“In our population, a routine strategy of cerebral embolic protection did not reduce the rate of stroke. Our study provides convincing evidence that there is no value in the routine use of this ...

CHICAGO -- Routine use of devices to prevent cerebral emboli during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) did not prevent strokes, a large randomized trial showed. Incidence of stroke ...

Cerebral embolic protection (CEP) devices are designed to stop this debris reaching the brain, and they have been suggested as a solution to reduce stroke risk for TAVI patients. However, evidence ...

would prevent stroke every single time and that it would be easy to show a benefit. These two trials together have shown how difficult that is.” The US Food and Drug Administration approved the ...

The clinical syndrome produced by a stroke is determined by the artery or arteries that are occluded. Blood is supplied to the brain by two major sets of arteries, the anterior and posterior ...

The MR and Recanalization of Stroke Clots Using Embolectomy (MR RESCUE) trial is a Phase 2 clinical trial designed to determine the ability of diffusion-perfusion MRI in identifying patients who ...

Edema formation can be observed using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with stroke. Recent studies have shown that aquaporin-4 (AQP4), a water channel, is induced early after stroke ...