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Study: Racial, ethnic differences in outcomes following stroke known as subarachnoid hemorrhage
(St. Michael's Hospital) Race or ethnicity can be a significant clue in the United States as to who will survive a kind of stroke known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage and who will be discharged to institutional care, a new study has found.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 10, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Telestroke service increases rates of 'clot-buster' treatment for stroke, reports Neurosurgery
(Wolters Kluwer Health) A telestroke service increases the rate of effective tissue plasminogen activator therapy for patients with acute ischemic stroke treated at community hospitals, according to a report in the October issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Flu shot halves risk of heart attack or stroke in people with history of heart attack, study finds
(University Health Network) The flu vaccine may not only ward off serious complications from influenza, it may also reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke by more than 50 percent among those who have had a heart attack, according to new research led by Dr. Jacob Udell, a cardiologist at Women's College Hospital and clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Effect of reducing blood pressure with medications immediately following ischemic stroke
(The JAMA Network Journals) Jiang He, M.D., Ph.D., of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, and colleagues examined whether moderate lowering of blood pressure within the first 48 hours after the onset of an acute ischemic stroke would reduce death and major disability at 14 days or hospital discharge.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Surgery after major stroke also improves survival odds in elderly patients
(Heidelberg University Hospital) Patients who are over the age of 60 and have suffered a major stroke due to blockage of the middle cerebral artery benefit from hemicraniectomy -- removal of part of the skull located above the affected brain tissue. These patients' chances of survival increase two-fold. However, patients who have been operated on often survive with severe disabilities, while patients who do not undergo the surgery generally die quickly (published now in New England Journal of Medicine).
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 20, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Helping stroke patients transition from hospital to home
(Michigan State University) Stroke patients and their family caregivers often find the transition from hospital to home difficult. However, a new $2 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute will help Michigan State University researchers look at ways to improve that experience using a nontraditional approach.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

For stroke patients, hospital bed position is delicate balancing act
(Loyola University Health System) During the first 24 hours after a stroke, attention to detail --such as hospital bed positioning -- is critical to patient outcomes.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 30, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

New study 'game-changer' for stroke treatment worldwide
(Melbourne Health) An Australian and New Zealand randomized clinical research study led by The Royal Melbourne Hospital, looked at the effectiveness of a new treatment for stroke. The study involved adding a minimally invasive clot removal procedure called stent thrombectomy to standard clot-dissolving therapy, known as tissue plasminogen activator.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 11, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Cold weather linked to increased stroke risk in atrial fibrillation patients
(European Society of Cardiology) Cold weather is associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr. Tze-Fan Chao, cardiologist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and the National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan. The study in nearly 290,000 patients suggests that cool climate may be an underrated issue for health that deserves more attention.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 30, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Neurosurgery researchers receive NIH grants to study Parkinson's, stroke, & brain cancer
(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) Researchers from the Department of Neurological Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center recently received multi-year, multi-million dollar grants from the National Institutes of Health for studies in Parkinson's disease, stroke, and brain cancer.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 7, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

UH Case Medical Center first surgical site to test regen treatment for chronic stroke
(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) University Hospitals Case Medical Center is the first surgical site for a Phase 2b clinical trial study to further evaluate the safety and efficacy of an investigational cell therapy for the treatment of chronic motor deficit following an ischemic stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 26, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Being female increases stroke hospitalization risk by 23 percent in atrial fibrillation patients
(European Society of Cardiology) A 15-year study in 1.1 million patients with atrial fibrillation has found that women are 23 percent more likely to be hospitalized for acute ischemic stroke than men. The research was presented today at CARDIOSTIM -- EHRA EUROPACE 2016 by Dr. Ghanshyam Shantha, a cardiovascular disease fellow at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, US.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 9, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

New oral anticoagulants provide same stroke prevention as warfarin but cause less bleeding
(European Society of Cardiology) The new oral anticoagulants provide the same stroke prevention as warfarin but cause less intracranial bleeding, reports an observational study in more than 43,000 patients presented at ESC Congress 2016 today by Dr. Laila Staerk, a research fellow at Herlev and Gentofte University Hospital, Denmark.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 27, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Software-based system improves the ability to determine the cause of ischemic stroke
(Massachusetts General Hospital) Massachusetts General Hospital investigators have developed a software package that provides evidence-based, automated support for diagnosing the cause of stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 29, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Heart attack and stroke patients prescribed statin medication upon discharge have better outcomes
(Intermountain Medical Center) Patients with a prior history of heart attacks or stroke have better outcomes when cholesterol-lowering medications are used after they're discharged from the hospital, according to a new study from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 12, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

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