Some patients with an acute large-vessel ischemic stroke who already show a large-core infarct at early imaging can still benefit from thrombectomy, especially if the procedure successfully restores ...

Two of the largest global studies on heart attack and stroke risk point to the same finding: most cardiovascular events trace ...

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Can you have a stroke and not know it? Unfortunately, yes. It is a phenomenon called a silent stroke or, more formally, a silent cerebral infarction. Investigators at the University of Alabama at ...

According to a study published American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), percent insular ribbon infarction (PIRI) complements current stroke outcome predictors, classifying patients with slowly ...

Endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke is generally avoided when the infarction is large, but the effect of endovascular therapy with medical care as compared with medical care alone for large ...

Consciousness is defined as the presence of a wakeful arousal state and the awareness to internal and external events 1. Both aspects of consciousness depend on the integrity of the ascending ...

An episode of shingles, caused by the herpes zoster virus, temporarily increases the risk for stroke and potentially myocardial infarction (MI) in the months after the infection, according to two ...

Malignant middle cerebral artery [MMCA] infarction has a different topographic distribution that might confound the relationship between lesion volume and outcome. Retrospective study to determine the ...

A lacunar stroke, also called a lacunar infarct, occurs when an artery that supplies blood to the deeper portions of the brain becomes blocked. Other types of strokes occur on the surface, or cortex, ...