Advanced brain imaging is expanding stroke treatment windows, enabling selected patients beyond 24 hours to benefit from thrombectomy or alteplase The literature is clear that every 15-minute delay in ...

A disturbance in the blood supply to the brain could lead to a loss of brain function. This is called a brain attack, or stroke. As stroke could cause permanent neurological damage and even death, it ...

A cerebral angiogram checks for abnormalities in the blood vessels of your brain. The procedure has a handful of related names. These include: Carotid angiogram or angiography Cerebral angiogram or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Intra-arterial alteplase after successful reperfusion with mechanical thrombectomy for large vessel occlusion ...

There are two main treatments for stroke caused by a clot in a blood vessel in the brain. One treatment, mechanical thrombectomy, involves pulling the clot out with a specialized catheter that is ...

PHOENIX -- For large vessel occlusion (LVO) acute ischemic stroke patients planned for mechanical thrombectomy, bed positioning made a big difference in clinical worsening, the ZODIAC trial showed.

Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability and preventable disability in the United States. It is also the fifth leading cause of death, killing nearly 130,000 people in the U.S. each year.

Acute ischemic stroke remains one of medicine’s most time-sensitive emergencies. When blood flow to the brain becomes blocked, approximately 1.9 million neurons die each minute without intervention.