Sentences with phrase «ischaemic stroke»
Ischaemic stroke is a condition where the blood flow to the brain is blocked, usually due to a clot. This can cause serious damage to the brain because it doesn't get enough oxygen and nutrients. Full definition
Alcohol related hospitalisation is associated with a doubled risk of ischaemic stroke risk in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, according to a study presented at ESC Congress 2016 today by Dr Faris Al - Khalili, cardiologist, Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
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An irregular heart rhythm, or atrial fibrillation, was significantly associated with ischaemic stroke in all regions, but was of greater importance in Western Europe, North America and Australia, than in China or South Asia.
In the last few years, several studies have shown that iron deficiency, which affects around two billion people worldwide, may be a risk factor for ischaemic stroke in adults and in children.
Temporal changes in the documentation of neurological findings among patients with acute ischaemic stroke in a single centre in Japan: a retrospective cross-sectional study
The two major types of stroke include ischaemic stroke caused by blood clots, which accounts for 85 % of strokes, and haemorrhagic stroke or bleeding into the brain, which accounts for 15 % of strokes.
According to Kennedy Lees, study co-author and Professor of Cerebrovascular Medicine at the University of Glasgow, UK, «What this shows is that we are up against the clock when treating ischaemic stroke.
The objective of this study was to assess the incidence and predictors of ischaemic stroke among low risk patients with non-valvular AF.
During a median follow - up of five years, ischaemic stroke occurred at an annual rate of 3.4 per 1000 patient - years.
Patients with non-valvular AF under the age of 65 and a score of 0 in men or 1 in women are considered to be at low risk for ischaemic stroke, and oral anticoagulation therapy is not indicated.
The findings show just how important it is for people with acute ischaemic stroke (in which blood flow to an area of the brain is blocked or reduced) to be identified quickly and treated by specialist staff in order to reduce the subsequent degree of disability.
Dr Al - Khalili said: «Even if the risk for stroke is low, it is not negligible, and a number of such «low risk» patients do present with ischaemic stroke in clinical practice and in patient registers.»
Dr Al - Khalili said: «Even through these patients are classified as low risk, the incidence of ischaemic stroke in our study population is neither negligible nor ignorable and it carries a relatively high mortality.»
The beneficial link between oral anticoagulant use and ischaemic stroke in this low risk population without a recognised indication for these drugs needs further investigation, including the benefit to harm (bleeding) ratio.»
The preferred treatment for ischaemic stroke, in which a blood clot cuts off the blood supply to brain tissue, is a drug called rtPA, which dissolves the clot.
The researchers found that compared to people who never ate fruit, those who ate fruit daily cut their CVD risks by 25 - 40 % (around 15 % for IHD, around 25 % for ischaemic stroke and 40 % for haemorrhagic stroke).
... Audits show that patients with ischaemic stroke are offered thrombolysis too rarely or, if they are offered it, too slowly.
Dr Emberson and colleagues conducted a meta - analysis of individual patient data from all the major trials of alteplase for treatment of acute ischaemic stroke.
Some 81 haemorrhagic and 17 ischaemic strokes were reported.
Haemorrhagic strokes were equally associated with swallowing the drug and injecting it while inhalation was the most common method of getting high associated with ischaemic stroke.
This compares with complete recovery for one in five people and death in one in five after an ischaemic stroke.
The overall mortality was 7.5 per 1000 patient - years in patients without ischaemic stroke, and 29.6 per 1000 patient - years in patients who had suffered an ischaemic stroke during follow - up.
Use of oral anticoagulants was associated with a lower risk of ischaemic stroke (HR 0.78, 95 % CI 0.63 - 0.97, p = 0.027).
In the multivariable analysis, the only variables that remained significantly associated with an increased risk of ischaemic stroke were age (hazard ratio [HR] 1.06, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 1.05 - 1.08, p < 0.001 per incremental year) and alcohol related hospitalisation (HR 2.01, 95 % CI 1.45 — 2.79, p < 0.001).
«Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart rhythm disturbance and is associated with a five-fold increased risk of ischaemic stroke,» said Dr Al - Khalili.
The most common type, ischaemic stroke, occurs because the blood supply to the brain is interrupted by small clots.
An efficacy and safety comparison between different stentriever designs in acute ischaemic stroke: a systematic review and meta - analysis.