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Correspondence Multiple Cerebral Hemorrhages in a Patient Receiving Lecanemab and Treated with t-PA for Stroke Published January 4, 2023 N Engl J Med 2023;388: 478 - 479 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2215148 ...
Eligible patients had onset of stroke 4.5 to 24 hours before randomization, a posterior circulation Acute Stroke Prognosis Early CT Score (PC-ASPECTS; scores range from 0 to 10, with lower scores ...
Every year, strokes take the lives of millions of people around the world. A stroke happens when the blood flow to the brain ...
The World Brain Day is celebrated on the 22nd of July every year by the World Federation of Neurology to raise awareness ...
Patients are already in the scanner. We are doing other CT scans anyway, so adding in one extra scan is very straightforward and quick, extending the total scan protocol by only 6 minutes," he said.
From 1999 to 2008, the use of MRI to evaluate patients with ischemic stroke in the United States increased from 28% to 66%, and more than 90% of patients who had a brain MRI first had a CT scan ...
Among the stroke care centers, Memorial Hermann still has the fastest time, 16 minutes, from the emergency doors to the CT scan. "We've been doing that for years," Wojner said.