Imperative Care today announced study data evaluating aspiration with its Zoom system in stroke patients with M2 occlusions.

Early neurologic deterioration -- as measured by an increase of 2 or more points on the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) at 7 days -- occurred in fewer of those on DAPT (4.8% vs ...

The median time from stroke onset to randomization was 4.6 hours. The median NIHSS score was 2. The primary outcome was a return to baseline neurological functioning according to the mRS score at 90 ...

Secondary outcomes included scores of 0 to 2 and 0 to 3 modified Rankin scale at 90 days, a National Institute of Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score of 0 to 1 or an improvement in NIHSS score of at least ...

Patients had to have a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score of at least 5 (range, 0 to 42, with higher scores indicating greater neurologic deficits) that was attributed to ...

For the study, 1446 patients who had an acute mild ischemic stroke with a baseline NIHSS score ≤ 5 within 4.5 hours of symptom onset received thrombolysis with intravenous pro-urokinase (total ...

The proportion of patients with an increase in NIHSS score of 4 points or more in the first 72 hours was 4.2% among those treated with tirofiban and 13.2% among those treated with oral aspirin, a ...

Patients in the AF group were found to have significantly (P < .0001) higher admission and discharge NIHSS scores (median, 11 vs 3 and 7 vs 2, respectively), longer hospital stays (median, 11 days ...