A misconception persisting among the scientific and clinical communities relates to the correlation between arterial stenosis and acute ischaemic events, including myocardial infarction and cerebral ...

Researchers have found an association between greater sleep fragmentation, defined as interruption of sustained sleep by repeated awakenings, and arteriosclerosis and subcortical infarcts in older ...

Adults with Down syndrome have a genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and evidence of cerebrovascular disease across the AD continuum, despite few systemic vascular risk factors. The onset and ...

The role of endovascular therapy for acute stroke with a large infarction has not been extensively studied in differing populations. We conducted a multicenter, prospective, open-label, randomized ...

A septal infarct is an area of dead tissue in the septum of the heart, which is a wall of tissue dividing the two sides of the heart. It happens when there is a blockage or reduction in its blood ...

Reducing the damage sustained by the heart during a myocardial infarction remains one of the major challenges in cardiology, ...

BERLIN, Germany—Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are more likely than similar individuals without the arrhythmia to have brain infarcts detected on MRI, an analysis of the Swiss-AF cohort study ...