trial was designed to compare aspirin with or without clopidogrel specifically in patients with lacunar stroke — a small subcortical infarct caused by intrinsic small-vessel disease. Patients ...

Headache is infrequent in acute lacunar infarction, but it might nevertheless have important clinical implications. Arboix et al. investigated whether the site of infarct affects the incidence of ...

Although short-term dual antiplatelet therapy may eventually prove to benefit specific populations with very high stroke risk, the SPS3 trial definitively establishes that lacunar stroke alone is ...