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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Stroke Medicine and Surgery

Stroke Medicine and Surgery current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

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July 2025

Advances in treatments for acute ischemic stroke

Changes in fatigue after first-ever ischemic stroke and their associations with changes in physical fitness, body composition, and physical activity

Comparing the effectiveness and safety of direct oral anticoagulants and warfarin in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: a real-world study

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (new Cochrane intervention review)

Effect of oral healthcare prevention program on oral hygiene in post-stroke patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Electromechanical‐assisted training for walking after stroke (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Endovascular thrombectomy with versus without intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke (new Cochrane intervention review)

Endovascular treatment of stroke due to medium-vessel occlusion

Endovascular treatment for stroke due to occlusion of medium or distal vessels

Global trends, disparities, and future projections of ischemic stroke burden attributed to low-fiber diets: an analysis based on GBD 2021

Long-term risk of stroke after transient ischemic attack or minor stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Long-term stroke and mortality risk reduction associated with acute-phase Paxlovid use in mild-to-moderate COVID-19

Menopausal hormone therapy in women with CADASIL: a health system-wide retrospective cross-sectional study

Neuroimaging biomarkers on routine Computed Tomography (CT) after acute stroke and their association with post-stroke delirium: a cohort study

Optimal delay time to initiate anticoagulation after ischemic stroke in atrial fibrillation: a pragmatic, response-adaptive randomized clinical trial

Risk of bias assessment of post-stroke mortality machine learning predictive models: systematic review

Safety and efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation in addition to constraint-induced movement therapy for post-stroke motor recovery (TRANSPORT2): a phase 2, multicentre, randomised, sham-controlled triple-blind trial

Sources

BMJ, The (May); Cochrane Library (Apr-May); JAMA (May); JAMA Neurology (May); Journal of Dentistry (Mar); Journal of Medical Virology (Apr); Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (Jun); Lancet Neurology, The (May); NEJM (Apr)

May 2025

Associations between stroke type, ischemic stroke subtypes, and poststroke cognitive trajectories

Comparative efficacy and safety of tissue plasminogen activators (tPA) in acute ischemic stroke: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Cross-country inequalities in disease burden and quality of care of stroke, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Direct oral anticoagulants compared to aspirin for embolic stroke of undetermined source: a comprehensive meta-analysis

Effect of electrical stimulation in the treatment on patients with foot drop after stroke: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

eHealth interventions of health literacy for stroke survivors: systematic review and meta-analysis

Global, regional, and national burden of subarachnoid hemorrhage: trends from 1990 to 2021 and 20-year forecasts

Investigating causal associations of gut microbiota and blood metabolites on stroke and its subtypes: a Mendelian randomization study

The kidney-immune-brain axis: the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis and treatment of stroke in chronic kidney disease

Long-term cognitive decline after subarachnoid hemorrhage: pathophysiology, management, and future directions

Mediating effect of social support in the relationship of symptom burden and fear of disease progression in stroke patients

Optimizing mobile stroke unit deployment: a strategic case study in the greater Oslo area

Practicing stroke medicine in war zones

Prediction models of post-stroke hospital readmission: a systematic review

Stroke mimics at 30 years: where we have been, where we are now, and where we are going

Sulfonylurea drugs for people with severe hemispheric ischemic stroke (new Cochrane intervention review)

Survey on neurological monitoring practices and clinician perspectives in acute stroke care

Trajectory of depressive symptoms in a longitudinal stroke cohort

Withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs in older people (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Sources

Cochrane Library (Feb-Mar); European Journal of Neurology (Feb); European Stroke Journal (Mar); Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (Mar-May); Public Health Nursing (Jan/Feb); Stroke (Apr)

March 2025

Anesthetic management for large vessel occlusion acute ischemic stroke with tandem lesions

Association of duration of recognized hypertension and stroke risk: the REGARDS study

Effects of allostatic load on long-term survival after stroke

Effects of physiotherapy interventions for poststroke fatigue: a systematic review

Effects of stroke nurse-led acute stroke management on treatment time benchmarks, intravenous thrombolysis rates, and patient outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Evaluating outcome associations with race after mechanical thrombectomy: an analysis of the NVQI-QOD acute ischemic stroke registry

Factors associated with social isolation in stroke patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The feasibility of mechanical thrombectomy versus medical management for acute stroke with a large ischemic territory

Global prevalence and risk factors of delirium among patients following acute stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Hypoglycemic events may trigger acute ischemic stroke within 30 days in those with diabetes: a case-crossover study

Inflammation biomarkers in the intracranial blood are associated with outcome in patients with ischemic stroke

The impact of COVID-19 infection on the development of stroke, pulmonary embolism, and myocardial infarction: a retrospective study

Magnesium sulfate in the management of acute ischemic stroke: a review of the literature and future directions

Magnitude of effect of low dose colchicine, a newly Food and Drug Administration approved treatment for stroke prevention

NSAID allergy labels associated with mortality and cardiovascular outcomes in stroke

Pre-hospital blood pressure lowering in presumed hyperacute stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Sex differences in outcomes after endovascular treatment in posterior circulation stroke: results from the MR CLEAN Registry

Socioeconomic disparities in rate of poststroke dementia: a nationwide cohort study

Stimulant use disorder and the likelihood of stroke: analysis of a national database in the United States

Systematic review and meta-analysis of audits measuring antithrombotic therapy within forty-eight hours for ischemic stroke

Sources

Cureus (Jan); Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery (Jan-Feb); Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (Feb); Stroke (Jan)

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