Table 1 Patient data for the 59 study subjects.

Criteria	Data
Sex ratio (M/F)	31/28
Age (years)	58.8±16.1 (range: 30–85)
Hypertension	34/59
Diabetes mellitus	5/59
Dyslipidaemia	16/59
Carotid stenosis	6/59
Smokers	9/59
Delay between stroke and MR (days)	19.2±35.8 (range: 2–175)
Stroke lesion volume (cm3)	33.2±49.5 (range: 9.3–96.2)