CHICAGO (Reuters) - A newer, less invasive approach to preventing strokes using a device called a stent proved to be as safe and worked just about as well as surgery, U.S. researchers said on Friday, ...

SAN ANTONIO -- The fairly frequent covert strokes arising after surgery could be tied to postoperative delirium and long-term cognitive dysfunction, based on the observational PRECISION study. Among ...

Although stroke treatments have vastly improved in recent years, leading to better outcomes for many, one population of patients often does not receive these effective therapies: those who suffer ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: In 2021, I drove to the hospital with chest and back pain. I was told that I needed an emergency surgery to remove my gallbladder. During the procedure, I suffered a heart rhythm ...

Surgery soon after diagnosis of a heart infection eliminated the incidence of strokes and repeat infections, researchers said in a presentation at the American Heart Association‘s Scientific Sessions ...

DAVIS -- Chloe Barr was just 18 years old when she suffered a life-changing stroke. In 2023, while at her family home in Davis on spring break during her freshman year at UC Irvine, Barr says she ...

LOS ANGELES — Results from 10 years' follow-up in the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy versus Stenting Trial (CREST) trial comparing carotid stenting and endarterectomy show low postprocedural ...

Two new clinical trials on the treatment of stroke (ESCAPE and EXTEND IA) demonstrate that neurointerventional surgery significantly increases the number of patients who are able to live independently ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Minorities are at greater risk of complications from surgery to remove blockages from the neck arteries, and are more likely than whites to have the procedure in ...