by Ket Patel | Mar 13, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Stroke
When results from a major trial with more than 900 patients failed to show that closure of a patent foramen ovale in patients who had a cryptogenic stroke worked better than medical therapy for preventing a future stroke, some experts suggested that the problem was...
by Ket Patel | Mar 13, 2012 | All Videos For Neurology, Stroke
A review of a stroke registry shows that it may be safe to give clot-busting therapy to “wake-up” stroke patients who have the same clinical and imaging features as those of patients who are traditionally considered eligible for the therapies. Clinicians...
by Ket Patel | Mar 10, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Stroke
Pediatric stroke survivors had an absolute risk of 39% for developing epilepsy in the 10 years following their stroke in a review of 371 patients in Northern California. Two factors significantly boosted a child’s risk of developing epilepsy following a stroke: A...
by Ket Patel | Mar 8, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease
Patients with moderate or severe Alzheimer’s disease who continued to worsen despite treatment with donepezil appeared to retain a small but significant benefit over those who added or switched to memantine or stopped taking medication for Alzheimer’s altogether in a...
by Ket Patel | Mar 7, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Epilepsy
Surgery was clearly superior to pharmacotherapy at relieving seizures in a study of patients with intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy who were no more than 2 years beyond the point where they failed to respond to adequate trials of two brand-name antiepileptic...
