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Original articles

• Blood pressure gradients in cerebral arteries: a clue to pathogenesis of cerebral small vessel disease (8 June, 2017)

  Pablo J Blanco, Lucas O Müller, J David Spence
• Clopidogrel loading dose versus maintenance dose to treat patients with acute ischaemic stroke in China (CLASS-China): results from a prospective double-blind randomised clinical trial (21 June, 2017)

  Ying Zhao, Wanyong Yang, Zefeng Tan, Wenmin Wang, Weimin Xiao, Jinsheng Zeng, Anding Xu
• The efficacy and safety of endovascular recanalization of occluded large cerebral arteries during the subacute phase of cerebral infarction: a case series report (24 August, 2017)

  Kangning Chen, Xianhua Hou, Zhenhua Zhou, Guangjian Li, Qu Liu, Li Gui, Jun Hu, Shugui Shi
• Trend of declining stroke mortality in China: reasons and analysis (20 June, 2017)

  Wenzhi Wang, David Wang, Hongmei Liu, Haixin Sun, Bin Jiang, Xiaojuan Ru, Dongling Sun, Zhenghong Chen, Yongjun Wang
• Carotid endarterectomy for treatment of carotid in-stent restenosis: long-term follow-up results and surgery experiences from one single centre (24 August, 2017)

  Le-Bao Yu, Wei Yan, Qian Zhang, Ji-Zong Zhao, Yan Zhang, Rong Wang, Jun-Shi Shao, Dong Zhang