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

European research led by University College London (UCL), together with Amsterdam UMC and the University of Basel shows that a significant proportion of patients who suffer a stroke due to carotid ...

In the Phase III EXPECTS trial, patients experiencing mostly mild posterior circulation ischemic stroke who were ineligible ...

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 ...

This prevents oxygenated blood from reaching any areas fed by that artery. When a blood clot forms in the arteries, it is called arterial thrombosis. Embolic strokes, a common type of stroke, are ...

The device was tested on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who lost her ability to speak after a stroke. Doctors placed the brain-computer implant during surgery as part of a clinical trial ...

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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 ...