Episodes
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Fibrinolytic for Treatment of Intraventricular Haemorrhage
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Fibrinolytic for Treatment of Intraventricular Hemorrhage: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review
Alexandra Baker and Krissia Rivera Perla
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Intraventricular haemorrhage is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Treating it with intraventricular fibrinolytic therapy via a catheter is becoming an increasingly utilized intervention. But what is the role of this treatment in hypertensive intraventricular haemorrhage patients and what are the effect sizes for survival as well as level of function at differing time points?
I’m Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke and I spoke to Alexandra Baker and Krissia Rivera Perla from John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, they are the joint first editors for the article Fibrinolytic for Treatment of Intraventricular Haemorrhage: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.
Friday Aug 18, 2017
Long-term Predictors of Stroke in Healthy Middle-aged Men - Erik Prestgaard
Friday Aug 18, 2017
Friday Aug 18, 2017
As you can imagine a longitudinal study of 2014 Norwegian men who were recruited from 1972-1975, and then followed up until 1997, is an amazing source of data. Researchers from the Institute of Clinical Medicine, and the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, and from the Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Norway investigated the long term predictive impact on stroke risk of baseline variables including haemodynamic variables measured at rest and during exercise in these same middle-aged, healthy men.
Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke and I spoke to Dr Erik Prestgaard, lead author of the paper‘Long-term Predictors of Stroke in Healthy Middle-aged Men, recently published in the International Journal of Stroke.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Where to now? AVERT answered an important question, but raised many more
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
The AVERT trial was a Phase 3 randomised trial with over 2100 subjects designed to end the controversy about the early mobilisation of stroke patients. It sounds intuitive doesn’t it, if a patient has a stroke get them up and moving as soon as possible get the blood flowing and consequently the patient healing faster.
But this wasn’t the case, and the stroke community, especially the rehab and recovery arm were collectively shocked by the results which indicated that early mobilization may actually cause harm.
Undoubtedly this ultimately successful trial answered an important clinical question, opening the door for more large scale rehab and recovery trials.
Now the priority questions are: (1) What is the optimal dose in minutes of VEM in duration and frequency? (2) How intense should the exertion be? (3) How should we design trials that compare different specified doses for different subgroups?
I’m Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke and I spoke to Mark Bayley author of Where to now? AVERT answered an important question, but raised many more recently published in the International Journal of Stroke.
Sunday Aug 06, 2017
Stroke while driving: frequency and association with automobile accidents
Sunday Aug 06, 2017
Sunday Aug 06, 2017
Driving while having a stroke is potentially life threatening, imagine driving down a dark road at night, or a busy peak hour city street and suffering a stroke? A group of researchers in Japan, have looked at stroke while driving and they may be on the way to pinpointing the risk factors, that may potentially be modified to make driving safer to those at risk of stroke.
Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke spoke to Dr Joji Inamasu from Saiseikai Utsunomiya Byoin, Department of Neurosurgery in Tochigi, Japan. This article is published online, via the International Journal of Stroke. Please follow this link to read this article
In this study a majority of patients with stroke while driving were women, with a medium age of 63, age however, did not differ from gender, and the most common co-morbidity was hypertension across both stroke types.
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