Sentences with phrase «largest blood vessels in the brain»

The benefits of treating serious strokes with clot removal were shown in 2015, when five separate studies analyzing a total of 1,287 patients showed that severe stroke patients — usually with clots involving the largest blood vessels in the brain — who received both the clot - snatching procedure and the medicine did significantly better than those who got medicine alone.

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Nowhere is this more true than in the brain, where blood vessel walls are tightly knit, keeping most large molecules from seeping out of the bloodstream and into brain tissue.

In Japan, dementia researcher Masahito Yamada at Kanazawa University is making his way through a large number of such autopsy specimens and says that the 16 brains he has examined so far show signs of unusually high levels of amyloid deposition in cerebral blood vesselIn Japan, dementia researcher Masahito Yamada at Kanazawa University is making his way through a large number of such autopsy specimens and says that the 16 brains he has examined so far show signs of unusually high levels of amyloid deposition in cerebral blood vesselin cerebral blood vessels.

Investigators undertook a large retrospective study of close to 6,000 patients referred to the Primary Cardiovascular Prevention Center at Pitié - Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris between 1995 and 2012 to assess whether NAFLD is incidental to or is the cause of atherosclerosis of the carotid arteries, the major blood vessels in the neck that supply blood to the brain, neck, and face.

The largest increase in blood flow occurred in two small areas, or nuclei, within the brain stem which control the constriction and dilation of blood vessels in the brain.