Sentences with phrase «acute ischemic»

According to the most recent 10Q, however, its cash burn rate should now be «significantly curtailed since the Viprinex program for acute ischemic stroke was terminated in December 2008.»

Endovascular rescue therapy, also known as neurointerventional therapy, is a relatively new treatment available for eligible patients experiencing acute ischemic stroke — a stroke caused by a blood clot in the brain.

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The current study combines data from five clinical trials involving a total of 1,287 people, including the SWIFT PRIME trial led by Saver, that show these devices improved outcomes for people with acute ischemic strokes due to large vessel blockage.

«The data also suggest that the revascularization rate in the Penumbra 3D plus aspiration device arm and the aspiration device - only arm — 83.9 and 74.1 percent, respectively — compare favorably to the 71 percent revascularization rate published in the HERMES meta - analysis of five major randomized controlled trials in acute ischemic stroke.»

Because of the importance of rapid treatment, national guidelines recommend that hospitals complete the evaluation of patients with acute ischemic stroke and begin intravenous tPA therapy for eligible patients within 60 minutes of hospital arrival.

This study included 71,169 patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with tPA from 1,030 participating hospitals.

A 38 - center clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has shown that far more people than previously thought can benefit from an emergency procedure for acute ischemic stroke.

Not exact matches

Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA.

The DANAMI - 3 iPOST trial, which took place in Denmark, included 1,234 patients (average age 61; 79 percent male) with acute STEMI symptoms of less than 12 hours» duration who were randomly assigned to receive standard angioplasty or ischemic postconditioning prior to stent implantation in the blocked artery.

Gino Gialdini, M.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, and colleagues conducted a study to determine the long - term risk of ischemic stroke after perioperative AF of patients undergoing surgery, using administrative claims data from California acute care hospitals between 2007 and 2011.

The Chinese trial, called CHANCE (Clopidogrel in High - risk Patients with Acute Non-disabling Cerebrovascular Events), is nearly identical to a National Institutes of Health - sponsored trial that is already enrolling patients in the United States, including at UCSF, called POINT (Platelet - Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke).

The primary outcome is in - hospital mortality, and secondary outcomes include the complications of BSI such as septic shock, acute kidney injury (AKI), acute lung injury (ALI) / acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), ischemic liver injury, and a collapsed dependent variable of «poor clinical outcome» that is defined as the presence of any of the above complications.

Aquaporin - 4 deletion in mice reduces brain edema after acute water intoxication and ischemic stroke.

Cerebral mast cells mediate blood - brain barrier disruption in acute experimental ischemic stroke through perivascular gelatinase activation.

Although medical and surgical treatments available today for the ischemic heart disease patients diminish the risk of acute myocardial infarction and reduce to some extent the incidence of recurrent heart attack, one of the unsolved challenges is to affect myocardium remodeling occurring during ischemic heart failure.

The transient ischemic attack individuals had all suffered an acute episode which affected motor systems, but within 24 hours symptoms had resolved.

Allergic (hypersensitivity) and immune - mediated reactions: Type 1 (acute anaphylaxis): angiodema (especially the head), anaphylaxis (shock) and death; Type 2 (cytolytic): immune - mediated hemolytic anemia, immune - mediated thrombocytopenia (suspected only; causality has not been confirmed); Type 3 (immune - complex): cutaneous ischemic vasculopathy associated with rabies vaccine, corneal edema («blue - eye») associated with CAV - 1 vaccine, immune - mediated disease.

A retrospective study * was undertaken to compare the clinical signs and outcomes of dogs diagnosed with presumptive ischemic myelopathy (aka Fibro - Cartilagenous Embolus or FCE) or presumptive acute non - compressive nucleus pulposus extrusion (ie a non-compressive disc hernia or «traumatic disc»).

* J. Fenn et al. «Comparison of Clinical Signs and Outcomes Between Dogs with Presumptive Ischemic Myelopathy and Dogs with Acute Non-Compressive Nucleus Pulposus Extrusion».

It is surmised that recovery from acute hepatic necrosis or ischemic damage requires a higher protein intake to maintain a positive nitrogen balance.