Advanced brain imaging is expanding stroke treatment windows, enabling selected patients beyond 24 hours to benefit ...

Sentante announced that its Sentante stroke system has been accepted into the FDA Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program (T ...

Alteplase, a “clot-buster” medication used to treat ischemic stroke, acute myocardial infarctions, and acute pulmonary embolism, 3 may improve functional outcomes for patients following acute ischemic ...

World Stroke Thrombectomy Day raises awareness of a game-changing treatment, mechanical thrombectomy, that saves lives and decreases disability in people experiencing a stroke. The first World Stroke ...

With the study adding to a mix of conflicting trial results, it’s not yet time to update guidelines, Shyam Prabhakaran says.

Giving the clot-busting medication alteplase at the site of a blocked brain artery after blood clot removal may increase the ...

Two randomized trials showing benefits of endovascular thrombectomy in ischemic stroke caused by basilar artery occlusion have now been published. Results of the two Chinese trials — the first to show ...

The TESLA trial was unable to support a benefit to thrombectomy for stroke patients with large-core infarcts identified on noncontrast CT within 24 hours. Unlike other studies, endovascular therapy in ...

RENEWED calls have been made for the urgent introduction of a full-time thrombectomy service in the North amid concerns that limited operating hours are putting stroke patients at risk.

The poor natural history of large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke in children in Australia added to the growing impetus for endovascular therapy (EVT) in pediatric patients, a group that had been ...

Direct endovascular thrombectomy treatment for patients with acute ischemic stroke failed to achieve non-inferiority to combined thrombolysis plus endovascular therapy, in a new meta-analysis of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children with ischemic stroke with large vessel occlusion appear to benefit from mechanical thrombectomy, ...