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Friday, Feb. 20

Acute Management
The Results of NEST-2: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Phase III Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Transcranial Laser Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke within 24 Hours of Stroke Onset
Justin Zivin, San Diego VA Medical Center, San Diego, Calif.
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Basic and Translational Neuroscience of Stroke Recovery
Facilitating Stroke Recovery Using Simultaneous Occupational Therapy And Bi-hemispheric Brain-stimulation
Gottfried Schlaug, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
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Transplanted Human Neural Progenitor Cells Enhance Endogenous Dendritic Plasticity And Axonal Sprouting After Stroke In Rat
Nobutaka Horie, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
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Treatment with Human Endothelial Progenitor Cells Promotes Angiogenesis and Neurogenesis in the Cerebral Ischemia Region in Mice
Hua Su, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif.
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Ischemic Stroke Intervention
Intranuclear Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity In Neurons Cleaves PARP-1 And XRCC1 And Interferes With DNA Repair In Focal Ischemia
Yi Yang, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.
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Thursday, Feb. 19

Aneurysm
Greater Rupture Risk For Familial as Compared to Sporadic Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
Joseph Broderick, University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Intracranial Endovascular Reconstruction Of Cerebral Aneurysms With A New Stent Pipeline: Initial Experience And Mid Term Follow Up
Pedro Lylyk, ENERI, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Risk Factors For Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - A Population Based Cohort Study (the Hunt Study)
Marie S. Sandvei, INM, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
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Basic and Translational Neuroscience of Stroke Recovery
A Long-term Follow-up Study Of Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation In Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke
Jin Soo Lee, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea
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In Vivo 2-photon Microscopy Reveals G-CSF Enhanced Mobilization and Targeting of Neo-Endogenous Bone Marrow Stromal Cells to Stroke Injury Sites
William D. Hill, Charlie Norwood VAMC, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga.
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Sex Difference of Stroke Size and Cognitive Function in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Mice
Akiko Sakata, Ehime University, Toon, Japan
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Ischemic Stroke Intervention
Predictors of Clinical Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Undergoing Thrombectomy: Pooled Analysis of the MERCI and Multi MERCI Trials
Raul G. Nogueira, Massachusetts General Hosp, Boston, Mass.
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Preventive Strategies
Black and Green Tea Consumption Associated with Reduced Risk of Ischemic Stroke Worldwide
Lenore Arab, UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Homocysteine Lowering Therapy And Stroke Risk, Severity And Disability: Results From The HOPE-2 Trial
Gustavo Saposnik, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Vascular Cognitive Impairment
Arteriolar Amyloid Angiopathy Is Associated With Increased Downstream Capillary Length-density In Normal And Alzheimer's Disease Hippocampus
Gregory A. Jicha, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
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Wednesday, Feb. 18

Acute Management
DEFUSE Permeability: Blood-Brain Barrier Derangements at Baseline Predict Hemorrhagic Transformation with Intravenous Thrombolysis at 3-6 Hours after Onset
David S. Liebeskind, UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif.
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The Glucose Regulation in Acute Stroke Patients (GRASP) Trial Outcome Results
Karen C. Johnston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
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Basic and Translational Neuroscience of Stroke Recovery
Axonal Remodeling Of The Corticospinal Tract In The Denervated Side Of Spinal Cord Is Associated With Motor Recovery Following Ischemic Stroke In Adult Mice
Zhongwu Liu, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Mich.
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ePoster

Biochemical Plastic Changes In Primary Motor Cortex In Subcortical Stroke
William M. Brooks, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center, Kansas City, Kan.
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ePoster

Carotid Revascularization
Stent-protected Percutaneous Angioplasty Vs. Endarterectomy Of Symptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis
Two Year Results Of The Space Study With Respect To Subgroup Analyses
Peter A. Ringleb, Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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Community/Risk Factors
Sequence Variants on Chromosome 9p21 Confer Risk of Large Vessel Stroke
Martin Dichgans, Department of Neurology, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Munich, Germany
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Emergency Medicine
Enrollment Yield and Reasons for Screen Failure When Hyperacute Patients Are Enrolled in the Field in an Acute Stroke Treatment Trial
Nerses Sanossian, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Hemorrhage – Intraparenchymal
Rapid Reversal of Anticoagulation Using Prothrombin Complex Concentrate Reduces Hemorrhage Volume in a Mouse Model of Warfarin-associated Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Christian Foerch, Neuroprotection Research Lab, MGH, Charlestown, Mass.
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Pediatric Stroke
Endothelial Injury And Repair In Childhood Cerebral Arteriopathy
Despina Eleftheriou, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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Predictors of Cerebral Arteriopathy in Children with Arterial Ischemic Stroke:
Results of the International Pediatric Stroke Study
Catherine Amlie-Lefond, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
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