During an ischemic stroke, blood vessels in the brain are blocked or narrowed. During a hemorrhagic stroke, there's bleeding ...

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

Injecting tenecteplase into the artery after clot removal helps improve recovery in stroke survivors by enhancing blood flow ...

My neighbor had a stroke and received a "clot buster" medication. Then, I found out my uncle had a surgery after a stroke.

Mechanically retrieving a blood clot blocking a medium- or small-sized brain artery was no better at reducing disability 90 ...

Mechanically retrieving a blood clot blocking a medium- or small-sized brain artery was no better at reducing disability 90 ...

Novartis has brought abelacimab back into the fold. Six years after spinning the asset out to form Anthos Therapeutics, ...

The DISTAL trial, launched in 2021, is investigating whether endovascular therapy in addition to best medical therapy — which often includes intravenous clot-busting medications — would reduce ...

In this trial, standard care was clot removal without clot-dissolving medication. The added treatment may work by dissolving blood clots in the small vessels (microcirculation) near the major ...