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Moving from traditional to more advanced treatments in stroke care is cost-effective: A case study from Greece
Ischemic stroke (IS) is one of the leading causes of mortality and disability,1, 2 with the economic burden of post-stroke care being substantial.1, 2 After incidence of IS, the following effective treatments have been found to significantly improve survival and quality of life: (a) treatment in specialized centres (Stroke Units; SU), (b) use of intravenous thrombolytic therapy (IVT), (c) use of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for patients with large vessel occlusions (LVO) and (d) rehabilitation.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - September 10, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Konstantinos Dimitriadis, Ilias Kyriopoulos, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Konstantinos Vemmos, Wolfgang G. Kunz, Elias Mossialos Source Type: research

Cardiac Imaging Within Emergency CT Angiography for Acute Stroke Can Detect Atrial Clots
This study was approved by the ethics committee of the medical faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum. FIGURE 1 Figure 1. Flow chart showing the selection of the study population. Results A total of 59 patients underwent emergency CCTA (Figure 2A) for suspected stroke, of which 44 received the final diagnosis ischemic stroke. There were 17 patients who had ischemic stroke or TIA and known or newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation (Table 1; mean age: 77.5 years, standard deviation: 8.4 years; 53% female). As hypothesized, intracardiac thrombi could be visualized: once in an artificially occluded left atrial appe...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 9, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research