ESO BLOG – THE VOICE OF STROKE IN EUROPE
The Official Blog of the European Stroke Organisation
YSPR Editors: Diana Aguiar De Sousa and Linxin Li
FESO Interview with Catarina Fonseca
To qualify as an FESO, members must demonstrate scientific quality and a willingness to actively volunteer in ESO. There are no age requirements, but FESO must meet minimum standards. FESO receive additional benefits, including participation in the Council of Fellows....
ESO Committee Positions Open from May 2020
We would like to take the opportunity to remind all ESO members that ESO has many Committees, which are always looking for new motivated members. The following committees have openings as from May 2020: Brain and Heart Council Education Committee Guideline Board...
ESJ Comment: Long-Term Outcome After Ischemic Stroke in Relation to Comorbidity
Comment Authors: Filipa Dourado Sotero, Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Neurology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal Original Article: Stefan Sennfält, Mats Pihlsgård, Jesper Petersson Bo Norrving and Teresa Ullberg, 2019; Long-term outcome after ischemic...
Stroke Care in Ukraine: Press conference held in advance of WSD2019
Out of more than 500 wards that provide assistance to patients with acute stroke, more than half do not have the necessary equipment for diagnosis and treatment By: Yuriy Flomin Kyiv, October 10, 2019 - On the eve of World Stroke Day, representatives of the Ukrainian...
ESJ Comment: Is hospital diagnostic coding accurate enough for big data research?
Routinely collected administrative hospital diagnostic coding data are widely used for outcome audit and big data research, including studies on time-trends of stroke incidence and outcome. The results of these studies are therefore influenced by the accuracy of...
Cortical-Striatal Disconnection After Parietal Stroke
By Dr Barbara Casolla, MD, Univ. Lille, Inserm U1171, Degenerative and Vascular Cognitive Disorders, CHU Lille, Department of Neurology, France Twitter: @BarbaraCasolla Clinical vignette An 82 years old patient was referred to the Emergency Department for a sudden...
Bulgarian National Congress in Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics
Report to ESO from the 5th Bulgarian National Congress in Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics By Acad. Prof. EKATERINA TITIANOVA, MD, PhD, DSc, Head of the Clinic of Functional Diagnostics of Nervous System, Military Medical Academy - Sofia, Professor of Neurology...
Improving Access to Expert Stroke Care in Iran
Brain Stroke is a global public health problem, causing premature mortality and long term adult disability worldwide.
The ESO Edinburgh Stroke Research Workshop
The ESO Edinburgh Stroke Research Workshop: do you want to develop a stroke research question for a PhD or MD project? Author: Dr Tom Moullaali, twitter: @tom_moullaali Affiliations: Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh; George Institute for...
Market Launch of First Factor Xa Reversal Agent in European Countries
by Antje Schmidt-Pogoda, Fachärztin für Neurologie, Klinik für Neurologie mit Institut für Translationale Neurologie, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Gebäude A1, 48149 Münster In recent weeks, a phased launch of andexanet alfa (Ondexxyaâ) was...
ESO Committee Corner: Trials Alliance (ESOTA)
ESOTA continues to develop and grow, now including over 200 participating hospitals in 6 countries. Member stroke research networks include Netherlands (CONTRAST), Stroke Trials Network Ireland, the UK Clinical Research Network, Swiss Stroke Trials Network, Spanish...
ESO Members Participate in IRENE COST Action Meeting in Moldova
IRENE COST Action Meeting Report to ESO by Anita Arsovska, FESO The Management Committee Meeting of IRENE COST Action took place in Chisinau, Moldova, 16th-17th of September 2019, hosted by Prof. Stanislav Groppa, attended by 46 delegates from 26 countries (many FESO...