Science Daily - Stroke

MAY 6, 2024

A new study has revealed that areas of age-related damage in the brain relate to motor outcomes after a stroke -- a phenomenon that may be under-recognized in stroke research.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

JULY 22, 2024

A new study has identified new genetic and molecular risk factors that may reveal new pathways for treating patients after they experience their first stroke. The study identified CCL27 and TNFRSF14, two proteins that are associated with subsequent MACE, but not initial strokes.

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Science Daily - Stroke

MARCH 28, 2024

A stroke often impacts a person's ability to move their lower body from the hips down to the feet. But now, researchers are exploring new treatment methods to help bridge the service delivery gap, and recovery outcomes, for patients after a stroke.

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Quality of Life Stroke Strokes Research 121

DAIC

MARCH 31, 2025

tim.hodson Mon, 03/31/2025 - 15:39 March 30, 2025 Medtronic has announced late-breaking data on five-year outcomes from the Evolut Low Risk Trial. Two-Year Outcomes of the Five-Year SMART Trial, presented at CRT 2025. Additional findings at five years include: Numerically lower rate of cardiovascular mortality (7.2% Evolut TAVR vs. 9.3%

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 23, 2025

According to new research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine, the number of mechanical thrombectomies performed at hospitals is not an accurate indicator of patient outcomes.

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Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- For acute ischemic stroke within 48 hours of onset, the novel sublingual combination of edaravone (Radicava) with dexborneol appeared to dramatically improve functional outcomes in the phase III TASTE-SL trial from China.

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Stroke Strokes Outcomes 116

DAIC

JUNE 4, 2024

Stroke recovery is a challenging process that extends for months after hospital discharge. To improve outcomes and be in compliance with new regulations, it's crucial to better identify and address these issues during the recovery period. After the stroke, I had new prescriptions, and this was the first obstacle for me.

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Med Page Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Bone marrow-derived allogeneic stem cell therapy shortly after ischemic stroke did not improve outcomes at 90 days, a phase II/III randomized clinical trial known as TREASURE found. The rate of excellent outcomes -- a composite.

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DAIC

MAY 7, 2024

A stroke often leads to motor impairment, which is traditionally linked to the extent of damage to the corticospinal tract (CST), a crucial brain pathway for motor control. However, stroke recovery outcomes aren't fully predicted by damage to the CST, suggesting other factors are at play.

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Med Page Today

JUNE 14, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- For stroke patients, late administration of tenecteplase improved clinical outcomes in situations in which thrombectomy was not available immediately, according to the Chinese TRACE-III trial. Patients with ischemic stroke due.

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

MARCH 9, 2025

However, the impact of nickel hypersensitivity on post-procedural outcomes remains poorly understood. No significant differences were observed in documented arrhythmias, bleeding, or stroke. These findings highlight the need for further research to optimize device selection and improve outcomes in nickel-hypersensitive patients.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Of those, 99 hospitals were recognized for delivering superior clinical outcomes in the care and treatment of stroke. Healthgrades published its 2025 Specialty Excellence Awards recipients Oct.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 27, 2025

Observational studies and randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have yielded conflicting results regarding the outcomes of multiple arterial grafts (MAG) vs. single arterial grafts (SAG) in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. We conducted a comprehensive search across multiple databases for RCTs that directly compared MAG and SAG.

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Med Page Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Healthier lifestyle behaviors in midlife were linked with better outcomes in people with genetic predisposition for age-related brain diseases, longitudinal data from the U.K. Biobank showed. Over about 12 years of follow-up.

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Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- PHOENIX -- Endovascular thrombectomy for large-core acute ischemic stroke improved long-term outcomes, the SELECT2 trial affirmed. The intervention shifted the 1-year modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score distribution toward less.

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Stroke Journal

MARCH 26, 2025

Stroke, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Recently, various polygenic risk score (PRS)based methods were developed to improve stroke prediction. However, current PRSs (including cross-ancestry PRS) poorly predict recurrent stroke. In particular, it predicted an increased risk of recurrence among stroke patients without hypertension.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MAY 16, 2024

Early identification of stroke type could be key to harnessing the benefits of very early in-ambulance blood pressure lowering treatment in patients with suspected acute stroke, according to new research.

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American Heart News - Stroke News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Research Highlights: Hospital beds for stroke patients are typically elevated at the head, however, a flat head position before surgical removal of a blood clot in the brain (thrombectomy) may lead to better outcomes. Results from a multicenter trial.

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DAIC

MAY 20, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 05/20/2024 - 08:00 May 20, 2024 — Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and the American Stroke Association’s Heart-Check mark for Acute Stroke Ready Certification. To achieve certification, OMC-Baton Rouge underwent a rigorous, unannounced onsite.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More frequent use of cannabis was associated with higher odds of adverse cardiovascular outcomes, finds new study.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

a leader in the development of innovative biologics to treat acute and chronic cardiovascular disease , presented data from a recent large animal study performed by VST Bio and Yale University demonstrating that a single iv bolus of VST-002 led to meaningful reduction in brain damage and improved function in an advanced model of ischemic stroke.

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American Heart News - Stroke News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Research Highlights: Stroke survivors were more likely to have little or no disability after 90 days if a clot was removed from a large brain artery followed by the injection of the clot-dissolving medication tenecteplase directly into the artery near.

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Stroke Strokes Outcomes Research 71

CardiacWire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Starting with the good news, GLP-1s lowered risks for 42 health outcomes while increasing risks for 19 outcomes. As expected, GLP-1s reduced MI risk by 9%, cardiac arrest by 22%, incident HF by 11%, ischemic stroke by 7%, and hemorrhagic stroke by 14%. year follow-up.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Image courtesy of the UT Health Science Center milla1cf Thu, 02/15/2024 - 13:16 February 15, 2024 — Research findings in a clinical trial led by a professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center ’s College of Nursing are likely to dramatically change care and improve outcomes for patients suffering from acute stroke.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We assessed the association of cannabis use (number of days of cannabis use in the past 30 days) with self‐reported cardiovascular outcomes (coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, and a composite measure of all 3) in multivariable regression models, adjusting for tobacco use and other characteristics in adults 18 to 74 years old.

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Open Heart

JANUARY 11, 2024

This study aimed to investigate the association between the use of GTN before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ACS and clinical outcomes. Conclusions GTN use preceding PCI for ACS is associated with lower blood pressure and adverse clinical outcomes in elderly patients. –143.5) mm Hg vs 134.0 –157.0)

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Med Page Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- For stroke patients undergoing mechanical thrombectomy, adjunctive intra-arterial thrombolytics fell short for further improving outcomes in two randomized trials. First, in POST-UK, there was a trend toward better odds of an.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

JUNE 17, 2024

Elevated plasma glucose levels are common in patients suffering acute ischemic stroke (AIS), and acute hyperglycemia has been defined as an independent determinant of adverse outcomes. The impact of acute-to-c.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

7-9, and is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health. 7-9, and is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health. The meeting will be held in Phoenix, Feb. The meeting will be held in Phoenix, Feb.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 15, 2024

Overall rates of long-term survival following stroke are improving, but Black individuals experience worse long-term outcomes compared to white individuals, according to University of Cincinnati research published online July 15 in Neurology.

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The New England Journal of Medicine

JUNE 13, 2024

In this trial from China involving 1412 patients with acute ischemic stroke presenting within 4.5 hours, the percentage who had an excellent functional outcome at 90 days was 79.5% with reteplase and 70.4% with alteplase.

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DAIC

MAY 1, 2024

Müller milla1cf Wed, 05/01/2024 - 12:07 May 1, 2024 — In an ischemic stroke, an artery in the brain is blocked by blood clots and the brain cells can no longer be supplied with blood as a result. Dr Nils Lehnen, Senior Physician at the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology and Paediatric Neuroradiology at the UKB.

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DAIC

JANUARY 29, 2024

years after SAVR to assess their outcomes. Secondary outcomes included rates of reoperation, infective endocarditis, stroke, and hospital admissions for heart failure. The research team followed these patients for a median time of 2.4 years after TAVR and 4.9 The primary focus was on 5-year survival rates.

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Open Heart

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is commonly associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), but its impact on outcomes in real-world practice is uncertain. Patients with AF had a higher annual incidence of stroke/transient ischaemic attack (2.6 Methods Overall, 1739 adult patients with HCM (40.9% women; median age: 55.5

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP83-ATP83, February 1, 2024. Background:The success of post-stroke rehabilitation depends on the cooperation of many components such as: severity of the stroke, speed with which treatment begins, skills of the rehabilitation team, cooperation of the survivor with family and friends.

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Stroke Strokes Quality of Life Outcomes 75

Science Daily - Stroke

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Researchers continue to advance the science to determine best treatments for stroke.

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Stroke Journal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Stroke, Ahead of Print. Considerable variation exists in the delivery of acute stroke care and stroke outcomes across settings and population groups. These sites also tend to serve populations in rural areas who experience disparities in care and outcomes.

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