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Measuring Ambulation, Motor, and Behavioral Outcomes with Poststroke Fluoxetine in Tanzania: The Phase II MAMBO Trial
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Dec 6:tpmd210653. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0653. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe test the safety of fluoxetine postischemic stroke in sub-Saharan Africa. Adults with acute ischemic stroke, seen <14 days since new-onset motor deficits, were enrolled from November 2019 to October 2020 in a single-arm, open-label phase II trial of daily fluoxetine 20 mg for 90 days at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The primary outcome was safety with secondary outcomes of medication adherence and tolerability. About 34 patients were enrolled (11 were female; mean age 52.2 years, 65% < 60 year...
Source: Am J Trop Med Hyg - December 6, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Farrah Mateen Emmanuel Massawe Notburga Mworia Seif Ismail Dylan Rice Andre Vogel Boniface Kapina Novath Mukyanuzi Deus Buma Jef Gluckstein Michael Wasserman Susan Fasoli Faraja Chiwanga Kigocha Okeng'o Source Type: research

Biomarkers of gastric cancer-related ischemic stroke and its underlying pathogenesis
This study aimed to investigate the biomarkers and underlying pathogenesis of ischemic stroke in patients with gastric cancer (GC). Patients with active gastric cancer who had experienced acute ischemic stroke without conventional vascular risk factors (gastric cancer-related stroke [GCS] group) and visited The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University and First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from January 2003 to December 2016 were retrospectively enrolled. The patients’ clinical features and laboratory findings were compared with those of age-, sex-, and disease progression-matched patients...
Source: Medicine - April 1, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research

Ischemic stroke in cancer patients treated with direct oral anticoagulants for venous thromboembolism
Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are at least as efficacious as conventional anticoagulation therapy for the initial and long-term treatment of cancer patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE). Whether DOACs are non-inferior to low-molecular-weight heparin for the management of cancer patients with VTE is under investigation. In addition, the efficacy of DOACs for the treatment of cancer patients with arterial thrombosis (e.g., ischemic stroke) remains unclear. Herein, we report on two cancer patients admitted to our hospital with Stage IV gastric adenocarcinoma who were being treated with DOACs due to a history of VTE ...
Source: Thrombosis Research - March 31, 2017 Category: Hematology Authors: Yasufumi Gon, Manabu Sakaguchi, Junji Takasugi, Hideki Mochizuki Tags: Letter to the Editors-in-Chief Source Type: research