Recombinant human prourokinase is noninferior to alteplase in acute ischemic stroke, with symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage and major bleeding decreased.

A new meta-analysis examines the effects of dual antiplatelet therapy after thrombolysis in minor stroke patients. Findings ...

Remedy Pharmaceuticals, a leader in stroke drug development, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed two additional patents covering its large hemispheric ...

Acute ischemic stroke, which occurs due to a blockage in cerebral blood flow, requires prompt intervention with thrombolytic ...

NIHSS scores have been shown to strongly predict outcome ... Others cite a "hemispheric bias" within the NIHSS, because 7 of the points are directly related to measurement of language (a left ...

The device is placed distal to the occluding thrombus through endovascular navigation using a 7- or 9-French balloon ... that enrolled 30 patients with NIHSS scores of ≥10 in the setting of ...

There was a trend favoring IRF compared with SNF in this subgroup (OR 7.33 (95% CI 0.71 to 75.27), p<0.093). Despite the lower NIHSS scores and less severe strokes, only one subject who was discharged ...

Patients presented with a mean NIHSS score of 15.4, and 71 patients received intravenous tissue plasminogen activator. The average time from onset to puncture was 7.8 h. The average time for ...