September 12, 2017 — Contracting shingles, a reactivation of the chickenpox virus, increases a person’s risk of stroke a ...
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.
September 7, 2017 — Protembis GmbH announced the first clinical applications of its ProtEmbo Cerebral Protection System ...
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 of ...
July 3, 2017 — When diagnosing strokes and heart diseases or looking at tumors, perfusion magnetic resonance imaging ...
June 28, 2017 — Newly diagnosed asymptomatic atrial fibrillation patients have a higher rate of previous stroke than ...
May 12, 2017 — More than one-third of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) were observed to ...
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 his ...
March 15, 2017 — Using marijuana raises the risk of stroke and heart failure even after accounting for demographic ...
March 14, 2017 — More than 80 percent of stroke patients with a history of atrial fibrillation either received not ...
February 15, 2017 — Doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have implemented the first U.S. Food and Drug ...
February 1, 2017 — Baylor Heart and Vascular Services at Fort Worth in November became the first program in Texas to ...
January 17, 2017 — James Laskaris, emerging technology analyst at MD Buyline, recently offered his perspective on new ...