Twelve international societies have joined together to produce a consensus document to guide physicians seeking to treat acute ischaemic stroke patients with mechanical thrombectomy as to the required training and qualifications.
New research has suggested that looking at structures in the right side of the brain may help predict who will better recover from language problems after a stroke, according to a study published in Neurology.
The University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis, USA has introduced the world’s most comprehensive mobile stroke unit, designed to conduct and produce advanced quality imaging for stroke diagnosis and noninvasive computed tomography (CT) angiography with a Siemens Somatom Scope CT scanner.
Applying an electric current to the brain can help recovery from stroke, Oxford University researchers have found. Their research is published in Science Translational Medicine.
Women may have a better memory for words than men, despite evidence of similar levels of shrinkage in areas of the brain that show the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published online in Neurology.
Silk Road Medical has been granted CE approval for its Enroute transcarotid neuroprotection system (NPS). The company has also reported the first patients have been treated with the system.
The Society for Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) has developed Stroke Interventional Laboratory Consensus (SILC) criteria to standardise stroke interventional laboratories for safe, effective, and timely stroke care worldwide.
A new set of recommendations from the Society for Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) on endovascular stroke care has been published online in Interventional Neurology. The recommendations, developed by SVIN’s Endovascular Stroke Standards Committee, are designed to help standardise the delivery of the new standard of care for patients with sudden stroke symptoms, acute stroke, in a safe, effective, and timely stoke care.
Dissolvable wireless brain sensors to monitor intracranial pressure and temperature have been developed by a team of neurosurgeons and engineers.
Intravenous clot busting may be safe and effective in patients with pre-existing dependency, according to new research published in the American Heart Association journal, Stroke.
A study has shown that the treatment of medulloblastoma with proton beam therapy may be as safe as conventional photon-based radiotherapy. The treatment was shown to have similar survival rates to conventional radiotherapy in the study led by Torunn Yock, Massachusetts General Hospital, Proton Center, Boston, USA, and colleagues, published in The Lancet Oncology.
Cancer survivors of childhood brain tumours show significant deficits in intelligence, educational achievement and employment, even decades after treatment, an unprecedented study at St Jude Children´s Research Hospital has found. The researchers said their findings will help guide efforts to prevent and alleviate such problems.
According to a study conducted by the Cleveland Pre-hospital Acute Stroke Treatment (PHAST) group and published in JAMA Neurology, mobile stroke treatment units can be made more resource efficient if the need for an on-site neurologist can be eliminated by relying solely on telemedicine for physician presence.
Sequent Medical has begun enrolling patients in a study which will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the WEB (woven endobridge) aneurysm embolisation system for the treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysms.
Codman Neuro has launched the Enterprise 2 Vascular Reconstruction Device, the latest generation of the company’s self-expanding stent and delivery system used to treat wide-necked intracranial aneurysms and to help maintain the position of endovascular coils during and after the procedure.
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