THURSDAY, March 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy, sonolysis is safe and results in a significant reduction in the composite incidence of ischemic stroke ...

A research team from the University of Minnesota Medical School has identified a strong predictor of ischemic stroke and ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the thrombolytic tenecteplase for the treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke, manufacturer Genentech announced today. The approval is based ...

Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States and a major cause of disability, affecting over 795,000 people each year. Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) occurs when a blood clot ...

The risk of a full-blown stroke will remain high for at least a decade after a person has a slight brush with stroke, in the ...

In the US, the rate of ischemic stroke among adults aged 20 to 44 surged from 17 per 100,000 adults in 1993 to 28 per 100,000 in 2015. The risk of stroke death among young adults is also on the rise.

The effects of the maxi-K channel openers were examined in two models of acute focal stroke. In each model ... little effect on the function of non-ischemic cells. In addition, its preclinical ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic ... first stroke in those with high transcranial Doppler ...

Applied during the surgery for people averaging 80% internal carotid artery stenosis, sonolysis resulted in reductions in 30-day: Combined ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), and ...

Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death, and the leading cause of long-term disability in the United States, affecting ... in treating patients with acute ischemic stroke that presented with ...