Assessment of the risk factors and functional outcome of delirium in acute stroke

Abstract Background Post stroke delirium is a multifactorial life-threatening process, still poorly understood. The aim of the study was to identify the risk factors associated with the development of delirium in acute stroke patients and detection of the effect of delirium on the short-term prognos...

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Main Authors: A. M. Zaitoun, Dorriya Abdel Fattah Elsayed, Bothina M. Ramadan, Hanan Ahmed Abdel Gaffar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-02-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41983-019-0059-x