Giving intra-arterial thrombolysis after successful thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke led to a large increase in the number of patients achieving an excellent neurologic outcome at ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. - December 17, 2014 - Penumbra, Inc., the market leader in intra-arterial stroke treatment, announced that an independent study published online today in the New England Journal of ...

Techniques that keep brain arteries open (intracranial stenting) or inject clot-busting drugs directly to the brain (intra-arterial tPA) may be more effective than other urgent ischemic stroke ...

June 6, 2012 (Lisbon, Portugal) — Baseline magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics, specifically, an MRI mismatch in lesion volumes between the perfusion-weighted image (PWI) and the ...

Despite probable higher rates of recanalization with endovascular therapies, limited evidence exists to support the clinical benefits in patients with stroke who are unresponsive to standard ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent randomized controlled trials, including MR CLEAN, ESCAPE, EXTEND-IA and SWIFT PRIME, have demonstrated ...

Clot-busting devices administered through the artery do not improve victims’ chances of living independently after a stroke, according to research published Thursday. Researchers funded by the ...

DALLAS, Oct. 25 – Injecting clot-busting drugs into an artery after stroke nearly doubled the rate of favorable outcomes and nearly halved the number of deaths compared to people who didn't get the ...

Despite higher initial costs, treating patients with acute ischemic stroke with a stent retriever plus tissue-type plasminogen activator was economically dominant over the long term compared with tPA ...

Around 15 years have now elapsed since thrombolysis was first shown to be effective for treating acute ischemic stroke, but therapeutic uptake has been modest. As outlined in this Review, research ...

A 72 year-old woman presented with the acute onset of a left hemiplegia affecting the face, arm and leg, associated with a neglect syndrome and right eye deviation. After the initial CT showed no ...