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    • Brunser, Alejandro M.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Cárcamo, Daniel A.; Hoppe, Arnold; Olavarría, Verónica; Díaz, Violeta; Rivas, Rodrigo (2010)
      Background: Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound can demonstrate dynamic information. We aimed to evaluate whether TCD generates useful additional information in the emergency room after a multimodal stroke imaging ...
    • Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Olavarría, Verónica V.; Hoffmeister, Lorena (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2018)
    • Wang, Xia; Arima, Hisatomi; Al-Shahi Salman, Rustam; Woodward, Mark; Heeley, Emma; Stapf, Christian; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Robinson, Thompson; Huang, Yining; Wang, Jiguang; Delcourt, Candice; Anderson, Craig S. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2015)
      Background and Purpose—We developed and validated a simple algorithm to predict the risk of hematoma growth in acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) to better inform clinicians and researchers in their efforts ...
    • Bennett, Derrick A.; Brayne, Carol; Feigin, Valery L.; Barker Collo, Suzanne; Brainin, Michael; Davis, Daniel; Gallo, Valentina; Jette, Nathalie; Karch, Andre; Kurtzke, John F.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Nagel, Gabriele; Preux, Pierre-Marie; Rothwell, Peter M.; Svenson, Lawrence W. (Lippicott Williams & Wilkins, 2015)
      Background: Incidence and prevalence studies of neurologic disorders play an important role in assessing the burden of disease and planning services. However, the assessment of disease estimates is hindered by problems in ...
    • Bennett, Derrick A.; Brayne, Carol; Feigin, Valery L.; Barker Collo, Suzanne; Brainin, Michael; Davis, Daniel; Gallo, Valentina; Jetté, Nathalie; Karch, André; Kurtzke, John F.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Nagel, Gabriele; Preux, Pierre-Marie; Rothwell, Peter M.; Svenson, Lawrence W. (Springer, 2015)
      Incidence and prevalence studies of neurological disorders play an important role in assessing the burden of disease and planning services. However, the assessment of disease estimates is hindered by problems in reporting ...
    • Olavarría, Verónica V.; Bustamante, Gonzalo; López, Mirta Javiera; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel (W.B. Saunders, 2014)
      © 2014 National Stroke Association.Background Patients with intracerebral hemorrhage may have vascular abnormalities. There is no consensus about which patients should be studied with angiographic methods. Our aim was to ...
    • Ouyang, Menglu; Boaden, Elizabeth; Arima, Hisatomi; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Billot, Laurent; Hackett, Maree L.; Olavarría, Verónica V.; Muñoz Venturelli, Paula; Song, Lili; Rogers, Kris; Middleton, Sandy; Pontes Neto, Octavio M.; Lee, Tsong Hai; Watkins, Caroline; Robinson, Thompson; Anderson, Craig S. (SAGE, 2019)
      Background: Dysphagia is associated with aspiration pneumonia after stroke. Data are limited on the influences of dysphagia screen and assessment in clinical practice. Aims: To determine associations between a “brief” ...
    • Leijenaar, Jolien F.; Dorhout Mees, Sanne M.; Algra, Ale; van den Bergh, Walter M.; Rinkel, Gabriel J.E.; Dorhout Mees, S. M.; van den Bergh, W. M.; Rinkel, G. J.E.; Algra, A.; van Buuren, M.; Al-Shahi Salman, R.; Boiten, J.; van Kooten, F.; Kuijsten, H.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2015)
      © 2015 World Stroke Organization. Background: Magnesium treatment did not improve outcome in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage in the Magnesium in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage II trial. We hypothesized ...
    • Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Tenhamm, E. (1997)
      Objective. To describe the importance of migraine in Santiago, Chile, by analyzing its prevalence, clinical features and impact by age, gender and socioeconomic status. Methods. In 1993, a representative sample of 1,540 ...
    • Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Tenhamm, E. (1998)
      Objective: To describe the importance of tension-type headache (TTH) in Santiago, Chile, by analyzing its prevalence, clinical features, and impact by age, gender, and socioeconomic status, using widely accepted international ...
    • Bennett, Derrick A.; Brayne, Carol; Feigin, Valery L.; Barker Collo, Suzanne; Brainin, Michael; Davis, Daniel; Gallo, Valentina; Jetté, Nathalie; Karch, André; Kurtzke, John F.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Nagel, Gabriele; Preux, Pierre-Marie; Rothwell, Peter M.; Svenson, Lawrence W. (Karger, 2015)
      Background: Incidence and prevalence studies of neurological disorders play an extremely important role in hypothesis- generation, assessing the burden of disease and planning of health services. However, the assessment ...
    • Olavarría, Verónica V.; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Munoz Venturelli, Paula; González, Francisca; Gaete, Javier; Martins, Sheila; Arima, Hisatomi; Anderson, Craig S.; Brunser, Alejandro M. (Sage, 2018)
      Background: Whether lying-flat improves blood flow in patients with acute ischemic stroke is unknown. Our aim was to investigate if lying-flat ‘‘changes’’ cerebral blood flow velocities assessed by transcranial Doppler ...
    • Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Salinas, Rodrigo; Maturana, Roberto (2007)
    • Brunser, Alejandro M.; Muñoz Venturelli, Paula; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Gaete, Javier; Martins, Sheila; Arima, Hisatomi; Anderson, Craig S.; Olavarría, Verónica V. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      Rationale: Few proven interventions exist for acute ischemic stroke (AIS), and most are expensive and restricted in applicability. Lying flat ‘head down’ positioning of AIS patients has been shown to increase by as much ...
    • Muñoz Venturelli, Paula; Arima, Hisatomi; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Brunser, Alejandro; Peng, Bin; Cui, Liying; Song, Lily; Billot, Laurent; Boaden, Elizabeth; Hackett, Maree L.; Heritier, Stephane; Jan, Stephen; Middleton, Sandy; Olavarría, Verónica V.; Lim, Joyce Y.; Lindley, Richard I.; Heeley, Emma; Robinson, Thompson; Pontes Neto, Octavio; Natsagdorj, Lkhamtsoo; Lin, Ruey-Tay; Watkins, Caroline; Anderson, Craig S. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Positioning a patient lying-flat in the acute phase of ischaemic stroke may improve recovery and reduce disability, but such a possibility has not been formally tested in a randomised trial. We therefore initiated ...
    • Muñoz Venturelli, Paula; Olavarría, Verónica; González, Francisca; Brunser, Alejandro; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Arima, Hisatomi; Anderson, Craig S. (National Stroke Association, 2015)
      Background: Evidence to recommend a specific head position for patients in the early phase of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is scarce. The aim of this study was to assess current head position practice for AIS patients among ...
    • Amarenco, Pierre; Abboud, Halim; Labreuche, Julien; Arauz, Antonio; Bryer, Alan; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Massaro, Ayrton; Muñoz Collazos, Mario; Steg, Philippe Gabriel; Yamout, Bassem I.; Vicaut, Eric (Blackwell, 2014)
      Objective We aimed to stratify the risk of vascular event recurrence in patients with cerebral infarction according to living and socioeconomic characteristics and geographic region. Method The Outcomes in Patients with ...
    • González Mc, Francisca; Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Olavarría I, Verónica (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)
      © 2017 Rev Med Chile. All right reserved. Background: Sequelae after a stroke are common and may lead to disability. Aphasia-defined as an acquired language disturbance-can cause important limitations in quality of life. ...
    • Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Sacks, Claudio; Prina, Liliana; Escobar, Arturo; Tossi, Claudia; Araya, Fernando; Feuerhake, Walter; Gálvez, Marcelo; Salinas, Rodrigo; Lucero Álvarez, Gonzalo Rodolfo (S. Karger AG, 2010)
      Background: The incidence of intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) in Hispanics is high, especially of non-lobar ICH. Our aim was to ascertain prospectively the incidence of first-ever spontaneous ICH (SICH) stratified by ...
    • Lavados Germain, Pablo Manuel; Sacks, Claudio; Prina, Liliana; Escobar, Arturo; Tossi, Claudia; Araya, Fernando; Feuerhake Molina, Walter; Gálvez Moya, Marcelo; Salinas, Rodrigo; Alvarez, Gonzalo (Karger, 2010)
      Background: The incidence of intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) in Hispanics is high, especially of non-lobar ICH. Our aim was to ascertain prospectively the incidence of first-ever spontaneous ICH (SICH) stratified by ...