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Studies at the 5th annual European Stroke Organisation Conference highlight diversity and commonality across geography and gender

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Media Release Milan, 23 May 2019 Studies at the 5th annual European Stroke Organisation Conference highlight diversity and commonality across geography and gender RESILIENT: A randomised trial demonstrating efficacy and feasibility of endovascular treatment in resource limited healthcare systems VIST, VAST and SAMMPRIS (pooled analysis): Opening up extracranial stenotic vessels of posterior circulation arteries outside […]

ESOC Report: Large Artery Disease

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In the afternoon the Large Artery Disease and Treatment Scientific Communication session took place, chaired by Anita Arsovska (North Macedonia) and Mauro Silvestrini (Italy).We had an opportunity to hear interesting lectures presented by experienced speakers. Dr. Ntaios (Greece) presented the topic AORTIC ARCH ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH EMBOLIC STROKE OF UNDETERMINED SOURCE: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS […]

ESOC Session Report: Stroke in the Young

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The Thursday morning session ‘Stroke in the Young’ was a very educative and interesting session chaired by Julia Ferrari and by Mirjam R. Heldner. Anne-Mette Hvas was speaking about inherited and acquired thrombophilia, about lack of evidence for association between thrombophilia and ischaemic stroke, about impact of presence of thrombophilia on treatment strategies and about […]

ESOC 2019 Session Report: Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: an Update

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By: Dr Kailash Krishnan, MRCP (UK), MRCP (Lond), PhD, FESO Dr Ostergaard started off this much anticipated session here at the European Stroke Organisation Conference in Milan by explaining capillary haemodynamics in normal state, ageing and small vessel diseases including ischaemic stroke (IS) and Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). He went onto demonstrate how dysfunction of haemodynamics […]

Poster E-walk at ESOC 2019

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By: Dr. G. Reale, ESO YSPR Committee In the futuristic and visionary 1982 movie “Tron”, a young Jeff Bridges was thrown in a virtual cyberspace where he was able to walk and talk with the avatars of the programs of his computer. In the ultra-modern frame of the Congress Venue at ESOC 2019, there are […]

ESOC 2019 Scientific Report: Sex Differences in Stroke

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By: Dr Cheryl Carcel, MD and Dr Amy Yu, MD The session on Sex Differences in Stroke was one of the first communications on Day 1 of the European Stroke Organisation Conference in Milan and it did not disappoint! A pooled analysis of five large randomized clinical trials (n= 19,652) showed that women had better […]

Interview with Caroline M.J. Loos

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Interviewed by Nicolas Martinez-Majander, Helsinki University Hospital. In 2018, I started working as a neurologist with neurovascular focus at NeuroVascular Center Antwerp (NVCA), at Antwerp University Hospital (UZA, Belgium), where I combine clinical work and research in an academic setting with the focus on stroke. How did you get involved in stroke research? During my […]

ESOC 2019: Trainsient Ischemic Attack

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The session trainsient ischemic attack took place at 14.45-16.15. The chairs were Prof Marcel Arnold and Prof Ursula Schulz. The first talk was transient neurological attacks are they actually TIAS? Prof Ewoud van Dijk mentioned nonfocal transient neurological attacks (TNS) has 23% DWI lesions whereas TIAs has 31% DWI lesions. Majority of these lesions in […]

Encouraging Data on Management After Brain Bleeds Offers Reassurance to Clinicians at ESOC 2019

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Media Release Milan, 23 May 2019 Encouraging data on management after brain bleeds offers reassurance to clinicians at the 5th annual European Stroke Organisation Conference INTERACT / ATACH-2 Pooling Project: Outcomes in patients with a brain bleed continue to improve as blood pressure is lowered International Microbleeds Collaborative Network: In TIA/stroke patients with many asymptomatic […]