Nawaf Yassi

Utility of Severity-Based Prehospital Triage for Endovascular Thrombectomy ACT-FAST Validation Study

Henry Zhao, Karen Smith, Stephen Bernard, Michael Stephenson, Henry Ma, Ronil Chandra, Thanh Phan, Christopher F Bladin, Leonid Churilov, Douglas Crompton, Helen M Dewey, Tissa Wijeratne, Geoffrey Cloud, Vincent Thijs, Timothy J Kleinig, Jo Lyn Ng, Cameron Williams, Fana Alemseged, Felix Ng, Peter J Mitchell, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  Stroke

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Severity-based assessment tools may assist in prehospital triage of patients to comprehensive stroke cente..

Stroke Care Trends During COVID-19 Pandemic in Zanjan Province, Iran. From the CASCADE Initiative: Statistical Analysis Plan and Preliminary Results

Abdoreza Ghoreishi, Shahram Arsang-Jang, Ziad Sabaa-Ayoun, Nawaf Yassi, PN Sylaja, Yama Akbari, Afshin A Divani, Jose Biller, Phan Thanh, Sandy Steinwender, Brian Silver, Ramin Zand, Hamidon Bin Basri, Omer M Iqbal, Annemarei Ranta, Sean Ruland, Elizabeth Macri, Henry Ma, Thanh N Nguyen, Shahram Abootalebi, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

BACKGROUND: The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted global healthcare systems and this may affect stroke..

Tranexamic acid in patients with intracerebral haemorrhage (STOP-AUST): a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial

Atte Meretoja, Nawaf Yassi, Teddy Y Wu, Leonid Churilov, Gerli Sibolt, Jiann-Shing Jeng, Timothy Kleinig, Neil J Spratt, Vincent Thijs, Tissa Wijeratne, Der-Yang Cho, Darshan Shah, Geoffrey C Cloud, Phan Thanh, Christopher Bladin, Andrew Moey, Richard I Aviv, Christen D Barras, Gagan Sharma, Chung Y Hsu, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Lancet Neurology

BACKGROUND: Despite intracerebral haemorrhage causing 5% of deaths worldwide, few evidence-based therapeutic strategies other than..

Cost-Effectiveness of Tenecteplase Before Thrombectomy for Ischemic Stroke

Lan Gao, Marj Moodie, Peter J Mitchell, Leonid Churilov, Timothy J Kleinig, Nawaf Yassi, Bernard Yan, Mark W Parsons, Geoffrey A Donnan, Stephen M Davis, Bruce CV Campbell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Stroke

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Tenecteplase improved functional outcomes and reduced the requirement for endovascular thrombectomy in isc..

Intravenous alteplase for stroke with unknown time of onset guided by advanced imaging: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

Goetz Thomalla, Florent Boutitie, Henry Ma, Masatoshi Koga, Peter Ringleb, Lee H Schwamm, Ona Wu, Martin Bendszus, Christopher F Bladin, Bruce CV Campbell, Bastian Cheng, Leonid Churilov, Martin Ebinger, Matthias Endres, Jochen B Fiebach, Mayumi Fukuda-Doi, Manabu Inoue, Timothy J Kleinig, Lawrence L Latour, Robin Lemmens, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Lancet

BACKGROUND: Patients who have had a stroke with unknown time of onset have been previously excluded from thrombolysis. We aimed to..

Association of Reperfusion After Thrombolysis With Clinical Outcome Across the 4.5-to 9-Hours and Wake-Up Stroke Time Window A Meta-Analysis of the EXTEND and EPITHET Randomized Clinical Trials

Bruce CV Campbell, Henry Ma, Mark W Parsons, Leonid Churilov, Nawaf Yassi, Timothy J Kleinig, Chung Y Hsu, Helen M Dewey, Kenneth S Butcher, Bernard Yan, Patricia M Desmond, Tissa Wijeratne, Sami Curtze, P Alan Barber, Deidre A De Silva, Vincent Thijs, Christopher R Levi, Christopher F Bladin, Gagan Sharma, Andrew Bivard, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  JAMA Neurology

Importance: Intravenous alteplase reduces disability after ischemic stroke in patients 4.5 to 9 hours after onset and with wake-up..

Prevalence and clinical associations of tau in Lewy body dementias: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Kai Sin Chin, Nawaf Yassi, Leonid Churilov, Colin Louis Masters, Rosie Watson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Parkinsonism & Related Disorders

INTRODUCTION: Alzheimer's disease neuropathologies (amyloid-β and tau) frequently co-exist to varying degrees in Lewy body dementi..

Correlations between COVID-19 and burden of dementia: An ecological study and review of literature.

M Reza Azarpazhooh, Amin Amiri, Negar Morovatdar, Sandy Steinwender, Amir Rezaei Ardani, Nawaf Yassi, Jose Biller, Saverio Stranges, Masoud Tokazebani Belasi, Sepideh Kazemi Neya, Bita Khorram, Mohammad Sobhan Sheikh Andalibi, Shahram Arsang-Jang, Naghmeh Mokhber, Mario Di Napoli

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of the Neurological Sciences

INTRODUCTION: Current evidence on the association between COVID-19 and dementia is sparse. This study aims to investigate the asso..

Call to Action: SARS-CoV-2 and CerebrovAscular DisordErs (CASCADE)

Shahram Abootalebi, Benjamin M Aertker, Mohammad Sobhan Andalibi, Negar Asdaghi, Ozlem Aykac, M Reza Azarpazhooh, M Cecilia Bahit, Kristian Barlinn, Hamidon Basri, Reza Bavarsad Shahripour, Anna Bersano, Jose Biller, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Robert D Brown, Bruce C Campbell, Salvador Cruz-Flores, Deidre Anne De Silva, Mario Di Napoli, Afshin A Divani, Randall C Edgell, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2), now named coronavirus disease 2019..

COVID-19 Pandemic and Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases: An Ecological Study on Data of 185 Countries

M Reza Azarpazhooh, Negar Morovatdar, Abolfazl Avan, Thanh G Phan, Afshin A Divani, Nawaf Yassi, Saverio Stranges, Brian Silver, Jose Biller, Masoud Tokazebani Belasi, Sepideh Kazemi Neya, Bita Khorram, Asher Frydman, Yongchai Nilanont, Elisa Onorati, Mario Di Napoli

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

BACKGROUND: The interaction between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and non-communicable diseases may increase the global burd..