摘要
IntroductIon Advances in acute stroke treatment and the widespread establishment of dedicated stroke units have resulted in an increase in post-stroke survival and life expectancy.However,stroke remains a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide,making the improve-ment of poststroke outcomes a chief health-care goal for many countries.The current strategies strive to reduce the initial injury by acutely implementing thrombolytic and/or endovascular interventions,to better under-stand the major determinants that influence the stroke recovery and to search for inno-vative,effective and accessible recovery and rehabilitation modalities that can mitigate various poststroke deficits and enhance the quality of life.
基金
We thank Dr Pratik Chhatbar for his assistance on generating the figure 1,and Drs James Sawers and Alexandra Parashos for their generous comments and edits on the manuscript.Dr WF acknowledges his grant supports from National Institute of Health(P20GM109040)
American Heart Association(14SDG1829003).
