The clot-dissolving medication, alteplase, improved stroke patients' recovery by more than 50% when given up to 24 hours ...

More than 100 million people globally have had a stroke, but there are ways to reduce your risk and spot the signs of stroke ...

Learn the common warning signs of a stroke, which are essential to recognize to ensure a person gets prompt treatment.

Definite stroke diagnosis was made based on patients who had recently suffered from focal neurological deficit and who had undergone brain MRI that identified an ischemic infarct, which is consistent ...

Eight years ago, at the age of 53, Jeff Miller woke up, got out of bed and fell to the floor. Although he was having trouble seeing, he managed to get down the stairs to the first floor of his ...

Patients with diabetes or hypertension frequently present with small vessel ischemic stroke syndromes. Dubbed lacunar because of the resemblance to a small lake (lacune) deep in the brain on CT ...

During an ischemic stroke, blood vessels in the brain are blocked or narrowed. During a hemorrhagic stroke, there's bleeding ...

Propranolol, a beta blocker medication used for treating high blood pressure and preventing migraines, may lower ischemic stroke risk in women who experience migraines frequently.

Acute ischemic stroke often can be reversed successfully ... This article reviews the most commonly seen stroke syndromes and describes management strategies with which the advanced practice ...

Background: Magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is the most sensitive modality for ischemic stroke diagnosis. However, DWI may fail to detect ischemic lesions in a proportion of ...

This study assessed associations between combinations of SES measures including neighborhood income inequality (Gini) and area deprivation index (ADI), and cognitive symptoms after acute ischemic ...