Despite efforts to close the time gap between symptom onset and stroke treatment – including improvements in public education, 911 dispatch operations, pre-hospital detection and triage, hospital stroke system development, and stroke unit management – a new study presented at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) 12th Annual Meeting suggests that delays in emergency transport are still prevalent and that improvements are needed to ensure patients can be treated within the optimal time window.
Penumbra has announced that the results of the European multicentre study of the company’s ACE64 thrombectomy system were presented in the Abstract Presentations Session at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) 12th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, USA. ACE64 is the most recent innovation in mechanical thrombectomy technology since the landmark MR CLEAN and subsequent confirmatory trials demonstrated the efficacy of endovascular treatment for patients with acute ischaemic stroke.
A new blood test could help emergency room doctors quickly diagnose traumatic brain injury and determine its severity. The findings, published in the Journal of Neurotrauma, could help identify patients who might benefit from extra therapy or experimental treatments.
New research suggests older people who experience migraines may have an increased risk of stroke, but only if they are smokers. The study is published by Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Hospitals often overestimate their performance in providing fast delivery of anti-clotting medication to stroke patients, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
A study published in the journal Stroke has added to the evidence supporting the use of local anaesthesia when possible during endovascular treatment of acute ischaemic stroke. The question of improved outcome associated with the use of local anaesthesia has been one increasingly being raised since the release of overwhelmingly positive results in favour of endovascular treatment of acute stroke in five stroke trials around the world.
Sequent Medical has been granted a new patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office covering many versions of Sequent’s Web aneurysm embolisation system.
Three medical centres in the UK and Germany have ordered and are now planning upgrades to Elekta’s latest generation stereotactic radiosurgery system for the brain, Leksell Gamma Knife Icon, to provide advanced brain radiosurgery treatments for their patients.
Uric acid—a chemical that at high levels can lead to serious illness—may lessen women’s disability after stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke.
Kessler Foundation researchers published results of their TBI-MEM trial, the first study to demonstrate significant changes in cerebral activation after memory retraining in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The article was published by the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. The authors are Nancy Chiaravalloti, Ekaterina Dobryakova, Glenn Wylie and John DeLuca, of Kessler Foundation.
In just two years, people with type 2 diabetes experienced negative changes in their ability to regulate blood flow in the brain, which was associated with lower scores on tests of cognition skills and their ability to perform their daily activities, according to a new study published in the 8 July, 2015, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
After comparing more than 20,000 brain scans, researchers have identified differences between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) despite both conditions sharing common symptoms.
An optical technology already widely used in ophthalmology and other medical fields holds potential to reveal how blood flows in the brain during stroke, providing information that could someday guide new treatments and reduce stroke-induced damage to the brain.
A new map of emergency stroke care in the USA illustrates the patchwork system in place for delivering the most effective treatment. In the journal Stroke, University of Michigan Medical School researchers report the results of a study that for the first time shows wide geographic variation in use of “clotbuster” treatments for stroke.
For the first time, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association recommends using a stent retrieval device to remove blood clots in select stroke patients who have clots obstructing the large arteries supplying blood to the brain, according to a new focused update published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
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