Researchers from Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical ...

Researchers continue to advance the science to determine best treatments for stroke. Based on an international study of 530 patients, researchers discovered that while the clot retrieval procedure ...

Portable point-of-care blood tests, done by EMS before hospital arrival, need validation but could guide treatment and ...

New research provides further evidence that thrombolysis benefits select patients with acute ischemic stroke up to 24 hours after symptom onset.

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 ...

and colleagues examined the potential of a new GFAP point-of-care test for rapidly distinguishing ICH from IS and stroke ...

Acute renal failure is caused by damage to the kidneys, which can occur as a result of blood loss, toxins, or physical damage to the kidneys. Acute renal failure occurs rapidly, causing generalized ...

In the infarct core, necrosis occurs within a few minutes of vessel occlusion. Necrosis is a form of traumatic cell death that results from acute cellular injury caused by external factors ...

Acute and chronic conditions typically differ in how they develop ... The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for instance, lists 20 diseases as chronic—including stroke, autism, and ...

Since than a coroner could not find a definitive cause of death but said this was most likely due to an un-identified medical reason or heat stroke. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are two ...

CKD staging: GFR categories. Kidney damage for ≥3 months. ACR categories. ACR=albumin-to-creatinine ratio. AKD=acute kidney disease. AKI=acute kidney injury. CKD=chronic kidney disease. eGFR=estimated ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common, heterogeneous, multifactorial condition, which is part of the overarching syndrome of acute kidney diseases and disorders. This condition’s incidence highest in ...