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Patients who are diagnosed in the emergency room with a specific type of brain bleed should be considered for immediate transfer to a hospital that treats at least 35 cases a year, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association…
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Updated Treatment Guidelines For Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Cut your toe, and platelets — those disc-shaped cells circulating in your blood — rush to the scene, clumping together to plug the leak.
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JAM-A Protein Keeps Blood Clots In Check
New research confirms thrombus aspiration (TA) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) provides long-term outcomes similar to conventional intervention with bare-metal or drug-eluting stents…
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Thrombus Aspiration And Stents In PCI – Long-term Outcome Similar
The mantra in stroke care is “time is brain.” With each passing minute more brain cells are irretrievably lost and, because of this, timely diagnosis and treatment is essential to increase the chances for recovery…
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In Emergency Departments, Some Stroke Victims Not Receiving Timely Diagnosis, Care
After nearly 13 years of study and intense debate, a pair of new papers from the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania have confirmed exactly how a once-popular class of anti-inflammatory drugs leads to cardiovascular risk for people taking it…
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Cardiovascular Risk From NSAIDs
Neither aspirin nor warfarin is superior for preventing a combined risk of death, stroke, and cerebral hemorrhage in heart failure patients with normal heart rhythm, according to a landmark clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine…
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For Most Heart Failure Patients, Aspirin And Warfarin Equally Effective
Experts are proposing a new model of care collaboration to diagnosis, treat and follow patients who present with various emergent cardiovascular conditions which require rapid, resource-intensive care and confer a high risk of mortality, in an article published in Circulation…
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Is It Time For Regional Cardiovascular Emergency Care Systems Across The US?
Some patients with irregular heartbeats who are taken off anti-clotting medication face a high risk of stroke or blood clotting within a month, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association’s Emerging Science Series webinar…
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Risk Of Stroke High When Anti-Clotting Drugs Stopped
Commonly prescribed anti-depressants appear to be doing patients more harm than good, say researchers who have published a paper examining the impact of the medications on the entire body…
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Anti-Depressants May Be Doing More Harm Than Good
Stanford University School of Medicine neuroscientists have demonstrated, in a study published online in Stroke, that a compound mimicking a key activity of a hefty, brain-based protein is capable of increasing the generation of new nerve cells, or neurons, in the brains of mice that have had strokes. The mice also exhibited a speedier recovery of their athletic ability…
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New Approach Points To Potential Treatment For Stroke
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