Including cardiac CT in the initial hyperacute stroke imaging protocol gives a higher yield for detecting high-risk cardioaortic sources of embolism than the current practice of performing later ...

ABU DHABI, UAE — Extending the simple CT angiography (CTA) scan given to all patients with acute stroke on presentation to the hospital to include the upper part of the heart increased the detection ...

Results from the most comprehensive study to compare two imaging techniques for the emergency diagnosis of suspected acute stroke show that magnetic resonance imaging can provide a more sensitive ...

Patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) did not have worse outcomes when a CT-only imaging strategy determined the course of their treatment, according to a small observational study. Those skipping ...

Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability and preventable disability in the United States. It is also the fifth leading cause of death, killing nearly 130,000 people in the U.S. each year.

Adelaide company Micro-X (MX1) has started developing a small CT brain scanner that can be fitted in ambulances and emergency aircraft. If successful, the device will allow paramedics and retrieval ...

The use of thrombectomy in patients with acute stroke and a large infarct of unrestricted size has not been well studied. We assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, patients with proximal cerebral vessel occlusion ...