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Patients who wake up with stroke may be candidates for clot-busters

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Giving clot-busting drugs to patients who wake up with stroke symptoms appears to be as safe as giving it to those in the recommended three-hour window, according to researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at ...


Clot-buster boosts survival, decreases disability for deadly subset of stroke

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created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New results from a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins show that patients who got an experimental clot-busting treatment for a particularly lethal form of stroke were not only dramatically more likely to survive but also ...





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Stopping a Stroke in its Tracks: Catheter Device Restrores Blood Flow to Brain by Suctioning Blood Clots

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bobbie Laird was suffering a life-threatening stroke triggered by a blood clot in her brain that was nearly half an inch long.


Investigational neurostimulation device aims to reduce stroke damage

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stroke researchers at the Methodist Neurological Institute in Houston are the only ones in Texas to offer a novel device that might extend the acute stroke treatment window from three hours to 24.


Antibiotic may be new stroke treatment

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The antibiotic minocycline may revolutionize the treatment of strokes. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience, describes the safety and therapeutic efficacy of the drug in animal models.


Experimental treatment halts hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in newborns

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created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Inhibiting an enzyme in the brains of newborns suffering from oxygen and blood flow deprivation stops a type of brain damage that is a leading cause of cerebral palsy, mental retardation and death, according to researchers ...


Stroke group expands time for clot-busting drugs

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A change to stroke treatment guidelines is expanding the time that some patients can get clot-busting drugs. Current recommendations limit the use of the medicine to within three hours after the start of stroke symptoms. ...


Study expands window for effective stroke treatment

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Once symptoms start, there's only a tiny window of time for stroke victims to get life-saving treatment. Now, research from the Stanford University School of Medicine has cracked that window open a bit wider.


Researchers use stroke patient's own stem cells in trial for first time

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created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For the first time in the United States, a stroke patient has been intravenously injected with his own bone marrow stem cells as part of a research trial at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.


Laser treatment clinical trial misses primary endpoint

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created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Using a laser to treat cells in the brain did not significantly reduce stroke disability, according to results of the first major clinical trial of laser therapy presented at the American Stroke Association's International ...


Women less likely to receive critical care after a stroke, researchers find

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created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women are 30 percent less likely than men to receive a critical clot-busting drug than can limit brain damage after a stroke, according to a Michigan State University study.


Study shows ultrasound and tPA effective for stroke

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created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An experimental therapy using tiny bubbles activated by transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound combined with the clot busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is more effective than tPA alone in treating patients suffering ...



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