Among people who received endovascular therapy to mechanically remove a clot in their large brain artery, those who had a rare genetic variant found primarily in people of East Asian descent (Japanese ...

BENGALURU: In a significant medical breakthrough, doctors at Narayana Health City in Bengaluru have successfully performed a rare and high-risk minimally invasive procedure to reopen a ...

Stroke survivors were more likely to have little or no disability after 90 days if a clot was removed from a large brain artery followed by the injection of the clot-dissolving medication tenecteplase ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's common for heart attack patients to get stents in their arteries, but can you do the same for brain stroke patients? Well, one procedure is gaining more and more acceptance, ...

The space between the arachnoid and pia meningeal layers encasing the brain is a landscape of connective tissue, blood vessels, and cerebrospinal fluid. Scientists debate how that fluid moves within ...

Giving the clot-busting medication alteplase at the site of a blocked brain artery after blood clot removal may increase the number of patients who fully recover, according to preliminary ...

With May being Stroke Awareness Month, it’s a great time to learn about strokes and their impact. A stroke is one of the most time-sensitive medical emergencies a person can experience. Strokes happen ...

A person may experience intense thunderclap headaches if a brain aneurysm fully ruptures. These last for at least 5 minutes, although they usually peak within 30 seconds. A brain aneurysm is a ...

The 20-year-old baker in the University of California hospital in San Francisco was dying of a tumor at the base of his brain. The swelling growth was pressing on the basilar artery, one of the ...