ALLMedicine™ Cerebrovascular Disease Center

Sep 25th, 2021 - RCVS (Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstrictive Syndrome) is a condition associated with vasoactive agents that alter endothelial function. There is growing evidence that endothelial inflammation contributes to cerebrovascular disease in patients with ...

Sep 25th, 2021 - Autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a cerebrovascular disease closely related to the NOTCH3 gene. More than 200 mutations in this gene have been reported to be associated with this disease...

Sep 24th, 2021 - The anti-cancer potential of dipyridamole has been suggested from experiments, but evidence from population-based studies is still lacking. We aimed to explore if dipyridamole use was related to a lower risk of lymphoid neoplasms. We identified in...

Sep 23rd, 2021 - Previous studies indicated that selenium (Se) may play an important role in cardio-cerebrovascular disease. However, the relationship between circulating selenium and risk of first stroke remains inconclusive. We conducted a secondary analysis of ...

Sep 23rd, 2021 - Chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive dysfunction are common in the elder population. There is evidence of a connection between these conditions, possibly by a shared vascular pathogenesis. Processing speed is commonly impa...

Jun 22nd, 2021 - The Society for Vascular Surgery implementation document for management of extracranial cerebrovascular disease.|2021|AbuRahma AF,Avgerinos ED,Chang RW,Darling RC,Duncan AA,|

May 7th, 2020 - Stroke is an uncommon but an important and under-recognized cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Strokes may be due to either brain ischemia or intracranial hemorrhage. Common symptoms of pediatric acute stroke include headache, vomiting,...

Feb 6th, 2019 - Interventional pain management involves diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain. This specialty utilizes minimally invasive procedures to target therapeutics to the central nervous system and the spinal column. A subset of patients encountered in ...

Jan 17th, 2019 - The Ginkgo biloba special extract, EGb 761® has been widely used in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). To guide clinical practice in the Asian region, the Asian Clinical Expert Group on Neurocognitive ...

Jun 14th, 2018 - Cardiovascular disease (CVD), which encompasses atherosclerotic conditions such as coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and peripheral arterial disease, is the most common cause of death among adults in the United States. Treatment to ...

Jan 11th, 2018 - Patients will be enrolled into one of three PRX-102 dosing groups (0.2 mg/kg, 1.0 mg/kg, 2.0 mg/kg) to receive the same dose they had received in the Phase 1/2 study, PB-102-F01, and will continue to receive intravenous infusions of PRX-102 every ...

Jul 14th, 2021 - Takeaway The presence of hypertension and diabetes together was associated with a significantly increased risk of inpatient COVID-19 mortality. Furthermore, advanced age (>65 years), male sex, hypertension and cerebrovascular disease were independ...

Jun 28th, 2021 - Headache specialists face many challenges and difficult decisions in the treatment of acute migraine. They must first accurately distinguish acute migraine from migraine mimics such as thunderclap headaches or a COVID-19 headache without fever. Ac...

Jun 21st, 2021 - Antihypertensive medications that cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) may be linked with less memory decline, compared with other drugs for high blood pressure, suggest the findings of a meta-analysis. Over a 3-year period, cognitively normal olde...

Mar 31st, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added several new medical conditions to its list of those that predispose adults to more sev...

Mar 19th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A more accurate estimate of the stroke risk in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection has come from a large American Heart Association regi...