AUDIO:   In this article, you’ll find answers to key questions commonly asked by patients with ischemic stroke and their loved ones. The information is entirely based on the summary and recommendations of the review publication “Treatments in Ischemic Stroke: Current and Future,”  published in the journal European Neurology  in 2022. The authors are Dr. Maria Giulia Mosconi and Prof. Maurizio Paciaroni—experts in cardiology, emergency medicine, and stroke—working at the Unive

AUDIO:   Stroke is one of the greatest challenges facing modern medicine and society, affecting millions of people worldwide every year. To provide the most up-to-date and objective information on the subject, this article is based entirely on the scientific review “Pathophysiology and Treatment of Stroke: Present Status and Future Perspectives”  – a peer-reviewed paper published in 2020 in the authoritative journal International Journal of Molecular Sciences . The authors of

AUDIO:  The information in the following Q&A is based entirely on the review article “Acute Ischemic Stroke” , published in 2020 in The...

AUDIO:  The information presented in this article is based on the scientific review “Ischemic Stroke”  by Professor Dr. Steven K. Feske, a leading neurologist and researcher at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine. The review was published in The American Journal of Medicine  in 2021 (Feske, S.K., "Ischemic Stroke", The American Journal of Medicine , 2021). This article combines the author’s extensive clinical and research experience with the latest

AUDIO: This article presents a concise and expert-validated summary of the guidelines from "Stroke Prevention in Symptomatic Large Artery Intracranial Atherosclerosis Practice Advisory,"  published in 2022 in Neurology  (Turan TN et al., American Academy of Neurology). The document was developed by a multinational team of leading neurologists, neurosurgeons, clinical researchers, and vascular specialists from the U.S. and Europe, including Professor Tanya Turan (Medical Unive

AUDIO:  A stroke is a sudden brain injury caused by an interruption of blood flow (ischemic stroke) or by bleeding in the brain (hemorrhagic stroke). It is one of the most serious acute neurological conditions, often resulting in permanent disability or death, and remains a leading cause of long-term disability and secondary mortality both globally and in the United States. The modern clinical motto is: “Every minute counts – time is brain” —meaning that every moment without