This session covered a number of topics in stroke imaging that ranged from carotid/aortic imaging, young stroke recurrence, CTP thresholds, perviousness and computerized interpretation using artificial intelligence/machine learning algorithms. Several presentations highlighted potential novel imaging risk markers. Carotid plaque inflammation imaged with FDG-PET (Camps-Renom) showed an association with early stroke recurrence. However, most patients with […]
By Giuseppe Reale Although the evidence-based medicine and the “cult” of p value have made medical decision-making simpler than before, the all-day real-world is often a grey zone where literature interpretation and personal experience can lead clinicians to different choices. This is particularly true in Stroke care. At ESOC 2018 you may see stroke physicians […]
One of the highlights of today’s program was the joint session of ESO and ESC (European Society of Cardiology, European Heart Association). For the second year this joint session is now included in the ESOC program as a key event of the collaboration between the two European Societies. The continued scientific exchange and educational collaboration […]
All those working in stroke are all too aware that haemorrhagic stroke can be devastating for patients and their families, yet despite intensive research there remains a relative lack of acute treatments. With the neutral outcome of TICH-2, it is vital that we intensify our efforts to find novel approaches to treating haemorrhagic stroke. Today’s […]
A preclinical study by Anfray et al., University of Caen,France investigated the effects of single chain (sc) tPA versus two chain (tc) tPA. These forms are contained at variable rates in commercial tPA. Thrombolytic activity is equivalent but only sc-tPA displays excitotoxicity. However, sc-tPA was superior to tc-tPA in reducing lesion size and behavioral deficits […]
Chairs: Janika Kõrv, Michael Brainin The Global Perspectives of Stroke Joint ESO – WSO Session covered important topics related to primary prevention and service organization concentrating mainly on developing world issues. Dr. Peter Sandercock (UK) started the session with a message that non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including stroke, are major drivers of poverty and of health […]
Attending ESOC conference sessions and facing the incredible amount of research activities conducted all around the world should make us remember that medical profession requires both brain and hearth. Stroke physicians do know that this connection is very important. In fact, cardioembolic stroke is frequent and linked to poor outcomes, if compared with other etiology […]
Tudor G. Jovin, University of Pittsburg, US, and Per Wester, Umeå and Karolinska Institute Danderyd, Sweden, chaired this interesting session; some of the main messages are summarized here: Symptomatic carotid near occlusion Dr Castor, Madrid, Spain reported interesting results on the importance of symptomatic carotid near-occlusion based on CT angiography findings from a prospective observational […]
Didier LEYS (France) and Suzana GDOVINOVA (Slovakia) Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI) will become a major public health issue in the future because of (i) the longer life-expectancy in all parts of the world free of any war; (ii) the arrival of the ex-baby boomers at the age at risk ; (iii) the longer survival of patients […]