Conference Coverage: ISC: International Stroke Conference
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Intensive blood pressure lowering may not reduce risk of recurrent stroke
HONOLULU – Intensive treatment significantly reduces blood pressure, compared with standard treatment, and is...
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MI, strokes spike during 30 days after cancer diagnosis
HONOLULU – During the first 30 days after a cancer diagnosis, the incidence of an MI or stroke jumped nearly 500%.
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Glyceryl trinitrate does not improve outcomes of ischemic stroke
HONOLULU – Although treatment reduced blood pressure, it did not reduce disability at 90 days, compared with sham....
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Noncardiac surgery has 7% covert stroke rate in elderly
HONOLULU – Covert strokes were linked with a doubled rate of cognitive decline in older patients after noncardiac surgery.
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Vaccination and antiviral treatment do not affect stroke risk following shingles
HONOLULU – Preventing shingles through vaccination might be the best method for preventing shingles-associated acute...
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Most U.S. tPA-eligible stroke patients now get treated within an hour
The most recent phase of the Target: Stroke program met its tPA delivery-time target in September 2018.
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Cilostazol plus aspirin or clopidogrel reduces the risk of recurrent stroke
HONOLULU – Dual therapy with cilostazol and aspirin or clopidogrel did not increase the risk of serious bleeding.
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Transporting stroke patients directly to thrombectomy boosts outcomes
Modeling of real-world data suggests transporting acute ischemic stroke patients directly to more distant thrombectomy centers outperforms...
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Survey highlights challenges in Asian American stroke patients
LOS ANGELES – Asian Americans tend to suffer more severe ischemic strokes, receive less tPA, and experience more tPA complications.
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Aspirin blunts early stroke risk from preeclampsia
Aspirin use dampened the rise in early-onset strokes seen after preeclampsia.
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VIDEO: Rivaroxaban plus aspirin halves ischemic strokes
In patients with stable atherosclerotic vascular disease, treatment with low-dose rivaroxaban plus aspirin halved the incidence of ischemic...
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VIDEO: Retinal infarctions get missed as stroke harbingers
LOS ANGELES – Review of more than 5,000 Medicare beneficiaries with retinal infarction showed most don’t receive follow-up stroke assessment.
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Ticagrelor may be superior to clopidogrel in poor metabolizers
LOS ANGELES – Combined with aspirin, ticagrelor led to better platelet outcomes than did clopidogrel, but clinical outcomes only trended toward an...
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Tenecteplase surpasses alteplase for thrombolysing acute ischemic stroke
LOS ANGELES – In a randomized study with 202 acute ischemic stroke patients, treatment with tenecteplase produced better reperfusion than did...
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Late thrombectomy for stroke has low number needed to treat for benefit
LOS ANGELES – The number needed to treat varied according to the level of functional outcome achieved.