Lee H. Schwamm
Harvard University
695 Papers
3.7K Citations
Lee H. Schwamm is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stroke & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 101, co-authored 594 publications. Previous affiliations of Lee H. Schwamm include Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Boston University.
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Papers
Acute stroke care in the US: results from 4 pilot prototypes of the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry.
Mathew J. Reeves,Shalini Arora,Joseph P. Broderick,Michael Frankel,John P Heinrich,Susan L. Hickenbottom,Herbert R. Karp,Kenneth A. LaBresh,Ann Malarcher,George A. Mensah,Charles J Moomaw,Lee H. Schwamm,Paul S. Weiss +12 more
TL;DR: A minority of acute stroke patients are treated according to established guidelines, and compliance with secondary prevention practices was poorest for smoking cessation counseling and best for antithrombotics.
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Recommendations for the establishment of stroke systems of care: Recommendations from the American Stroke Association's Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems
Lee H. Schwamm,Arthur M. Pancioli,Joe E. Acker,Larry B. Goldstein,Richard D. Zorowitz,Timothy J. Shephard,Peter Moyer,Mark W. Gorman,S. Claiborne Johnston,Pamela W. Duncan,Phil Gorelick,Jeffery Frank,Steven K. Stranne,Renee Smith,William Federspiel,Katie Horton,Ellen Magnis,Robert J. Adams +17 more
TL;DR: The ASA convened a multidisciplinary group, the Task Force on the Development of Stroke Systems, to describe the current fragmentation of stroke care, to define the key components of a stroke system, and to recommend methods for encouraging the implementation of stroke systems.
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Hyperacute stroke: simultaneous measurement of relative cerebral blood volume, relative cerebral blood flow, and mean tissue transit time.
A. Gregory Sorensen,William A. Copen,Leif Østergaard,Ferdinando S. Buonanno,R. Gilberto Gonzalez,Guy Rordorf,Bruce R. Rosen,Lee H. Schwamm,Robert M. Weisskoff,Walter J. Koroshetz +9 more
TL;DR: MR imaging can delineate areas of altered blood flow, blood volume, and water mobility in hyperacute human stroke and Predictive models of tissue outcome may benefit by including computation of both relative cerebral blood flow and blood volume.
ABC/2 for rapid clinical estimate of infarct, perfusion, and mismatch volumes.
John R. Sims,L. Rezai Gharai,Pamela W. Schaefer,Mark Vangel,Eric Rosenthal,Michael H. Lev,Lee H. Schwamm +6 more
TL;DR: ABC/2 has a high positive predictive value for identifying mismatch greater than 20% and might be a useful tool for rapid determination of acute stroke treatment.
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Improving Door-to-Needle Times in Acute Ischemic Stroke The Design and Rationale for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Target: Stroke Initiative
Gregg C. Fonarow,Eric E. Smith,Jeffrey L. Saver,Mathew J. Reeves,Adrian F. Hernandez,Eric D. Peterson,Ralph L. Sacco,Lee H. Schwamm +7 more
TL;DR: The design and rationale of Target: Stroke, a national initiative organized by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association in partnership with other organizations to assist hospitals in increasing the proportion of tPA-treated patients who achieve guideline-recommended door-to-needle times, are described.
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