Intravenous thrombolysis remains a standard treatment for acute ischemic stroke within 4.5 hours after onset. Vascular ...

About 50% of patients have headache after a hemorrhagic stroke, and more than a third report severe pain — yet headache care ...

HealthDay News — More than one in four critically ill patients with stroke experience delirium, according to a study published online July 1 in the American Journal of Critical Care.

Delirium affected 44% of critically ill patients in an Ohio medical center who were hospitalized after a recent stroke, ...

Out of 663 stroke activations, 251 patients received neurointervention, Phadnis said; that included 140 patients (55.8%) who received tPA only, 77 (30.7%) who received thrombectomy only, and 34 ...

Even so, the authors warned that the patients included in the meta-analysis of over 5,400 individuals -- drawn from the TIMING, ELAN, OPTIMAS, and START trials -- were mostly peop ...

Intake of more than seven cups/day water was associated with a reduced risk for ischemic stroke (odds ratio, 0.82) but not ICH. There was variation in the associations by geographic region.

The definition according to the European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study (ECASS) II was any hemorrhage with neurologic deterioration, as indicated by an NIHSS score that was higher by 4 points or ...

About 800,000 Americans suffer strokes each year. Dementia hits 1 in 7 of us. Now, the 21-point quiz called the "Brain Care Score" can show how you can reduce your risk.

A new scoring method can help doctors quickly decide which stroke patients will respond well to the clot-busting drug alteplase, according to a study published in the February 7, 2012, print issue ...

New "brain care score" from MGH can test your risk for dementia, stroke 01:23. BOSTON - Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have come up with a way to test your risk for ...