The Relationship Between Platelet, Mean Platelet Volume, C-Reactive Protein and Mortality in Ischemic Stroke Patients

Stroke is defined by the World Health Organization as a clinical syndrome consisting of rapidly developing clinical signs of focal disturbance of cerebral function due to disturbed cerebral blood flow, lasting more than 24 hours with no apparent cause other than a vascular origin. Ischemic stroke is the most common type of stroke in the whole world (1,2). Eighty-eighty five percent of stroke cases are with ischemic origin and 10-15% of them are hemorrhagic (1).