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Early DAPT Improves Outcomes for Strokes With No Other Tx Options
(MedPage Today) -- DALLAS -- Adding tirofiban (Aggrastat) to aspirin for dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) within 24 hours of acute ischemic stroke improved outcomes for patients who weren't candidates for thrombolytic or endovascular treatment...
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - February 12, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Tirofiban Improves Outcomes for Strokes With No Other Tx Options
(MedPage Today) -- DALLAS -- Tirofiban (Aggrastat) improved acute ischemic stroke outcomes for patients who weren't candidates for thrombolytic or endovascular treatment, according to a phase III trial from China. The glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor...
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - February 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Encouraging Data for Stroke Lytics in DOAC Users
(MedPage Today) -- Thrombolytic use in select stroke patients with recent direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) ingestion did not raise the risk of the most feared bleeding complication, according to the largest-yet observational dataset. In fact...
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - January 3, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Lotus, CoreValve On Par for Survival, Stroke Longer Term
(MedPage Today) -- But pacemaker rate, hemodynamics, valve thrombosis raise concerns
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - March 1, 2019 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

TAVR: LAA Thrombus Embolization as a Cause of Stroke? (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Researchers suggest routine thrombus screening on cardiac CT
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - January 16, 2017 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

TCT: Clot Grabber Offers No Advantage in PCI (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Stroke risk instead of benefit from thrombus aspiration with primary PCI
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - October 14, 2015 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Zontivity Cuts Stroke, Stent Thrombosis Risk (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Adding vorapaxar to traditional dual antiplatelet therapy seems to be warranted.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - December 2, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Kidney Disease Not Always a Barrier to tPA (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- CKD need not prohibit thrombolytic therapy in otherwise eligible stroke patients.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 25, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Lytics Help Regardless of Age, Severity
(MedPage Today) -- Thrombolytic treatment for acute ischemic stroke appears to help even the oldest patients and in both mild and severe cases, a trial meta-analysis showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 7, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Guidelines on rtPA Brain Bleeds Lack Data (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Current guidelines for treating brain bleeds caused by thrombolytic therapy for strokes are based on empirical evidence alone and widely used treatments may not be adequate, researchers suggested.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - July 29, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Score Predicts Response to Clot Busters
(MedPage Today) -- Higher-risk patients according to a simple risk score incorporating age and stroke severity appear to derive the most benefit from thrombolytic therapy for an acute ischemic stroke, an observational study showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - May 6, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Speeding tPA Use, Assuming Consent (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- This week, JAMA released a theme issue on neurology, which contained several studies related to stroke. They included two studies evaluating ways to improve the speed with which thrombolytic therapy is administered and one looking at whether consent to thrombolytic therapy can be assumed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - April 24, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Early Surgery Looks Safe After tPA
(MedPage Today) -- Performing carotid endarterectomy or stenting in patients who were recently treated with thrombolytic therapy for an acute stroke appeared to be safe, an observational study showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - March 11, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Clot-Busting Drugs Used More Often in Stroke (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Stroke patients eligible for thrombolytic therapy have significantly better odds of receiving the therapy than they did a few years ago, according to a review of more than a million stroke cases.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 23, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Endovascular Tx Does Not Top Clot-Buster (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Compared with intravenous thrombolytic therapy, endovascular therapy did not improve outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke, an Italian trial showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - February 6, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news