Even patients with stroke with excellent functional recovery can experience significant, adverse nonmotor outcomes 6 months ...

The most common scale used to evaluate outcome of neurosurgical procedures, the modified rankin scale (mRS) -- does not measure what is commonly assumed, concludes a study conducted at the Department ...

Endovascular thrombectomy alone was noninferior to thrombectomy plus thrombolysis with alteplase in terms of functional outcome for patients with large-vessel acute ischemic stroke in a new Chinese ...

Intravenous thrombolysis is a standard treatment of acute ischemic stroke. The efficacy and safety of combining intravenous thrombolysis with argatroban (an anticoagulant agent) or eptifibatide (an ...

In patients with acute stroke and a large infarct of unrestricted size, thrombectomy and medical care led to better functional outcomes and lower mortality compared with medical care alone, the ...

Thrombolytic agents, including tenecteplase, are generally used within 4.5 hours after the onset of stroke symptoms. Information on whether tenecteplase confers benefit beyond 4.5 hours is limited. We ...