Authors and Disclosures
Shima Shahjouei, MD, MPH, Georgios Tsivgoulis, MD, PhD, MSc, Ghasem Farahmand, MD, Eric Koza, MD Candidate, Ashkan Mowla, MD, Alireza Vafaei Sadr, PhD, Arash Kia, MD, Alaleh Vaghefi Far, MD, Stefania Mondello, MD, PhD, MPH, Achille Cernigliaro, PhD, MPH, Annemarei Ranta, MD, PhD, Martin Punter, PhD, MBChB, Faezeh Khodadadi, PharmD, Soheil Naderi, MD, Mirna Sabra, PhD, Mahtab Ramezani, MD, Ali Amini Harandi, MD, Oluwaseyi Olulana, MS, Durgesh Chaudhary, MBBS, Aicha Lyoubi, MD, Bruce C.V. Campbell, MD, Juan F. Arenillas, MD, Daniel Bock, MD, Joan Montaner, MD, Saeideh Aghayari Sheikh Neshin, MD, Diana Aguiar de Sousa, MD, PhD, Matthew S. Tenser, MD, Ana Aires, MD, Mercedes de Lera Alfonso, MD, Orkhan Alizada, MD, Elsa Azevedo, MD, PhD, Nitin Goyal, MD, Zabihollah Babaeepour, MD, Gelareh Banihashemi, MD, Leo H. Bonati, MD, Carlo W. Cereda, MD, Jason J. Chang, MD, Miljenko Crnjakovic, MD, Gian Marco De Marchis, MD, Massimo Del Sette, MD, Seyed Amir Ebrahimzadeh, MD, MPH, Mehdi Farhoudi, MD, Ilaria Gandoglia, MD, Bruno Gonçalves, MD, Christoph J. Griessenauer, MD, Mehmet Murat Hancı, MD, Aristeidis H. Katsanos, MD, Christos Krogias, MD, Ronen R. Leker, MD, Lev Lotman, MD, Jeffrey Mai, MD, Shailesh Male, MD, Konark Malhotra, MD, Branko Malojcic, MD, PhD, Teresa Mesquita, MD, Asadollah Mir Ghasemi, MD, Hany Mohamed Aref, MD, Zeinab Mohseni Afshar, MD, Jusun Moon, MD, Mika Niemelä, MD, PhD, Behnam Rezai Jahromi, MD, Lawrence Nolan, DO, Abhi Pandhi, MD, Jong-Ho Park, MD, João Pedro Marto, MD, Francisco Purroy, MD, PhD, Sakineh Ranji-Burachaloo, MD, Nuno Reis Carreira, MD, Manuel Requena, MD, Marta Rubiera, MD, Seyed Aidin Sajedi, MD, João Sargento-Freitas, MD, Vijay K. Sharma, MD, Thorsten Steiner, MD, Kristi Tempro, MD, Guillaume Turc, MD, PhD, Yasaman Ahmadzadeh, MD, Mostafa Almasi-Dooghaee, MD, Farhad Assarzadegan, MD, Arefeh Babazadeh, MD, MPH, Humain Baharvahdat, MD, Fabricio Buchadid Cardoso, MD, MPH, Apoorva Dev, PhD, Mohammad Ghorbani, MD, Ava Hamidi, MD, Zeynab Sadat Hasheminejad, MD, Sahar Hojjat-Anasri Komachali, MD, Fariborz Khorvash, MD, Firas Kobeissy, PhD, Hamidreza Mirkarimi, MD, Elahe Mohammadi-Vosough, MD, Debdipto Misra, MS, Ali Reza Noorian, MD, Peyman Nowrouzi-Sohrabi, PhD, Sepideh Paybast, MD, Leila Poorsaadat, MD, Mehrdad Roozbeh, MD, Behnam Sabayan, MD, PhD, Saeideh Salehizadeh, MD, Alia Saberi, MD, Mercedeh Sepehrnia, MD, Fahimeh Vahabizad, MD, Thomas Alexandre Yasuda, MD, Mojdeh Ghabaee, MD, Nasrin Rahimian, MD, MPH, Mohammad Hossein Harirchian, MD, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, MD, Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhooh, MD, Rohan Arora, MD, Saeed Ansari, MD, Venkatesh Avula, MS, Jiang Li, MD, MPH, Vida Abedi, PhD and Ramin Zand, MD, MPH
Neurology Department, Neuroscience Institute, Geisinger Health System, PA (S. Shahjouei, A. Mowla, D.C., C.J.G., R.Z.). Second Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Greece (G. Tsivgoulis, A.H.K.). Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Neuroscience Institute (G.F., S.R.-B., M. Ghabaee, M.H.H.), Neurology Department (G.F., A.V.F., M. Ghabaee), Department of Neurosurgery (S.N.), Imam Khomeini Hospital, and Neurology Department, Sina Hospital (G.B., F.V.), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton, PA (E.K., O.O.). Division of Stroke and Endovascular Neurosurgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, CA (A. Mowla, M.S.T.). Department de Physique Theorique and Center for Astroparticle Physics, University Geneva, Switzerland (A.V.S.). Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Institute for Healthcare Delivery Science, New York City, NY (A.K.). Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Italy (S. Mondello). Regional Health Authority of Sicily, Palermo, Italy (A.C.). Department of Neurology, Wellington Hospital, New Zealand and Department of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand (A.R., M.P.). PES University, Bangaluru, Karnataka, India (F. Khodadadi, A.D.). Neurosciences Research Center, Lebanese University/Medical School, Beirut, Lebanon (M. Sabra, F. Kobeissy). Neurology Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (M. Ramezani, A.A.H.). Neurology Department, Delafontaine Hospital, Saint-Denis, France (A.L.). Department of Medicine and Neurology, Melbourne Brain Centre at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia (B.C.V.C.). Department of Neurology, University of Valladolid, Spain (J.F.A., M.D.L.A.). Department of Cardiology, Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst, Germany (D.B.). Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain (J. Montaner). Neurology Department, Poursina Hospital, Rasht, Guilan, Iran (S.A.S.N., A.S.). Department of Neurology (D.A.d.S.) and Department of Internal Medicine (N.E.C.), Hospital de Santa Maria, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Department of Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, University of Lisbon, Portugal (D.A.d.S.). Department of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal (A.A., E.A.). Department of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal (A.A., E.A.). Neurosurgery Department, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Turkey (O.A., M.M.H.). Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee (N.G., A.P., S.A.). Neurology Ward, Valiasr Hospital, Borujen, Iran (Z.B.). Department of Neurology and Stroke Unit, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland (L.H.B.). Stroke Center, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Lugano (C.W.C.). Department of Critical Care Medicine, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC (J.J.C.). Intensive Care Unit, Department of Neurology, Clinical Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia (M.C.). Neurorehabilitation Unit, University Center for Medicine of Aging and Rehabilitation Basel, Felix Platter Hospital, University of Basel, Switzerland (G.D.M.). Neurology Unit, Galliera Hospital, Genova, Italy (M.D.S., I.G.). Department of Radiology, Yasrebi Hospital, Kashan, Iran (S.A.E.). Neurosciences Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran (M.F.). Department of Neurology, GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Université de Paris, INSERM U1266, France (B.G., G. Turc). Division of Neurology, McMaster University/Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada (A.H.K.). Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (C.K.). Department of Neurology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel (R.R.L.). Department of Neurology, Albany Medical Center, NY (L.L., L.N., K.T.). Department of Neurosurgery, Georgetown University and MedStar Washington Hospital Center, DC (J. Mai). Department of Neurosurgery, Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC (S. Male). Department of Neurology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA (K.M.). Department of Neurology, TIA Clinic, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia (B.M.). Department of Neurology, Hospital de Egas Moniz, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal (T.M., J.P.M.). Department of Anesthesiology, University of Ottawa, Canada (A.M.G.). Department of Neurology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (H.M.A.). Infection Disease Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Iran (Z.M.A.). Department of Neurology, National Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea (J. Moon). Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland (M.N., B.R.J.). Department of Neurology, Myongji Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, South Korea (J.-H.P.). Department of Neurology, Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida, Universitat de Lleida, Spain (F.P., N.R.C.) Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron Barcelona, Spain (M. Requena, M. Rubiera). Department de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (M. Requena, M. Rubiera). Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran (S.A.S.). Department of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (J.S.-F.). Division of Neurology, University Medicine Cluster, National University Health System, Singapore (V.K.S.). Department of Neurology, Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst, Germany (T.S.). Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany (T.S.). Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, NY (Y.A.). Divisions of Vascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery (M.A.-D., M. Ghorbani) and Neurology (M.A.-D.), Firoozgar Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran. Divisions of Vascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery (M.A.-D.) and Neurology (M.A.-D.), Rasoul-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran. Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Iran (A.B.). Neurosurgical Department, Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran (H.B.). Neurology Department, Centro Médico de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil (F.B.C., T.A.Y.). Neurology Ward, Gheshm Hospital, Iran (A.H.). Department of Neurology, Imam Hosein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti Medical University, Tehran, Iran (Z.S.H., M. Sepehrnia). Department of Neurology, Pirooz Hospital, Gilan University of Medical Sciences, Lahijan, Iran (S.H.-A.K.). Neurology Department, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran (F. Khorvash). Program of Neurotrauma, Neuroproteomics and Biomarker Research, University of Florida (F. Kobeissy). Neurology Department, Modarres Hospital, Kashmar, Iran (H.M., E.M.-V.). Steele Institute of Health and Innovation, Geisinger Health System, PA (D.M.). Department of Neurology, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Irvine, CA (A.R.N.). Student Research Committee (P.N.-S.) and Clinical Neurology Research Center (A.B.-H.), Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Department of Neurology, Bou Ali Hospital, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Iran (S.P.). Department of Neurology, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Iran (L.P.). Brain Mapping Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (M. Roozbeh). Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (B.S.). Neurology Department, Salahadin Ayubi Hospital, Baneh, Iran (S. Salehizadeh). Department of Neurology, Yasrebi Hospital, Kashan, Iran (N.R.). Neurology Department, Western University, Canada (M.R.A.). Department of Neurology, Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, Queens, NY (R.A.). Department of Molecular and Functional Genomics, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA (V. Avula, V. Abedi, J.L.). Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (J.L., V. Abedi).
Correspondence to
Ramin Zand, MD, MPH, Geisinger Neuroscience Institute, 100 N Academy Ave, Danville, PA 17822. Email rzand@geisinger.edu; ramin.zand@gmail.com
Disclosures
The coauthors report the following supports outside the current study: Dr Punter reports personal fees from Alexion Pharmaceuticals. Dr Arenillas reports personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, Bayer, Amgen, Daiichi-Sankyo, and Medtronic. Dr Aguiar de Sousa reports nonfinancial support from Boehringer Ingelheim. Dr Bonati reports grants from Swiss National Science Foundation, Swiss Heart Foundation, Stiftung zur Förderung der gastroenterologischen und allgemeinen klinischen Forschung sowie der medizinischen Bildauswertung, and AstraZeneca and personal fees from Claret Medical and InnovHeart. Dr Cereda reports other supports from iSchemaView and Bayer. Dr De Marchis reports other supports from Bayer and Pfizer. Dr Gonçalves reports grants from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brasil. Dr Leker reports other supports from BI, Abbott, and iSchemaView. The other authors report no conflicts.