Would you know if you were at risk of stroke? While there is no absolute way to know that you will or will not ever have a stroke in your lifetime, there are signs that you are at a higher risk of ...
This can happen if the vessel becomes blocked (an ischemic stroke) or ruptured (hemorrhagic stroke). The basilar artery is located at the base of the brain, where the two vertebral arteries come ...
Endovascular therapy, a minimally invasive surgery performed inside the blood vessels, is preferred to alternative approaches for vessel obstructions in life-sustaining areas of the brain, analysis ...
Of 30 239 study participants, we included 27 310 participants (mean age, 65 years; 45% male), followed a median of 12.4 years, during which 1763 incident stroke events occurred. On average, ...
Infection from COVID-19 appeared to significantly increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and death for up to three years among unvaccinated people early in the pandemic when the original SARS-CoV-2 ...