Background: In‐hospital strokes have distinctive risk factors compared with community‐onset strokes. Analysis of in‐hospital stroke quality of care and outcomes has never been performed at the national level. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) Stroke Database from January 2006 to April 2012, using data […]

Case Presentation: A 59-year-old woman presented with acute worsening of chronic abdominal pain and nausea. Her past medical history included a stable type-B aortic dissection. Over the previous year, she had multiple hospitalizations for postprandial abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting. The pain had been increasing in severity and had led to a 10-pound […]