In an article published online April 16, 2016 by the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery, investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report promising 90-day outcomes for ...

BARCELONA, Spain — In stroke due to basilar artery occlusion, the best technique to use for thrombectomy appears to depend on the underlying etiology of the clot, a new trial suggested. The Chinese ...

The FDA granted expanded approval for Stryker’s Trevo Retriever device Feb. 15. Here are three things to know. 1. The Trevo Retriever is a small, stent-shaped medical device used to remove blood clots ...

Removing a blood clot from a large brain artery, then injecting the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase into the artery resulted in stroke survivors being more likely to have better function 90 days ...

A major international analysis of 2,313 patients, median age 71, found that giving an IV clot-busting drug before mechanical clot removal modestly increases brain-bleeding risk compared with ...

A one-month course of dual clot-preventing therapy followed by a single clot-prevention medication for the remainder of the standard 12-month regimen in adults with atrial fibrillation (AFib) who ...

Removing a blood clot from a large brain artery, then injecting the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase into the artery ...

Millions of chest-pain and heart-attack sufferers thought they were getting a phenomenal medical advance when tiny coils that ooze medicine were placed in their arteries to keep them from squeezing ...

EVISTA-DVT Trial Shows High-Grade Stenosis in Veins Treated With Stents After Thrombolysis More Than Twice as Likely to Stay Open BALTIMORE, May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Stenting is safe and effective ...