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Guideline for the prevention, detection, evaluation and management of high blood pressure in adults​​[212]

Published by:American Heart Association; American College of Cardiology

Last published:2025

Diagnosis and management of cerebral venous thrombosis: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association[8]

Published by:American Heart Association

Last published:2024

European Stroke Organisation (ESO) - European Society for Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT) guidelines on mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischaemic stroke[293]

Published by:European Stroke Organisation

Last published:2023

ACR appropriateness criteria: cerebrovascular disease - stroke and stroke-related conditions[136]

Published by:American College of Radiology

Last published:2023

Stroke prevention in symptomatic large artery intracranial atherosclerosis practice advisory[24]

Published by:American Academy of Neurology

Last published:2022 (reaffirmed 2025)

Acute stroke management 7th edition[290]

Published by:Heart and Stroke Foundation

Last published:2022

2021 guideline for the prevention of stroke in patients with stroke and transient ischemic attack[113]

Published by:American Heart Association; American Stroke Association

Last published:2021

Secondary prevention of stroke, 7th edition practice guidelines, update 2020[291]

Published by:Canadian Stroke Best Practices

Last published:2020

Guidelines for the early management of patients with acute ischemic stroke: 2019 update to the 2018 guidelines for the early management of patients with acute ischemic stroke[135]

Published by:American Heart Association; American Stroke Association

Last published:2019

Multisociety consensus quality improvement revised consensus statement for endovascular therapy of acute ischemic stroke[195]

Published by:American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR), Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE), Canadian Interventional Radiology Association (CIRA), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT), European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR), European Stroke Organisation (ESO), Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), and World Stroke Organization (WSO)

Last published:2018

Guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis​​​[162]

Published by:European Stroke Organisation

Last published:2017

Guidelines for the management of post-stroke seizures and epilepsy[294]

Published by:European Stroke Organisation

Last published:2017

Guidelines for adult stroke rehabilitation and recovery[271]

Published by:American Heart Association; American Stroke Association

Last published:2016

Guidelines for prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in immobile patients with acute ischaemic stroke[268]

Published by:European Stroke Organisation

Last published:2016

Guidelines for the management of temperature in patients with acute ischemic stroke[261]

Published by:European Stroke Organisation

Last published:2015

Update: prevention of stroke in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation[112]

Published by:American Academy of Neurology

Last published:2014 (reaffirmed 2022)

Antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy for ischemic stroke: antithrombotic therapy and prevention of thrombosis, 9th ed[292]

Published by:American College of Chest Physicians

Last published:2012

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