November 25, 2017 — The majority of patients without health insurance who were hospitalized for heart attack, stroke...
Stroke
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for stroke. It includes both diagnosis and treatment of stroke, stroke imaging, pharmaceuticals and interventional stroke technologies. Stroke comes in two forms, which have different therapies.
1. Ischemic stoke is a blockage of an artery in the brain, preventing blood flow and is offen referred to as a "brain attack" because it is a similar casue as a heart attack. This type of stroke is often treated with anti-coagulants, including use of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Interventional mechanical thrombectomy can also be used to remove the clot.
2. Hemorrhagic stroke is caused when there is bleeding due to a ruptured blood vessel in the brain caused by a brain aneurysm burst or a weakened blood vessels. These strokes are less common, but exact diagnosis is important, because use of tPA in these patients can have catastrophic consequences. Treatments include interventional embolization and surgical clipping of target vessels.
John Rhodes, M.D., co-...
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September 7, 2017 — Protembis GmbH announced the first clinical applications of its ProtEmbo Cerebral Protection...
August 23, 2017 — PinnacleHealth is the first hospital in Pennsylvania and one of the first 10 in the country to...
July 12, 2017 — SanBio Inc. recently announced it has been awarded a $20 million grant from the California Institute...
July 3, 2017 — When diagnosing strokes and heart diseases or looking at tumors, perfusion...
June 28, 2017 — Newly diagnosed asymptomatic...
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April 18, 2017 — A collaboration between stroke neurologists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and...
April 11, 2017 — Through a new clinical trial, patients at Harrisburg, Pa.-based PinnacleHealth have access to an...
April 6, 2017 — David Steenblock, D.O., an osteopathic physician based in San Clemente, Calif., recently discussed...
March 15, 2017 — Using marijuana raises the risk of...
March 14, 2017 — More than 80 percent of stroke patients with a history of...