Some specific ischemic stroke subtypes, such as lacunar stroke, may not benefit from long-term combination aspirin and clopidogrel therapy.

Comment . Although short-term dual antiplatelet therapy may eventually prove to benefit specific populations with very high stroke risk, the SPS3 trial definitively establishes that lacunar stroke ...

Lacunar strokes were the most common type of recurrent ischemic stroke (71%) and occurred with essentially equal frequency in both groups. Dual antiplatelet therapy significantly increased the risks ...

About 500,000 Britons a year are affected by lacunar strokes, which cause a small hole deep within the brain. Share or comment on this article: Most watched News videos.

Lacunar stroke is a marker of cerebral small vessel disease and accounts for up to 25% of ischaemic stroke. In this narrative review, we provide an overview of potential lacunar stroke mechanisms and ...

Stroke Unit, Clinique Neurologique, Department of Clinical and Biological Neurosciences, Grenoble, France. This study concerns the long-term prognosis of lacunar infarcts. We report the analysis of ...

OBJECTIVES The pathophysiology of dysarthria can preferentially be studied in patients with the rare lacunar stroke syndrome of “isolated dysarthria”. METHODS A single study was carried out on seven ...

Researchers think that lacunar stroke could be the underlying cause of nearly half of all dementias. There is currently no proven treatment for lacunar stroke – existing treatments for stroke, like ...

Strokes are on the rise among younger people, with a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealing that between 2020 and 2022, there was a 14.6% increase of strokes ...

The link between stress and strokes S. Karthikeyan, senior consultant, interventional neurologist at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, acknowledges that while stress and strokes may not always have a ...