Stroke

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending July 29, 2022.

In addition to reduced times to treatment, implementation of field stroke triage led to significantly lower rates of disability for both the entire cohort and those independent at baseline among those with large vessel occlusions.

Data from a cohort of more than 111,000 women showed that presence of endometriosis increased stroke risk by 34%.

Those with an optimal Life's Simple 7 score had roughly a 30% to 43% lower lifetime stroke risk than those with an inadequate Life's Simple 7 categorization, corresponding to almost 6 additional years of stroke-free life.

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Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending July 22, 2022.

For most of the individuals assessed, the rate of improvement was modulated by practice frequency, with significantly greater improvement over time in those who practice 3 to 5 days per week than those who completed 1 day of sessions per week.

The Rapid Hyperdensity tool uses noncontrast CT scans to evaluate the hyperdense tissue volume during the identification and assessment of intracerebral hemorrhage.

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In comparison to those with consistently low depressive symptoms, those with consistently high, fluctuating, and increasing depressive trajectories had 18% to 31% higher hazard of developing incident stroke.

On a per-capita basis, a hospital serving a predominately Black, racially segregated community was 26% less likely to adopt stroke certification of any level than a hospital in a predominately non-Black, racially segregated community.

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is stroke and cerebrovascular disease.

After 3 instances of clinically significant, transient hypotension—which resolved after treatment halt—recruitment for the trial of the investigational recombinant KLK1 tissue protein has been paused.

The net clinical benefit with ticagrelor and aspirin over clopidogrel and aspirin treatment may be predominant in the first week, with additional small benefit in the second and third weeks for those with minor ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending July 8, 2022.

Expert clinicians offer their insight on the sleep disorder landscape, the state of mental health in pediatric migraine, an inaugural movement disorders congress, a novel stroke rehabilitation tool, and psychedelics in cluster headache.

Catch up on any of the neurology news headlines you may have missed over the course of the last month, compiled all into one place by the NeurologyLive® team.

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Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending July 1, 2022.

The associate professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone discussed a recent study on a new tool aimed at quantifying movements during stroke rehabilitation.

Among a large cohort of outpatient and inpatient individuals, the risk of Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, ischemic stroke, and intracerebral hemorrhage were all elevated after infection, with stroke risk increased compared with other respiratory infections.

The associate professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone provided commentary on when the PrimSeq digital tool could see substantial impact on rehabilitation for stroke survivors and other neurological diseases. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Net improvement of 1 grade or more on Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale was observed in 30.4% of the surgical group compared with 14.5% of those on standard medical care.

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