Katharina Platzbecker, MD
San Francisco—Predicting ischemic stroke after surgery may have gotten easier, thanks to a team of researchers. In a recent study, their novel scoring system—the STRAS, or stroke after surgery score—accurately predicted the risk for this sometimes deadly adverse event in patients with and without a history of ischemic stroke.
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