The Contour Neurovascular System (Cerus Endovascular) will offer a new option for treating intracranial aneurysms. According to Kyriakos Lobotesis, Principle Clinical Advisor at Cerus, “the objective of the device is to treat the neck of the aneurysm, thus avoiding protracted manoeuvres and manipulation within the aneurysm, which can be experienced while using other available devices”.
A study of the long-term use of the ADAPT technique for the treatment of acute ischaemic stroke has confirmed that it is an efficient method to achieve good clinical and angiographic outcomes, with 82.2% of patients achieving TICI 2C or better recanalisation and 90-day mRS scores of 0–2 in 54.4%.
A cohort study has found that medical devices approved first in the European Union (EU) are associated with a greater rate of post-marketing safety alerts and recalls compared with devices approved first in the USA.
Two peer-reviewed studies recently published in Neurosurgery and Operative Neurosurgery have shown statistically significant data in favour of the BrainPath approach (NICO), citing more than 95% clot reduction, the ability to walk in 94% of patients (mRS 0-3 at 30-365 days), and no mortalities in one study with patient groups suffering from haemorrhagic stroke.
Air pollution—including environmental and household air pollution—has emerged as a leading risk factor for stroke worldwide, associated with about a third of the global burden of stroke in 2013, according to a new study published in The Lancet Neurology journal.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first focused ultrasound device to treat essential tremor in patients who have not responded to medication. ExAblate Neuro from Insightec uses magnetic resonance (MR) images taken during the procedure to deliver focused ultrasound to destroy brain tissue in a tiny area thought to be responsible for causing tremors.
The World Stroke Organization has announced a global partnership with Medtronic to increase stroke awareness through several initiatives.
Mobile devices, social media, visual media and crowdsourcing have the potential to improve emergency care for cardiac arrests, heart attacks and strokes, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association.
Blue Cross Blue Shield has denied coverage for high frequency [10,000 (HF10)] spinal cord stimulation in at least two states. Outposts of the federation of health insurance organisations in Tennessee and Pennsylvania (both USA) consider HF10 spinal cord stimulation to be experimental and investigational for the treatment of leg and back pain.
Two new studies involving high school football and hockey players have indicated wearing a specifically-designed compression collar around the neck may prevent or reduce the effects of head collisions in sports. The neck device, called a Q-Collar, is designed to press gently on the jugular vein to slow blood outflow increasing the brain’s blood volume. The resulting effect of the increased blood volume should help the brain fit tighter within the skull cavity, reducing the energy absorbed by the brain during collisions.
The importance of pulse frequency as a parameter in neurostimulation is well-known. Data published in Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface offer an analysis of the effects of pulse frequency alteration on stimulation thresholds, paraesthesia site coverage and patient sensation and satisfaction associated with spinal cord stimulation.
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging may have advantages over other imaging modalities in later time windows when it comes to selecting patients for endovascular treatment of acute ischaemic stroke. That is according to Gregory Albers (Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, USA). He made this assessment during a presentation at the International Stroke Conference (ISC; 17–19 February, Los Angeles, USA).
Terumo Corporation has announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Sequent Medical, known for its WEB aneurysm embolisation device.
Using an advanced imaging technique, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System (Montefiore, USA) were able to predict which patients who had recently suffered concussions were likely to fully recover.
The more fit you are in midlife, the less likely you are to have a stroke after age 65, according to new research published in Stroke.
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