Tag: acute stroke
Hyperfine announces promising interim findings on portable, ultra-low-field MRI for acute...
Hyperfine has announced the presentation of interim data supporting the role portable, ultra-low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can play in acute stroke workup in...
The clinical trends driving innovation in stroke care
How is innovation in stroke care guided by contemporary clinical trials? This was the question NeuroNews put to Atul Gupta, the Chief Medical Officer...
Debates, case carousel and European first head up CX carotid and...
The programme for the 2024 Charing Cross (CX) symposium (23–25 April, London, UK) will see the topics of acute stroke care, carotid disease and...
CX 2024: New technologies and “special cases” underpin carotid and acute...
With a renewed focus on challenging cases, novel technologies and, overall, the most pressing issues in carotid treatments and acute stroke care, the 2024...
ASA seeks to ‘empower’ Hispanic-Latino communities with promotion of RÁPIDO acronym
To help “close the gap between knowledge and action”, the American Stroke Association (ASA) is launching a culturally relevant Spanish-language campaign named ‘Juntos Contra...
Missing outcome data is common and ‘does not occur at random’...
The phenomenon of missing outcome data (MOD) within stroke registries of mechanical thrombectomy cases “is not a rare event and does not occur completely...
US registry study reveals 75% of acute stroke patients wait more...
A new study led by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine (Chicago, USA) has revealed that nearly 75% of acute stroke patients wait more than...
Nicolab and Titan partner to improve prehospital workflows in acute stroke
Nicolab and Titan Neuroscience Research Australia have announced the formal signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two organisations. The MOU outlines...
Medical therapy improvements mean “the time has come” to reconduct prior...
“The time has definitely come to look at the evidence, and redo these studies,” posited Alun Davies (Imperial College London, London, UK), putting forward...
Methinks receives CE-mark certification for AI-based stroke triage software
Methinks has announced receipt of a CE mark for its artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical imaging software, Methinks Stroke Suite, following a milestone year of...
Imperative Care announces formation of digital stroke recovery company Kandu Health
Imperative Care has announced the formation of digital health startup Kandu Health as an independent company, with the aim of “changing the course of stroke...
Hospitals without high-level designation more likely to miss strokes following TAVI...
A study conducted by Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor, USA) researchers suggests that hospitals without the highest stroke care designation may be missing strokes that...
Brainomix and Visionable announce partnership to optimise UK stroke care pathway
Brainomix is set to strategically partner with Visionable, a real-time clinical collaboration platform designed to enable virtual healthcare models, in an attempt to transform...
World Stroke Day: WSO to launch new Stroke Certification initiative
On World Stroke Day (29 October 2022), the World Stroke Organization (WSO) has announced the launch of a new programme that aims to drive...
CX 2022: Acute stroke programme seeks to evaluate study data and...
Barbara Rantner (Munich, Germany) previews the Acute Stroke Challenges programme at CX 2022—a two-hour session featuring several debates and audience polls on carotid disease...
CX returns to in-person format once more in the London spring
Charing Cross (CX) chair Roger Greenhalgh welcomes the vascular community to this year's symposium, due to be held 26–28 April in London, UK, and...
Case report indicates 3D black blood vessel wall imaging can predict...
The early findings from a case report have highlighted the potential held by 3D black blood vessel wall post-contrast imaging to predict the outcomes...
Thrombolysis versus thrombectomy: Honours even between basilar occlusion treatments in CX...
Thrombolysis is considered as effective as mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of basilar artery occlusion (BAO)—despite existing evidence on both intervention options being limited....
Wallaby Medical raises funds to accelerate device development for stroke treatment
Wallaby Medical announced it has recently closed a series B+ financing round worth more than US$20 million. The company focuses on developing and commercialising...
LIVE from SNIS: The stroke trials you need to know about
From acute interventions to endovascular therapy indication expansion, Sunil Sheth from McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Houston, USA, kick-started the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s...
Brilinta significantly reduced the rate of the composite of stroke and...
Results from the positive phase III THALES trial showed AstraZeneca’s Brilinta (ticagrelor) 90mg used twice daily and taken with daily aspirin for 30 days,...
COVID-19 causes “widespread disruption” to neuroendovascular research around the globe
“Widespread disruption of neuroendovascular trials occurred because of COVID-19,” conclude the investigators of a survey-based study examining the impact of the pandemic. Now, as...
Stroke risk higher in patients with COVID-19 than influenza
A higher rate of stroke has been reported in adults with COVID-19 compared to a cohort of patients with influenza. A retrospective study published...
“Stoicism kills”: A concerning trend is causing preventable stroke deaths
A concerning new trend has been revealed by the Stroke Association. The charity states that the most at-risk groups are least likely to call...
Incidence of stroke due to COVID-19 lower than previously reported, study...
A recently published study has shown fewer people than previously reported have had strokes as a result of COVID-19; however, strokes that accompany the...
Endovascular therapy fails to outperform best medical management in basilar artery...
Final results of the Basilar artery international cooperation study (BASICS) have been reported by Wouter J Schonewille (University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands)...
Routine use of fluoxetine after acute stroke not recommended
The final results of EFFECTS (Efficacy of fluoxetine: A randomised controlled trial in stroke) have been presented by Erik Lundström (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)...
Direct mechanical thrombectomy alone deemed non-inferior to its combination with alteplase
Investigators of the DIRECT-MT trial, who evaluated Chinese patients with acute ischaemic stroke from large-vessel occlusion, concluded that endovascular thrombectomy alone was non-inferior in...
COVID-19 patients are “hypercoagulable and at an increased risk for stroke”
The association between COVID-19 and the increased incidence of stroke continues to grow. Situated within the pandemic’s epicentre, Kurt Yaeger and J Mocco, neurosurgeons...
Telemedicine in neurointervention set to last beyond the hype
“Telehealth is finally upon us. As someone who has been practicing in this world for several years, I was always waiting for an inflection...
EXTEND-IA TNK Part 2 trial finds no benefit of higher tenecteplase...
With the original trial demonstrating a higher incidence of substantial reperfusion with tenecteplase compared with alteplase prior to endovascular therapy, EXTEND-IA TNK Part 2...
Stroke care in London as pressure on NHS rises amid COVID-19
Following the announcement that the UK will remain on lockdown for the foreseeable future, NeuroNews speaks to Shahram Derakhshani about the impact of COVID-19...
The role of neurosurgeons during COVID-19
COVID-19 represents a global challenge that has exposed the USA’s fragmented public healthcare system, writes Demetrius Lopes. Here, he details Chicago’s action plan in...
SNIS releases recommendations for emergent neurointerventional patients during COVID-19
The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) has published a set of recommendations for the care of emergent neurointerventional patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Acute...
Selective endovascular cooling with TwinFlo catheter shows promise for neuroprotection in...
Ron Solar (ThermopeutiX, San Diego, USA) and colleagues report in EuroIntervention that the TwinFlo catheter (ThermopeutiX), in pigs, was associated with rapid, selective, deep...
Diffusion Pharmaceuticals anticipates coronavirus will slow enrolment in its ambulance-based stroke...
Diffusion Pharmaceuticals has announced that it expect delays in enrolment in the company’s ambulance-based PHAST-TSC phase 2 clinical trial in acute stroke due to...
ISC News: Blacks, Hispanics of Caribbean descent have higher stroke risk...
Both Blacks and Hispanics of Caribbean descent living in Northern Manhattan have a significantly higher risk of stroke than their non-Hispanic, white neighbours, according...
Portable MRIs bring diagnostics to stroke patients’ bedside
A portable, low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system may become a safe and practical way to get accurate brain images at a patient’s bedside,...
Quick and easy imaging interpretation for stroke therapy: The promise of...
Stroke treatment is time-sensitive. Every minute counts. Every delay in decision-making affects patient outcome. Given this, JM Ospel and colleagues from the University of...
Blood pressure reduction inversely associated with poor outcome after successful reperfusion
A study investigating the relationship between systolic blood pressure (BP) reduction and outcome of mechanical thrombectomy has shown that systolic BP, in the first...
MicroVention’s FRED flow diverter now FDA approved
MicroVention, a US based subsidiary of Terumo and a global neurovascular company announced the US FDA premarket approval (PMA) for the FRED (Flow re-direction...
Imperative Care announces US$85 million Series C financing for stroke treatments
Imperative Care has completed the initial closing of a Series C financing of US$85 million to support the commercial launch of the company’s portfolio,...
Viz.ai launches a range of new AI features
Viz.ai has announced a number of new features at the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) annual meeting in Atlanta, USA (20–23 November,...
Brainomix AI software improves stroke treatment rates at Budapest University Hospital
On the 8th of November 2019, during a symposium at the annual meeting of the Hungarian Neuroradiology Society (MNRT) in Mátraháza, Hungary, Bence Gunda...
More trained interventionalists needed to treat stroke “on the spot”
Nick Hopkins (Buffalo, USA) talks to BLearning Neuro at VEITH Symposium 2018 (13–17 November, New York, USA) about the DAWN trial, which showed that, in...
Aidoc releases complete AI package to speed identification and treatment of...
Aidoc, provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to radiologists, has announced the release of its complete AI package for the identification and triage of...
Advanced engineering improves rates of revascularisation through the first-pass effect
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In acute ischaemic stroke, fast and complete recanalisation of the occluded vessel is associated with improved outcomes. While morbidity and mortality in these patients...
The burden of a stroke call: 56% of US neurointerventionalists meet...
Fifty-six per cent of US neurointerventionalists meet criteria for burnout. This statistic, presented by Kyle Fargen from Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem (USA)...
Physicians’ Education Resource releases agenda for the 1st Annual International Congress...
Physicians’ Education Resource (PER), a worldwide leading resource for continuing medical education (CME), announces the full agenda for the 1st Annual International Congress on...
Neurotechnology holds promise for chronic stroke patients
Personalised neurotechnology-aided rehabilitation of the arm could improve recovery in severe chronic stroke patients according to a new paper published in the journal Brain.
Neurotechnology-based...
Canon Medical receives FDA clearance for deep convolutional neural network image...
Building on its advanced image reconstruction technologies, Canon Medical Systems USA has received 510(k) clearance on its new deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) image...
RAPID imaging platform expands options for speedy stroke treatment at Atlantic...
Recognising how vital it is that stroke neurosurgeons and neurologists receive timely information about the type of stroke a person is having so they...
Alteplase at 0.6mg/kg for stroke with unknown time of onset is...
Although an acceptable safety profile was demonstrated for MRI-guided thrombolysis with alteplase at 0.6mg/kg for stroke with unknown time of onset, the latter approach...
Interdisciplinary approach to in-hospital stroke improves detection and treatment time
A recent study found that revision of an existing in-hospital stroke (IHS) protocol was associated with a lower rate of stroke mimics, and shorter...
Intensive blood pressure lowering beyond recommendations safely reduced the risk of...
Although intensive blood pressure lowering with intravenous thrombolysis is safe in patients with acute ischaemic stroke, the observed reduction in intracranial haemorrhage did not...
Physicians’ Education Resource to host first annual International Congress on the...
Physicians’ Education Resource (PER), a worldwide leading resource for continuing medical education (CME), will host the first annual International Congress on the Future of...
Artificial Intelligence in prehospital stroke detection: Automation in motion
Acknowledging the current limitations that hinder optimal stroke screening in the prehospital setting, Mark McDonald (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA), one of the co-founders...
Presented at the ISC: PHAST-TSC trial for treatment of acute stroke
Following the American Heart Association’s International Stroke Conference (ISC; 5–8 February, Hawaii, USA), Diffusion Pharmaceuticals announce a poster presented at the conference, outlining the...
Perflow Medical expands IP coverage for Stream and Cascade devices
Perflow Medical has announced the issuance of four international patents that expand the global intellectual property (IP) coverage for the novel Stream Dynamic Neuro-Thrombectomy...
RACECAT trial comparing transfer of acute stroke patients enrols 715 patients
The preliminary results of the RACECAT trial—a study comparing transfer of acute stroke patients with suspected large vessel occlusion (LVO) to the closest local...
Innovative on-ambulance PHAST-TSC trial for treatment of acute stroke approved by...
Diffusion Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company developing new treatments for life-threatening medical conditions by improving the body’s ability to bring oxygen to the areas where...
