akinyemi
  • Geert Jan Biessels
  • Hilde van den Brink
  • Christopher LH Chen
  • Marco Duering
  • Deborah Gustafson
  • Saima Hilal
  • Vincent Hui
  • Raj Kalaria
  • SangYun Kim
  • Maggie Li Man Lam
  • Frank-Erik de Leeuw
  • Ami SM Li
  • Hugh Stephen Markus
  • Anna Marseglia
  • John O'brien
  • Leonardo Pantoni
  • Perminder S. Sachdev
  • Eric Edward Smith
  • Joanna Wardlaw
  • Adrian Wong
  • Ho Ko
  • Vincent CT Mok
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World Stroke Organization: Global Stroke Fact Sheet 2025

  • Valery L Feigin
  • Michael Brainin
  • Bo Norrving
  • Sheila O Martins
  • Jeyaraj Pandian
  • Patrice Lindsay
  • Maria F Grupper
  • Ilari Rautalin
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How to do a systematic review

  • Alex Pollock
  • Eivind Berge
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Multisociety Consensus Quality Improvement Revised Consensus Statement for Endovascular Therapy of Acute Ischemic Stroke

  • From the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR), Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE), Canadian Interventional Radiology Association (CIRA), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT), European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR), European Stroke Organization (ESO), Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), and World Stroke Organization (WSO)
  • David Sacks MD
  • Blaise Baxter MD
  • Bruce C.V. Campbell MBBS, PhD
  • Jeffrey S. Carpenter MD
  • Christophe Cognard MD, PhD
  • Diederik Dippel MD, PhD
  • Muneer Eesa MD
  • Urs Fischer MD
  • Klaus Hausegger MD
  • Joshua A. Hirsch MD
  • Muhammad Shazam Hussain MD
  • Olav Jansen MD
  • Mahesh V. Jayaraman MD
  • Alexander A. Khalessi MD, MS
  • Bryan W. Kluck DO
  • Sean Lavine MD
  • Philip M. Meyers MD
  • Stephen Ramee MD
  • Daniel A. Rüfenacht MD
  • Clemens M. Schirmer MD, PhD
  • Dierk Vorwerk MD
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Review article
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World Stroke Organization: Global Stroke Fact Sheet 2025

  • Valery L Feigin
  • Michael Brainin
  • Bo Norrving
  • Sheila O Martins
  • Jeyaraj Pandian
  • Patrice Lindsay
  • Maria F Grupper
  • Ilari Rautalin
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A systematic review and synthesis of global stroke guidelines on behalf of the World Stroke Organization

  • Gillian E Mead
  • Luciano A Sposato
  • Gisele Sampaio Silva
  • Laetitia Yperzeele
  • Simiao Wu
  • Mansur Kutlubaev
  • Joshua Cheyne
  • Kolawole Wahab
  • Victor C Urrutia
  • Vijay K Sharma
  • PN Sylaja
  • Kelvin Hill
  • Thorsten Steiner
  • David S Liebeskind
  • Alejandro A Rabinstein
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Targeting inflammation to reduce recurrent stroke

  • Annaelle Zietz
  • Sarah Gorey
  • Peter J Kelly
  • Mira Katan
  • John J McCabe
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No-reflow phenomenon in stroke patients: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of clinical data

  • Adnan Mujanovic
  • Felix Ng
  • Thomas R Meinel
  • Tomas Dobrocky
  • Eike I Piechowiak
  • Christoph C Kurmann
  • David J Seiffge
  • Susanne Wegener
  • Roland Wiest
  • Lukas Meyer
  • Jens Fiehler
  • Jean Marc Olivot
  • Marc Ribo
  • Thanh N Nguyen
  • Jan Gralla
  • Bruce CV Campbell
  • Urs Fischer
  • Johannes Kaesmacher
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