ALLMedicine™ Acute Stroke Center

Mar 21st, 2023 - The benefit of reperfusion therapies for acute ischemic stroke decreases over time. This decreasing benefit is presumably due to the disappearance of salvageable ischemic brain tissue (ie, the penumbra). To study the association between stroke ons...

Mar 19th, 2023 - How an artificial intelligence application is changing communication in acute stroke intervention.|2023|Baker CM,Taussky P,|

Mar 18th, 2023 - Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is an emergency requiring both fast and informative MR sequences. We aimed to assess the performance of an artificial intelligence-enhanced ultrafast (UF) protocol, compared to the reference protocol, in the AIS managem...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Published guidelines recommend high-intensity statins following an ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). The authors examined the potential for disparate patterns of statin prescribing in a cluster randomized trial of transitional ca...

Mar 18th, 2023 - To quantify contemporary outcomes following elective ascending aortic aneurysm repair, to determine risk factors for adverse events and to evaluate difference by institutional surgical volume. We included all elective hospitalisations of adult pat...

Oct 18th, 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic has led to a change in the way we manage acute medical illnesses. This pandemic had a negative impact on stroke care worldwide. The World Stroke Organization (WSO) has raised concerns due to the lack of available care and comprom...

May 20th, 2020 - Patients with acute ischemic stroke are at high-risk for contracting COVID-19 infection. Additionally, healthcare professionals including neurovascular ultrasound providers are also at risk of being infected by SARS-CoV-2 virus. Yet, preparedness ...

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,...

Aug 29th, 2018 - This paper is an abridged and modified version of guidelines produced by the Joint British Diabetes Societies for inpatient care on glycaemic management during the enteral feeding of people with stroke and diabetes. These were revised in 2017 and ...

Dec 9th, 2017 - The reduction of delay between onset and hospital arrival and adequate pre-hospital care of persons with acute stroke are important for improving the chances of a favourable outcome. The objective is to recommend evidence-based practices for the m...

Mar 16th, 2023 - The reperfusion of salvageable ischemic tissue (penumbra) to improve functional recovery is the aim of the endovascular treatment (EVT) of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) complicating large cerebral vessel occlusion (LVO). Downstream of an LVO, imagin...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Risk of dementia is high after stroke but the mechanisms of post stroke dementia (PSD) are insufficiently understood. Specifically, there are few data on how vascular and neurodegenerative mechanisms interact in determining cognitive decline after...

Mar 8th, 2023 - The Ekso (Ekso Bionics) is a wearable exoskeleton that provides robotic support and walking assistance for patients with lower extremity paralysis. Research suggests that exoskeleton-assisted gait training is as effective as conventional gait trai...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Over 3 consecutive days, the patients will be evaluated and will train on the rehabilitation robot REAplan® (http://www.axinesis.com/) to assess proximal bim-MSkL and on the manual dexterity tool Dextrain Manipulandum (https://www.dextrain.com/) t...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Regaining independent gait is one of the main goals in stroke rehabilitation and early prediction of gait outcome is important to guide discharge planning at acute stroke units, design rehabilitation and inform patients and relatives. In the last ...

Mar 22nd, 2023 - Genetic susceptibility to mood disorders may also play a causal role in stroke, according to a population-based prospective cohort study in Sweden. A higher polygenic risk score (PRS) for mood disorders consistently tracked with both all strokes a...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Symptoms of depression were associated with an increased risk of acute stroke, according to an international case-control study. Among more than 26,000 participants in the INTERSTROKE study, self-reported depressive symptoms were associated with s...

Jan 6th, 2023 - Lecanemab (Leqembi) was approved under the accelerated approval pathway to treat Alzheimer's disease, the FDA announced on Friday. The anti-amyloid should be started only in patients with mild cognitive impairment or who are at the mild dementia s...

Dec 21st, 2022 - Individual EMS agencies have varied substantially in their stroke case documentation, raising the question of whether problems might also extend to their operations and implementation of stroke protocols, according to preliminary work from Michiga...

Dec 12th, 2022 - People with high stress levels have a significantly higher risk for acute stroke than their counterparts with low stress, but the risk lessens if they feel in control of work and home life, a new study suggests. The benefit was greatest among thos...