Stroke/Vascular Neurology News

An analysis of hundreds of stroke trials shows significantly more men than women were registered as principal investigators from 2011 to 2020, with the most striking difference observed for acute stroke trials, researchers reported.

In a cohort of patients who had transcatheter aortic valve replacement at 22 hospitals in Michigan, post-TAVR stroke was more common at institutions designated as comprehensive stroke centers, researchers reported.

Reduced kidney function was associated with increased levels of dementia-related blood biomarkers, but not an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Risk scores and machine learning algorithms were less accurate at predicting stroke for Black adults than for white adults, researchers reported in JAMA.

Stemedica Cell Technologies announced the launch of a phase 2b/3 clinical trial to assess the safety, efficacy and tolerability of a single IV injection of allogenic mesenchymal stem cells in patients with chronic ischemic stroke.

Ralph L. Sacco, MD, MS, professor and chair of the department of neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, died on Jan. 17 from glioblastoma, according to a statement from the university.

Health officials said a safety signal detected by a national surveillance system is “very unlikely” to represent a “true clinical risk” for stroke among older people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 booster.

Treatment with IV Tenecteplase was not associated with better functional outcome after 90 days in patients with wake-up stroke selected using advanced imaging, per a study published in The Lancet Neurology.

A team of three Ohio research companies has won a seat on an 8-year, $149 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract vehicle for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Endovascular access to the sensorimotor cortex was shown to be a successful alternative for placing a brain-computer interface in or on the dura compared with open-brain surgery, researchers reported in JAMA Neurology.