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Susceptibility to brain ischemia and the association between migraine and spontaneous cervical artery dissection

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the following Italian Project on Stroke in Young Adults – Cervical Artery Dissection (IPSYS CeAD) Research Group collaborators for their contribution to the project: Manuela Napoli and Claudio Moratti, SSD Neuroradiologia, AUSL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia; Ilaria Grisendi, SC Neurolologia, Stroke Unit, AUSL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia; Emma Scelzo, U.O Malattie Cerebrovascolari, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano; Monica Laura Bandettini di Poggio, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Riabilitazione, Oftalmologia, Genetica e Scienze Materno-Infantili, Università di Genova; Francesca Boscain, UOSD Stroke Unit e Laboratorio di Neurosonologia, Azienda Ospedale—Università di Padova; Andrea Naldi, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Stroke Unit, Università di Torino; Valeria Caso, Stroke Unit and Divisione di Medicina Cardiovascolare, Università di Perugia; Massimo Gamba, Stroke Unit, Neurologia Vascolare, ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia; Ilaria Casetta, Clinica Neurologica, Università di Ferrara; Alessandro De Vito, Neurologia, Stroke Unit Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S. Anna, Ferrara; Cecilia Zivelonghi and Giampaolo Tomelleri, Stroke Unit—Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Borgo Trento, Verona; Elena Schirinzi, U.O. di Neurologia, Ospedale Galliera, Genova; Elena Verrengia and Graziamaria Nuzzaco, UO di Neurologia-Stroke Unit, Ospedale di Legnano, ASST-Ovest Milanese; Sandro Beretta, U.O.C Neurologia, ASST Vimercate; Rossella Musolino, UOSD Stroke Unit, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università di Messina; Daniele Imperiale, SS NeuroVascolare Ospedale Maria Vittoria, ASL Città di Torino; Maurizio Acampa, UOC Stroke Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Siena; Antonio Gasparro, UO Neurologia, Ospedale Villa Sofia, Palermo; Maurizio Melis, SC Neurologia e Stroke Unit, Dipartimento Neuroscienze e Riabilitazione, Azienda Ospedaliera "G. Brotzu," Cagliari; Francesco Fisicaro, Dipartimento Di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche e Tecnologie Avanzate, Sezione di Neuroscienze, Università di Catania; Ignazio Santilli, S.C. Neurologia e Unità Neurovascolare, Ospedale di Desio—ASST Brianza; Manuel Corato, Neurologia d’Urgenza e Stroke Unit, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano-Milano; Eleonora Leuci and Federico Mazzacane, UC Malattie Cerebrovascolari e Stroke Unit, IRCCS Fondazione Istituto “C. Mondino”, Pavia; Alessandra Gaiani, Stroke Unit, U.O Neurologia, Ospedale “S. Chiara”, APSS Trento; Lucia Princiotta Cariddi, UO Neurologia, Ospedale di Circolo, Università dell’Insubria, Varese; Cristina Sarti, Stroke Unit, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Firenze; Serena Monaco, Stroke Unit, Ospedale Civico, Palermo; Emanuele Puca, Dipartimento di Neurologia, Ospedale “Madonna del Soccorso”, San Benedetto del Tronto; Ludovico Ciolli, Stroke Unit, Clinica Neurologica, Ospedale Civile S. Agostino Estense, AOU Modena; Alfonso Ciccone, Stroke Unit, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Ospedale Carlo Poma, Mantova; Eugenio Magni, U.O. Neurologia, Istituto Ospedaliero Poliambulanza, Brescia; Bruno Censori, U.O. Neurologia, Istituti Ospitalieri, ASST Cremona.

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The Italian Project on Stroke in Young Adults (IPSYS) is supported by a grant from the Associazione per la Lotta alla Trombosi e alle Malattie Cardiovascolari (ALT).

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Del Zotto, E., Grassi, M., Zedde, M. et al. Susceptibility to brain ischemia and the association between migraine and spontaneous cervical artery dissection. J Neurol 270, 5622–5628 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11854-4

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