Stroke
Whether or not acute stroke patients are given IV thrombolysis prior to mechanical thrombectomy appears to have no influence on the treatment’s safety and effectiveness, according to research published online February 22, 2016, ahead of print in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
Patients with posterior circulation strokes have a high likelihood of good outcome with prompt thrombectomy, according to research presented on February 17, 2016, in Los Angeles, CA, at the 2016 International Stroke Conference…
LOS ANGELES—Fifteen societies involved in neurointervention have provided criteria that physicians and hospitals must meet in order to perform endovascular ischemic stroke interventions in a consensus document released today, coinciding with the opening of the International Stroke Conference here…
Using standard imaging techniques to identify large-artery lesions containing intraplaque hemorrhage could help clinicians better understand stroke cases that would otherwise be labeled as cryptogenic, according to research presented on February 17 at the 2016 International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles, CA…
LOS ANGELES—Functional status and quality of life remain higher beyond 90 days in patients with acute ischemic stroke who undergo mechanical thrombectomy than in medically treated patients, according to results of REVASCAT, the only one of the recent successful trials to follow patients out to 1 year…
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