Current Strategies of Secondary Prevention After a Cerebrovascular Event

Current strategies of secondary prevention after a cerebrovascular event: the Vienna stroke registry.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Oral anticoagulation (OAC) and antiplatelet drugs are effective in the secondary prevention of ischemic cerebrovascular events. Only few data exist about the factors influencing the choice of a specific therapy for secondary prevention in patients with a recent stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). METHODS Within a cross-sectional study, nested in a cohort we ident...

Importance of in-hospital initiation of therapies and therapeutic inertia in secondary stroke prevention: IMplementation of Prevention After a Cerebrovascular evenT (IMPACT) Study.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Many patients do not receive prevention consistent with recommendations after stroke, but the relative importance of patient- and physician-related factors is uncertain. METHODS We prospectively assessed factors associated with blood pressure (BP) <140/90 mm Hg and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol <1 g/L in a collaborative cohort of 240 consecutive patients exp...

Prevention strategies for asthma--secondary prevention.

Art and Science of Cerebrovascular Event Prevention After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been established as a standard of care worldwide in patients with degenerative severe aortic stenosis deemed at high or prohibitive risk for surgical aortic valve replacement. Since its early inception, stroke has been the most feared potential complication. In the early experience, rates of clinical stroke at 30 days after TAVR ranged between 4...

prostate cancer: current treatment and prevention strategies

abstract prostate cancer is one of the life threatening disorders of male. although, over the last two decades, a high rate of overdiagnosis, and overtreatment has lowered the incidence rate of prostate cancer, the treatment or prevention strategies are not enough to control the high rate of disease related mortality. current medical treatment approaches include surgery, radiation therapy, chem...