en Clinical Neuroscience Clinical Neuroscience Original Original <p align="left" ><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><p align="left" ><p><strong><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" size="2">Introduction: </font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">Elevated levels of CRP are present among patients at risk for further </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">first-ever myocardial infarction and stroke. It has been shown that after ischemic </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">stroke, increased levels of CRP are associated with unfavorable outcomes. </font></font></font></strong><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><p align="justify"><strong>Methods: </strong></p></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">From 120 patients admitted to the emergency unit of our hospital with the diagnosis of stroke CRP, D-dimer and ferritin level was measured and the patients were followed until discharge or death. </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><p align="justify"><strong>Results: </strong></p></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">CRP level was significantly different between the patients with TIA and stroke. D-Dimer level was also significantly different between the TIA & the </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">admitted groups. Ferritin was not different between the prognosis groups. There was a correlation between CRP and D-Dimer (r = 0.381, p = 0.001), and also between CRP and ferritin (r = 0.478, p= 0.000). </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><p><strong>Discussion: </strong></p></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">CRP is a useful adjuvant marker to determine the prognosis of patients with cerebro-vascular events admitted to the hospital, in both patients </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">with stroke positive history and first-ever stroke. </font></font></font></p></font></font> Stroke,Prognosis,Acute Phase Reactant,C Reactive Protein,Transient Ischemic Attack 30 34 http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-88&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Seyed Abbas Hasani 1370031947532846001447 1370031947532846001447 Yes Seyed Ali Ziai 1370031947532846001448 1370031947532846001448 No Masoud Mehrpour 1370031947532846001449 1370031947532846001449 No Mandana Amiri 1370031947532846001450 1370031947532846001450 No Mohamad R Motamed 1370031947532846001451 1370031947532846001451 No