Closure of medical schools or the barring of “live patient” contact during an epidemic or
pandemic is potentially disruptive to medical education. During the SARS epidemic, the use of …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Intracranial collaterals influence the prognosis of patients
treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator in acute anterior circulation ischemic …

… Drafting of the manuscript: Yeo, Teoh, Seet, Ahmad, and Wakerley. Critical revision of the
manuscript for important intellectual content: Paliwal, Seet, Chan, Liang, Venketasubramanian, …

Background Intravenously administered tissue plasminogen activator (IV tPA) remains the
only approved therapeutic agent for arterial recanalization in acute ischemic stroke (AIS). …

Genetic changes due to dietary intervention in the form of either calorie restriction (CR) or
intermittent fasting (IF) are not reported in detail until now. However, it is well established that …

Background Internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusions are poorly responsive to intravenous
thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (IV-tPA) in acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Most …

BACKGROUND: Intracranial stenoses carry increased risk for cerebral ischemia. We perform
external carotid-internal carotid (EC-IC) artery bypass in our patients with severe stenosis …

Sir, Tarsal tunnel syndrome is a rare compression neuropathy of the posterior tibial nerve as
it travels through the fibro-osseous tunnel at the level of medial ankle.[1] Nerve conduction …

“A picture paints a thousand words”, goes the cliché. Indeed, pictures, in the form of photographs,
charts and diagrams are de rigeur in our daily lives. Newspapers and magazines boast …

Purpose Writer's cramp describes a task-specific dystonia, in which the act of writing initiates
dystonic posturing of the hands. Previous studies have described the efficacy of injections …