NIH study to evaluate role of MRI in emergency diagnosis of heart attack & stroke
...ccurately evaluate cardiac patients. The timing of stroke diagnosis is equally critical. "The new MRI technologywill allow us to immediately see the stroke as it is occurring in the brain,while the damage is potentially reversible," said Dr. Gerald Fischba......ead-bolted thunder In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning (Wm. Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4, Scene 7) In the contest between people and lightning, lightning wins. Although lightningrarely strikes more than one person at a time, over the course of a year thedamages, deaths and i...UMass researchers teaching computers to interpret MRIs
...d to the brain becomes clogged orruptures. "When a stroke occurs, the blood supply is disrupted, and brain c...ch is injured but could recover.The area where the stroke has occurred, comprising dead and injured tissue,shows up as a bright region in the image, whereas t...Low doses of aspirin and surgery better for stroke prevention
...rgeneralizing the benefits of low-dose aspirin for stroke prevention. Theamount of aspirin required to prevent stroke in the 30 days after surgery maydiffer from the amount of aspirin that may be taken for years to pre...Idaho attorney, Pennsylvania physician to lead American Heart Association in 1999-2000
...luntaryhealth organization fighting heart disease, stroke and other cardiovasculardiseases, which annually kill more than 959,000 Americans....MGH study shows mitral valve prolapse not a stroke risk factor
...t appear to be associated withan increased risk of stroke among young people. Earlier studies, many usingou...nd colleagues, recreated theoriginal 1980 study of stroke in young people. Analyzing cardiac ultrasoundresults for all patients under 45 treated for strokes ...Mitral valve prolapse less common, less harmful than previously thought
...n amongyoung people (45 years old or younger) with stroke or transient ischemic stroke(TIA or mini stroke) t... The issueof a possible connection between MVP and stroke -- especially in young patients-- has been a long-standing controversy. The new study by Dan Gilon, ...New study finds African-Americans less likely to receive stroke-saving surgery
...45 years of age and older who were hospitalizedfor stroke or TIA at one of four VA hospitals between 1991 an... were more likelythan white patients to have had a stroke (78 percent vs. 55 percent), but lesslikely to have had a TIA (22 percent vs. 45 percent.) "Since s...NYU researchers uncover the neurobiology of decision-making
...ns for thetreatment of neurological disorders like stroke and brain cancer. Our datasuggests that the inability of a patient suffering from a parietal stroke tomake a particular movement may be more closely related to an inability to decideto make a movement...Heart valve disease increases risk of death, research shows
...orticsclerosis and events such as heart attack and stroke are related: Is early valvedisease a marker for heart vessel disease? Or, does the valve disease somehowcause heart attacks, strokes, angina and heart failure? The answers could leadto a new way to screen for heart vessel disease. "It is int......ing the example that if someone who has suffered a stroke is transferred from an assessment ward to the care of a neurologist, then referred on to see other specialists, this single admission may be recorded as three or even four episodes'. Because costs are attributed to episodes and not admissions, the c...New biological target identified for cholesterol-lowering drugs
... attack and two timesmore likely to suffer a first stroke in an eight-year period than those with thelowest CRP levels. "Our study is the first to investigate how the long-term use of a statin drugaffects this inflammatory process, and it adds to the growing body of evidencethat inflammation -- the body's...Researchers seek postmenopausal women smokers for hormone, heart disease study
... Cardiovascular disease includes heart disease, stroke and high bloodpressure. "Although men suffer from cardiovascular disease at a rate of three tosix times that of premenopausal women, after menopause when estrogen productionis reduced, the risk of cardiovascular death for women climbs to alm...UK researchers examine personality and social behavior changes in patients following stroke
...ssions and a monotone voice. In the study, stroke patients with left hemisphere damage, strokepatien...l competency of the patients. Both sets of stroke patients were perceived more negatively -- lessoutgoing, less sociable and warm in personality -- as...Antiplatelet drugs: comparison of clopidogrel with aspirin
...agents may improve the outlook for heart attackand stroke patients, according to researchers in Stroke: Jour...evidence, aspirin is preferred for the majority of stroke ormyocardial infarction (heart attack) patients at risk of recurrences. Clopidogrel may provide val...Risk factors for stroke after heart surgery identified
...tify which individuals may have thehighest risk of stroke following heart surgery. Reporting in today'sCirc...hatheart surgery patients who had previously had a stroke faced the highest risk. They had a 14-times higher risk of having a new stroke during or after surge...'Thick' blood may increase stroke risk
... that are anindication of inflammation can predict stroke risk. Inflammatory by-products inthe blood, due t...'marker' of risk, but could play a role in causing stroke by increasing the riskof a blood clot in the arteries that serve the brain. Von Willebrand factor an...Decline in awareness and treatment of high blood pressure could pose a serious public health threat
... of high blood pressure -- a major risk factor for stroke and heartdisease -- appear to be falling. Further...department of neurology to examine riskfactors for stroke and heart disease in the community. When Meissner and other researchers interviewed 636 adults from ...LSU scientist says new drug will save brain cells attacked by neurological injury or disease
...llsendangered by Alzheimer's disease, head injury, stroke or epilepsy was describedhere today by Nicolas G. Bazan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Neuroscience Centerof Excellence at Louisiana State University. He presented his findings at thenational meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's la...Federal, private funding to establish inflammatory disease center at UNC
...ch life-threatening conditions as heart diseaseand stroke has led the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Researchand several private companies to award $12.7 million to University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill researchers. UNC-CH School of Dentistry experts on those links and their col...