Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new treatment combines standard hematoma surgery with an embolization (blocking) of the brain's middle meningeal artery, with ...

In the EMBOLISE clinical trial, obstructing (or blocking) an artery that supplies blood to the dura, the protective covering of the brain, along with surgery to remove pooled blood reduced the chances ...

A retrospective cohort study of fifty-seven patients examined clinical, radiological, and surgical characteristics associated ...

The treatment of a subdural hematoma received a major boost with three new randomized controlled trials all showing large and significant benefits of a new embolization process done as an endovascular ...

Introduction Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (SSEH) is the rarest cause of spinal cord compression, causing paraparesis or quadriparesis. They account for less than 1% (0.1 patients per 100,000 ...

Dexamethasone treatment failed to demonstrate noninferiority to surgery for chronic subdural hematoma and was associated with more complications and a greater risk of later surgery, according to ...

ANAHEIM, CA—For patients who are taking a non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant (NOAC) and require device surgery, it does not make a difference whether anticoagulation is interrupted or ...

After a hit to the head or a fall, people, especially seniors, can develop a dangerous pooling of blood and fluid between the brain's surface and it's protective covering, the dura. These "subdural ...

Injection of a substance to block an artery feeding the dura (protective sack around the brain) along with surgery to remove pooled blood reduced the risk that patients will require repeat surgery ...