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. 

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April 22, 2015 — A study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions showed that in-hospital and 30-day stroke or ...

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April 9, 2015 — A study including more than 20,000 adults in China found combined use of the hypertension medication ...

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March 24, 2015 — A study in the March 24/31 issue of JAMA found that using balloon-expandable stents to treat ...

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March 11, 2015 — Point of Care Anticoagulation software (PCDS AC) optimizes delivery of anticoagulation (AC) drugs and ...

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March 11, 2015 — For the first time, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) ...

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March 10, 2015 — Carroll Hospital Center physicians will now have 24/7 remote access to the University of Maryland ...

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February 26, 2015 — By loading magnetic nanoparticles with drugs and dressing them in biochemical camouflage, Houston ...

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February 20, 2015 — A recently completed National Institutes of Health-funded trial confirms the efficacy of blood flow ...

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December 19, 2014 — In a landmark study evaluating the addition of stent thrombectomy clot removal to pharmaceutical ...

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December 9, 2014 — A study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) shows intravascular ...

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October 16, 2014 — Using stents to keep neck arteries open is just as effective as invasive neck surgery for long-term ...

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October 15, 2014 — Imaging can be a cost-effective way to identify people at risk for stroke who might benefit from ...

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October 13, 2014 -- A study using a new imaging tool, optical coherence tomography (OCT), offered a new look at the ...

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October 7, 2014 — Claret Medical announced the first patient has been successfully treated in its SENTINEL trial, a ...

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August 6, 2014 — Medical market research group Decision Resources finds that the United States clot management device ...

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