http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Costs to treat stroke are projected to more than double and the number of people having strokes may increase 20 percent by 2030, according to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-america.html Cardiology Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:01 EST news288435573 While the effects of acute stroke have been widely studied, brain damage during the subacute phase of stroke has been a neglected area of research. Now, a new study by the University of South Florida reports that within a week of a stroke caused by a blood clot in one side of the brain, the opposite side of the brain shows signs of microvascular injury. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-far-reaching-microvascular-uninjured-side-brain.html Neuroscience Mon, 20 May 2013 12:38:37 EST news288272253 (HealthDay)—Pre-existing antiplatelet use does not seem to be associated with an increased risk of ischemic hemorrhage (ICH), according to an observational study published in the February issue of Academic Emergency Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-antiplatelet-drugs-dont-ich.html Cardiology Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:40:01 EST news283439075 In an examination of long-term mortality after stroke, adults 50 years of age and younger who experienced a stroke had a significantly higher risk of death in the following 20 years compared with the general population, according to a study in the March 20 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-adults-age-higher-death-long-term.html Cardiology Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:00:14 EST news282927382 (Medical Xpress)—When someone has a stroke, time equals brain. The longer a stroke is left untreated, the more brain tissue is lost. Since the only proven treatment—a clot-busting drug—works in less than half of patients, stroke physicians had high hopes for a mechanical device that could travel through the blocked blood vessel to retrieve or break up the clot, restoring blood flow to the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-devices-meds-recovery-clot-caused.html Cardiology Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:50:01 EST news282469258 Specialists at Stony Brook Medicine's Cerebrovascular and Stroke Center (CVC) are treating patients with a new generation of blood clot removal devices that show promise in successfully revascularizing stroke patients, including those with large vessel blockages. The Solitaire Flow Restoration Device and the Trevo device, approved by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2012 to treat stroke caused by the sudden obstruction of a brain blood vessel (acute ischemic stroke) showed improved results over a previous standard and first generation clot-removal device in clinical trials.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-fda-approved-clot-devices-patients.html Cardiology Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:11:26 EST news281085067 Every 30-minute delay in breaking up a blood clot from a stroke was associated with a 10 percent decrease in the probability of a good outcome, regardless of other factors such as stroke severity, according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-blood-clots-worse-outcome.html Cardiology Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:20:01 EST news279785415 The use of advanced imaging shortly after the onset of acute stroke failed to identify a subgroup of patients who could benefit from a clot-removal procedure, a study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-imaging-acute-ischemic-patients-brains.html Cardiology Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:44:35 EST news279549773 Adding endovascular therapy to clot-busting therapy for stroke did not significantly improve stroke recovery at three months, according to a study presented in a special symposium at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-adding-endovascular-therapy-tpa-didnt.html Cardiology Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:50:01 EST news279524104 (HealthDay)—The standard medical care for patients having an ischemic stroke is to give powerful "clot-busting" drugs as soon as possible after the start of the stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-clot-buster-drug-treatment.html Cardiology Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:10:01 EST news279457990 An international multicenter clinical trial led by a Cedars-Sinai neurologist on the combination of brain cooling and "clot-busting" drug therapy after stroke has received Food and Drug Administration approval to expand from 50 patients to 400. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-brain-cooling-clot-busting-drug-therapy.html Neuroscience Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:38:49 EST news279365924 People having an ischemic stroke should receive clot-dissolving therapy – if appropriate—within 60 minutes of arriving at the hospital, according to new American Stroke Association guidelines published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-people-therapy-minutes-hospital.html Cardiology Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:00:03 EST news278869571 A new ground-breaking study about to be published in the Adis journal CNS Drugs provides clinical evidence that, for the first time, chronic neurological dysfunction from stroke or traumatic brain injury can rapidly improve following a single dose of a drug that targets brain inflammation, even years after the stroke or traumatic event. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-survivors-traumatic-brain-injury.html Medical research Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:17:21 EST news270933432 One of the key indicators of the quality of care provided by hospitals to acute stroke victims is the percentage of patients who die within a 30-day period. A new study shows that the decisions made by patients and their families to stop care may account for as many as 40 percent of these stroke-related deaths, calling into question whether it is a valid measure of a hospital's skill in providing stroke care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-validity-quality.html Neuroscience Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:00:02 EST news265291854 Even when its clot-dissolving powers are removed, the stroke drug tPA can still protect brain cells from the loss of oxygen and glucose induced by a stroke, researchers have discovered. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-tpa-effective-treatment.html Neuroscience Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:00:04 EST news261756644 As part of the Affordable Care Act, hospitals and medical centers are required to report their quality-of-care and risk-standardized outcomes for stroke and other common medical conditions. But reporting models for mortality that don't consider stroke severity may unfairly skew these results. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hospitals-stroke-care-markedly-severity.html Health Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:00:10 EST news261750250 The ability for substances to pass through the blood-brain barrier is increased after adult stroke, but not after neonatal stroke, according to a new study the UCSF that will be published July 11 in the Journal of Neuroscience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-blood-brain-barrier-permeable-newborns-adults.html Neuroscience Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:00:22 EST news261155926 LMU researchers developed a new strategy for the treatment of stroke, which could help to improve blood flow to ischemic brain. Strokes are due to a localized reduction in the blood supply to the brain, mainly due to the blockage of a vessel by a blood clot. This can lead to the death and irreversible loss of nerve cells. In about 90% of cases, no dedicated treatment is available that can effectively prevent serious damage following an acute stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-approach-therapy.html Cardiology Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:53:09 EST news250170773 Researchers from the University of Exeter, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), are working with clinicians from the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) and the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) to reduce the time it takes from the start of a stroke to the administration of vital clot-busting drug treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-benefit-victims.html Other Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:56:16 EST news248529359 Delirium develops in about 30 percent of patients hospitalized shortly after a stroke and is linked to poorer outcomes, according to a new meta-analysis published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-delirium-linked-poorer-outcomes-patients.html Cardiology Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:00:02 EST news246209418 (Medical Xpress) -- Acute stroke therapy is at a crossroads, a University of Cincinnati (UC) researcher writes in a national medical journal, with clinical practice increasingly using approaches that have not been proven clinically effective while conduct of clinical trials to provide critical data is impeded. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-acute-therapy-crossroads.html Cardiology Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:16:18 EST news240045355 People who suffer from acute stroke or Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA, a mini stroke) could get better treatment in the future thanks to the expansion of a large clinical trial of a new combination of drugs led by researchers at The University of Nottingham. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-tardis-trial-dimension-treatment.html Cardiology Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:24:47 EST news238062261 Using a patient's own bone marrow stem cells to treat acute stroke is feasible and safe, according to the results of a ground-breaking Phase I trial at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-bone-marrow-stem-cell-therapy.html Neuroscience Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:34:56 EST news234015900 Acute stroke patients who arrive at Rush Oak Park Hospital’s emergency room can now be seen immediately by a Rush University Medical Center stroke neurologist without the specialist actually being there.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-telemedicine-robot-specialists-remotely-patients.html Other Mon, 09 May 2011 10:46:21 EST news224156740 New research from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine shows that doctors can make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone application with the same accuracy as a diagnosis at a medical computer workstation. This technology can be particularly useful in rural medical settings. This allows for real-time access to specialists such as neurologists, regardless of where the physicians and patients are located. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-iphone-app.html Other Mon, 09 May 2011 09:35:19 EST news224152495