Peter J. Kelly

Blood Pressure Management Before Intravenous Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Rethinking Treatment Thresholds

Background Elevated blood pressure (BP) is common after acute ischemic stroke (AIS), but it is unclear if it should be lowered. Lowering elevated BP may compromise the ischemic brain, while the time taken to lower BP may delay or even exclude patients from receiving intravenous t...

Computed-Tomography Angiography-Based Carotid Plaque-RADS, Recurrent Vascular Events, and the Effect of Colchicine: An Imaging Substudy of the CONVINCE Randomized Trial

BACKGROUND: The carotid Plaque Reporting and Data System (Plaque-RADS) provides a standardized framework for evaluating plaque morphology, but prospective validation remains limited. We investigated the association between computed tomography angiography-based Plaque-RADS categor...