Stroke/Cerebrovascular Disease News

• Brain Implant Helps Patients With ALS Paralysis Use Computers Using only their thoughts, four patients with severe paralysis were able to compose emails and shop and bank online courtesy of a brain-computer interface that uses eye tracking.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2023
• Renowned Stroke Expert Ralph Sacco, MD, Dies Sacco, the only physician to have served as president of both the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Academy of Neurology (AAN), was 65.
  Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2023
• Experts Demand Validation of Automatic Blood Pressure Devices At the population level, small errors in blood pressure measurement can lead to the misclassification of millions of patients, one expert said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2023
• Possible Bivalent Vaccine Link to Strokes in People Over 65 The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), "a near real-time surveillance system," raised a safety concern about the Pfizer/BioNTech booster.
  WebMD Health News, January 17, 2023
• After PCI, 1-Month Beats 12-Month DAPT in High-Risk Patients When dual was replaced by single antiplatelet therapy 1 month after PCI in Japanese patients, bleeding risk declined.
  MDedge News, January 13, 2023
• Atrial Failure or Insufficiency: A New Syndrome The syndrome may explain heart failure in patients with preserved pump function, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, January 13, 2023
• Poor Oral Hygiene After Stroke Can Alter Inflammation Risk After severe and cardioembolic stroke, poor oral hygiene is associated with elevated blood inflammatory cytokine levels, researchers warning.
  First Look, January 12, 2023
• Potential Biases in TAVI Trials Highlighted A new meta-analysis of trials comparing TAVI to surgery for aortic valve stenosis highlights a high rate of potential bias in the trials, researchers conclude.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2023
• LDL Cholesterol Triglycerides 'Robust' ASCVD Risk Marker A large dual-method Danish population study identified high LDL triglyceride levels as a risk marker for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
  MDedge News, January 12, 2023
• The Decision of Where to Seek Emergency Care Is Complicated The proliferation of care options — particularly urgent care centers and free-standing emergency departments — can make the head spin. For patients, the wrong choice may mean big bills and poor health outcomes.
  Kaiser Health News, January 12, 2023
• Eating Family Meals Together Can Reduce Stress Eating dinner together could help ease stress among family members.
  Quick Take, January 12, 2023
• Hybrid Coronary Revascularization 'Satisfactory' Up to 10 Years Compared with conventional approaches, hybrid coronary revascularization produced satisfactory outcomes for patients with multivessel heart disease, long-term follow-up shows.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2023
• Treatments Help Long-term Outcomes of Critical COVID Illness Use of interleukin 6 receptor antagonists and antiplatelet agents was associated with better survival rates and higher quality of life at 6 months.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2023
• Some BP Meds Tied to Significantly Lower Risk for Dementia Antihypertensive medications that stimulate type 2 and 4 angiotensin II receptors may reduce the rate of dementia compared with those that inhibit these receptors, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2023
• Warfarin Best for Thrombotic Antiphospholipid Syndrome? Patients with thrombotic antiphospholipid syndrome appear better treated with a vitamin K antagonist such as warfarin, rather than a direct oral anticoagulant, a new meta-analysis suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2023
• PPI Use in Type 2 Diabetes Links With Cardiovascular Events Prospective data from almost 20,000 people with type 2 diabetes show that proton pump inhibitor use is linked with significantly more cardiovascular disease events and all-cause death than nonuse.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2023
• Novel 'Cure' May Avert Lead Extraction in CIED Pocket Infections Most pacemaker pocket infections, without lead involvement, responded completely to antibiotics given locally at high concentrations in a case-control study.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2023
• A Stroke Occurs Every 5 Minutes in Canada Findings from a recent study highlight the need for appropriate resource planning to maintain high-quality stroke care and optimize patient outcomes, said one of the researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2023
• Alert FDA Approves Second Anti-Amyloid for Alzheimer's Disease The US Food and Drug Administration has approved lecanemab for patients with Alzheimer's disease, even though trial results showed modest cognitive benefits and cases of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities.
  FDA Approvals, January 06, 2023
• Thrombolysis Safe for Stroke Patients on DOACs? The largest study to date to look at this issue has actually found a lower rate of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage in patients on DOACs receiving thrombolysis than those not taking anticoagulants.
  Medscape Medical News, January 06, 2023