In certain patients suffering a severe ischemic stroke, a mechanical device can be used to remove a clot blocking blood flow to the brain. The minimally invasive procedure either suctions the clot directly out of a large ...
Aug 11, 2020
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Expanding standard techniques during mechanical thrombectomy—a procedure that removes a clot from an artery during stroke—allows researchers to reproducibly obtain and study local leukocyte populations during human stroke, ...
Aug 8, 2020
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A new research letter reveals fewer people have been admitted to stroke centers in Michigan and northwest Ohio since the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, and significantly fewer patients received a mechanical thrombectomy ...
Jun 9, 2020
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The use of clot retrieval devices to treat patients with ischemic stroke has risen steadily since the technology was first approved by the FDA nearly eight years ago. The minimally invasive procedure, known as mechanical ...
Sep 26, 2019
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Black and Hispanic people having a stroke are less likely than their white counterparts to get treatments proven to reduce death and improve quality of life, new research shows.
Aug 1, 2019
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Heart doctors from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on Stroke are calling on national health authorities for permission to provide stroke patients with mechanical thrombectomy, a life-saving treatment for ...
May 25, 2018
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ADAPT (A Direct Aspiration First-Pass Technique), a technique pioneered at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), is non-inferior to stent retrievers for mechanical thrombectomy in stroke patients with large-vessel ...
Jan 25, 2018
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More patients could be eligible for critical treatments to remove or dissolve blood clots that cause strokes, according to a new treatment guideline issued by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
Jan 24, 2018
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The first time a young surgeon threads a wire through a stroke victim's chest up through their neck and fishes a blood clot out of their brain may be one of the most harrowing moments in her career. Now, a UConn Health radiologist ...
Sep 20, 2017
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Intravenous Thrombolysis (IVT) pretreatment may improve mechanical thrombectomy (MT) outcomes in emergent large-vessel occlusions (ELVO) patients, according to a new study presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional ...
Jul 27, 2017
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