Contents
- 1 Imaging may allow safe tPA treatment of patients with unwitnessed strokes
- 2 Dementia trend shows later onset with fewer years of the disease
- 3 Compound improves stroke outcome by reducing lingering inflammation
- 4 New ‘brain health index’ can predict how well patients will do after stroke
- 5 Wildfire smoke associated with more ER visits for heart, stroke ailments among seniors
Imaging may allow safe tPA treatment of patients with unwitnessed strokes
First published on ScienceDaily.com A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators may lead to a significant expansion in the number of stroke patients who can safely be treated with intravenous tPA (tissue plasminogen activator), the "clot busting"...
Dementia trend shows later onset with fewer years of the disease
First published on ScienceDaily.com The diagnosis is one that a family never wants to hear: Your father has Alzheimer's disease. Your mother has stroke-related dementia. A recently released study, included in a special supplement to the Journal of Gerontology,...
Compound improves stroke outcome by reducing lingering inflammation
First published on ScienceDaily.com An experimental compound appears to improve stroke outcome by reducing the destructive inflammation that can continue months after a stroke, scientists report. Rats consuming compound 21 following a clot-based stroke -- the most...
New ‘brain health index’ can predict how well patients will do after stroke
First published on ScienceDaily.com A new computer programme developed by scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow can assess whole brain deterioration and help predict cognitive function after stroke up to ten times more accurately than current...
Wildfire smoke associated with more ER visits for heart, stroke ailments among seniors
Published first on ScienceDaily Smoke from wildfires may send people -- particularly seniors -- to hospital emergency rooms (ERs) with heart, stroke-related complaints, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal...
Life with spasticity
