NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Silent embolic cerebral infarctions occur in about 1 in 6 patients after undergoing coronary angiography, and the risk is related to the degree…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While observational data indicate that closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) is better than medical therapy in preventing stroke recurrence, the results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lowering blood pressure in patients with prehypertensive blood pressure significantly reduces the risk of stroke, according the results of a meta-analysis reported in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Researchers who systematically reviewed 35 protocols to screen for swallowing difficulties after acute stroke found only four that met basic requirements for reliability,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In general, warfarin anticoagulation is beneficial in septuagenarians with atrial fibrillation, researchers report in a November 28th on-line paper in the American Journal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statin therapy before and during acute ischemic stroke hospitalization is associated with improved poststroke survival, and going off statin therapy in the hospital…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery provides no added benefit over best medical therapy for preventing recurrent stroke in patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic internal carotid…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Thoracoscopic unilateral extended thymectomy (TUET) is “the best treatment option” for patients undergoing surgery for nonthymomatous myasthenia gravis, clinicians from Romania conclude in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospitalized nonsurgical patients (medical patients and those with acute stroke) should receive pharmacologic venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis, unless the risk for bleeding outweighs…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A small randomized study found no therapeutic advantage to high-dose vitamin D2 supplementation over and above ongoing low-dose vitamin D2 supplementation in patients…