Circulating endothelial progenitor cells and the risk of vascular events after ischemic stroke.

We evaluated the hypothesis that the number of circulating EPC could be associated with the risk of stroke recurrence (SR) or vascular events (VE) after an ischemic stroke.We studied prospectively consecutive patients with cerebral infarction within the first 48 hours after the onset. We recorded de...

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Main Authors: Joan Martí-Fàbregas, Raquel Delgado-Mederos, Javier Crespo, Esther Peña, Rebeca Marín, Elena Jiménez-Xarrié, Ana Fernández-Arcos, Jesús Pérez-Pérez, Alejandro Martínez-Domeño, Pol Camps-Renom, Luís Prats-Sánchez, Francesca Casoni, Lina Badimon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4395144?pdf=render