Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a condition where protein (called amyloid) builds up in the brain, making blood vessels weak. People with CAA are four times more likely to develop dementia within ...

Stroke is more common in adults, however, it can also happen in children and adolescents. Some of the most common causes of ...

Even patients with acute ischemic stroke who are delayed in getting to the hospital and already have large cerebral infarcts may derive a benefit from endovascular therapy to remove the clot, ...

Cerebral infarction, commonly known as ischemic stroke, has a high mortality rate and causes severe damage to nervous cells in the brain owing to the loss of oxygen, which results in limiting body ...

BERLIN, Germany—Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are more likely than similar individuals without the arrhythmia to have brain infarcts detected on MRI, an analysis of the Swiss-AF cohort study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Endovascular therapy for patients with acute large vessel occlusion with large ischemic core improved their ...

The use of thrombectomy in patients with acute stroke and a large infarct of unrestricted size has not been well studied. We assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, patients with proximal cerebral vessel occlusion ...

Factor XIa inhibitor milvexian did not provide meaningful secondary prevention over dual antiplatelet therapy for stroke survivors, the phase II trial AXIOMATIC-SSP found. In patients with recent ...

The role of endovascular therapy for acute stroke with a large infarction has not been extensively studied in differing populations. We conducted a multicenter, prospective, open-label, randomized ...

Young adults may suffer strokes when using cocaine, meth, and even cannabis, and the onset may be shortly after drug use and ...