Abstract
It is hard to believe that we are now entering our fourth year of publication of the International Journal of Stroke and are now established as the global journal for stroke, with an Impact Factor and Medline listing. We have evolved from a purely review-based journal to now accepting a limited number of high-quality original research contributions; this edition is no exception. Lovelock et al., explore the proportion of minor strokes due to intracerebral hemorrhage and show that they were very similar in both population- and hospital-based cohorts. This emphasizes the need to image early with CT to avoid misdiagnosis and thus inappropriate management. The second is a novel randomized-controlled trial showing that a minimally invasive craniopuncture compared with conservative treatment may improve outcomes of patients with small basal ganglionic hemorrhage. Clearly, this technique represents a considerable advance in the field and needs to be confirmed in other populations.
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