Archive for 2010
7th World Stroke Congress, Seol ,Korea, October 13-16, 2010
The 7th World Stroke Congress, organized by the World Stroke Organization (WSO), is a landmark event attended biennially by leading medical professionals interested in finding global strategies to combat the second most common cause of death worldwide. The WSO Seoul 2010 Congress will facilitate the dissemination and discussion of all aspects of stroke and provide [...]
Risk factors for ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke: A global view
On behalf of the Interstroke investigators, Martin J O’Donnell et al have published their results of the study about the risk factors for stroke in 22 countries around the glob (The Lancet, 2010;376,9735:112-123). They aimed to establish the association of known and emerging risk factors with stroke and its primary subtypes, assess the contribution of [...]
9th Welsh Stroke Conference: How Is The Future Of Stroke Medicine?
For the 9th year running the Welsh stroke Conference has managed to attract the attention of the hundreds of stroke specialists and members of the multidisciplinary teams from Wales and all around the country. The conference which was held on 25th June 2010 in the River Front of Newport has started with a presentation from [...]
XIX. European Stroke Conference: Barcelona, Spain:25 – 28 May 2010
Since 1990, the European physicians and scientists are meeting in a conference to discuss their latest research activities in stroke. The orginsers of the European Stroke conference managed to oragnise a special meeting for the stroke nurses and the allied health professionals working in stroke care. This type of activity was started successfully in 2007. [...]
Thrombolysing stroke patients works up to 4.5 hours after the brain attack
Professor K. Lees and his team have published recently (The Lancet 2010;375:1695-1703) the results of their pooled analysis of the data from the stroke thrombolysis trails. Early administration of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) after ischaemic stroke improves outcome. Previous analysis of combined data from individual patients suggested potential benefit beyond 3 h [...]
New issue of the ‘Welsh Stroke Bulletin’
The new issue of the Welsh Stroke Bulletin is out now. It is published in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, UK. Read in this issue: Challenges in implementing thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke in clinical practice, arteriovnous malformation and Haemorrhagic stroke and a review of the stroke research activity in Wales. Read more: WSB March 2010
Robot-Assisted Therapy for stroke patients
Evidences are needed for the effect of the new technologies on the rehabilitation of stroke patients who suffered from long term motor deficits especially of the upper limbs. In this multicenter, randomized, controlled trial involving 127 patients with moderate-to-severe upper-limb impairment 6 months or more after a stroke, the authors randomly assigned 49 patients to [...]
Intravenous Alteplase in Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion
Intravenous Alteplase in Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion: Japan Alteplase Clinical Trial II (J-ACT II) A team from Tohoku University in Japan has published recently the result of a study about the effects of 0.6mg/kg intravenous Alteplase on the clinical outcome following an occlusion in the middle cerebral artery (Stroke. 2010; 41:46). This study is part [...]
