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🇸🇬Neurologist @NUHSofficial | Adj Asst Prof @NUSMedicine | Visiting Fellow @CGM_MGH @BroadInstitute | #YoungStroke #StrokeGenetics + 🧠🫀PI @StroCarCollab

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Our study in @IntJStroke shows young adults face significant stroke recurrence risks: 4.5-7.3% recurrence rate within just 1 year, increasing to 10.5-12.8% at 5 years and 14.0-20.3% beyond 10 years. @Teddyyhwu @leonardyeo1 @chinghuisia . #YoungStroke.
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RT @AshuPJadhav: Association Between Age and Endovascular Treatment Outcomes: Binational Registry of 9934 EVT Cases From Korea and Taiwan |….
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RT @radiology_rsna: Intracranial stenting for patients with symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis w/o branch atheromatous disea….
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RT @SposatoL: 🧠 IV Thrombolysis in CADASIL: Safe & Effective?. Two retrospective cohort studies below👇. 📌 STUDY 1.🏥 609 CADASIL patients (T….
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RT @SposatoL: Nice paper by @Dr_No_Charite @Jan_FriSch et al. from .@BerlinStroke @ChariteBerlin . ✅ Background. Troponin elevation is comm….
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LV thrombus an important cause of stroke. Our study led by @chinghuisia of 263 post-MI patients and LVT shows revascularization improves survival (2.3x lower mortality risk) 📈 but doesn't affect clot resolution—that's driven by optimal medical therapy 💊
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🧠Our multicentre study of 1,428 patients reveals that petechial hemorrhage occurs in 30.7% of MeVO/DMVO stroke patients after mechanical thrombectomy, and it's linked to worse outcomes. Multiple passes ↑ PetH risk by 58% 🧵1/3.Read full paper here:
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RT @StroCarCollab: Congratulations to our PIs Dr Leonard Yeo @leonardyeo1 for winning the NUH Master Clinician Award and Dr Benjamin Tan @D….
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RT @ESCStrokeChair: - 2 days🚨. 🔎Register for the latest #ESCStroke webinar!. Multimorbidity in stroke risk and management: harnessing novel….
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RT @JAMANeuro: APOE epsilon ε4 is a significant risk factor for intracranial hemorrhage in patients with atrial fibrillation on apixaban. h….
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RT @ESCStrokeChair: ⚠️ MRI-based AI model for the identification of underlying #Afib after ischemic stroke . 🔬 brain ischemic lesion patter….
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RT @JAHA_AHA: A study of >3000 patients with implanted devices in 103 cities linked extreme heat to increased odds of #AFib episodes. #AHAJ….
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RT @smj_sg: 🎉 We're excited to share that the Singapore Medical Journal has achieved a 2024 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9 (📈 up from 1.7), p….
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🧠💓Sharing our latest review on "The Heart-Brain Axis: Key Concepts in Neurocardiology" in @CardiologyDisc1 . from stroke-heart syndrome to cardiac-induced cognitive impairment. Led by @fangqin_goh @chinghuisia @leonardyeo1 @StroCarCollab . 🔗
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Humbled to receive the @NUSMedicine Teaching Excellence Award with @SgRheumer and LHC 🙏 Teaching has always been about paying forward what mentors gave me: the gift of knowledge and curiosity. Grateful for the opportunity to plant seeds that will grow into tomorrow's doctors.
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RT @IntJStroke: ✍️June Editorial.🧠Moya–Moya angiopathy, falls after stroke, post–stroke dementia, and infection as a trigger for stroke. ht….
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RT @AzmilAbdulRahim: Three of our #BrainHeart works published simultaneously in the current @ESOstroke Journal #ESJ issue! Check them out.….
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RT @ESCStrokeChair: ✨ Relive the highlights from the 7th #ESCHeartAndStroke Conference: 🎉 Don’t miss out on this y….
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RT @jsongmd: 📢Intracranial lesions have different temporal signatures on #VWI that enable vasculopathy differentiation & assess treatment r….
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RT @AshuPJadhav: Cardiac Injury Detected by Smartwatch | New England Journal of Medicine
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RT @LesterLeung: Return to work after ischemic #stroke in young adults (cohort, systematic review, and meta-analysis) .
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