When a person suffers a stroke, physicians must restore blood flow to the brain as quickly as possible to save their life.

The Carmel Fire Department educated the public on stroke symptoms and the importance of quick response on social media.

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What are the optimal measures to take in a patient with progressing stroke, or "stroke-in-evolution?" Once or twice each year, I will encounter a patient with a mild deficit upon admission who ...

Dual antiplatelet treatment has been shown to lower the risk of recurrent stroke as compared with aspirin alone when treatment is initiated early (≤24 hours) after an acute mild stroke. The effect of ...

Endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke is generally avoided when the infarction is large, but the effect of endovascular therapy with medical care as compared with medical care alone for large ...

A stroke can occur when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel carrying nutrients and oxygen to the brain, resulting in brain cell death. Doctors refer to this as an ischemic stroke. A blood clot may ...

Share on Pinterest Adding blood thinners to clot-busting medication after a stroke does not appear to improve the outcomes, according to a new study. credit: szjphoto/Getty Images. About 15 million ...

Antidepressant medications are safe for most survivors of ischemic stroke (the most common type of stroke), even during the crucial early recovery period, according to a preliminary study to be ...

If patients with clot-caused strokes obtain medical care more than 4½ hours after their symptoms are noticed, it is too late to receive the standard clot-busting medication alteplase. However, in this ...