Management of ischemic stroke in Central and Eastern Europe

Hrvoje Budincevic; Cristina Tiu; Daniel Bereczki; Janika Kõrv; Alexander Tsiskaridze; Kurt Niederkorn; Anna Czlonkowska; Vida Demarin; CEESS Working Group

doi:10.1111/ijs.12575

Management of ischemic stroke in Central and Eastern Europe

Int J Stroke. 2015 Oct:10 Suppl A100:125-7. doi: 10.1111/ijs.12575. Epub 2015 Jul 14.

Authors

Hrvoje Budincevic^{1

2}, Cristina Tiu³, Daniel Bereczki⁴, Janika Kõrv⁵, Alexander Tsiskaridze⁶, Kurt Niederkorn⁷, Anna Czlonkowska⁸, Vida Demarin⁹; CEESS Working Group

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Sveti Duh University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
² School of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia.
³ Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
⁵ Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁶ Department of Neurology, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁷ Department of Neurology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria.
⁸ 2nd Neurological Department, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland.
⁹ Medical Centre Aviva, Zagreb, Croatia.

PMID: 26179030
DOI: 10.1111/ijs.12575

Abstract

Stroke is one of the leading causes of disability in Europe. Central and Eastern European countries have the highest incidence and mortality rates through Europe. The improvements in stroke prevention and treatment in Central and Eastern European countries did not completely reach the quality parameters present in Western European countries. We present features of current management of stroke in Central and Eastern European countries.

Keywords: Central Europe; Eastern Europe; stroke epidemiology; stroke incidence; stroke units; thrombolysis.

MeSH terms

Disease Management*
Europe / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Stroke* / diagnosis
Stroke* / epidemiology
Stroke* / therapy