Strokes can cause permanent brain damage, which is why it is important to seek emergency care if you or someone else experiences any of the above symptoms. Getting treatment right away can prevent ...

These symptoms could indicate high cholesterol, something that can put you at risk of heart attacks and strokes, among other medical emergencies. High cholesterol occurs if you have excessive ...

Here Dr. Usmani discusses the current outlook for the disease and his vision for developing new treatment approaches at MSK that will improve multiple myeloma prognosis (outcome). This includes very ...

Despite this staggering fact, thousands of individuals delay seeking medical attention when experiencing stroke symptoms. This critical delay often results in severe disabilities or death that ...

Methods We recruited participants from inpatient and outpatient services with a lacunar or minor cortical ischaemic stroke (National ... May 2010 and May 2012 into the Mild Stroke Study 2 (MSS2).

During the follow-up period, 434 strokes were identified. Of these 146 were thrombotic, 102 cardioembolic, and 95 lacunar subtypes. Researchers controlled for a number of factors including age ...

Given the increased risk of subsequent stroke in patients with incidental lacunar infarcts, it could be argued that antiplatelet therapy should be initiated for prevention. However, evidence from ...

“I want to propose that examining gut microbiota patterns has been suggested to be potentially useful for assessing stroke risk and prognosis,” Tonomura told Healthline. Both Tonomura and Sen ...

Although there are some reports of late improvement up to 12 months after lacunar stroke,23 we expect that chronic stroke patients, who are often several years after their stroke, will not change ...

The inclusion criteria for caregivers were as follows: (1) was a primary family caregiver (non-professional and unpaid) for a stroke survivor aged 18 or older who had a formal diagnosis of ...

A number of cardioprotective therapies (both mechanical and pharmacological), which are known to target myocardial reperfusion injury, have been shown to reduce myocardial infarct (MI) size in small ...

Experts point to the importance of detecting early stroke symptoms to reduce brain damage According to the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau, an average of 1.9 million nerve cells die every ...