Table 2.
Characteristic of patients included in the studies.
| Study | Participants | Age (years) | Gender (Female/Male) | Side of effect (L/R) | Type of stroke (H/I) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | C | E | C | E | C | E | C | E | C | |
| Ackerley et al. (2016) | 9 | 9 | 61 (21–80) | 71 (38–79) | 3/6 | 3/6 | 3/6 | 3/6 | – | – |
| Chen (2018) | 11 | 11 | 52.9 (11.1) | 52.6 (8.3) | 7/4 | 7/4 | 6/5 | 9/2 | 9/2 | 8/3 |
| Chen Y. et al. (2021) | 16 | 16 | 57.38 (8.04) | 51.44 (9.19) | 3/13 | 4/12 | 12/4 | 7/9 | 6/10 | 8/8 |
| Chen Y. H. et al. (2021) | 12 | 11 | 54.36 (10.56) | 48.95 (9.63) | 4/8 | 1/10 | 7/5 | 7/4 | 6/6 | 9/2 |
| Hsu et al. (2013) | 6 | 6 | 56.8 (6.85) | 62.3 (8.45) | 1/5 | 3/3 | 3/3 | 5/1 | 0/6 | 0/6 |
| El Nahas et al. (2022) | 25 | 11 | 47.88 (14.8) | 41.6 (14.9) | 5/20 | 4/7 | – | – | – | – |
| Sung et al. (2013) | 12 | 14 | 64.2 (11.9) | 63.1 (12.8) | 3/9 | 3/11 | – | – | 4/8 | 5/9 |
| Talelli et al. (2012) | 13 | 12 | 54.4 (15.8) | 58.5 (12.0) | 6/7 | 3/9 | 6/7 | 9/3 | 0/13 | 0/12 |
| Watanabe et al. (2018) | 8 | 6 | 72.5 (6.5) | 75.2 (5.5) | 3/5 | 3/3 | 4/4 | 5/3 | 0/8 | 0/6 |
| Zhang et al. (2022) | 14 | 14 | 59.50 (8.56) | 64 (5.39) | 7/7 | 6/8 | 8/6 | 7/7 | 6/8 | 4/10 |