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Mashup Score: 8Subdural Hematoma Embolization Success Cuts Surgery Need - 3 month(s) ago
Three new randomized trials, EMBOLISE, MAGIC-MT, and STEM, showed convincing benefits for use of an endovascular embolization procedure in patients with a subdural hematoma.
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Mashup Score: 3State-of-the-Art Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Improving Diagnostic Accuracy and Therapeutic Efficacy - 3 month(s) ago
It takes 10 to 16 months to diagnose amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), resulting in precious time lost in slowing down the disease progression.
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Mashup Score: 5Tirofiban Reduces Early Neurologic Deterioration After Stroke - 3 month(s) ago
Intravenous tirofiban over 72 hours reduced early neurologic deterioration compared with oral aspirin in patients with acute ischemic stroke, in the randomized TREND trial.
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Mashup Score: 9Mixed Results for Low-Dose Steroids With Thrombectomy - 3 month(s) ago
Adding low-dose methylprednisolone to stroke thrombectomy did not improve overall disability, but there were other possible benefits seen in the MARVEL trial.
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Mashup Score: 3Expanded Window of Stroke Thrombectomy With Simpler Imaging - 3 month(s) ago
The RESILIENT-Extend trial showed benefit for thrombectomy in the 8- to 24-hour window without the need for costly imaging equipment, albeit with some caveats.
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Mashup Score: 2Guidelines -- Brain Death Is Equal to Heart Death: Ethicist - 3 month(s) ago
Bioethicist Art Caplan discusses new guidelines on brain death from the American Academy of Neurology.
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Mashup Score: 3Benefit of Thrombolysis With Thrombectomy Only Given Early? - 3 month(s) ago
In patients presenting at thrombectomy-capable stroke centers, the benefit associated with thrombolysis before thrombectomy was time dependent, new data suggested.
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Mashup Score: 1Alzheimer's Disease and Epilepsy: New Clues to the Link - 3 month(s) ago
Dr Andrew Wilner interviews Dr Christos Lisgaras about his research exploring the link between epileptic seizures and Alzheimer’s disease, recently presented at the American Epilepsy Society meeting.
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Mashup Score: 1Even Moderate Exposure to Radon Tied to Increased Stroke Risk - 3 month(s) ago
It’s well known that radon increases lung cancer risk. This study found that being exposed to radon may also increase the risk for stroke.
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Mashup Score: 0Lying Flat Shows Big Benefit in LVO Stroke - 3 month(s) ago
Patients with large vessel occlusion strokes showed an impressive benefit from having their head lowered to a flat position until thrombectomy, in the ZODIAC trial.
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