In patients with acute ischemic stroke who have not received thrombolysis or thrombectomy, early versus late antihypertensive treatment did not reduce the likelihood of death and major disability.
These results suggest that continuous monitoring to detect AF should be considered in a larger population of stroke patients rather than just those with cryptogenic stroke, the investigators say.
Study finds consistent neuroinflammatory response after intracerebral hemorrhage
Understanding how the immune system responds to acute brain hemorrhage could open doors to identifying treatments for this devastating disease. However, up until now, there has been limited information on inflammation in the brain from human patients, especially during the first days after a hemorrhagic stroke.
This led a team of researchers to partner with a large clinical trial of minimally-invasive surgery to tackle defining the human neuroinflammatory response in living patients.
Our goal was to find out, for the first time, how certain key cells of the immune system are activated when they enter the brain after a hemorrhage and how this may shift over the first week. This is a critical time for our patients.