Stroke

Neurology News Network for the week ending May 22, 2021.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive's highlights from the week ending May 21, 2021.

Marian LaMonte, MD, MSN, FAAN, chief of neurology at Ascension Saint Agnes, discussed her team’s efforts to improve compliance in providing stroke discharge instructions.

The county with the highest premature stroke mortality was 20.78 times higher than that of the county with the lowest mortality. The data have raised alarms among the study authors.

Jason Poon, MD, neurologist at University of Utah, discussed his study on diagnostic accuracy in telestroke consultations.

Acute encephalopathy, coma, and stroke were among clinically diagnosed neurological symptoms that increased mortality risk in patients with COVID-19.

The degree of increased risk for subsequent ischemic events following intracerebral hemorrhage persisted after adjusting for basic demographic characteristics and traditional vascular risk factors.

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Future steps, including plans for global studies, are currently being evaluated by Biogen, with the final results from the phase 2a study expected to be released in an upcoming scientific forum.

Neurology News Network for the week ending May 15, 2021.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive's highlights from the week ending May 14, 2021.

African Americans are not only at increased risk of having a stroke, but they're also at increased risk of being debilitated by or dying from a stroke.

Neal Parikh, MD, discussed the inconsistencies with access to treatment regimens aimed at improving smoking cessation in post-stroke patients.

Among early-treated patients, in the door-to-puncture time interval, each 1 hour of delay was associated with 0.92 health life-years lost and each 1 second of delay with 2.2 health life-hours lost.

Northwell Health will conduct a NIH-funded study assessing the effects of the experimental drug in treating patients with ICH.

The founder and chief scientific officer of Neurolutions discussed how the company’s newly approved chronic stroke rehabilitation system will provide expanded benefits to post-stroke patients.

Understanding the signs and symptoms stroke during National Stroke Awareness Month.

The vascular neurology fellow at the University of Maryland Medical Center discussed her study’s findings as well as further research she would like to conduct.

The chief of neurology at Ascension Saint Agnes discussed the interventions her team implemented to improve patient-specific stroke discharge instructions.

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Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive's highlights from the week ending May 7, 2021.

The neurologist at University of Utah discussed the potential of using teleneurology to diagnose neurological conditions.

After in-clinic therapy, participants in the Paired VNS group showed a 5.0-point improvement in the Upper Extremity Fugl-Meyer Assessment compared to 2.4 points in controls.

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Neurology News Network for the week ending May 1, 2021.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive's highlights from the week ending April 30, 2021.

"Mind Moments," a podcast from NeurologyLive, brings you exclusive interviews with Stephanie J. Nahas, MD; Bruce Cree, MD, PhD, MAS; Sana Somani, MD, MBBS; Hubert Fernandez, MD; Daniel Ontaneda, MD, PhD; and Richard Gershon, PhD.

The assistant professor of neurology at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center discussed his presentation at AAN 2021 evaluating racial disparities in smoking cessation among stroke survivors.

The Neurolutions IpsiHand Upper Extremity Rehabilitation system is indicated for use in patients with chronic stroke age 18 or older undergoing stroke rehabilitation to facilitate muscle re-education.

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