stroke

A Guide to Stroke Symptoms and Actions to Take Recognizing Stroke Signs: Symptoms Not to Ignore A stroke, or cerebrovascular accident, is a serious medical condition that occurs when the blood flow to a part of the brain is interrupted or…

Stroke action first aid: A stroke occurs when blood flow in the brain is interrupted by a blockage or bleed in one of the blood vessels

Very often one hears about cerebral haemorrhage, but in fact one does not always know what exactly it is. Yet it is a condition in which anyone can find themselves, since the main cause is a head injury, especially in people under 50 years…

The most common cause for a stroke is due to the formation of a blood clot in the brain artery. It can also cause serious damage to the brain

The term stroke identifies all cerebral accidents that can be caused by an ischaemic event (narrowing or obstruction of the venous walls due to a foreign body or accumulation of material; ischaemia determines a lack of blood supply to the…

Cerebral stroke is a consequence of the failure of an artery to supply an area of the brain with blood, either because the artery itself ruptures (haemorrhagic stroke) or because it is occluded by a thrombus (thrombotic stroke)

Results from an Australian-led international clinical trial, published in The Lancet, address intense debate around the best urgent stroke treatment

Benedikt syndrome (also called paramedian midbrain syndrome; in English Benedikt syndrome, or Benedikt's syndrome or paramedian midbrain syndrome), is a rare type of brain stroke that results in damage to the midbrain tegmentum: this is…

Brain stroke and Covid-19: a correlation? In a rapid communication published at the end of April in the New England Journal of Medicine, neurologists in New York City reported five cases of stroke of the great cerebral arteries over a…

When patients with acute stroke symptoms are treated on a mobile stroke unit (MSU) and receive anti-clot medication faster, they have less disability at 90 days, reported a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by…