Stroke
Aug 05, 2022
1. Fewer patients in the thrombectomy group achieved an MRS score of 0-2 at 90 days compared to thrombectomy with alteplase (57% vs. 65%). 2. Thrombectomy with alteplase resulted in significant...
Jul 23, 2022
Strokes are the leading cause of death globally[1] and account for an estimated 140,000 deaths in the United States each year[2]. As medical professionals, it’s very important that we educate patie...
Jul 14, 2022
Adding “cancer” to the atrial fibrillation prediction model improved the predictability of assessing the probability of stroke-free survival in patients. Several risk assessment tools have ...
May 16, 2022
Recent trials of acute secondary prevention in patients with minor ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) have demonstrated high rates of early recurrence within days of the initial event....
Apr 25, 2022
Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) may present with gradual onset, chronic parkinsonism and/or dementia. In this study, we aimed to identify the prevalence and clinical characteristics of apathy, de...
Apr 18, 2022
Acute cerebral infarction (ACI) occurs with the involvement of differential expression of microRNAs. The study detected the expression pattern of miR-138-5p in the serum of ACI cases and evaluated its...
Apr 11, 2022
Recurrent stroke patients suffer significant morbidity and mortality, representing almost 30% of the stroke population. Our objective was to determine the clinical outcomes and costs of recurrent isch...
Mar 28, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to determine if adding intra-arterial alteplase after thrombectomy improves outcomes after reperfusion. From December 2018 to May 2021, 7 stroke centers participated in...
Mar 28, 2022
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major risk factor for stroke. We aim to characterize AF patients and the effects of apixaban therapy in terms of clot microstructure using gel point analysis, a novel bio...
Jan 24, 2022
Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are increasingly replacing vitamin K antagonists for prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, partly owing to the lack of a need for routine monito...
Jan 10, 2022
Motor outcomes after stroke can be predicted using structural and functional biomarkers of the descending corticomotor pathway, typically measured using magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial mag...
Dec 06, 2021
To investigate the therapeutic effect of Danhong injection on diabetic patients with cerebral infarction and its influence on vascular endothelial function and hemodynamic level. A total of 100 diabet...
Nov 15, 2021
Physics-based models can be applied to describe mechanisms in both health and disease, which has the potential to accelerate the development of personalized medicine. The aim of this study was to inve...
Nov 01, 2021
Subcortical vascular cognitive impairment (SVCI) is characterized by the presence of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) markers. Some SVCI patients also show Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid...
Oct 18, 2021
Exposure to some special events, also called stroke triggers, can precipitate the onset of ischemic stroke (IS). Previous studies have presented preliminary hypotheses about sexual intercourse as a tr...
Sep 20, 2021
Stroke is a devastating complication of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) and is an important determinant of its outcome. We propose a model which would help to predict development of infarction or cerebro...
Aug 26, 2021
Proximal-to-distal compensation is commonly observed in upper extremity(UE) after stroke, mainly due to the impaired fine motor control in hand joints. However, little is known on its related neural r...
Aug 19, 2021
To determine the feasibility of using a machine learning algorithm to screen for large vessel occlusions (LVO) in the Emergency Department (ED).A retrospective cohort of consecutive ED stroke alerts a...
Aug 12, 2021
With growing evidence of its efficacy for patients with large-vessel occlusion (LVO) ischemic stroke, the use of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) has increased. The "weekend effect," whereby patients p...
Aug 02, 2021
Up to one-third of patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) are nonresponders. Multipoint bicathodic and cathodic-anodal left ventricle (LV) stimulations could overcome this clinica...
