Sentences with phrase «for ischemic»

There is very little opportunity for an individual interventionalist to increase his patient volume independently (at least for ischemic stroke).

For these individuals, the medical scientists found that the risk for ischemic stroke is doubled.

Atrial fibrillation increases odds of stroke, but because these patients had few additional risk factors, they were considered at low risk for ischemic stroke (blocked blood flow to the brain).

In the Iowa Women's Health Study the protected quintile for ischemic heart disease was an average of 3.2 whole - grain servings per day (Jacobs et al., 1998).

What this means for ischemic stroke victims (related to clot obstructions in the vessels supplying blood to the brain, a condition known as antherosclerosis) is that the epicatechin in dark chocolate may actually protect the brain.

The investigators then compared just over 3,000 people who'd been hospitalized for an ischemic stroke during the week after a daylight saving transition with nearly 12,000 people who'd suffered a stroke in the two weeks before or after a transition week.

During the years 1970 — 1973, all 50 - y - old men living in the municipality of Uppsala, Sweden, were invited to participate in a prospective survey regarding risk factors for ischemic heart disease.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a strong independent risk factor for ischemic stroke.1, 2 Vitamin K antagonist (eg, warfarin) treatment reduces the risk of stroke by 64 % and all - cause mortality by 26 %, compared with control in patients with AF.3 However, warfarin confers an increased risk of hemorrhage, with intracranial bleeding the most severe effect.4 - 7

Host: Dr. Liisa Galea Speaker: Dr. Farida Sohrabji, Texas A&M Title: Neuroprotection for Ischemic Stroke in the aging brain: Role of microRNA

stem cell therapy for ischemic cardiovascular disease; Molecular mechanisms of oxygen homeostasis; Genetic syndromes due to mutations in genes encoding transcription factors

Therefore, postmenopausal women at the age of 55 — 74 years were at higher risk for ischemic stroke than men of comparable age.

HIF - 1 also is required for ischemic preconditioning, short episodes of ischemia and reperfusion that protect the heart against a subsequent prolonged ischemic insult.

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.

Dr. Semenza's research interests include the molecular mechanisms of oxygen homeostasis; gene and stem cell therapy for ischemic cardiovascular disease; the role of HIF - 1 in cancer; and protection of the heart against ischemia - reperfusion injury.

As this is the first report on this PTH therapy for ischemic stroke for the demonstration of the efficacy and feasibility, PTH treatment was initiated at 1 hr after stroke followed by repeated administrations for 6 days.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a strong independent risk factor for ischemic stroke.

A higher risk was also seen for both ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke if the treatment was initiated later than five years after the onset of menopause and contained conjugated equine oestrogens.

The results of the Endovascular Therapy Following Imaging Evaluation for the Ischemic Stroke (DEFUSE 3) trial, presented at the International Stroke Conference 2018 in Los Angeles and published on Jan. 24 in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrated that physically removing brain clots up to 16 hours after symptom onset in selected patients led to improved outcomes compared to standard medical therapy.

The totality of the worldwide evidence confirmed that risks associated with excess weight are consistently greater for ischemic than for hemorrhagic stroke.

The risk - adjusted 30 - day mortality rate for ischemic strokes fell from 15.9 % in 1988 to 12.7 % in 2008.

«Beating the clock for ischemic stroke sufferers.»

Bed position is among the complex issues that Flaster and colleagues address in their article, which summarizes the latest research on caring for ischemic stroke patients.

Previous studies have looked mainly at genes causing atherosclerosis and genes affecting the function of platelets and clotting processes as risk factors for ischemic stroke (clot obstructing blood flow to the brain).

The treatment options for an ischemic stroke have been improved in recent years.

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[16] Coimbra Cicero, 2001, Implications of ischemic penumbra for the diagnosis of brain death, University of Sao Paulo.

Immediate applications for the oxygen - sensing bandage include monitoring patients with a risk of developing ischemic (restricted blood supply) conditions, postoperative monitoring of skin grafts or flaps, and burn - depth determination as a guide for surgical debridement — the removal of dead or damaged tissue from the body.

Through shortened patient examination times, higher patient throughput, and lower cost per MRI examination, EPI may become a powerful tool for early diagnosis of some common and potentially treatable diseases such as ischemic heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

Researchers noted that boys and girls who were 2 to 3 inches shorter than average for their age were at increased risk of clot - related (ischemic) stroke in adult men and women and of bleeding stroke in men.

Dr. Paul R. Sanberg, Distinguished University Professor, a co-author of the paper, concluded that «these novel data showing BSCB damage in subacute and chronic ischemic stroke may lead to development of new therapeutic approaches for patients with ischemic cerebral infarction.»

Intravenous thrombolytic therapy with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) can improve outcomes for patients with ischemic stroke treated within 4 1/2 hours of the onset of symptoms.

«This study, carried out using laboratory rats modeling stroke, demonstrated that ischemic stroke — in both its subacute and chronic stages — damages the BSCB in a variety of ways, creating a toxic environment in the spinal cord that can lead to further disability and exacerbate disease pathology,» said study lead author Dr. Svitlana Garbuzova - Davis, associate professor in USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair.

In an earlier article, Jenkins showed that females with severe hypoxic ischemic injury benefit from a combination treatment of hypothermia and NAC, which provides the rate - limiting amino acid for the primary anti-oxidant in all cells.

«We don't test hypoxic ischemic injury babies for vitamin D deficiency and we don't treat it,» says Jenkins.

The study identified novel genetic risk factors for all major subtypes of ischemic stroke.

Ischemic strokes, which account for about 85 percent of all strokes, are caused by blood clots.

For every five - unit increase in BMI the risk of ischemic stroke increased by 21 percent.

Researchers found that anemia was present in about a quarter of patients with stroke upon admission and was associated with a higher risk of death for up to one year following either ischemic stroke (clotted blood vessel) or hemorrhagic stroke (ruptured blood vessel).

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.

Ischemic strokes account for about 85 percent of the roughly 750,000 strokes suffered annually in the United States.

The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN) is reporting results for the first time from a clinical trial of patients who have a complication of coronary heart disease known as moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR).

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.

After an ischemic stroke in the middle cerebral artery — one of the most common types of stroke in humans — the animal models showed much lower overall fluid intake but increased preference for alcohol over water when they did drink.

Additional work recently presented at the 2014 American Society for Radiation Oncology in San Francisco carried the work further in order to determine whether protection from the additional radiation dose in fact translated to a reduction in ischemic heart disease.

The study involved 310 people who had an ischemic stroke, which involves blood clotting, and had been taking aspirin for at least seven days before the first stroke symptoms.

A large randomized controlled trial of ischemic postconditioning in patients who had experienced the deadliest form of heart attack — ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-- failed to show that this procedure significantly reduces death from any cause or hospitalization for heart failure, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

If the compound identified in this study successfully reduces tissue death and improves recovery in further experiments, it could lead to new approaches for preserving brain cells after an ischemic stroke,» said Francesca Bosetti, Ph.D., Pharm.D., program director at the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

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 researchers designed the study, called Effect of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning on Clinical Outcomes in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery (ERICCA), in an effort to find new ways to improve bypass outcomes for high - risk patients.

After a transient ischemic attack (TIA, or «mini-stroke»), 16.8 percent had functional disability and 10.8 percent had poor skills for independence.

Wu and his team have developed several mechanism - based treatments for neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's disease, ischemic stroke, Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy.