Tag: Acute stroke

Medical therapy improvements mean “the time has come” to reconduct prior...

“The time has definitely come to look at the evidence, and redo these studies,” posited Alun Davies (Imperial College London, London, UK), putting forward...

CX returns to in-person format once more in the London spring

Charing Cross (CX) chair Roger Greenhalgh welcomes the vascular community to this year's symposium, due to be held 26–28 April in London, UK, and...

More trained interventionalists needed to treat stroke “on the spot”

Nick Hopkins (Buffalo, USA) talks to BLearning Neuro at VEITH Symposium 2018 (13–17 November 2018, New York, USA) about the DAWN trial (LINK), which showed that...

Silk Road Medical announces US$47 million financing

Silk Road Medical has received US$47 million in new funding led by new investors Norwest Venture Partners and funds managed by Janus Capital Management...

The use of embolic filters to reduce the stroke risk in...

Richard Gibbs and colleagues have previously demonstrated that 80% of patients undergoing thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) have evidence of new post-procedural cerebral infarcts by comparing pre-...

The relationship between aortic arch interventions and acute stroke

At the 2017 Charing Cross Symposium (25–28 April, London, UK), speakers and panellists discussed the challenges of endovascular aortic arch procedures and their potential...