In patients with acute stroke and a large infarct of unrestricted size, thrombectomy and medical care led to better functional outcomes and lower mortality compared with medical care alone, the ...

Prehospital pulse-dose glucocorticoid treatment in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) does not reduce the final infarct size at 3 months but may improve acute outcomes ...

Pressure-controlled intermittent coronary sinus occlusion (PiCSO) therapy added to primary PCI does not seem to reduce myocardial infarct size in patients with anterior ST-segment elevation myocardial ...

Colchicine fails to protect against myocardial injury in STEMI when given at the time of reperfusion then continued for 5 days after, according to data from the randomized COVERT-MI. There also is a ...

Watershed Infarction: Flair axial MRI scans. Note the large bright signal in the right basal ganglia and internal capsule. Although watershed infarcts are most often thought of as areas between two ...

Multi-infarct dementia, also known as vascular dementia, is a form of dementia resulting from brain damage caused by stroke or transient ischemic attacks (also known as mini-strokes).