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Fighting brain damage from stroke using substance naturally found in humans
A molecular substance that occurs naturally in humans and rats was found to "substantially reduce" brain damage after an acute stroke and contribute to a better recovery, according to a newly released animal study by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital.The study, published online before print in Stroke, the journal of the American Heart Association, was the first ever to show that the peptide AcSDKP provides neurological protection when administered one to four hours after the onset of an ischemic stroke.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 14, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Saving brain cells after stroke by halting immune response
A new study in animals shows that using a compound to block the body's immune response greatly reduces disability after a stroke.The study by scientists from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health also showed that particular immune cells - CD4+ T-cells produce a mediator, called interleukin (IL) -21 that can cause further damage in stroke tissue. Moreover, normal mice, ordinarily killed or disabled by an ischemic stroke, were given a shot of a compound that blocks the action of IL-21.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 18, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Groundbreaking Guidelines On Patient-Centered Measures For Nonsurgical Stroke Interventions
The first outcome-based guidelines for interventional treatment of acute ischemic stroke - providing recommendations for rapid treatment - will benefit individuals suffering from brain attacks, often caused by artery-blocking blood clots. Representatives from the Society of Interventional Radiology and seven other medical societies created a multispecialty and international consensus on the metrics and benchmarks for processes of care and technical and clinical outcomes for stroke patients...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Astrocyte Signaling Sheds Light On Stroke Research
New research published in The Journal of Neuroscience suggests that modifying signals sent by astrocytes, our star-shaped brain cells, may help to limit the spread of damage after an ischemic brain stroke. The study in mice, by neuroscientists at Tufts University School of Medicine, determined that astrocytes play a critical role in the spread of damage following stroke. The National Heart Foundation reports that ischemic strokes account for 87% of strokes in the United States...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Earlier Treatment Following Stroke Onset Associated With Reduced Risk Of In-Hospital Death, Higher Rate Of Discharge To Home
In a study that included nearly 60,000 patients with acute ischemic stroke, thrombolytic treatment (to help dissolve a blood clot) that was started more rapidly after symptom onset was associated with reduced in-hospital mortality and intracranial hemorrhage and higher rates of independent walking ability at discharge and discharge to home, according to a study in the June 19 issue of JAMA. "Intravenous (IV) tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) is a treatment of proven benefit for select patients with acute ischemic stroke as long as 4.5 hours after onset...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
New Risk Assessment Tool To Predict Stroke In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
A more accurate and reliable stroke prediction model has been developed to help physicians decide whether to start blood-thinning treatment for patients with atrial fibrillation, as described in the current online issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association. Atrial fibrillation affects millions of Americans. Because the heart-rhythm disturbance promotes the formation of blood clots that can travel to the brain and block an artery, atrial fibrillation independently increases the risk of ischemic stroke four-to-five-fold...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Drug Combo Cuts Stroke Risk After TIA
A simple combination of two anti-clotting drugs, clopidogrel and aspirin, can cut the risk of a stroke in patients who have already experienced a mini-stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). This was the result of a phase 3 clinical trial conducted in China with the help of a US physician who says it could change the standard of care in the US. The investigators report their findings in the 26 June online issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM. The trial took place at several sites in China and was designed in partnership with S...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Ischemic Stroke Induced By An Embolic Agent In The Rete Mirabile In Miniature Pigs
Rodents are frequently used as animal models for ischemic stroke studies induced by middle cerebral artery occlusion. However, their anatomic structure is significantly different from humans. Thus, recent studies have focused on developing stroke models in large animals with similar anatomic structure as the human brain. The swine have several properties resembling the human brain, including brain volume and weight, quantity of cortical gyri and the percentage of white matter to gray matter...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Stroke 'causes 60% loss of quality years'
For every 5 quality years of life, 3 are taken away for people who have had a stroke, long-term research has found - a loss of 60%. The study, published in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology, involved 1,188 patients - 748 who had a stroke and 440 who had a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Researchers followed these patients for 5 years. The researchers used a measure called utility, which put a numerical value on the desirability of various health outcomes for patients responding to a questionnaire...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 10, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Despite recent FAST awareness campaign, only a minority of stroke victims seen by doctors within recommended timeframe
In a study, published online in the journal Age and Ageing, of over 270 patients newly diagnosed with minor strokes or transient ischaemic attack (TIA), only a minority sought medical help within the timeframe recommended by the Royal College of Physicians. This is despite the high profile FAST campaign, which was taking place at the time that the study was conducted. Rapid assessment and treatment of patients with TIA or minor stroke reduces the risk of early recurrent stroke...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Stroke hospitalizations rising for young adults and African-Americans
While overall, fewer Americans are being hospitalized for ischemic stroke, among young adults and African-Americans, stroke hospitalizations are rising.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Gender gap in stroke treatment likely due to delay by women seeking care
Women with clot-caused strokes are less likely than men to arrive at the hospital in time to receive the best treatment, according to a European study reported in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. In the study, 11 percent of women with acute ischemic strokes were treated with the clot-dissolving medication alteplase, compared with 14 percent of men. Study participants included 5,515 patients at 12 hospitals in the Netherlands...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Rates of 'clot-buster' treatment for stroke increased by telestroke service
A telestroke service increases the rate of effective tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) 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: Health News from Medical News Today - October 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Use of Buyang Huanwu Decoction to treat stroke
The traditional Chinese medicine Buyang Huanwu Decoction has been shown to improve the neurological function of patients with stroke. Baiyan Liu from Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China showed that Buyang Huanwu Decoction significantly increased the number of cells positive for 5-bromodeoxyuridine, a cell proliferation-related marker, microtubule-associated protein-2, a marker of neuronal differentiation, and growth-associated protein 43, a marker of synaptic plasticity in the ischemic rat cerebral regions...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Common heartburn drugs may raise stroke risk
Drugs commonly used to treat heartburn - proton pump inhibitors - may increase the risk of ischemic stroke by more than a fifth, a new study finds.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
