Researchers studying nearly 2 million older adults found that cerebral amyloid angiopathy sharply raises the risk of ...

A hidden protein buildup in brain blood vessels may quietly quadruple dementia risk—often without a stroke as warning.

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a condition where protein (called amyloid) builds up in the brain, making blood vessels ...

Given the size of the stroke depicted in Figure 1 (greater than one third of the hemisphere), thrombolytic therapy would be contraindicated for this patient. Indications of a hemorrhagic stroke ...

January 28, 2011 — Older people with a history of any severe headache, not just migraine headache, are more likely to have structural white matter brain lesions than their headache-free peers, a new ...

Mass effect on the brainstem and occlusion of the fourth ventricle resulting in hydrocephalus are potentially life-threatening complications of cerebellar infarct but did not occur in this patient.

The use of thrombectomy in patients with acute stroke and a large infarct of unrestricted size has not been well studied. We assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, patients with proximal cerebral vessel occlusion ...

The effect of early as compared with later initiation of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in persons with atrial fibrillation who have had an acute ischemic stroke is unclear. We performed an ...