Stroke

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 26, 2023.

Thirty days after treatment, a primary-outcome event occurred in 2.9% of those in the early-treatment group and 4.1% of those in the later-treatment group.

The director of vascular neurology at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn discussed the high prevalence of common risk factors for stroke, emphasizing the importance of early detection and management for prevention. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Poststroke patients who engaged in at least 4 hours of physical activity per week had a higher likelihood of a mild stroke and had smaller hematoma volumes on admission.

In honor of National Stroke Awareness Month, held May 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in stroke as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.

The director of vascular neurology at NYU Langone talked about how to identify the signs and symptoms of stroke and the importance of early intervention. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Asudexian is currently being assessed in a large-scale phase 3 program expected to comprise more than 27,000 patients with atrial fibrillation across over 40 countries.

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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 sleep and sleep disorders.

Steven C. Cramer, MD, stroke neurologist and professor of neurology at UCLA, talked about the 3 main types of rehab therapy given to poststroke patients and the significant disparities in access.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 19, 2023.

Neurological rehabilitation, or neurorehabilitation, can be described as the use of rehabilitation interventions to improve or maintain function and quality of life in the context of neurological conditions.

Poststroke patients with more severe deficits and better clinical factors received larger doses of rehabilitation therapy, according to a recently published study.

Regardless of highly different demographics and smaller sample size, the association between amyloid in the brain and plasma was influenced by overall vascular risk score, and was only consistently observed in APOE ɛ4 carriers.

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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 headache and migraine.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 12, 2023.

Taken together, the findings added to the growing evidence that widespread immunological and autonomic nervous system changes may contribute to long COVID.

Although it showed better functional outcomes, endovascular thrombectomy for the treatment of stroke because of basilar-artery occlusion was associated with procedural complications and intracerebral hemorrhage.

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Although the incidence of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage was low, 18% of the patients in the endovascular thrombectomy group had complications associated with the procedure.

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 epilepsy and seizure disorders.

In addition to increased risk of dementia, focal epilepsy was associated with widespread structural brain change reflected by lower total hippocampal and total gray matter volume.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 5, 2023.

Mind Moments®, a podcast from NeurologyLive®, brings you exclusive interviews with Michael H. Barnett, MBBS, PhD, FRACP; Nancy R. Foldvary-Schaefer, DO, FAAN; Sean J. Pittock, MD; Katherine W. Turk, MD; Erika U. Augustine, MD, MS; Jeffrey M. Statland, MD; and Chian-Chun Chiang, MD. [LISTEN TIME: 41 minutes]