Remote ischaemic conditioning for preventing and treating ischaemic stroke.

CONCLUSIONS: We found low-quality evidence that RIC may reduce the risk of recurrent stroke in participants with intracerebral artery stenosis and reduce stroke severity in participants undergoing carotid stenting, but it may increase death or dependence in participants with acute ischaemic stroke who are undergoing intravenous thrombolysis. However, there is considerable uncertainty about these conclusions because of the small number of studies and low quality of the evidence.
PMID: 29974450 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - July 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Zhao W, Zhang J, Sadowsky MG, Meng R, Ding Y, Ji X Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research