Kennedy R. Lees
University of Glasgow
467 Papers
3.9K Citations
Kennedy R. Lees is an academic researcher from University of Glasgow. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stroke & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 86, co-authored 455 publications. Previous affiliations of Kennedy R. Lees include Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich & Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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Papers
Does the cognitive measure Cog-4 show improvement among patients treated with thrombolysis after acute stroke?
TL;DR: Responsibility of Cog-4 to treatment with thrombolysis and whether it offers information that supplements modified Rankin Scale is investigated but it does not provide additional information beyond modifiedRankin Scale assessment.
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Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation after ischemic stroke: how should we hunt for it?
TL;DR: A broad review of the comparative utility and practicality of available detection methods is provided, ways to optimize outcome are discussed and current and future implications for detecting PAF in stroke patients are highlighted.
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Studies with low dose intravenous diacid ACE inhibitor (perindoprilat) infusions in normotensive male volunteers.
TL;DR: Low dose constant rate infusions are a means of optimising intravenous ACE inhibitor therapy to allow individual dose titration and showed a sigmoid drug accumulation profile with delay in the early accumulation of drug particularly during the 3 h and 6 h infusions.
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Should stroke medicine be a separate subspecialty
Philip M.W. Bath,Kennedy R. Lees,Martin Dennis,David G. Smithard,Ian Bone,Donald G. Grosset,Jonathon Macdonald,Stephen Pollock +7 more
TL;DR: Although there remains a need for domiciliary care, most patients should be admitted to hospital, and ideally to an acute stroke unit offering resuscitation and stabilisation, investigation and diagnosis, initial treatment, and prevention of complications.
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Prestroke CHA2DS2-VASc Score and Severity of Acute Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Findings from RAF Study
Monica Acciarresi,Maurizio Paciaroni,Giancarlo Agnelli,Nicola Falocci,Valeria Caso,Cecilia Becattini,Simona Marcheselli,Christina Rueckert,Alessandro Pezzini,Andrea Morotti,Paolo Costa,Alessandro Padovani,László Csiba,Lilla Szabó,Sung Il Sohn,Tiziana Tassinari,Azmil H. Abdul-Rahim,Patrik Michel,Maria Cordier,Peter Vanacker,Suzette Remillard,Andrea Alberti,Michele Venti,Cataldo D'Amore,Umberto Scoditti,Licia Denti,Giovanni Orlandi,Alberto Chiti,Gino Gialdini,Paolo Bovi,Monica Carletti,Alberto Rigatelli,Jukka Putaala,Turgut Tatlisumak,Turgut Tatlisumak,Luca Masotti,Gianni Lorenzini,Rossana Tassi,Francesca Guideri,Giuseppe Martini,Georgios Tsivgoulis,Georgios Tsivgoulis,Kostantinos Vadikolias,Chrissoula Liantinioti,Francesco Corea,Massimo Del Sette,Walter Ageno,Maria Luisa De Lodovici,Giorgio Bono,Antonio Baldi,Sebastiano D'Anna,Simona Sacco,Antonio Carolei,Cindy Tiseo,Davide Imberti,Dorjan Zabzuni,Boris Doronin,Vera Volodina,Domenico Consoli,Franco Galati,Alessio Pieroni,Danilo Toni,Serena Monaco,Mario Maimone Baronello,Kristian Barlinn,Lars-Peder Pallesen,Jessica Kepplinger,Ulf Bodechtel,Johannes Gerber,Dirk Deleu,Gayane Melikyan,Faisal Ibrahim,Naveed Akhtar,Maria Giulia Mosconi,Kennedy R. Lees +74 more
TL;DR: In patients with AF, in addition to the risk of stroke, a high CHA2DS2-VASc score was independently associated with both stroke severity at onset and disability and mortality at 90 days.