The AAN now recommends diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) over CT for diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke (AAN Level A recommendation), estimating its sensitivity at 80%-90% in patients presenting to the ...

A new study has found that improving pre-hospital stroke identification accuracy in women to match that of men will lead to ...

Stroke is the second leading cause of death globally. Ischemic stroke, strongly linked to atherosclerotic plaques, requires ...

From 1999 to 2008, the use of MRI to evaluate patients with ischemic stroke in the United States increased from 28% to 66%, and more than 90% of patients who had a brain MRI first had a CT scan ...

An AI-powered MRI model enables faster and highly accurate plaque detection in carotid arteries, transforming stroke ...

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Portable bedside MRI showed promise in detecting infarcts revealed on high-field MRI in those with acute ischemic stroke, with better performance on larger sized infarcts, according to a poster ...

Portable MRI as a Tissue Clock for Acute Ischemic Stroke: Multi-Site Study to be Published in August 2024 Edition of Annals of Neurology Shows the Value of the Ultra-Low-Field Swoop® Portable MR ...

The initial diagnosis of non-ischemic events, or “stroke mimics,” occurred more frequently in women than men in a secondary analysis of DOUBT study data, though diagnostic revisions were often ...