Print  Email     Friday, Feb. 17 7:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. 7:30-9:00 a.m. Session I:  Concurrent Symposia A    Amplifying Thrombolysis by Combining with Antithrombotic Therapy  Moderators: James C. Grotta, Houston, Texas   David J. Pinsky, Ann Arbor, Michigan Introduction Thomas G. Brott, Jacksonville, Florida   tPA Plus GPIIb/IIIa Antagonists    Arthur M. Pancioli, Cincinnati, Ohio   tPA Plus Direct Thrombin Inhibitors    James C. Grotta, Houston, Texas   tPA Plus Heparin    Paul Trouillas, Lyon Cedex, France    Summary    Thomas G. Brott, Jacksonville, Florida   Discussion     7:30-9:00 a.m. Session I:  Concurrent B    Experimental Ischemia Oral Abstract Presentations  Moderators: Jun Chen, Salt Lake City, Utah Jaroslaw Aronowski, Houston, Texas 43 Upregulation of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α and Integrins After Exercise Preconditioning Enhances Cerebrovascular Integrity in Ischemic Rats  Yun Hong Ding, Wayne State Univ School of Med, Detroit, MI; William W Davis, Yuchuan Ding, Univ of Texas HSC at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX  44 Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation Causes Necroptosis in Neurons and Endothelial Cells  Sean I Savitz, Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr/Harvard Med School, Boston, MA; Alexei Degterev, Junying Yuan, Harvard Med School, Boston, MA; Michael Moskowitz, Massachusetts General Hosp/Harvard Med School, Boston, MA  45 Vasoprotective Effect of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Ischemic Tolerance  Alexander Kunz, Laibaik Park, Josef Anrather, Ping Zhou, Costantino Iadecola, Weill Cornell Med College, New York, NY  46 Angiotensin II Type 2 Receptor Stimulation Enhances Neural Differentiation and Affects Cognitive Function Through MMS2-Upregulation After Stroke  Masaki Mogi, Jian-Mei Li, Jun Iwanami, Kana Tsukuda, Li-Juan Min, Masaru Iwai, Masatsugu Horiuchi, Ehime Univ School of Med, Tohon, Ehime, Japan  47 Atypical Pkc ζ Mediates Neuroblast Migration from the Subventricular Zone Toward the Ischemic Boundary Regions  Zg Zhang, Y Letourneau, Rl Zhang, S R Gregg, A Hozeska, Y Wang, D Morris, M Chopp, Henry Ford Hosp, Detroit, MI  48 Poly(ADP-ribose) Glycohydrolase Limits Focal Cerebral Ischemic Damage Raymond C Koehler, Judith A Klaus, Zhenfeng Xu, David W Koh, Ted M Dawson, Valina L Dawson, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD  49 Microglia-Derived Reactive Oxygen Species Potentiate Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption After Stroke  Xian Nan Tang, UCSF, San Francisco VAMC, and Stanford Univ, San Francisco and Stanford, CA; Lijun Xu, Yanli Qiao, Rona Giffard, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA; Midori Anne Yenari, UCSF and San Francisco VAMC, San Francisco, CA  Discussion 7:30-9:00 a.m. Session I:  Concurrent C Recovery Oral Abstract Presentations  Moderators: Laura Lennihan, West Haverstraw, New York Argye E Hillis, Baltimore, Maryland 50 The Hematopoietic Factor G-CSF Drives Neurogenesis and Improves Long-term Functional Outcome After Cerebral Ischemia Armin Schneider, Axaron Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany; Tobias Steigleder, Univ, Heidelberg, Germany; Carola Krueger, Axaron Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany; Georg Kuhn, Neuroscience, Gothenburg, Sweden; Wolf R Schäbitz, Univ, Münster, Germany 51 Elevated Homocysteine Accelerates Cognitive Decline After Ischemic Stroke Syed I Hussain, George C Newman, Univ of Wisconsin Hosp & Clinics, Madison, WI; Heejung Bang, Weill Med College of Cornell Univ, New York, NY; James F Toole, Wake Forest Univ, Winston-Salem, NC 52 Short-Term Recovery of Aphasia After Acute Ischemic Stroke Results from Restoration of Blood Flow to Specific Brain Regions  Argye E Hillis, Melissa Newhart, Sangeetha Vimal, Eric Aldrich, Jennifer Heidler-Gary, Lynda Ken, Johns Hopkins Univ School of Med, Baltimore, MD  53 Effects of a Single Dose of Methylphenidate on Motor Deficits After a Subcortical Stroke: Behavioral and Cerebral Correlates  Jean Tardy, Isabelle Loubinoux, Sophie Dechaumont, Anne Léger, Jean-François Albucher, Angelique Gerdelat-Mas, Jeremie Pariente, Philippe Marque, Christophe Cognard, François Chollet, INSERM U455, Toulouse, France 54 Amphetamine-Enhanced Stroke Recovery Trial: Effect of Statins on Poststroke Recovery Larry B Goldstein, Duke Univ Med Ctr and Durham VAMC, Durham, NC; Laura Lennihan, Helen Hayes Hosp, West Haverstraw, NY; Merhoz Rabadi, Burke Rehabilitation Hosp, White Plains, NY; AESR Investigators  55 Depression After Lacunar Stroke: Results from the Secondary Prevention of Small Subcortical Strokes Study Carole L White, Univ of Texas Health Sciences Ctr, San Antonio, TX; Alice Liskay, MetroHealth Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH; Patricia Wallace, ViaHealth Rochester General Hosp, Rochester, NY; Janet Braimah, Grady Memorial Hosp, Atlanta, GA; Janyna Mercado, Univ of Texas Health Sciences Ctr, San Antonio, TX; Leslie McClure, Univ of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 56 Incidence and Frequency of Falling Accidents Among Persons With and Without Stroke: Health and Retirement Study Survey 2002  Afshin A Divani, Amardeep Hoonjan, Abu Nasar, Siatta Dunbar, Jarrett Hesselbrig, Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Res Ctr, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ Discussion 7:30-9:00 a.m. Session I:  Concurrent D Nursing and Rehabilitation Oral Abstract Presentations  Moderators: Pamela H. Mitchell, Seattle, Washington Patricia C. Clark, Atlanta, Georgia 57 Best versus Actual Practices in Stroke Rehabilitation: Results of the Canadian National Survey  Nicol Korner-Bitensky, Sharon Wood-Dauphinee, McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ, Canada; Robert Teasell, Univ of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; Johanne Desrosiers, Univ de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ, Canada; Francine Malouin, Univ Laval, Quebec, PQ, Canada; Aliki Thomas, McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ, Canada; Margaret Harrison, Univ of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; James Hanley, McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ, Canada; Franceen Kaizer, Jewish Rehabilitation Hosp (McGill Univ), Laval, PQ, Canada; Eva Kehayia, McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ, Canada; Anita Menon-Nair, Univ of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Annie Rochette, Chantal Dumoulin, McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ, Canada  58 The Effect of Electro-Acupuncture on Upper Limb Spasticity in Chronic Stroke Survivors Mukul Mukherjee, Lisa McPeak, John Redford, Chao Sun, Wen Liu, Univ of Kansas Med Ctr, Kansas City, KS  59 A New Measure of Paretic Leg Contribution in Hemiparetic Walking  Steven A Kautz, Brain Rehabilitation Res Ctr, Malcom Randall VA Med Ctr, and Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Mark G Bowden, Brain Rehabilitation Res Ctr, Malcom Randall VA Med Ctr, Gainesville, FL; Chitralakshmi K Balasubramanian, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Richard R Neptune, Univ of Texas, Austin, TX  60 Area of Tissue Dysfunction Associated with Impaired Sentence Comprehension in Acute Stroke Pushpa Raja, Melissa Newhart, Jennifer Heidler-Gary, Argye E Hillis, Johns Hopkins Univ School of Med, Baltimore, MD 61 Stroke Survivor and Caregiver Congruence of Depressive Symptom Appraisal  N Jennifer Klinedinst, Sarah Blanton, Steven L Wolf, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA; Patricia C Clark, Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA  62 Changes in Sense of Coherence and Depression Symptoms Among Informal Caregivers of Stroke Survivors Across 2 Years  Neale R Chumbler, Maude Rittman, Haijing Qin, Samuel Wu, Rehabilitation Outcomes Res Ctr, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Gainesville, FL  63 Caregivers to Stroke Patients: Predictors of Burden Wolfgang Hasemann, Annemarie Kesselring, Inst of Nursing Science, Basel, Switzerland; Markus Stoecklin, Inst of Psychology, Univ of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Elmar Graessel, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Univ of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany Discussion   9:00-9:10 a.m.  Break      9:10-10:40 a.m. Session II:  Concurrent Symposia A   Continuous Quality Improvement 2006:  Crossing the Quality Chasm in Stroke Care  Moderators:  Philip B. Gorelick, Chicago, Illinois   Wende Fedder, Elk Grove Village, Illinois   International JCAHO Accreditation:  Future Directions for Improved Healthcare Quality Around the World    Maureen C. Potter, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois   Continuous Quality Improvement:  Does JCAHO Primary Stroke Certification Lead to Better Care?   Jean E. Range, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois   Overview of State Initiatives:  The CAPTURE STROKE (Illinois) Model and Other State-Based Programs    Dilip K. Pandey, Chicago, Illinois   National Trends in State-Endorsed Stroke Center Designation   Mark Crafton, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois   Discussion  9:10-10:40 a.m. Session II:  Concurrent Symposia B Endothelial Dysfunction and Vasculoprotection in Stroke Moderator: Richard J. Traystman, Portland, Oregon Donald D. Heistad, Iowa City, Iowa Introduction Richard J. Traystman, Portland, Oregon Donald D. Heistad, Iowa, City, Iowa Thrombosis, Thrombolysis, and Proteolysis in Stroke Gregory J. del Zoppo, La Jolla, California Vascular Risk Factors and Mechanisms of Endothelial Dysfunction Frank M. Faraci, iowa City, Iowa Genetic Determinants of Endothelial Dysfunction and Stroke Joseph Loscalzo, Boston, Masschusetts Endothelial Cell Death and Vasculoprotection Berislav V. Zlokovic, Rochester, New York Discussion     9:10-10:40 a.m. Session II:  Concurrent C    Community/Risk Factors Oral Abstract Presentations  Moderators: Barbara Radziszewska, Bethesda, Maryland Sarah Yoon, Hyattsville, Maryland 64 FLAP and Ischemic Stroke and Subtypes of Ischemic Stroke Among Whites and Blacks  Daniel Woo, Ritesh Kaushal, Kathleen Alwell, Mary Haverbusch, Brett Kissela, Dawn Kleindorfer, Matthew Flaherty, Prodipto Pal, Ranajit Chakraborty, Ranjan Deka, Joseph Broderick, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH  65 A Gene-Environment Interaction Between Phosphodiesterase 4D Genotype and Cigarette Smoking Influences Stroke Risk: The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study  John W Cole, Univ of Maryland School of Med, Baltimore, MD; Qing Song, Morehouse School of Med, Atlanta, GA; Jeffrey R O'Connell, Oscar C Stine, Univ of Maryland School of Med, Baltimore, MD; Margaret Gallagher, Wayne H Giles, Ctrs for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Braxton D Mitchell, Marcella A Wozniak, Barney J Stern, John D Sorkin, Laurie J Reinhart, Univ of Maryland School of Med, Baltimore, MD; Qin Xu, Gary H Gibbons, Morehouse School of Med, Atlanta, GA; Steven J Kittner, Univ of Maryland School of Med, Baltimore, MD  66 A Prospective Evaluation of Advanced Glycosylation End Product-Specific Receptor Gene Polymorphisms with the Risk of Incident Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Stroke  Robert Y Zee, Jose R Romero, Jessica J Gould, Dennis A Ricupero, Paul M Ridker, Brigham and Women's Hosp, Harvard Med School, Boston, MA  67 Antiphospholipid Antibody Portfolio Predicts a High-Risk Subgroup of Ischemic Stroke Patients for Subsequent Events: Preliminary APASS-WARSS Results  Steven R Levine, Mount Sinai School of Med, New York, NY; Robin L Brey, Univ of Texas HSC--San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; Barbara C Tilley, Y Lin, Med Univ of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; J L Thompson, Ralph L Sacco, J P Mohr, Columbia Univ, New York, NY; and the APASS Investigators  68 Parental Occurrence of Stroke and Risk of Stroke in Their Children: The Framingham Study  Sudha Seshadri, Alexa Beiser, Margaret Kelly-Hayes, Carlos S Kase, Philip A Wolf, Boston Univ School of Med, Boston, MA  69 Lipid Levels and the Risk of Hemorrhagic Stroke in Women  Tobias Kurth, Brigham and Women's Hosp, Boston, MA; Carlos S Kase, Boston Univ Med Ctr, Boston, MA; Julie E Buring, J Michael Gaziano, Brigham and Women's Hosp, Boston, MA  70 Genomic Susceptibility Loci for Leukoaraiosis and Brain Atrophy in Hypertensive European (White) and African-American Sibships  Stephen T Turner, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Myriam Fornage, Univ of Texas Health Science Ctr, Houston, TX; Clifford R Jack, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Thomas H Mosley, Univ of Mississippi Med Ctr, Jackson, MS; Sharon L Kardia, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Eric Boerwinkle, Univ of Texas Health Science Ctr, Houston, TX; Gary L Schwartz, Mariza de Andrade, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN  Discussion 9:10-10:40 a.m. Session II:  Concurrent D Acute Management Oral Abstract Presentations  Moderators: Dana Leifer, New York, New York Andrew M. Demchuk, Calgary, AB, Canada  71 MRI-Based Thrombolysis in Acute Stroke Patients with Unclear Onset Time is Safe and Feasible  A-Hyun Cho, Deok H Lee, Jong S Kim, Choong Gon Choi, Sun U Kwon, Dae Chul Suh, Jimi Choi, Sang-Beom Chun, Sang Joon Kim, Jae-Young Koh, Dong-Wha Kang, Asan Med Ctr, Seoul, Democratic People's Republic of Korea  72 Comparison of Perfusion-CT/CT Angiography and MRI in the Selection of Stroke Patients for Acute Treatment  Max Wintermark, Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Patrick Michel, Marc Reichhart, Patrick Browaeys, Reto Meuli, Pierre Schnyder, Julien Bogousslavsky, Univ Hosp, Lausanne, Switzerland  73 Maintaining Euglycemia Following Stroke: The Hypotensive Effect of Glucose Potassium Insulin Infusions Upon Blood Pressure---the Glucose Insulin in Stroke Trial Experience  Chris S Gray, Anthony J Hildreth, Janice E O'Connell, Newcastle Univ, Sunderland, United Kingdom; Donna E Johnston, Sunderland Royal Hosp, Sunderland, United Kingdom; Kurt G Alberti, Newcastle Univ, Sunderland, United Kingdom  74 Plasma Biomarkers Distinguish Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients at Risk to Develop Intracerebral Hemorrhage After Thrombolytic Therapy  Edward C Jauch, Univ of Cincinnati College of Med, Cincinnati, OH; Gary F Ross, Ciphergen Biosystems, Freemont, CA; Shauna Beiler, Christian Beiler, Tina Choudhri, Kenneth R Wagner, Univ of Cincinnati College of Med, Cincinnati, OH  76 Association of Early Recanalization with Reperfusion and Clinical Outcome Following Intravenous tPA at 3 to 6 Hours: Results of the DEFUSE Study  Michael P Marks, Stanford Stroke Ctr, Palo Alto, CA; Vincent N Thijs, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium; Wataru Kakuda, Stanford Stroke Ctr, Palo Alto, CA; Lawrence Wechsler, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Roland Bammer, Stephanie Kemp, Gregory W Albers, Stanford Stroke Ctr, Palo Alto, CA; On behalf of the DEFUSE Investigators  77 Hospital Notification by EMS in Acute Stroke Is Associated with Shorter Door-to-CT Time and Increased Likelihood of tPA Administration  Abdul R Abdullah, Eric E Smith, Paul Biddinger, Deidre Kalenderian, Lee H Schwamm, Massachusetts General Hosp, Boston, MA  Discussion     10:40-11:10 a.m. Exhibits/Break      11:10 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Session III:  Plenary Session II  Moderators:  Philip B. Gorelick, Chicago, Illinois   Larry B. Goldstein, Durham, North Carolina   Siekert and Globus Award Presentations  Philip B. Gorelick, Chicago, Illinois Presentation of Robert G. Siekert New Investigator Award Thomas Bowman, Boston, Massachusetts (Presenting oral abstract 110 on Saturday morning) Presentation of Mordecai Y.T. Globus New Investigator Award Nicole Gonzales, Houston, Texas (Presenting oral abstract 9 on Thursday morning) Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Recognition Robert H. Eckel, Denver, Colorado   William M. Feinberg Award for Excellence In Clinical Science Lecture     Ralph L. Sacco, New York, New York   Plenary Symposium    New Frontiers in Cell and Trophic Factor Therapies Moderators:  Eng H. Lo, Charlestown, Masschusetts   Michael Chopp, Detroit, Michigan   Introduction    Eng H. Lo, Charlestown, Masschusetts   Neurogenesis    Zaal Kokaia, Lund, Sweden    Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Stroke Therapy    Michael Chopp, Detroit, Michigan   EPO Clinical Trial and New cEPO Derivatives    Marcel Leist, Lundbeck, Denmark      12:45-2:00 p.m. Exhibits and Lunch Break    Friday Fellow and Early Career Luncheon    (ticket required, seating is limited)      2:00-3:30 p.m. Session IV:  Concurrent Symposia A    Endovascular Treatment Trials of Ischemic Stroke  Moderators:  Y. Pierre Gobin, New York, New York   Lawrence Wechsler, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   Preliminary Results of the IMS II Trial    Thomas A. Tomsick, Cincinnati, Ohio   The Multi-Merci Trial    Wade Smith, San Francisco, California   The MR Rescue Trial    Chelsea S. Kidwell, Los Angeles, California   The IMS II Trial:  A Comparison of a Combined IV/IA Approach to Recanalization With Standard IV rtPA Within 3 Hours of Onset    Joseph P. Broderick, Cincinnati, Ohio   Discussion      2:00-3:30 p.m. Session IV:  Concurrent Symposia B    Evidence-based Management of Cerebrovascular Disease, Part I  Moderator: Issam A. Awad, Evanston, Illinois Mary E. Jensen, Charlottesville, Virginia   Case Presentation - Aneurysm    Issam A. Awad, Evanston, Illinois   Case Discussion - Aneurysm    Robert A. Solomon, New York, New York   Case Discussion - Aneurysm    Reza Jahan, Los Angeles, California   Discussion    Evidence-based Approach Lecture on Aneurysm    Colin P. Derdeyn, St Louis, Missouri Case Discussion - AVMs  Mary E. Jensen, Charlottesville, Virginia   Case Discussion - AVMs    Robert A. Solomon, New York, New York   Case Discussion - AVMs    Reza Jahan, Los Angeles, California   Discussion    Evidence-based Approach Lecture on AVMs    Robert H. Rosenwasser, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania This session has been jointly organized by the American Stroke Association, AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section, and the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology. 2:00-3:30 p.m. Session IV:  Concurrent Symposia C Neuroprotection: The Impact of the SAINT I Trial Moderators: Julien Bogousslavsky, Lausanne, Switzerland  J.D. Mohr, New York, New York  A Detailed Overview of the SAINT I Results Kennedy R. Lees, Glasgow, United Kingdom Implications of the SAINT Results: A Basic Science and Animal Modeling Perspective  Eng H. Lo, Charlestown, Massachusetts An Evaluation of the Statistical and Outcome Methods Employed in the SAINT Trial  Jeffrey L. Saver, Los Angeles, California If NXY-059 is Approved, What are the Implications for the Future of Acute Stroke Trials and Patient Care? Marc Fisher, Worcester, Massachusetts Discussion 2:00-3:30 p.m. Session IV:  Concurrent D Diagnosis Oral Abstract Presentations Moderators: Carlos Molina, Barcelona, Spain  Andrew M. Demchuk, Calgary, AB, Canada  78 Results of the Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Evaluation for Understanding Stroke Evolution (DEFUSE) Study Gregory W Albers, Stanford Stroke Ctr, Palo Alto, CA; Vincent N Thijs, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium; Lawrence Wechsler, Univ of Pittsburgh Med Ctr, Pittsburgh, PA; Stephanie Kemp, Stanford Stroke Ctr, Palo Alto, CA; Gottfried Schlaug, Beth Israel Deaconess Hosp, Boston, MA; Elaine Skalabrin, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Roland Bammer, Micheal P Marks, Wataru Kakuda, Maarten Lansberg, Stanford Stroke Ctr, Palo Alto, CA; Ashfaq Shuaib, Univ of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; William Coplin, Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI; Micheal Moseley, Stanford Stroke Ctr, Palo Alto, CA; On behalf of the DEFUSE Investigators  79 Bleeding Risk Analysis in Stroke by T2*-Weighted Imaging Before Thrombolysis (BRASIL): A Multicenter Study of 600 Patients of the MR Stroke Collaborative Group  Jens Fiehler, Neuroradiology, Hamburg, Germany; Jean-Martin Boulanger, Foothills Med Ctr, Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Wataru Kakuda, Stanford Stroke Ctr, Stanford, CA; Jong S Kim, Univ of Ulsan, Seoul, Republic of Korea; David S Liebeskind, UCLA Stroke Ctr, Los Angeles, CA; Tobias Neumann-Haefelin, Univ Hosp Goethe-Univ, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Norbert Nighoghossian, Cerebrovascular Disease Ctr, Lyon-I Univ, Lyon, France; Salvador Pedraza, Hosp Univ Doctor Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain; Alex Rovira, Inst Hosp Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; Peter D Schellinger, Univ of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Joachim Rother, Klinikum Minden, Minden, Germany; for the MR STROKE Collaborative Group  80 Temporal Profile of Recanalization After Intravenous tPA: Selecting Patients for Rescue Reperfusion Techniques Marc Ribo, José Alvarez-Sabín, Francisco Romero, Joan Montaner, Pilar Delgado, Marta Rubiera, Raquel Delgado-Mederos, Carlos A Molina, Hosp Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain  81 Early Decrease in Blood Pressure Predicts DWI Lesion Growth in Stroke Patients Treated with Intravenous tPA Raquel Delgado-Mederos, Alex Rovira, Marc Ribo, Marta Rubiera, Esteban Santamarina, Joan Montaner, Elena Huerga, José Alvarez-Sabin, Carlos A Molina, Hosp vall d´Hebron, Barcelona, Spain  82 Extent of Ischemic Edema on CT before Thrombolysis: Prognostic Value of the Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score in ECASS II  Imanuel Dzialowski, Michael D Hill, Shelagh B Coutts, Andrew Demchuk, Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; David M Kent, Tufts-New England Inst, Boston, MA; Olaf Wunderlich, Ruediger Von Kummer, Univ of Dresden, Dresden, Germany 83 A Spatial Component to the Risk of Infarction in Acute Ischemic Stroke Hakan Ay, AA Martinos Ctr for Biomed Imaging, Stroke Service, Massachusetts General Hosp, Boston, MA; Walter J Koroshetz, Stroke Service, Massachusetts General Hosp, Boston, MA; Chloe J Lopez, Nina M Menezes, Mingwang Zhu, Thomas Benner, Christopher Melinosky, Ethem M Arsava, Ona Wu, A Gregory Sorensen, AA Martinos Ctr for Biomed Imaging, Massachusetts General Hosp, Boston, MA  84 Gradient-Echo MRI Phase Mismapping Reveals Angiographic Correlates in Acute Ischemic Stroke  David S Liebeskind, Nerses Sanossian, Jeffry R Alger, Doojin Kim, Sidney Starkman, Bruce Ovbiagele, Amelia L Laughton, Noriko Salamon, Reza Jahan, Gary R Duckwiler, Fernando Vinuela, J Pablo Villablanca, Jeffrey L Saver, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Discussion 3:30-4:00 p.m. Exhibits/Break 4:00-5:30 p.m. Session V:  Concurrent Symposia A Reaching Everyone With Acute Stroke Therapy Moderators: Lewis B. Morgenstern, Ann Arbor, Michigan Karen C. Johnston, Charlottesville, Virginia Who is a Candidate for Acute Endovascular Therapy?  A Geograpic Analysis Philip Scott, Ann Arbor, Michigan Delivery of Acute Stroke Therapy to Race/Ethnic Minorities Dawn Kleindorfer, Cincinnati, Ohio Overcoming the Barriers to Acute Stroke Therapy in Women Lynda Lisabeth, Ann Arbor, Michigan Acute Stroke Treatment in Rural Communities Brett C. Meyer, San Diego, California Discussion 4:00-5:30 p.m. Session V:  Concurrent Symposia B Evidence-based Management of Cerebrovascular Disease, Part II Moderators: E. Sander Connolly, Jr., New York, New York Robert W. Tarr, Cleveland, Ohio Case Presentation - Carotid Stenosis E. Sander Connolly, Jr., New York, New York Case Discussion - Carotid Stenosis Daniel L. Barrow, Atlanta, Georgia Case Discussion - Carotid Stenosis Peter A. Rasmussen, Cleveland, Ohio Discussion Evidence-based Approach Lecture on Carotid Stenosis Robert E. Harbaugh, Hershey, Pennsylvania Case Presentation - Carotid Stenosis Robert W. Tarr, Cleveland, Ohio Case Discussion - Intracranial Atheroma Daniel L. Barrow, Atlanta, Georgia Case Discussion - Intracrania Atheroma Peter A. Rasmussen, Cleveland, Ohio Discussion Evidence-based Approach Lecture on Intracranial Atheroma John D. Barr, Memphis, Tennessee This session has been jointly organized by the American Stroke Association, AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section, and the American Society of Interventional and Therapetuci Neuroradiology. 4:00-5:30 p.m. Session V:  Concurrent C Outcomes Oral Abstracts II:  Health Services Research Presentations Moderators: Brett M. Kissela, Cincinnati, Ohio Dawn Bravata, West Haven, Connecticut  85 The Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Stroke Care Delivery: An Analysis of Data from the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network Crystal Chan, Geoffrey M Anderson, Univ of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Jiming Fang, Inst for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; David A Alter, Univ of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Susan E Bronskill, Inst for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; Michael D Hill, Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Douglas G Manuel, Inst for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; Jack V Tu, Moira K Kapral, Univ of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Investigators of the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network  86 Hospital Characteristics and the Quality of Acute Stroke Care: Findings from the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Prototype Registry Mathew J Reeves, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI; Charles J Moomaw, Rosie Miller, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Gengxin Li, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI; Joseph P Broderick, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Michael Frankel, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA; Lee Schwamm, Massachusetts General Hosp, Boston, MA; Kenneth A LaBresh, MassPro, Waltham, MA; Paul Coverdell Prototype Registries Writing Group 87 Frequency and Predictors of Readmission in the First Year After Stroke Irene L Katzan, MetroHealth Med Ctr, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; Patrick K Murray, Charles Thomas, MetroHealth Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH 88 Racial Differences in Risk Factor Management in the Warfarin vs Aspirin for Symptomatic Intracranial Disease Trial Salina Waddy, George Cotsonis, Michael Lynn, Michael Frankel, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA; Seemant Chaturvedi, Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI; Marc Chimowitz, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA; for the WASID investigators 89 Race, Surgeon Specialty, and Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy After the RCTs  Ethan A Halm, Stanley Tuhrim, Jason Wang, Mary Rojas, Edward L Hannan, Mark R Chassin, Mt Sinai Med Ctr, New York, NY  90 Case Management of Poststroke Depression: The Results of the AIM Trial Linda S Williams, Roudebush VA Med Ctr, Indianapolis, IN; Tamilyn Bakas, Indiana Univ, Indianapolis, IN; Laura Plue, Roudebush VA Med Ctr, Indianapolis, IN; Ed Brizendine, Wanzhu Tu, Hugh Hendrie, Kurt Kroenke, Indiana Univ, Indianapolis, IN  91 How Reliable Is the NIH Stroke Scale? An Analysis of Video Ratings  S Andrew Josephson, Nancy K Hills, S Claiborne Johnston, Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Discussion 4:00-5:30 p.m. Session V:  Concurrent D Hemorrhage Oral Abstract Presentations Moderators: Joseph Clark, Cincinnati, Ohio John H. Wong, Calgary, AB, Canada  92 TNFα-238G>A Promoter Polymorphism Is Associated with Increased Risk of New Hemorrhage in the Natural Course of Patients with Brain Arteriovenous Malformations Achal S Achrol, Ludmila Pawlikowska, Charles E McCulloch, K Y Trudy Poon, Connie Ha, Jonathan G Zaroff, S Claiborne Johnston, Chanhung Lee, Michael T Lawton, Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Stephen X Sidney, Kaiser-Permanente Med Care Program, Oakland, CA; Douglas A Marchuk, Duke Univ Med Ctr, Durham, NC; Pui-Yan Kwok, William L Young, Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; for the UCSF BAVM Study Project 93 Incidence of Recurrent Subarachnoid Hemorrhage After Clipping for Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms  Marieke J Wermer, Paut Greebe, Ale Algra, Gabriel J Rinkel, Univ Med Ctr Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 94 Aneurysmal Hemorrhage After the Procedure to Treat an Unruptured Aneurysm David Wiebers, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; James Torner, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Robert Brown, Irene Meissner, David Piepgras, John Huston, David Kallmes, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ISUIA Investigators (International Study of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms) 95 Prediction of Symptomatic Vasospasm After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Modified Fisher Scale Jennifer A Frontera, Jan Claassen, Michael Schmidt, Katja E Wartenberg, Richard E Temes, E Sander Connolly, Columbia Univ, New York, NY; Robert L Macdonald, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Stephan A Mayer, Columbia Univ, New York, NY  96 Biological Effects of Acute Pravastatin Therapy on Cerebral Vasospasm, Delayed Ischemic Deficits, and Outcome in Patients Following Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Randomized Controlled Trial Ming-Yuan Tseng, Marek Czosnyka, Hugh Richards, John Douglas Pickard, Peter John Kirkpatrick, Neurosurgery, Cambridge, United Kingdom  97 A Shortened Baseline NIH Stroke Scale Predicts 3-Month Outcome After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Enrique C Leira, Patricia H Davis, Coleman O Martin, Bongin Yoo, James Torner, Julie Weeks, Bradley Hindman, Michael Todd, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and the IHAST Investigators 98 Elevated BNP Levels Predict Cerebral Vasospasm and Death in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Pam Rajendran, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA; Nerissa Ko, Alan Wu, Sirisha Yarlagadda, Alexander Kopelnik, William Young, Jonathan Zaroff, UCSF, San Francisco, CA Discussion 5:30-7:30 p.m. Poster Session II/Reception