Assistant Professor, Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine

Neurology

Enrique C. Leira, MD practices Neurology. He went to St Louis University School of Medicine. He has 1 awards "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Enrique Leira is also published. He has 42 publications published. The lastest publication: "Brief, transient Horner's syndrome can be the hallmark of a carotid artery dissection.' Doctor Enrique C. Leira, MD accepts Medicare.

Publications

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• Residency Training: A failed lumbar puncture is more about obesity than lack of ability.
• The NIHSS Supplementary Motor Scale: A Valid Tool for Multidisciplinary Recovery Trials.
• The Growing Shortage of Vascular Neurologists in The Era of Health Reform: Planning Is Brain!
• Primary Stroke Centers Should Be Located Using Maximal Coverage Models for Optimal Access.
• Effect of Antidepressants on the Course of Disability Following Stroke.
• Previous statin use is not associated with an increased prevalence or degree of gradient-echo lesions in patients with acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack.
• Lack of International Consensus on Ethical Aspects of Acute Stroke Trials.
• Development of an emergency department response to acute stroke ("Code Stroke").
• Strategies to improve acute stroke care of patients in rural and other geographically dispersed areas.
• Rural-urban differences in acute stroke management practices: a modifiable disparity.
• Slow progressive acceptance of intravenous thrombolysis for patients with stroke by rural primary care physicians.
• Feasibility of acute clinical trials during aerial interhospital transfer.
• Treatment with tissue plasminogen activator is not associated with increased use of neurosurgery.
• A novel, simple Pressure safety valve for lumbar puncture.
• Cerebral air embolism secondary to intra-aortic balloon pump rupture.
• Blood pressure surge precedes intraCerebral hemorrhage.
• Brainstem involvement in hypertensive encephalopathy: clinical and radiological findings.
• Continuous or emergent EEG: can bedside caregivers recognize epileptiform discharges?
• Early recovery after Cerebral ischemia risk of subsequent neurological deterioration.
• Video electroencephalogram monitoring during paroxysmal upside down reversal of vision.
• [Treatment of acute stroke].
• Apraxia of eyelid opening secondary to a dominant hemispheric infarction.
• Sumatriptan can alleviate headaches due to Carotid artery dissection.
• Retinol-binding protein in idiopathic intraCranial hypertension (IIH).
• Baseline NIH Stroke Scale score strongly predicts outcome after stroke: A report of the Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST).
• Antithrombotic treatment of ischemic stroke among patients with occlusion or severe stenosis of the internal Carotid artery: A report of the Trial of Org 10172 in Acut...
• Brief, transient Horner's syndrome can be the hallmark of a Carotid artery dissection.
• Epidemiology of stroke in requiring intensive care.
• Limb-shaking Carotid transient ischemic attacks successfully treated with modification of the antihypertensive regimen.
• Brain attack. Acute therapeutic intervention. Antithrombotic and antiplatelet-aggregating drugs.
• Treatment of acute ischemic stroke.
• Paroxysmal sneezing at the onset of lateral medullary syndrome: cause or consequence?
• Improving pilot response to in-flight strokes: a randomized controlled trial.
• Can we predict early recurrence in acute stroke?
• Improving prediction of outcome in "good grade" subarachnoid Hemorrhage.
• Education Research: The challenge of incorporating formal research methodology training in a neurology residency.
• Baseline NIH stroke scale responses estimate the probability of each particular stroke subtype.
• Treating patients with ''wake-up'' stroke: the experience of the AbESTT-II trial.
• Toward fully automated processing of dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion MRI for acute ischemic Cerebral stroke.
• Extending acute trials to remote populations: a pilot study during interhospital helicopter transfer.
• Racial-ethnic disparities in stroke care: the American experience: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Associa...

Procedures Preformed

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• EEG (Electroencephalogram)
• EMG (Electromyography)
• Vascular Transcatheter Embolization

Conditions Treated

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• Alzheimer's Disease
• Ataxia
• Autonomic Disorders
• Bell's Palsy
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Doctors Specialties

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• Vascular Neurology
• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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• Choice Plus POS II
• American Republic
• Blue Card PPO
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Commercial Insurance Company
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Health Alliance PPO
• HealthLink PPO
• Choice Care PPO
• Medicare MCR
• Principal Life
• Thrivent Financial
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO
• United Healthcare
• Alliance Select

Awards

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• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification

Education

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• St Louis University School of Medicine

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1619960085
Last Name Of The Provider	LEIRA
First Name Of The Provider	ENRIQUE
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