Search Tag: Stroke
2023 16 Nov
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a stroke occurs approximately every 40 seconds in the U.S., leading to a stroke-related death every three minutes and 14 seconds. To prevent this unfortunate outcome, the solution is time; faster treatment leads to quicker and improved outcomes. However, there is a need for further...Read more
2022 16 Apr
On 11 April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned healthcare providers that radiological computer-aided triage and notification (CADt) devices should be used not to diagnose patients that may have intracranial large vessel occlusion (LVO). In its letter, the FDA reminded healthcare providers that the purpose of LVO CADt devices is...Read more
2019 18 Jul
Join us on August 12th at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST for a free community webinar event " Improving Intracranial Hemorrhage and Stroke Prioritization with End-to-End AI " with EnvoyAI and TeraRecon partner MaxQ AI. When is the webinar? August 12th at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST What will I learn? How integrated end-to-end AI workflows are delivering...Read more
2019 26 Mar
Using advanced PET/MRI technology, researchers at the CNIC have detected arterial inflammation in regions that have yet to develop atherosclerotic plaques Using advanced PET/MRI technology, researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have detected arterial inflammation in regions that have yet to develop...Read more
2019 26 Mar
#SIR19ATX: Interventional radiologists may be key to expanding access to timely thrombectomies AUSTIN, TEXAS —Training interventional radiologists to perform endovascular thrombectomies results in positive outcomes for patients experiencing stroke, according to a study presented today at the Society of Interventional Radiology...Read more
2017 04 Jul
A team of researchers at MIT worked with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital and other institutions to devise a way to boost the quality of brain scans so that they can be used for large-scale studies of how strokes affect different people and how these people respond to treatment. The paper was presented at the Information Processing in Medical...Read more
2016 17 Oct
A new imaging software programme, supported by the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health and published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging , can now predict who is most at risk for stroke. It has been estimated that atrial fibrillation (AF) affects approximately 33.5 million people worldwide, and it is also...Read more
2015 03 Dec
Researchers in the Netherlands studying thousands of healthy adults have found a connection between very early stages of brain and heart disease, according to a study presented on Wednesday, 2 December, at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. The finding provides more insight into the heart-brain connection, which is important...Read more
2015 21 Sep
A new radiopharmaceutical probe developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has allowed researchers to perform full-body scans to locate hidden blood clots in an animal model, according to a report that will appear in the October issue of the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology . Finding the location and composition of clots...Read more
2013 02 Dec
An entirely new and novel approach in targeting the brain in stroke rehabilitation therapy was presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). With stroke affecting millions of people worldwide, rehabilitation still has room for improvement. Only 5% of stroke patients make a full recovery, and current therapies...Read more