Some patients with an acute large-vessel ischemic stroke who already show a large-core infarct at early imaging can still benefit from thrombectomy, especially if the procedure successfully restores ...

Current treatment of acute stroke focuses on administration of lytic medications and endovascular techniques meant to restore blood flow quickly in order to decrease the volume of irreversible tissue ...

Introduction The optimal timing for direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) initiation after acute ischaemic stroke in patients ...

Can you have a stroke and not know it? Unfortunately, yes. It is a phenomenon called a silent stroke or, more formally, a silent cerebral infarction. Investigators at the University of Alabama at ...

Headache is infrequent in acute lacunar infarction, but it might nevertheless have important clinical implications. Arboix et al. investigated whether the site of infarct affects the incidence of ...

According to a study published American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), percent insular ribbon infarction (PIRI) complements current stroke outcome predictors, classifying patients with slowly ...

For patients with acute stroke and a large infarct, thrombectomy plus medical care results in better functional outcomes and lower mortality, according to a study published in the May 9 issue of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A secondary analysis of the phase 2 PACIFIC-STROKE trial showed that asundexian is effective for the secondary ...

Authors of a UK study published on THE LANCET's website-www.thelancet.com-report the trends in death due to stroke in England and Wales in the 20th century. Despite an overall decrease in deaths from ...

Only one-third of 5,600 patients with retinal infarction, or stroke in the eye, underwent basic stroke work-up, and fewer than one in 10 were seen by a neurologist. One in 100 of the retinal ...

A lacunar stroke, also called a lacunar infarct, occurs when an artery that supplies blood to the deeper portions of the brain becomes blocked. Other types of strokes occur on the surface, or cortex, ...