A rapid blood test could speed treatment for people who have suffered a stroke related to brain bleeding, a new study says.
Removing a blood clot from a large brain artery, then injecting the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase into the artery ...
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A rapid blood test could speed treatment for people who have suffered a stroke related to brain bleeding, a new study says. Stroke victims with brain bleeds have nearly seven times higher blood ...
People with brain bleeds had nearly 7 times higher blood levels of a specific brain protein, called glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), than those who had strokes caused by clots in a study ...