or neither among 19435 patients with acute ischemic stroke. Lancet 349, 1569–1581 (1997). Li, Y. et al. Ultrastructural and light microscopic evidence of apoptosis after middle cerebral artery ...

The classical description of patients with acute limb ischemia is represented by the "six Ps": pain, pallor, paralysis, pulse deficit, paresthesia, and poikilothermia. Pain may be either constant ...

The National Institutes of Health have awarded a team of researchers at WashU Medicine a grant to investigate the underlying ...

An ischemic stroke is a serious medical event. It occurs when a blood clot becomes lodged in a blood vessel in the brain. Without a supply of blood, the brain cells begin to die in a matter of ...

A TIA, or transient ischemic attack, is a temporary blockage of blood flow to a part of the brain. By definition, a TIA lasts ...

Stroke is defined as an "acute neurologic dysfunction of vascular origin with sudden (within seconds) or at least rapid (within hours) occurrence of symptoms and signs corresponding to the ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been awarded $7.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate a form of dementia caused by cerebral ...

The drug successfully prevented some of the early arterial changes and provided long-term protection against brain damage caused by transient ischemia. "These findings are particularly promising ...

A recent international clinical trial involving 850 patients has revealed that a liberal blood transfusion strategy ...

Ischemic stroke results from an obstruction of a blood vessel supplying blood to the brain. The brain is an organ extremely sensitive to reduction of oxygen and energy, and brain damage is already ...