Patients experiencing malignant stroke of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) have a high mortality related to cerebral edema, increased ICP, and subsequent cerebral herniation. Decompressive ...

LONDON, United Kingdom — Whether the benefits of early decompressive surgery in older stroke patients with malignant infarction of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) were worth the costs was one ...

Patients had to have evidence of occlusion of the middle cerebral artery ... of-concept trial showed the feasibility of treatment with tenecteplase administered no more than 24 hours after stroke ...