RES-Q A Quality Registry an ESO EAST Initiative (European Stroke Organisation- Enhancing and Accelerating Stroke Care RES-Q Registers 50,000 Patients! In October RES-Q registered its 50,000th patient. In just under two years RES-Q has gone from registering its first patient to having over 50,000 registered patients in over 500 hospitals in 50 countries. The first […]
Aliona Nacu, Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability and mortality worldwide. Intravenous thrombolysis in combination with mechanical thrombectomy improves recanalisation, reduces disability and mortality in patients with large arterial occlusion. However, only a minority of patients is eligible for this treatment and a […]
Giuseppe Reale, MD. Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Gemelli University Hospital – Rome “The Heart and the Mind together make a single Continent”, Emily Dickinson wrote in the late 19th Century. Now, in the 21st, we have “Neurocardiology” dealing with the brain-heart connection, even in the field of stroke. In fact, it is quite […]
Original research article Aneurysm characteristics and risk of rebleeding after subarachnoid haemorrhage European Stroke Journal DOI: 10.1177/2396987318803502 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2396987318803502 Comment by Linxin Li Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH) is a type of stroke with known devastatingly high morbidity and mortality. Early rebleeding before treatment is one of the most feared complications and is associated with poor outcome. […]
Author: Dr Nicolas Martinez-Majander Affiliation: Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University of Helsinki and Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland According to Word Health Organization (WHO), noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease account for 80% of deaths in the European Region. Particularly, diseases of the circulatory system (e.g. […]
Report by Stela Rutovic Zadar Summer School of Neurosonology and Stroke Management was held for the 10th year in a row from 20th to 22nd of September 2018. More than 90 participants from 14 countries together with experts in the field of neurosonolgy and stroke took part in presentations and hands-on sessions. A special part […]
Every year the 29 October serves as a day to bring awareness to stroke around the world. For 2018, the World Stroke Organization has chosen to focus the theme on life after stroke and created the social media hashtag #UpAgainAfterStroke. We know many of our Organisational and Individual members are planning activities in honor of […]
Francesco Brigo, MD – Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy – Division of Neurology, “Franz Tappeiner” Hospital, Merano, Italy Johan Zelano, MD PhD – Sahlgrenska academy and Sahlgrenska university hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden Both organizers of the Seizures & stroke congress February 20-22 2019, Gothenburg Cerebrovascular disease is the most […]
The 6th ICAA (International Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy & related disorders) Association Conference was held in Lille from 6-8 September and it was really a wonderful and fruitful meeting. It was able to bring together the main experts in this field from several countries and the neurologists/neuroradiologists/biotechnologists/researchers involved in the clinical management and in clinical and […]