Are leukoaraiosis and lacunes associated with poor clinical outcomes in ischemic stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis?
When considered together as radiological expressions of small vessel disease, presence and severity of severe leukoaraiosis and lacunes on baseline computer tomography scan are associated with poor clinical outcomes in patients treated with i.v. thrombolysis.
Cystatin C was more accurate in detecting decline in renal function than creatinine-based methods in this population of subjects with type 1 diabetes and a normal mean baseline GFR.