LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5, 2025 — Removing a clot blocking a medium- or small-sized artery in the brain mechanically is a safe treatment for a common type of stroke; however, it did not lessen disability ...

University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute researchers with the Calgary Stroke Program at Foothills Medical Centre revolutionized treatment for stroke with the ESCAPE Trial, proving that a clot ...

Our paper is a contemporary update of the role of endovascular therapy (clot retrieval, rescue stenting) in the treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke as well as patient selection criteria." ...

Removing a blood clot from a large brain artery, then injecting the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase into the artery ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Using small nets to extract blood clots from patients' brains may be the future of stroke ...

Removing a blood clot from a large brain artery, then injecting the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase into the artery resulted in stroke survivors being more likely to have better function 90 days ...

Stroke patients that underwent endovascular treatment — a procedure in which surgeons remove a blood clot from a blocked artery in the brain — had better outcomes than those treated with a drug to ...

The Food and Drug Administration will allow two clot retrieval devices to be used in conjunction with a clot-dissolving drug as an initial treatment for strokes caused by blood clots. The Trevo ...

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 ...

A new study has found that after a severe stroke treated with mechanical clot removal, about one third of stroke survivors resumed work three months later. Women were about half as likely to return to ...