ALLMedicine™ Cardioembolic Stroke Center

Mar 3rd, 2023 - Administrative data can be useful for stroke research but have historically lacked data on stroke severity. Hospitals increasingly report the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score using an International Classification of Disease...

Feb 25th, 2023 - There are limited data on head-to-head comparative risk of stroke between sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA). We compared risk of stroke with its subtypes and incident atrial ...

Feb 18th, 2023 - Increasing evidence implicates the microbiome as a susceptibility factor for ischemic stroke (IS). Interpretation of this evidence is difficult for the composition of the microbiome is influenced by various factors and might affect differently in ...

Feb 14th, 2023 - Colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF1), also known as macrophage colony-stimulating factor, has been shown to be associated with risk of ischemic stroke in conventional epidemiological study. We performed a Mendelian randomization analysis to evaluate...

Feb 8th, 2023 - Researchers are looking for a better way to prevent an ischemic stroke which occurs when a blood clot travelled to the brain in people who within the last 72 hours had: a stroke due to a blood clot that formed outside the heart (acute non-cardioem...

Feb 8th, 2023 - Researchers are looking for a better way to prevent an ischemic stroke which occurs when a blood clot travelled to the brain in people who within the last 72 hours had: a stroke due to a blood clot that formed outside the heart (acute non-cardioem...

Dec 20th, 2022 - Stroke risk for non-valvular AF is estimated with the CHA2DS2-VASc score. When patients have no risk factors, no anticoagulation is recommended with a Class III, loe B. With 1 risk factor in men and 2 in women, anticoagulation should be considered...

Aug 12th, 2022 - Summary of Research Protocol: Study Title: A real-world registry of multidisciplinary collaborative diagnosis and treatment models for cardioembolic stroke Research Objectives: ① Main objective: To establish a multidisciplinary assisted diagnosis ...

Aug 3rd, 2022 - Observational, prospective, multicenter, cohort study in patients with recent cardioembolic stroke (<24 hours) and previous oral or parenteral anticoagulant therapy (last dose recieved <24hours) . Patients in which anticoagulante therapy is mantai...

Jul 6th, 2022 - Introduction Stroke is a leading cause of overall mortality, morbidity and disability worldwide. In 2010 it was the second leading cause of death whilst in 2019 it ranked third overall for disability adjusted life years (DALYs) and second for thos...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Including cardiac CT in the initial hyperacute stroke imaging protocol gives a higher yield for detecting high-risk cardioaortic sources of embolism than the current practice of performing later echocardiography, a new study has shown. "We found a...

Sep 7th, 2022 - The influenza vaccine is linked to a significantly lower risk of ischemic stroke, with the reduced risk apparent at a population level even outside of flu season, in new findings that suggest the vaccine itself, and not just avoidance of the virus...

Oct 28th, 2021 - Stroke survivors carrying CYP2C19 loss-of-function alleles had better secondary prevention when taking ticagrelor (Brilinta) versus clopidogrel (Plavix) as an add-on to aspirin, according to the Chinese CHANCE-2 trial. Subsequent ischemic or hemor...

Aug 4th, 2021 - An incidental diagnosis of intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis in stroke-free individuals should trigger a thorough assessment of vascular health, according to the authors of a study identifying risk factors and vascular event risk in asymptomat...

Nov 6th, 2020 - The presence of certain complicating features on plaques in the carotid artery are an under-recognized cause of ischemic stroke, a new study suggests. The CAPIAS (Carotid Plaque Imaging in Acute Stroke) study showed that complicated nonstenosing c...