Stroke
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Poor outcomes seen after carotid intervention non-ST-elevation MI
Major Finding: The composite endpoint of cardiac or neurologic complication and/or death was reached by 38% of patients with NSTEMI vs. 3% of...
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In-hospital strokes fare worse despite thrombolysis
Major Finding: Acute ischemic stroke patients in the United States who received thrombolytic therapy for a stroke that occurred while they were...
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Short course of clopidogrel, aspirin lowers stroke recurrence
Major Finding: The relative risk of any stroke within the first 90 days was 32% lower with aspirin and clopidogrel than aspirin alone (hazard...
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Cardiac stress testing underutilized in stroke patients
Major Finding: Only 6.2% of high-risk stroke patients received guideline-concordant cardiac stress testing.Data Source: Retrospective cohort study...
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DP-b99 dead in the water as stroke therapy
Major Finding: Ordinal modified Rankin score distributions at 90 days were not significantly different between the placebo and DP-b99 groups (P...
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Apixaban, dabigatran found effective, safe for extended post-VTE therapy
Major Finding: Rates of recurrent VTE or death were 3.8% with 2.5 mg apixaban and 4.2% with 5 mg apixaban, vs 11.6% with placebo. Rates of...
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Novel hemorrhagic stroke therapy bests medical management
Major Finding: One year after undergoing a novel minimally invasive surgical procedure for treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage, patients had...
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'Target: Stroke' improves door-to-needle TPA times
Major Finding: The percentage of stroke patients receiving a CT scan within 25 minutes of hospital arrival increased from 12.6% to 27.7%...
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No benefit of endovascular therapy added to TPA for stroke
Major Finding: Endovascular therapy plus intravenous TPA showed no added outcome benefits, compared with TPA alone, with 40.8% and 38.7% of...
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Endovascular stroke treatments add nothing beyond IV TPA
Major Finding: Three months after acute ischemic stroke, 30% of endovascular-treated patients and 35% on IV TPA were alive without disability....