Stroke

Caroline Just, MD, reflects on the challenges of diagnosing and treating rare neurological diseases, urging for improved education, collaboration, and research efforts.

Experts in stroke care expressed a need for significant increases in awareness of stroke risk factors and symptoms in patient communities that experience racial disparities.

The associate professor of neurology at McMaster University talked about findings from secondary analyses on the phase 4 ANNEXA-I trial assessing andexanet alfa in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage. [WATCH TIME: 10 minutes]

The conversations behind cerebroprotection in stroke have begun to get louder, with a pipeline that includes several different approaches to treatment.

The neurointerventional radiologist at NYU Langone provided clarity on the individualized treatment options for cervical artery dissection following a scientific statement paper from the American Heart Association. [WATCH TIME: 7 minutes]

The primary result showed a highly significant effect of edaravone dexborneol on good functional outcome, defined by scores of 0 (no symptoms) or 1 (some symptoms) on the standard modified Rankin scale assessed at 90 days postrandomization.

The professor of emergency medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and associate professor of neurosurgery at UTHealth Houston talked about results from the phase 3 MOST trial assessing argatroban and eptifibatide in acute ischemic stroke. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

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The professor of neurology at University of South Florida talked about the cost-effectiveness of insertable cardiac monitors to detect new atrial fibrillation in patients with large-artery or small-vessel disease stroke. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

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in the study, no association was found between severity of obstructive sleep apnea according to apnea-hypopnea index and functional independence at 3 months following stroke.

The associate professor of neurology at Brown University talked about findings from an observational study investigating treatment options antiplatelets and anticoagulation for cervical artery dissection. [WATCH TIME: 8 minutes]

The vascular neurologist and director of the residency program at Cleveland Clinic provided perspective on the biggest learning experiences over the past decade for Cleveland Clinic’s mobile stroke unit. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The medical director of the Stroke Center at Weill Cornell Medicine talked about results from a recent study on the risk of stroke in patients on assisted reproductive technologies during delivery hospitalization. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The vascular neurologist and director of the residency program at Cleveland Clinic provided perspective on a recently conducted study showing the benefits of timely treatment through mobile stroke units for patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage. [WATCH TIME: 6 minutes]

The professor of neurology and director of the Stanford Stroke Center discussed the ways stroke care is evolving and the significance of the TIMELESS trial, which demonstrated the safety of tenecteplase in later-window poststroke patients. [WATCH TIME: 7 minutes]

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The medical director of the Cooper Neurological Institute and the professor of neurology at Yale University School of Medicine shared a few highlights from research presented at ISC 2024. [WATCH TIME: 7 minutes]

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The professor of nursing and neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center talked about findings from a study investigating head-of-bed position in patients undergoing thrombectomy which was presented at ISC 2024. [WATCH TIME: 6 minutes]

The professor of neurology and director of the Stanford Stroke Center provided commentary on clinical implications of findings from the TIMELESS trial assessing tenecteplase initiated in the late window after stroke onset. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The postdoctoral research fellow in neurology at Harvard Medical School talked about the potential of a portable low field MRI device to provide timely and cost-effective diagnoses for stroke. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Cynthia Tsai, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology at National Taiwan University College of Medicine, shared her clinical viewpoint on findings from a study presented at ISC 2024 using amyloid PET scans to differentiate between CAA and AD.

The assistant professor of neurosurgery and biomedical informatics at the State University of New York at Buffalo discussed the questions that still remain following the EMBOLISE trial and the use of embolization in the treatment of subacute and subdural hematoma. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

In a recent study presented at ISC 2024, results revealed that patients who used assisted reproductive technologies therapy during hospitalization for delivery had a higher risk of stroke than those who did not use such therapies.

The director of neurocritical care and emergency neurology services at Westchester Medical Center Health System discussed the call for a paradigm shift in stroke care with a focus on intracerebral hemorrhage.

A recent study showed anticoagulation reduced ischemic stroke risk in patients with cervical artery dissection; however, cautioned is warned about the importance of transitioning to antiplatelet therapy at a certain point.