The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Stroke Association (ASA) have issued updated guidelines expanding the time frame for giving state-of-the-art treatments in the wake of new ...

Using a "neuroprotectant" drug alongside the standard surgical removal of a clot may slash the risk of death and disability following a stroke, a new study finds. The new medication, called ApTOLL ...

Study results In the BEST-II trial, researchers led by Mistry enrolled 120 patients (with an average age of 70 years, 57% female) who had an acute ischemic stroke and successful endovascular ...

According to new research, about one third of people who had a large vessel (severe) ischemic stroke, treated with mechanical clot removal, resumed work three months after stroke treatment ...

Mayank Goyal, MD, PhD, from the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine in Alberta, Canada, and colleagues randomly assigned patients with acute ischemic stroke due to medium vessel ...

Using blood pressure medications to lower systolic blood pressure immediately after mechanical clot removal (endovascular treatment) for acute ischemic stroke may not be safe or effective and ...

Yet current clot-removal tools succeed on the first try only about 50 percent of the time. In 15 percent of cases, they fail completely.

Removing a clot blocking a medium- or small-sized artery in the brain mechanically is a safe treatment for a common type of stroke; however, it did not lessen disability more than best medical ...

A research review found that clot-busting therapy and mechanical clot removal to treat ischemic stroke in people with a pre-existing disability or dementia was as safe and effective as in adults ...

To examine the effectiveness of blood-clot removal across a wide range of stroke patients seen in routine daily care (outside of a clinical trial), the Embotrap eXtraction & Clot EvaLuation ...

However, whether using blood pressure medications to artificially lower systolic blood pressure to less than 180 mm is safe and effective has not been demonstrated following clot removal.

Clot removal device improves stroke outcome By Reuters February 27, 200812:34 PM PSTUpdated February 27, 2008 ...