Stroke
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Recent cocaine use quadrupled stroke risk
Major finding: Cocaine use in the past 24 hours was reported by 2.4% of young adults with ischemic stroke and 0.4% of age-matched controls without...
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Half of stroke survivors returned to driving
Major finding: Six percent of stroke survivors underwent formal driving evaluations, but 51% of survivors returned to driving within 1 year.Data...
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Physicians, nurses beat clinical scores for ICH outcome prediction
Major finding: With 1 representing a perfect correlation with actual 3-month mRS scores, the Spearman’s rank correlation for ICH functional...
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Transcranial ultrasound method outdoes echocardiography for finding PFO
Major finding: Echocardiography (TEE) failed to show right-to-left shunts, such as patent foramen ovale, which were identified by TCDSS, in 15% of...
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Traumatic injury ups stroke risk in people under 50
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Stroke risk jumps after head, neck trauma
Major finding: Eleven of every 100,000 patients developed a stroke within 4 weeks of traumatic injury.Data source: A retrospective analysis of...
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Magnesium for stroke failed but fast treatment feasible
Major finding: Median time from stroke symptom onset to treatment was 45 minutes and 74% of patients started treatment within 1 hour, but...
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: In-ambulance magnesium treatment for stroke fails
Guidelines
AAN issues nonvalvular atrial fibrillation stroke prevention guideline
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Beta-blocker use associated with better outcomes after insular cortex infarcts
Major finding: Beta-blocker use within 24 hours before stroke onset significantly predicts favorable outcomes in patients with infarcts of the...