Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is the leading cause of adult disability in the United States and a major cause of death both ...

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 ...

by diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) may provide information about stroke mechanism in (1) acute lacunar stroke, where evidence of MABI suggests a cause other than small artery ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Most strokes are ischemic type. Thrombotic stroke is usually caused by a blood clot or a piece of plaque that has built up inside a blood vessel and broken off into the blood flow. When this clot ...

A device designed to remove embolic material—fragments of tissue that can be released into the bloodstream during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)—did not result in a reduction in the ...

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that paradoxical embolization would be a cause of embolic strokes and transient ischemic attacks in patients with stroke of uncertain etiology in all age ...

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 ...