Stroke Treatments
- Stroke Overview
- What Is It? & Symptoms
- Diagnosis & Expected Duration
- Prevention & Treatment
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Prevention
You can help to prevent stroke by controlling risk factors, including high blood pressure, smoking, atrial fibrillation (an abnormal heart rhythm), high cholesterol or atherosclerosis, and diabetes. A healthy lifestyle and taking an aspirin once a day also can help to prevent stroke.
Several medicines used to treat high blood pressure have been shown to have an especially strong benefit in preventing stroke. These medicines include drugs called ACE inhibitors, including enalapril...
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From Our Experts
The Merci Retrieval System for Strokes: A New Treatment for Blood...
The fact I survived my massive stroke in 2001 is remarkable to me. In fact, until recently I never talked about the specifics about it... Read more »
Quick Treatment of Stroke Saves Lives
May is National Stroke Awareness Month. This year I was honored to be featured on the American Heart Association's Web site as a stroke... Read more »
Study Shows Patients Fail to Get Immediate Treatment for Stroke...
The last couple of weeks have been crazy. I had the opportunity to cover a story I've never covered in my 10 years of reporting television... Read more »
Remembering Yolanda King and Her Stroke Awareness Campaign
Memorial Day is a time to honor all soldiers and veterans who have died. I covered an annual Memorial Day service held in my hometown and... Read more »
Dogs And Strokes
I recently had a scary experience concerning one of my pets. My little boy poodle, auburn in color, had a seizure. His name is Rocky and... Read more »
From Our Sources
Stroke treatment window can be wider: study
Doctors can give stroke patients tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) up to 4.5 hours after they have a stroke and the patient will still benefit from... Read more »
Stroke treatment window opens wider
According to a new study, the clot-busting drug tissue known as plasminogen activator (tPA) is effective 4.5 hours after stroke symptoms begin, 1.5... Read more »
New stroke treatments show promise
Several new stroke treatments have shown promise in recent studies. In one trial, patients who'd suffered an acute ischemic stroke who were given an... Read more »
Men More Likely to Benefit From Stroke Treatment
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Men are more likely than women to benefit from a clot-busting drug after they have a stroke. Researchers looked at 333 people... Read more »
Stroke Treatment Unclogs Neck Arteries
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Now, there is a minimally invasive and effective treatment option for patients suffering from clogged neck arteries -- a... Read more »
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