Director, Stroke Center, Rhode Island Hospital/Associate Professor of Neurology, Brown University

Neurology

Dr. Brian Silver is an expert in the field of Neurology. Dr. Brian Silver is a published doctor. He published 46 publications, including: 'Resolution of spur cell anemia with liver transplantation: a case report and review of the literature.' He accepts all Medicare patients.

Publications

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• Lack of gender disparities in emergency department triage of acute stroke patients.
• Potassium Intake and Risk of Stroke in Women With Hypertension and Nonhypertension in the Women's Health Initiative.
• Hospital-Directed FeedBack to Emergency Medical Services Improves Prehospital Performance.
• The Use of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound in Confirming Brain Death in the Setting of Skull Defects and Extraventricular Drains.
• Antithrombotic management of stroke patients before colonoscopy.
• Urine Toxicology screening in an urban stroke and TIA population.
• The clinical and radiographic importance of distinguishing partial from near-complete reperfusion following intra-arterial stroke therapy.
• An evidence-based approach to stroke prevention: important advances in the last decade.
• The impact of cardiac contractility on Cerebral blood flow in ischemia.
• The no smoking sign--insular infarction.
• Bilateral simultaneous Central retinal vein occlusions in an otherwise healthy adult.
• Development of a scoring System for atrial fibrillation in acute stroke and transient ischemic attack patients: the LADS scoring System.
• Moyamoya Syndrome Associated with Graves' Disease: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
• Stenting versus endarterectomy for Carotid-artery stenosis.
• Sildenafil treatment of subacute ischemic stroke: a safety study at 25-mg daily for 2 weeks.
• A significant temporal and quantitative relationship exists between high-density lipoprotein levels and acute ischemic stroke presentation.
• Importance of leukoaraiosis on CT for tissue plasminogen activator decision making: evaluation of the NINDS rt-PA Stroke Study.
• Transient ischemic attack: definitions and clinical presentations.
• Blood pressure declines and less favorable outcomes in the NINDS tPA stroke study.
• Learning clinical neurophysiology: gaming is better than lectures.
• Patent foramen ovale and cryptogenic stroke.
• Improvement in sleep apnea associated with closure of a patent foramen ovale.
• Two prospective educational interventions in a neurology residency: effect on RITE performance.
• Tadalafil, a long-acting type 5 phosphodiesterase isoenzyme inhibitor, improves neurological functional recovery in a rat model of embolic stroke.
• MRI detects white matter reorganization after neural progenitor Cell treatment of stroke.
• ASPECT scoring to estimate >1/3 middle cerebral Artery territory infarction.
• Recovery in a patient with locked-in syndrome.
• The pursuit of exCellence in acute stroke care.
• Importance of early ischemic computed tomography changes using ASPECTS in NINDS rtPA Stroke Study.
• Hyponatremia associated with repeated use of levetiracetam.
• Lack of improvement in patients with acute stroke after treatment with thrombolytic therapy: predictors and association with outcome.
• Treatment of acute supratentorial ischemic stroke with abciximab is safe and may result in early neurological improvement. A preliminary report.
• Editorial comment--neuroimaging after TIA: a crystal ball?
• Treatment of acute stroke with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator and abciximab.
• Effects of thrombolysis for acute stroke in patients with pre-existing disability.
• Is the association of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale scores and acute magnetic resonance imaging stroke volume equal for patients with right- and left-hemi...
• Idiopathic free-floating thrombus of the common Carotid artery.
• Extending tissue plasminogen activator use to community and rural stroke patients.
• Reply to authors.
• Advances in stroke over the past decade.
• The Addition of MRI to CT Based Stroke and TIA Evaluation Does Not Impact One year Outcomes.
• Resolution of spur Cell anemia with liver transplantation: a case report and review of the literature.
• Cardiac complications in acute ischemic stroke.
• Imaging Parameters and Recurrent Cerebrovascular Events in Patients With Minor Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack.
• An Atypical Presentation of a Thalamic Stroke in a Young Adult with Ankylosing Spondylitis and an Atrial Septal Defect.

Schools

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• McGill University Faculty Of Medicine

• University Mass Med Center

• Beth Israel Hospital Harvard University

• London Health Scis Center University Western Ontario

• Ri Hospital Brown University

Procedures Preformed

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• EEG (Electroencephalogram)

Conditions Treated

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• Alzheimer's Disease
• Anterior Horn Disease
• Ataxia
• Autonomic Disorders
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Doctors Specialties

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• Vascular Neurology
• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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• Choice Plus POS II
• Blue Card PPO
• Blue Choice
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• LocalPlus
• Open Access Plus
• Commercial Insurance Company
• Emblem Health
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Humana
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Tufts PPO
• United Healthcare

Education

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• Brown University
• University of Massachusetts
• McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Hospital

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• Rhode Island Hospital

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