Ischemic stroke (IS) accounts for a large proportion (76.4% to 64.9%) of all stroke cases [ 4 , 18 , 20 , 23 , 24 ], and underlies an increasing trend in the absolute number of disability-adjusted life-years since 1990 [ 10 ].
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Trends in the Incidence and Treatment of Cerebrovascular Diseases in Korea : Part II. Cerebral Infarction, Cerebral Arterial Stenosis, and Moyamoya Disease.
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The number of patients who underwent DB increased steadily until 2014 ( p =0.016, r=0.847) and then showed a decreasing trend, with only 146 patients (0.2% of the patients with CI) treated by DB in 2016.