Stroke

Strokes are the loss of brain function due to an interruption of blood flow or the hemorrhaging of vessels in the brain. Cath Lab Digest contains various articles on the catheterization procedures used to detect and treat the potential causes of a stroke. Feel free to browse through our articles below.

Stroke: The Under-treated Cardiovascular Disease

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Clinical and Industry News s cardioprotective drug, MC-1, Fast Track designation as a treatment to reduce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events associated with ischemic and/or ischemic reperfusion injury in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions, coronary artery bypass graft surgery or experiencing an acute coronary syndrome. Stents Open Totally Occluded Carotid Arteries Stenting restored blood flow in stroke patients who had complete blockage in a carotid artery, according to a preliminary report...

Clinical and Industry News for May 2007 Some Patients Who Must Pay Part of Statin Costs Discontinue Use Some patients required to partially pay for statins stop taking the potentially lifesaving, cholesterol-lowering drugs, according to a U.S. study of a Canadian system reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Compared to patients in the full-coverage group, 5.4 percent of patients who started statin treatment three months after introduction of either the co-pay and co-insurance plans stopped or reduced ...

News from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Meeting (TCT) Held in Washington, D.C., October 16-21, 2005

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January 2004 Spearheaded by Agfa technology and driven by an institution-wide strategic vision, 100-bed Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire has a medical imaging system that is fully implemented throughout the enterprise, interfacing with the existing hospital information system and integrated into a hospital-wide EMR. Cleveland Clinic Health System established a stroke quality improvement program designed to increase access to IV tPA, to improve physician compliance with national IV tPA treatment ...

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Cardiogenic Shock and Hemodynamic Support: A Realistic Management Approach Additional causes include: 1. Trauma from a myocardial contusion; 2. Cardiomyopathies: Hypertrophic, restricted, and dilated; 3. Infectious and inflammatory processes (viral myocarditis, infective endocarditis); 4. Pulmonary hypertension resulting in right ventricular failure; 5. Toxic ...

Cartoid Endarterectomy: An Established Standard for Acute and Chronic Prevention of Stroke The effective prevention of ischemic stroke resulting from atheroembolic extracranial vascular disease was first realized with the introduction of carotid surgery by Eastcott, Pickering and Rob in 19541. Over the ensuing years, the critics of carotid endarterectomy were many and only over a period of nearly twenty years was it finally shown through two widely accepted studies (i.e. NASCET and ACAS) and numerous corollary trials to be effective for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with appropriate degrees of stenosis and other risk factors.2?5