1. Targeting Healthcare Disparities: An Integrated Model to Improve Treatment Rates of Dyslipidemia in African American Patients

   • Elizabeth Ofili
   • Priscilla Igho Pemu
   • David Anderson

   Invited Commentary Pages: 249 - 250

2. Web Alert

   • Robert Chilton

   Announcement Pages: 251 - 251

3. Transesophageal echocardiography and stroke

   • Timothy D. Woods

   OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 262

4. Stroke as a complication of congenital heart disease

   • JiY Chong
   • Shunichi Homma
   • J. P. Mohr

   OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 267

5. Neuroprotective role of neurotrophins: Relationship between nerve growth factor and apoptotic cell survival pathway after cerebral ischemia

   • Atsushi Saito
   • Teiji Tominaga
   • Pak H. Chan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 268 - 273

6. Evolving concepts regarding transient ischemic attacks

   • Bernardo Liberato
   • Shyam Prabhakaran
   • Ralph L. Sacco

   OriginalPaper Pages: 274 - 279

7. Incidence and etiology of cerebrovascular disease in patients with malignancy

   • Jeffrey M. Katz
   • Alan Z. Segal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 280 - 288

8. Determinants of mortality in stroke patients with right brain damage

   • Ann K. Helms
   • Michel T. Torbey
   • G. Hossein Almassi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 295

9. Decompressive craniectomy as a therapeutic option in the treatment of hemispheric stroke

   • Justin F. Fraser
   • Roger Hartl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 296 - 304

10. Magnetic resonance imaging: Implication in acute ischemic stroke management

    • Oraporn Sitburana
    • Walter J. Koroshetz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 312

11. Statins and stroke prevention

    • Hashem M. Shaltoni
    • Frank M. Yatsu
    • David C. Hess

    OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 318

12. Randomized clinical stroke trials in 2004

    • Meheroz H. Rabadi
    • John Blass

    OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 325